Comparison

DROP Connect vs Chronicles Keeper

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

Head to head
About

DROP Connect

Control and monitor your home's water management system remotely. Receive alerts for leaks or unusual usage, view system status, and manage settings from your smartphone. Track water flow and history, and initiate system cycles like backwashing.

Highlights
  • Remote system monitoring
  • Leak and usage alerts
  • View water flow and history
  • Initiate system cycles
  • Manage devices and settings
  • Remote access from anywhere
Features
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At DROP, we make a complete line of water treatment and management products that improves your water quality, monitors your water usage and notifies you of potential problems, and can even automatically shut off the water supply if a leak is detected. Using DROP Connect, you can configure and monitor your DROP water management system -- even when you are away from home. With DROP Connect you can: - Receive notifications for anomalous water usage or problems with your DROP system. - Conveniently view the valve and system status. - Easily change valve and system settings. - View current water flow and water usage information for the past three months. - View a history of events. - Start and monitor a regeneration or backwash cycle from your phone or tablet. - Add or remove devices (such as valves or leak detectors) on your DROP network. - Configure your DROP water management system so you can access it when you are away from home. Note that you must have a DROP hub to use DROP Connect, and you must have a Wi-Fi network with a working internet connection to access your DROP system remotely. You can learn about DROP products at https://dropconnect.com

About

Chronicles Keeper

This app offers a focused and organized approach to journaling and planning. Create distinct binders for your thoughts, add pages with text, photos, and locations, and easily revisit memories.

Highlights
  • Chronicle binders for organization
  • Journal pages with place and photo assets
  • Easy reading and book-like page organization
  • Unlimited chronicles and pages
  • Place mapping for accessing related pages
  • One-time purchase for all features
Features
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Chronicles Keeper is your new app to perform age old journaling and planning activities. Why another journaling app? Focus and Features, That’s Why! Focus... quick, easy, and well organized journal writing: Organizing is done within a Chronicle. It is a binder of journal pages you add at any time. Focus... enriched journaling with better context: Words of course, typed or via voice recognition from the keyboard. This is the heart of journaling and adding a journal page can be initiated with just a long touch of the chronicle on the main screen or from the Chronicle home page. Photos follow the old adage of being worth a 1,000 words. Each brings a rich, vibrant moment to life, especially when they are individually captioned, extending the story. Places, an often overlooked element to a memory, a dream, or a moment of significance. Each page can be tagged to a place. Each place can be used on any page in any journal, providing a unique way to read through the past, present, and future relative to one spot. Features: - Simple yet powerful Chronicle binders - Chronicle Pages with place and photo assets - Pages organized to make reading easy and book like - No limits placed on the number of Chronicles or pages - Place mapping to access pages and surrounding features - No hidden costs to unlock features - Buy once, enjoy the future improvements

Screenshots

DROP Connect4 screens
Chronicles Keeper4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: DROP Connect at 56% against Chronicles Keeper's 0%. DROP Connect also leads on rating (4.6 vs 1.0) and monetization model (ad-supported vs paid). On price, 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

DROP Connect holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 1.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: DROP Connect has 558 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 56% of DROP Connect's written reviews are positive against 0% of Chronicles Keeper's.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
DROP Connect versus Chronicles Keeper: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDROP ConnectChronicles Keeper
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (558 ratings) — better1.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews55.6% of reviews — better0.0% of reviews
Number of ratings558 — better1
Update frequencyMonthly—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationAd-supported — betterPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS12.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size72 MB3 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperChandler Systems, Inc.Robert Lee

Customer experience

DROP Connect

All ratings513 ratings
Positive91.2%
Neutral3.1%
Negative5.7%
Written reviews9 reviews
Positive55.6%
Neutral22.2%
Negative22.2%

Chronicles Keeper

All ratings1 ratings
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

In-app purchases

None

DROP Connect

No in-app purchases

None

Chronicles Keeper

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is DROP Connect free?
DROP Connect is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Chronicles Keeper free?
Chronicles Keeper is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, DROP Connect or Chronicles Keeper?
DROP Connect is rated higher. DROP Connect averages 4.6 out of 5 from 558 ratings, while Chronicles Keeper averages 1.0 from 1 ratings.
Do DROP Connect or Chronicles Keeper have ads?
Neither DROP Connect nor Chronicles Keeper shows ads.

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