Start.me vs dgvault
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Start.me
Organize your online life by saving and accessing bookmarks, news feeds, notes, and to-do lists. Customize your homepage with widgets and share it with others. This tool helps you save time and create a personalized hub for everything you need online.
- Bookmark saving and access
- Customizable homepage widgets
- RSS news feeds
- Note-taking
- To-do lists
- Broken link checker
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With start.me you can quickly save and access bookmarks to everything you love online. And with many other widgets or features to choose from, you can make your homepage a hub you’ll want to share with your friends, colleagues, or students. start.me goes beyond bookmarking, with features like: - News (RSS) feeds - Notes - To-do lists - Google Analytics & Charts - Broken link checker - Beautiful backgrounds and colors to choose from. start.me is easily the most versatile, complete, and reliable bookmark manager on the market. Creating a free account takes less than a minute. Saving time online has never been easier.
dgvault
A keepass-compatible password manager that stores your encrypted vault as a local file. It offers robust security features like biometric unlock and a password generator, with no account or server required.
- Keepass-compatible .kdbx vault
- TOTP (2FA) secrets
- Password generator
- Folders and search
- Entry history
- Recycle bin
- Auto-lock and app switcher hiding
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dgvault is a keepass-compatible password manager. your vault is a normal .kdbx file encrypted on your device. there is no account and no server. we never see your data. since it's the standard keepass format, your vault also opens in any other compatible application. features: - totp (2fa): shows the live rotating 6-digit code with a countdown, not just the stored secret - password generator: random charset or memorable passphrase, with a live entropy readout - password audit: finds weak, reused, similar, empty, and old passwords - folders, search, custom sorting; mark any folder "exclude from search" - entry history, so every save keeps old versions you can restore - recycle bin - configurable auto-lock on idle and when the app goes to background - vault contents hidden from the app switcher - open vaults from the files app - super sick about screen - chungus crypto notes: vetted primitives only (argon2, aes-256, chacha20), nothing hand-rolled. biometric unlock happens in the os, the app just gets a yes or no. dgvault requires zero network garbage. open source under apache 2.0: https://github.com/dg4e/dgvault digital gangster for eternity. rip to the fallen homies. momino is beautiful and amazing. written by ytcracker and clord. (c)2026 digital gangster enterprises, llc
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: dgvault at 100% against Start.me's 52%. dgvault also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.0). Start.me's advantage is ratings volume (9 vs 1) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 13.0). On price, update cadence, 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
dgvault holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Start.me has 9 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 52% of Start.me's written reviews are positive against 100% of dgvault's.
Start.me ships an update fortnightly, dgvault every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 16, 2026 and September 28, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Start.me | dgvault |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (9 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 51.6% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 9 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 11 MB | 19 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | start.me | digital gangster enterprises, llc |
Customer experience
Start.me
dgvault
In-app purchases
Start.me
No in-app purchases
dgvault
No in-app purchases
