Comparison

Bold Smart Lock vs In what Box?

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

Head to head
About

Bold Smart Lock

Transform your smartphone into a digital key for seamless entry and exit. Grant temporary or permanent access to guests, family, or service providers with customizable virtual keys. Enjoy enhanced security and a simplified daily routine.

Highlights
  • Smartphone as a digital key
  • Automatic door unlocking/locking
  • Virtual key sharing
  • Customizable access permissions
  • High-level security
  • Easy cylinder replacement
Features
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With Bold, your smartphone is your key. Enter and leave your house with your phone in your pocket; Bold will (auto) unlock and lock your door as you come and go. Having guests over? Share virtual keys with whomever, whenever. Invite people with the Bold app and activate or deactivate their virtual key. You are the digital key master: give your spouse permanent access, let the plumber in Monday morning and the cleaning lady every Friday afternoon. You decide! With the highest level of security (think of digital banking-security), your house is safer than ever before. By just replacing the cylinder, burglars will be unable to enter your house using the common techniques. Bold's simple and elegant design makes your front door look better, your house safer and your life easier.

About

In what Box?

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Everyone knows the feeling: you've lost something again. How wonderful would it be if you could simply search through all your boxes in the attic without turning everything upside down? You can with 'In what Box?'! Organize your boxes into the relevant rooms, add items with images, and voila, you've made all your belongings digitally searchable! Privacy Policy: https://inwhatbox.app/privacy Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Bold Smart Lock3 screens
In what Box?3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Bold Smart Lock at none against In what Box?'s 1. Bold Smart Lock also leads on device support (4 vs 2) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 18.6). On price, update cadence 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. In what Box? sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $4.99 per month. Bold Smart Lock asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Bold Smart Lock versus In what Box?: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBold Smart LockIn what Box?
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.0 (5 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews54.7% of reviews—
Number of ratings5 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 3 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaid—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.1 — better18.6
Further details — not scored
Size57 MB40 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSesam Solutions BVBlom Development

In-app purchases

None

Bold Smart Lock

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

In what Box?

Subscriptions1
  • Unlimited$4.991 Month

Questions

Is Bold Smart Lock free?
Bold Smart Lock is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is In what Box? free?
In what Box? is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Bold Smart Lock or In what Box? have ads?
Neither Bold Smart Lock nor In what Box? shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Bold Smart Lock or In what Box??
Bold Smart Lock ships an update every 3 weeks, and In what Box? every 3 weeks. Most recently, Bold Smart Lock was updated on October 24, 2026 and In what Box? on October 25, 2026.

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