Creative Preview vs Anybox
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Creative Preview
Test mobile ads directly on your smartphone or tablet before they go live. Scan QR codes or enter creative URLs to preview display and video ads. Review reporting metrics within the app's console.
- Preview display and video creatives
- Test ads on smartphone or tablet
- Scan QR codes for preview
- Manually add creative URLs
- Review reporting metrics
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Make sure you know how consumers will experience your ad when it goes live. Creative Preview helps you test mobile ads directly on a smartphone or tablet. Scan a QR code from a Google Marketing Platform product to preview an ad on your device, or manually add a creative URL. Test on your device using the supported mobile ad SDKs or in any mobile browser, and review reporting metrics in the app's console. Use Creative Preview to: * Preview and test display and video creatives directly on your mobile device. Supported mobile ad SDKs: * Google Mobile Ads * Interactive Media Ads (IMA) Permissions Notice: * Camera: Needed to scan QR codes. * Microphone: Needed to preview creatives using mobile ads SDKs that support audio recording. * Storage: Needed to attach photos, videos, and local files for submitting app feedback. It's also needed to save your preview list and app settings.
Anybox
Save, organize, and quickly access your links, notes, and files across all your Apple devices. Features include nested tags, smart lists, and system-wide share extensions for seamless saving. Syncs via iCloud and respects user privacy.
- Cross-device bookmark sync (iPhone, iPad, Mac)
- Spotlight search for bookmarks
- Nested tags and folders for organization
- Smart Lists for automatic organization
- Support for images, files, and notes
- System-wide share extensions
- iCloud sync
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# Features 1. Get your bookmarks on iPhone, iPad, and Mac. 2. Search your bookmarks with Spotlight. 3. Use Anybox keyboard to quickly input your frequently used links and notes. 4. Categorize bookmarks with nested tags and folders. 5. Create Smart Lists to automatically organize bookmarks with attributes like URL and added date. 6. Support images, files, and notes. Easily retrieve frequently used images and notes. 7. Track your reading list with Widgets. Or save clipboard to specified collections. 8. Save links with system-wide share extensions. Just native experience. 9. Sync via iCloud. No personal data collected. 10. Import your bookmarks from browsers or other third-party apps. Anybox offers lifetime plan and subscription plans as a universal purchase, which means you only need to purchase once for all the platforms (iOS/macOS/iPadOS) Anybox support. You can choose one of these plans to save unlimited items in the app. Privacy Policy: https://anybox.app/privacy-policy Terms of Service: https://anybox.app/terms-of-service
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Creative Preview at none against Anybox's 7. Anybox's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and review sentiment (65% vs 40%). On price, device support and iOS requirement 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. Anybox sells 7 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Creative Preview asks for nothing beyond the download.
Anybox holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Anybox has 525 ratings behind it against 27, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 40% of Creative Preview's written reviews are positive against 65% of Anybox's.
Creative Preview ships an update every 4 months, Anybox every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Creative Preview | Anybox |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (27 ratings) | 4.7 (525 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 40.0% of reviews | 64.7% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 27 | 525 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Every 5 weeks — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Ad-supported — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 30 MB | 56 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Anybox LTD | |
Customer experience
Creative Preview
Anybox
Bugs and requests
Creative Preview
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Anybox
Reported bugs
2 issues- Inconsistent behavior with reader mode
- Issues with bookmark syncing
Requested features
4 requests- Add ability to manually add links
- Improve duplicate detection
- Allow sorting of tags/folders
- Implement private bookmark folders
In-app purchases
Creative Preview
No in-app purchases
Anybox
- 1 month$1.991 Month
- 12 months$14.991 Year
- Chips-Sized Tip$1.99
- Coffee-Sized Tip$4.99
- Pizza-Sized Tip$9.99
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- Lifetime$39.99
- Lifetime$59.99
Questions
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