Comparison

Throttle Mobile vs Shortify

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

Head to head
About

Throttle Mobile

This tool generates unique email addresses for online signups, allowing you to control who contacts you and when. It consolidates mass mailings into a daily digest and alerts you if your email address is sold.

Highlights
  • Unique email address generation
  • Control sender access
  • Daily email digest
  • Scam detection and alerts
  • Reading list for newsletters
  • Categorization of subscriptions
Features
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Throttle is a smart browser extension that generates unique email addresses for everything you use online, so you can control who sends you email and when. • Control who can send you email in an airtight way. • Less Email. Stop giving out your email address online. • All-day focus. Combine all mass mailings into a single daily digest email. • Scam Shield. Find out who tries to sell your email address. — Our inboxes are loaded with unproductive noise. Newsletters and sometimes even coupons we'd love to receive, but that clutter our inboxes, so we always archive them. Social notifications that tug us out of productivity throughout the day. Spam when someone sells our email addresses to others. — Throttle is a smart browser extension that generates unique email addresses in signup forms all over the web. A button is added to all email form fields. Instead of entering your real email address, just click the Throttle button, and a unique email is generated and filled into the field. All you have to do is submit the form. — It combines all the messages you receive into a single daily digest email. You can revoke any sender's access, which shuts down their unique email address. — Find out who tries to sell your email address, and shut them down with a single click. Another great benefit of each sender having a different email address to contact you with is that Throttle can detect who sells or steals your email address. When this happens, you'll get an alert, and all you have to do is click 'Revoke Access'. Throttle shuts down the unique address they had to contact you with. They have no way into your inbox, because they never had your real email address in the first place. They could keep selling your address to anyone, but none of them will be able to get through. — More features: • Reading List – Relax with content you enjoy Remember those newsletters you subscribed to, because you wanted to read them? But you know how they always seem to arrive at the wrong time, cluttering your inbox, so you archive them immediately? Not any more. Newsletters you want to enjoy never interrupt your inbox. They live in Throttle’s beautiful reading list online. • Categories – Level up your reading list Put related subscriptions into categories. The setup is up to you - keep your social notifications in one category, your “must reads” in another, a shopping & coupons category, etc. • Digests – What you want, when you want it. A first for email. Curate your own weekly or daily digests to arrive in your inbox. Every Category can have its own custom digest, or be combined into one daily digest. Have your news category delivered every morning to always have something to talk about. Or your local events category delivered in a digest on Fridays, so you always have something to do over the weekend. • Scam Shield – Put an end to spammers Throttle will tell alert you to suspicious activity. So far, people that have used Throttle and found out: – When their email address was sold to thousands of spammers – When the sender had a data leak, and spammers stole the addresses – When the sender had a software glitch that resulted in over 500 emails What would have been a problem plaguing their inboxes for years to come could be solved with the click of one button: Throttle's Revoke Access. • Access Control – The control is finally in your hands Revoke a sender's access in Throttle to shut down the unique email address that was given to that sender. With the click of one button, you instantly revoke access from anyone who got or ever will get your address from a specific sender. Use Throttle free for as long as you want with 50 authorizations, 3 revokes, 5 categories, and one device. Upgrade to Throttle Plus to sync between all of your devices, including desktop and mobile (auto-renews monthly or yearly). Upgrade to Throttle Pro to get access to the most advanced features - custom domain, forwarding, and more (auto-renews yearly).

About

Shortify

This app condenses lengthy content like YouTube videos, articles, and documents into concise summaries. It integrates with your existing apps, saving you valuable time by quickly extracting the core information from any source.

Highlights
  • Summarize YouTube videos
  • Condense articles and blogs
  • Process PDFs and documents
  • Integrates with all apps
  • Shareable summaries
  • Track time saved
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~ Look, we'll keep this short: Shortify™ summarizes anything, including Youtube, articles, PDFs, blogs, documents, and more. It works in all your favorite apps. ~ Why? Because it saves you a bunch of time, and your time is super valuable. ~ Examples? • 15 min Youtube videos from friends ("you gotta watch this!") • Clearing out your backlog of 500 tabs ("I’ll read this one day") • Blog posts/thinkpieces that have a bit too much history • Sites/apps that are too cluttered (skips the ads/plugins) • Getting the gist of an article before committing to reading it ~ How? Open your favorite app or site, tap the Share button, and tap Shortify. ~ What else? You can get an even shorter summary. You can share your Shorts. You can see your stats, like time saved. ~ Pricing? You get 100 Shorts for free, then you pay for what you use. With 1000 Shorts at a reading speed of 238 wpm (Brysbaert 2019), you’ll get about 72 hours of your life back for the cost of 2 coffees. ~ Privacy? We don't collect any personal data. We don't use third-party trackers, ads, or any of those invasive things. There's no account signup, so there's nothing to delete. ~ I got other questions? johnny@shortifyapp.com

Screenshots

Throttle Mobile4 screens
Shortify4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Shortify at 4.4 against Throttle Mobile's 3.8. Shortify also leads on review sentiment (67% vs 27%) and update cadence (weekly vs every 17 months). Throttle Mobile's advantage is iOS requirement (9.0 vs 15.0). On price, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases 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. Throttle Mobile sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $6.49 per month and Shortify sells 6 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Shortify holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 3.8. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 14 and 34 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 27% of Throttle Mobile's written reviews are positive against 67% of Shortify's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Throttle Mobile ships an update every 17 months, Shortify weekly. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Throttle Mobile versus Shortify: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterThrottle MobileShortify
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.8 (14 ratings)4.4 (34 ratings) — better
Positive reviews27.3% of reviews66.7% of reviews — better
Number of ratings1434 — better
Update frequencyEvery 17 monthsWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better
Requires iOS9.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size28 MB15 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperMindsense LLCThe Openly Operated Company

Customer experience

Throttle Mobile

All ratings14 ratings
Positive64.3%
Neutral7.1%
Negative28.6%
Written reviews11 reviews
Positive27.3%
Neutral9.1%
Negative63.6%

Shortify

All ratings34 ratings
Positive88.2%
Neutral0.0%
Negative11.8%
Written reviews12 reviews
Positive66.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative33.3%

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Throttle Mobile

Subscriptions3
  • Throttle Plus$6.491 Month
  • Throttle Plus$64.991 Year
  • Throttle Pro$129.991 Year
6 purchases

Shortify

One-time6
  • 100 Free Shorts - Signup BonusFree
  • 10 Shorts$0.99
  • Handcrafted Lux Icon - Mint$4.99
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  • 100 Shorts$4.99
  • 1000 Shorts$9.99
  • 10000 Shorts$49.99

Questions

Is Throttle Mobile free?
Throttle Mobile is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Shortify free?
Shortify is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Throttle Mobile or Shortify?
Shortify is rated higher. Throttle Mobile averages 3.8 out of 5 from 14 ratings, while Shortify averages 4.4 from 34 ratings.
Do Throttle Mobile or Shortify have ads?
Neither Throttle Mobile nor Shortify shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Throttle Mobile or Shortify?
Throttle Mobile ships an update every 17 months, and Shortify weekly. Most recently, Throttle Mobile was updated on October 24, 2026 and Shortify on October 24, 2026.

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