Comparison

SF Archiv vs Arciva

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

Head to head
About

SF Archiv

Features
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Unterlagen einfach finden und teilen. Sicher durch Verschlüsselung bei der Übertragung und Ablage. • Hochladen von Dokumenten, Fotos und Dateien direkt aus der App • Faszinierende „Finden-Funktion”. Blitzschneller Zugriff auf Dokumente und Fotos via App • Mobil Präsentieren und bearbeiten. Transparenz durch Kommentarfunktion und • Erlebnis Teamwork. Beeindruckend einfacher Datenaustausch zwischen Personen und Unternehmen. • Deutsche Spitzentechnologie fürs Business. Sicherheit durch verschlüsselte Übertragung. Exklusive Speicherung in Deutschland.

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Arciva

Features
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Arciva does not organise documents. Arciva organises what happens to them. An invoice is rarely just a file. It belongs to something unfinished – an appeal, a reimbursement, a repair. So in Arciva you do not create folders. You create cases. A CASE HOLDS TOGETHER WHAT BELONGS TOGETHER Documents, notes and tasks sit in one place until the matter is settled. The status tells you at a glance what is still open, and the history what changed and when. MOVING FROM EVERNOTE A notebook you have exported from Evernote as an ENEX file comes into Arciva note by note. Each note becomes a case and keeps its dates. Attachments become documents with text recognition, images stay in their place in the text, tags become stickers, open tasks become reminders. The file is checked first, and an import can be undone as a whole. STICKERS INSTEAD OF FOLDERS Instead of deciding where to file something, you add stickers. They are two levels deep – Finances, say, with Invoices, Insurance and Taxes beneath it. A case may carry stickers from several branches: the dental bill belongs to Health and to Anna. You will find it from either direction. DOCUMENTS IN, WITHOUT DETOURS Drag files in or pick them. Photograph paper with the camera. Arciva reads the text and suggests names from it – the sender, the address, the subject. One tap, and the document is called what it should be called. NOTES THAT ARE EASY TO WRITE The editor marks up as you type – headings, bold, lists, tick boxes. A bar above sets the characters for you if you do not know the syntax. Documents and images of the case go right into the text where they belong. A selection copied from Excel or Numbers becomes a real table. On iPhone, a tap on a phone number starts the call. SEARCH WHAT IS INSIDE THE DOCUMENT Search covers titles and notes, and also words that appear in the text of a scanned document, even parts of words, with the best matches first. You can narrow it down to stickers when you know roughly where to look. TASKS WHERE THEY BELONG Arciva does not build its own task manager. A task on a case is a reminder in Apple Reminders – with a due date, with a notification, repeating if you like, on all your devices and in Siri. ON MAC, IPAD AND IPHONE One app for all three, kept in step through iCloud. Start on the Mac, carry on with the iPhone. YOUR BACKUP IS YOURS You can write your whole collection into a folder of your choice – onto a drive, into a cloud. The documents sit there as ordinary files, readable without Arciva. From that same folder, Arciva reads everything back in. WITHOUT A PURCHASE: 10 CASES, 30 DOCUMENTS Every feature is there – text recognition, search, stickers, tasks, backup, the Evernote import. Only the quantity is limited, and notes are not limited at all. What you have created stays yours, even when a subscription ends. Deleted cases go to the trash and stay there for 30 days. Arciva is made for one person, not for a team. Built by a solo developer. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://arciva.de/en/app-privacy/

Screenshots

SF Archiv4 screens
Arciva4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: SF Archiv at none against Arciva's 6. SF Archiv also leads on iOS requirement (11.0 vs 26.0). Arciva's advantage is update cadence (every 4 days vs every 2 months). On price, ads 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

Both are free to download. Arciva sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. SF Archiv asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

SF Archiv ships an update every 2 months, Arciva every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 3 level
SF Archiv versus Arciva: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSF ArchivArciva
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 4 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, Mac
Requires iOS11.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size51 MB12 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperScanfabrik KGMarius Kaczmarek

In-app purchases

None

SF Archiv

No in-app purchases

6 purchases

Arciva

Subscriptions4
  • Arciva – monthly (Founder)$0.991 Month
  • Arciva – monthly$2.991 Month
  • Arciva – yearly (Founder)$12.991 Year
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  • Arciva – yearly$22.991 Year
One-time2
  • Arciva – one-time (Founder)$44.99
  • Arciva – one-time$69.99

Questions

Is SF Archiv free?
SF Archiv is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Arciva free?
Arciva is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do SF Archiv or Arciva have ads?
Neither SF Archiv nor Arciva shows ads.
Which is updated more often, SF Archiv or Arciva?
SF Archiv ships an update every 2 months, and Arciva every 4 days. Most recently, SF Archiv was updated on October 24, 2026 and Arciva on October 31, 2026.

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