Comparison

Tailscale vs FormatCrammer

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

Head to head
About

Tailscale

Securely connect devices, users, and workloads with a mesh VPN built on WireGuard. It brings identity to network access, enabling Zero Trust principles across diverse environments. Modernize your network for homelabs, businesses, and cloud infrastructure.

Highlights
  • Secure mesh networking
  • Identity-based access control
  • Zero Trust security
  • WireGuard-based VPN
  • Homelab and business VPN
  • Cloud and workload connectivity
  • Hardware-agnostic overlay network
Features
Currently charting
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Securely connect people, workloads, and even AI agents to anything on the internet with Tailscale, the secure connectivity platform built on WireGuard®. Tailscale brings identity to the network layer so you can control access based on users, groups, tags, and devices instead of IP addresses, applying Zero Trust principles end-to-end across every environment. Tailscale transforms your existing network from a legacy hub and spoke model to a modern, lightweight, and responsive mesh networking architecture that eliminates single points of failure and delivers better performance, scalability, and security for your end users, devices, and remote resources. Tailscale can be used for your Homelab VPN and connectivity, Business VPN, Workload Connectivity across clouds, Kubernetes clusters, regions, and environments, Privileged Access Management (PAM), Edge & IoT, CI/CD, and Securing AI – all on the same platform. Replace legacy VPNs, connect workloads across on-prem and cloud infrastructure providers, power Zero Trust initiatives, and make remote access secure by simplifying software-defined networking and security operations. Modernize your home, your organization, and your enterprise networking at scale with Tailscale. Tailscale is hardware-agnostic, so you can make decisions about your hardware independently from decisions about your network. Tailscale creates an overlay network, using your existing network, so you can incrementally deploy Tailscale without needing new network switches or to change your network architecture. Tailscale integrates with 100+ technologies and dozens of identity providers, and is available on a wide range of platforms — including Apple’s macOS, iOS, and tvOS — so you can securely connect from wherever you work.

About

FormatCrammer

Features
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Simple app for bold, italics, script, strikethrough, and other styling using unicode characters rather than rich text. With this, you can cram formatting into text fields that don't traditionally support formatting. With combining enclosing characters available in the full version or for 3 symbols for free, you can even cover your text in shapes that make it impossible to read... which is surely useful for something.

Screenshots

Tailscale3 screens
FormatCrammer2 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is chart position: Tailscale at #71 against FormatCrammer's unranked. Tailscale also leads on iOS requirement (16.6 vs 26.0). On price, 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

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard2 real differences · 9 level
Tailscale versus FormatCrammer: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTailscaleFormatCrammer
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.4 (747 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews61.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings747 — better—
Update frequencyFortnightly—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreemium—
Best chart rank#71 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple TV — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS16.6 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size29 MB3 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperTailscale Inc.Fall Day Software Inc.

Bugs and requests

Tailscale

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Inability to connect or authenticate
  • Exit node feature not working as expected
  • Inconsistent behavior when switching networks
  • App getting stuck in a loading state

Requested features

5 requests
  • On-demand VPN connection
  • Ability to switch between multiple accounts
  • More granular control over exit nodes
  • Integration with other networking tools
  • Dark mode option

FormatCrammer

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Tailscale

No in-app purchases

None

FormatCrammer

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Tailscale free?
Tailscale is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is FormatCrammer free?
FormatCrammer is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Tailscale or FormatCrammer have ads?
Neither Tailscale nor FormatCrammer shows ads.

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