Raindrop.io vs ChangeTower
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Raindrop.io
Save and organize web content like articles, photos, and videos from any app. Create custom collections with unique icons and visuals for easy retrieval. Share your curated content with others or collaborate privately.
- Clip articles, photos, and videos
- Organize bookmarks into collections
- Tag and customize collections
- Share collections publicly or privately
- Sync across all devices
- Import bookmarks from other services
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Manage bookmarks, highlights, annotations and tabs. Save Anything from the Web Clip articles, photos, videos, PDFs and pages from the web and apps. Organize with Ease Thematic collections, suggested tags and custom filters. Sort items by date, title, site or manually by drag'n'drop. Full-Text Search & Permanent Library Entire content of every web-page and PDF that you’ve saved is fully searchable. Even if a page you’ve saved is taken down, you’ll still have a copy of it. For Teams and Individuals Enable access to your collection by team members or entire web. Permissions let you control who can access each of your collections. Take Your Bookmarks Everywhere Securely access the bookmarks you’ve saved in from anywhere — even outside of the browser. Extension for all popular browsers. Apps for Android, iOS, macOS and Windows. More than 2,600 integrations and programatic access through API. Private by Default Your privacy comes first. We keep your data safe, never sold. 256-bit encryption protects you while syncing. No tracking or intrusive advertising. 13 years in a business. Privacy Policy: https://help.raindrop.io/privacy Terms of Use: https://help.raindrop.io/terms
ChangeTower
Receive alerts for important website updates, including content, code, and image changes. Archive full-page snapshots and monitor PDF and text files. Collaborate with your team by sharing website monitors.
- Monitor website content, code, and images
- Push notifications and email alerts
- Archive full-page snapshots
- Monitor PDF and text files
- Share monitors with team
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ChangeTower is a powerful website content monitoring and archiving solution. Get notified when websites publish important updates that matter to you. - Monitor any website for changes to content, code, and images - Get push notifications and email alerts when changes meet your pre-defined criteria - Archive full-page visual, text, image and code snapshots - Monitor PDF and text files - Share monitors with your team
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: ChangeTower at none against Raindrop.io's 5. ChangeTower also leads on review sentiment (83% vs 64%) and update cadence (weekly vs every 3 weeks). Raindrop.io's advantage is ratings volume (420 vs 20). On price, ads 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
Both are free to download. Raindrop.io sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. ChangeTower asks for nothing beyond the download.
ChangeTower holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Raindrop.io has 420 ratings behind it against 20, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 64% of Raindrop.io's written reviews are positive against 83% of ChangeTower's.
Raindrop.io ships an update every 3 weeks, ChangeTower weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 22, 2026 and October 20, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Raindrop.io | ChangeTower |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (420 ratings) | 4.7 (20 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 64.5% of reviews | 83.3% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 420 — better | 20 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.5 | 11.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 30 MB | 17 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Rustem Mussabekov | ChangeTower LLC |
Customer experience
Raindrop.io
ChangeTower
Bugs and requests
Raindrop.io
Reported bugs
5 issues- Inability to edit or delete bookmarks
- Inconsistent behavior across platforms
- Sharing and collaboration features not working as expected
- Slow or unreliable sync between devices
- Frequent crashes and freezes, especially on iOS
Requested features
5 requests- Offline support and local file storage
- Improved search with full-text indexing
- Customizable keyboard shortcuts
- Nested folder structure for better organization
- Widgets and home screen integration
ChangeTower
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Raindrop.io
- Pro Monthly$2.991 Month
- Pro Yearly$27.991 Year
- PRO 1 month$2.99
- PRO 3 month$8.99
- PRO 1 year$27.99
ChangeTower
No in-app purchases
