Comparison

Create Booklet vs Maxtek Smart Home II

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

Head to head
About

Create Booklet

Transform any document into a compact booklet format for easier reading and paper saving. This tool rearranges and scales pages for double-sided printing and folding, making it ideal for casual reading, pamphlets, and more.

Highlights
  • Create booklets from any document
  • Saves paper and offers convenient reading
  • Supports cloud drives (iCloud, Dropbox)
  • Corrects duplex printing issues
  • Handles right-to-left languages
  • Supports landscape booklets
  • Adjusts page zoom to minimize margins
Features
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With Create Booklet anything can be printed as a booklet. When you read on paper print a booklet instead of a stack of pages. It's more convenient to hold and saves paper. It's for every one from casual reading to pamphlets. Create Booklet is a super easy booklet creator. Since 2005 Create Booklet has been the standard for Mac, it's about time we released it for iPhone and iPad! ____________________ What is a Booklet? A booklet is a double sided printing you fold so it becomes a small book. For this to work, all pages are shrunk so that two pages fit per sheet side. More over these pages are resorted so when you fold the paper, the first pages is on the front and page 2 is exactly of the backside of this page etc. Your life will become more comfortable for just the price of a single cup of nice coffee. You get a complete solution to save a lot of paper (and thus the rainforest) and comfortably read booklets — instead of having to handle stacks of papers. _____________ Built for you! Create Booklet is built to be instant and easy. Still if you are missing a feature let us know! You know we listen! _________ Features • Support for Cloud Drives: Access your PDFs right from within Create Booklet. No matter if it's on iCloud, DropBox or other solutions. • Duplex correction: We don't know why, but many printer drivers have problems with booklets. A booklet needs short-sided-binding duplex. So if your printer has trouble with that, Create Booklet has the solution: Pre-Rotated Backsides :-) • Right to left languages: If your text is right to left, your booklet needs to be that way, too – “no problemo”. • Landscape booklets: You have a landscape PDF? Create Booklet can make it into a landscape booklet. • Zoom pages: If you want to e.g. fit two US Letter pages onto one US Letter sheet, this will create a margin. Create Booklet can help you with it's page zoom to minimize margins. (Still we recommend fitting formats, DIN A or US Letter onto US Legal and vice versa.) __________________ Customers love it Here are some comment on Create Booklet for Mac. “OMG! This is about the best and most valuable utility I have found in a loooong time. Finally I can create and print booklets from within Quark XPress without having to pay a fortune for their Printcollection XTension. Thank you so much!!!” — Guido Henkel “Wow. I wish this existed years ago, or that I'd known about it. [...]. Thank YOU.” — Mark “THANK YOU for Create Booklet! I have used it several times now to print out playbills for my children's various school plays, and it has been an absolute lifesaver. […]” — William W. Lin “[…] I came across this site, and it was almost like a Christmas miracle ;-) Thanks so much for making and sharing Create Booklet. It works perfectly and really helped me out.” — Dan “[…] This Create booklet may just save my wedding :) […]” — Tim “Create Booklet is simply amazing. Drop dead simple to use, and the results are perfect.” — Nate “Thank you SO MUCH - this program is a life-saver. Or at least a hair-saver, because I was about ready to pull mine out! Thank you!” — Linda Lewis “WOW!!! Thank you so much - entered a new world of printing.” — Patrick _____________________ Why Create Booklet • Easistestest: Because any booklet is just a tap away thanks to Create Booklet. It's that easy! • It's a Booklet: Means fun to hold and read, saves paper and that way you're protecting the rainforest (uses only a 4th of a typical print). • Productive: Create Booklet has many ways to get a document in, choose whatever fit's your situation. • Blazing fast: Any booklet is created in seconds. ______ Enjoy Now you have time to tell your friends about Create Booklet for iOS! Website: TheKeptPromise.com Facebook: facebook.com/TheKeptPromise Twitter: @TheKeptPromise

About

Maxtek Smart Home II

Features
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Maxtek Smart Home App Gen 2 helps you manage and automate your lighting and smart devices with ease. Built by Magnus Technology Sdn Bhd, this app empowers you to take full control of your smart environment, wherever you are. Designed for Maxtek’s line of smart lighting products and compatible accessories, the app offers intuitive features that simplify device control, daily automation, and remote access. Key Features: Device Control (Excludes Camera) Manage smart lights, switches, dimmers, and motion sensors in one app. Group by room, adjust brightness, and instantly switch scenes. Camera devices are not supported in this version. Smart Scenes Preset lighting modes like “Relax,” “Work,” or “Night Mode” and apply them with one tap. Scheduler Automate when lights turn on/off to match your lifestyle — from morning wake-up lights to evening shutoff. Remote Access Control your home from anywhere using Wi-Fi or mobile data. Real-Time Device Feedback View live status of each device — whether it’s on, its dim level, or if a schedule is active. Multi-User Support Invite other household members to access and manage devices using their own accounts. Data Privacy First We do not collect or share your data. All communications are encrypted and secure. Where to Use Maxtek Smart Home: - Residential homes and apartments - Office lighting automation - Hospital and hotels - Elderly care setups ⁠- Classrooms or educational environments Download the Maxtek Smart Home App Gen 2 today and experience smarter living — beautifully simplified.

Screenshots

Create Booklet4 screens
Maxtek Smart Home II4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Maxtek Smart Home II at Free against Create Booklet's $4.99. Maxtek Smart Home II also leads on update cadence (daily vs every 19 months). Create Booklet's advantage is iOS requirement (9.0 vs 15.6). On ads, in-app purchases 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Maxtek Smart Home II is free to download; Create Booklet costs $4.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Create Booklet ships an update every 19 months, Maxtek Smart Home II daily. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and October 28, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Create Booklet versus Maxtek Smart Home II: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCreate BookletMaxtek Smart Home II
Price$4.99Free — better
Rating2.9 (26 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews52.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings26 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 19 monthsDaily — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaid—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS9.0 — better15.6
Further details — not scored
Size23 MB36 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperVogelbusch & CoMaxtek

Bugs and requests

Create Booklet

Reported bugs

29 issues
  • Prints intermittently
  • Ignores print range input
  • Flips pages wrong
  • Cancels job unexpectedly
  • Prints out of order
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  • Pre-Rotate Backsides not working
  • Backside always upside down
  • Doesn't give view of real margins
  • Tutorials not clear
  • Hard to make it work with Word
  • App glitches a lot
  • App moves very slow
  • Test pages didn't work
  • Doesn't let me print as a booklet
  • No backup plan visible
  • Cannot find developer contact
  • Adds ads on every second page
  • Restores back to default template after every print attempt
  • Instruction pages appear on every second print
  • Crops A4 pages
  • Cannot export booklet to PDF
  • Only option is AirPrint
  • Doesn't work with Brother HL-L5100DN
  • Booklet not printing on both sides
  • Random blank pages instead of booklet pages in order
  • Tapping 'create a booklet' doesn't work
  • Test page is the only thing sent to printer
  • App defaults back to help booklet on preview
  • Lacks desktop features like adding page numbers

Requested features

5 requests
  • Add option to print from photo album
  • Add PDF export option
  • Add option to manually print duplex
  • Add page numbers and other desktop features
  • Improve search terms for discoverability

Maxtek Smart Home II

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Create Booklet

No in-app purchases

None

Maxtek Smart Home II

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Create Booklet free?
Create Booklet costs $4.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Maxtek Smart Home II free?
Maxtek Smart Home II is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Create Booklet or Maxtek Smart Home II have ads?
Neither Create Booklet nor Maxtek Smart Home II shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Create Booklet or Maxtek Smart Home II?
Create Booklet ships an update every 19 months, and Maxtek Smart Home II daily. Most recently, Create Booklet was updated on November 2, 2026 and Maxtek Smart Home II on October 28, 2026.

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