Comparison

ProtoPie Player vs Crayp

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

ProtoPie Player

This app lets you view and test interactive prototypes created with ProtoPie Studio on your mobile devices. Access prototypes from the cloud, save them locally for offline use, and utilize native device features within your designs.

Highlights
  • View and test prototypes on iOS/iPadOS
  • Access prototypes via cloud or local storage
  • Utilize native device features (camera, gyro)
  • Control prototype playback speed
  • Connect via WiFi or USB to Studio
  • Open prototypes with shareable links
Features
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ProtoPie Player is a free companion app to ProtoPie Studio, a code-free prototyping tool on macOS & Windows. View, experience, and test prototypes on iOS and iPadOS easily. Access prototypes in the Cloud, save prototypes locally, and more—all from your iPhone or iPad. Ideal for yourself, your colleagues, stakeholders, clients, or users. ProtoPie Player is perfect for quickly testing prototypes made with ProtoPie, getting prototypes in anyone’s hands, and (remote) usability testing. To open prototypes on your iPhone or iPad, connect ProtoPie Player to ProtoPie Studio via WiFi or USB. Or just log in with your ProtoPie account to access your prototypes in the cloud. Also, it’s possible to open any prototype on your iPhone or iPad with a shareable link or shared via any other third-party solution—without connecting to ProtoPie Studio. With ProtoPie Player, you can: - Open any prototypes—shared via ProtoPie Cloud, email, Google Drive, Slack, or any other messaging and storage solution. - Use the iPhone and iPad their native capabilities in prototypes, e.g., camera, gyroscope, microphone, and more. - Control the play speed: slow down the prototype to experience the interactions with more detail. - Access prototypes in ProtoPie Cloud. - Save prototypes locally for offline usage ProtoPie Player is part of the ProtoPie ecosystem. ProtoPie is a prototyping tool to easily turn your interaction design ideas into realistic prototypes. Create interactive prototypes for mobile, desktop, web, and IoT. Get started with ProtoPie today!

About

Crayp

Features
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Phones down. Together. Crayp is a focus app you do with friends. Everyone holds a button, and once you're all holding, your phones lock. They stay locked until you all want out, so nobody can bail without the rest of the group going with them. We mostly use it for work sessions at coffee shops, dinners, weekend hikes, and the kind of evening where you say 'no phones tonight' and someone caves fifteen minutes in. The hard part of going phone-free isn't the first ten minutes. It's the moment one person checks Instagram and it gives everyone else permission to do the same. Crayp closes that gap. How it works: 1. Add a few friends. 2. Start a session. 3. Hold the button. Once everyone in the session is also holding, every other app on every phone gets blocked. 4. If someone needs a break, they request one and the rest of the crew has to hold together to agree. You get five minutes, then it's back on. 5. Hold to unlock when you're done. Your streak ticks up. A few things worth knowing: It runs in real time. You see your crew's hold status the second they start, so it actually feels like a thing you're doing together instead of a checklist. Breaks are unanimous. You can't sneak one — the whole crew has to agree. There's a Live Activity on your lock screen and Dynamic Island so you can glance and see phones are still down across the group. Phone numbers and contacts get hashed on your device before they ever leave it. We never see who you know. That's pretty much the whole app. Add a couple friends and try it once.

Screenshots

ProtoPie Player4 screens
Crayp4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Crayp at every 2 days against ProtoPie Player's every 6 weeks. ProtoPie Player's advantage is iOS requirement (16.2 vs 26.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

ProtoPie Player ships an update every 6 weeks, Crayp every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
ProtoPie Player versus Crayp: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterProtoPie PlayerCrayp
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.0 (27 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews58.3% of reviews—
Number of ratings27 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeksEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS16.2 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size66 MB11 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperStudio XIDBytea, Ltd

In-app purchases

None

ProtoPie Player

No in-app purchases

None

Crayp

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is ProtoPie Player free?
ProtoPie Player is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Crayp free?
Crayp is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do ProtoPie Player or Crayp have ads?
Neither ProtoPie Player nor Crayp shows ads.
Which is updated more often, ProtoPie Player or Crayp?
ProtoPie Player ships an update every 6 weeks, and Crayp every 2 days. Most recently, ProtoPie Player was updated on November 6, 2026 and Crayp on October 31, 2026.

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