EasyMQTT vs Karakeep App
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
EasyMQTT
This application acts as an MQTT client for iOS devices, enabling interaction with any MQTT broker. It offers a user-friendly interface for managing home automation setups, controlling devices, and monitoring remote brokers. Advanced features can be unlocked through an in-app purchase.
- MQTT client for iOS
- Interact with any MQTT Broker
- Home automation control
- Siri Shortcuts integration
- Light and dark mode support
- Save favorite topics and messages
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EasyMQTT is an MQTT client for iPhone and iPad that helps you connect to your broker, monitor live topics, and publish messages quickly. Use it for home automation setups, Zigbee2MQTT, remote monitoring, or everyday MQTT debugging. With EasyMQTT you can: - connect to multiple MQTT brokers - subscribe to topics and inspect incoming messages in real time - publish messages quickly or save recurring payloads as favorites - create widgets and graph widgets for the MQTT values you care about - automate actions with Siri Shortcuts - review connection history and saved broker locations EasyMQTT Plus unlocks additional features including favorites for brokers, topics, and messages, more powerful widget workflows, and deeper Siri Shortcuts automation. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Karakeep App
Effortlessly save links, notes, and images with automatic AI-powered tagging for quick retrieval. Search through all your saved content, including link contents, at blazing fast speeds. Organize your saved items into custom lists and share content from any app.
- Automatic AI tagging
- Full-text search
- Custom lists
- Sharing extension
- Save links, notes, and images
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Quickly save links, notes, and images and karakeep will automatically tag them for you using AI for faster retrieval. Content (including link contents) are indexed for blazing fast full text search. Organize you items into custom lists. Sharing extension to hoard items from any other apps.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Karakeep App at 4.6 against EasyMQTT's 3.5. Karakeep App also leads on review sentiment (69% vs 27%) and in-app purchases (none vs 6). EasyMQTT's advantage is update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 6 weeks). On price, ratings volume, 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
Both are free to download. EasyMQTT sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per 3 months. Karakeep App asks for nothing beyond the download.
Karakeep App holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 3.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 36 and 43 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 27% of EasyMQTT's written reviews are positive against 69% of Karakeep App's.
EasyMQTT ships an update every 2 weeks, Karakeep App every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on June 8, 2026 and September 21, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | EasyMQTT | Karakeep App |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.5 (36 ratings) | 4.6 (43 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 26.9% of reviews | 68.8% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 36 | 43 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks — better | Every 6 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac | iPhone, iPad, Mac |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 16.4 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 65 MB | 64 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Luca Kaufmann | Mohamed Bassem |
Customer experience
EasyMQTT
Karakeep App
In-app purchases
EasyMQTT
- EasyMQTT Plus - Three months$1.993 Months
- EasyMQTT Plus Yearly Sub14 Days trial$3.991 Year
- EasyMQTT Plus Yearly Sub14 Days trial$5.991 Year
- EasyMQTT Plus$10.99
- EasyMQTT Plus lifetime2 variants$14.99
Karakeep App
No in-app purchases
