Essentials. vs APassword
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Essentials.
Extract key information from any text by highlighting important points. Save your summaries for personal use or share them globally via a generated web link. This app makes text comprehension and sharing effortless.
- Highlight important text
- Save text summaries
- Generate shareable web links
- Cross-platform sharing
- Text extraction
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Copy a piece of text from somewhere, paste it into the app and highlight the most important things as you read. Save it for yourself or share it with the people you care about or the rest of the world. If you decide to share it with someone, you are not limited to a device or platform, because the app generates a web address where the article will be stored. You can then share the link with friends and family.
APassword
Securely organize and encrypt your passwords locally on your device. This tool offers robust security with standard algorithms and auto-generates complex passwords. It also supports encrypted storage for pictures, ensuring you remain the sole owner of your data.
- Local password management
- Categorized organization
- Standard encryption algorithms
- Auto-generate complex passwords
- Encrypted picture storage
- No network permission
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APassword has no network permission. No way to update any user information. APassword uses a simple client to organize your password items. It supports below functions: 1. Manage passwords with categorized system, save your password items in local storage. 2. Encrypt passwords with multiple standard security algorithm to make sure your password would never leak out. 3. Encrypt transmission and storage. All your passwords are saved in local device, make sure you are the owner of password items. Your password items are encrypted in import/export action. No one could get the original password content but you, even the developer of application. 4. Auto-generate passwords for you in simple way, make sure your password complex enough. 5. Support encrypted pictures storage.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Essentials. at every 3 days against APassword's every 5 weeks. Essentials. also leads on iOS requirement (8.1 vs 12.0). On price, rating, ratings volume and ads 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Essentials. against 5.0 for APassword. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.
Essentials. ships an update every 3 days, APassword every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 15, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Essentials. | APassword |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 days — better | Every 5 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 8.1 — better | 12.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 7 MB | 85 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Georgi Zlatinov | 顾波 姚 |
Customer experience
Essentials.
APassword
In-app purchases
Essentials.
No in-app purchases
APassword
No in-app purchases
