Smart Receipts vs Strongbox Zero
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Smart Receipts
This app is a scanner and document manager that digitizes and organizes your business cards and documents. It offers features like OCR, PDF creation, editing, signing, and secure storage. Optimize your workflow by easily managing, searching, and sharing your scanned files.
- Automatic document detection and correction
- Contact information extraction from business cards
- Searchable PDF creation with OCR
- Built-in PDF editor for signing and editing
- Full-text search and organization with folders/tags
- Document reminders and biometric security
- iCloud synchronization across devices
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Turn paper into searchable PDFs in seconds. Scan, fill, sign, and organize documents on iPhone, iPad, and Mac — with on-device processing that never leaves your Apple devices. Captize is your personal document library. Capture receipts, contracts, IDs, and paperwork, then find anything later with full-text search. No extra account. Sync with iCloud. SCAN • Automatic edge detection, crop, perspective, and exposure correction • Batch scanning and high-definition captures • Searchable PDFs with on-device OCR • Smart titles from document content, with Apple Intelligence • Import photos, files, and whole folders EDIT & SIGN • Fill out forms • Add signatures, markups, and comments — Apple Pencil on iPad • Reorder, split, merge, and export pages • Password-protect private PDFs ORGANIZE • Folders, subfolders, tags, and notes • Instant full-text search across names, notes, and document content • Reminders on iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple Watch • Widgets and Shortcuts for scan and search BUSINESS CARDS • Auto-extract name, company, email, and phone • Save to Contacts and search by person or company APPLE-NATIVE & PRIVATE • iCloud sync across your devices — no extra login • Optional auto-upload to iCloud Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive, or WebDAV • Lock the app with Face ID or Touch ID • Image processing and OCR run on-device Terms https://www.mwaretechnologies.com/products/captize/terms-and-conditions-en Support support@mwaretechnologies.com
Strongbox Zero
This app securely stores and protects your passwords with a master password. It supports open-source formats and offers advanced security features like biometric unlock and hardware token protection. It's designed for users who prefer a local-only password management solution.
- Local-only password storage
- Biometric and PIN unlock
- YubiKey hardware token protection
- Military-grade cryptography
- Password auditing for weak passwords
- Secure document attachment viewer
- Import/Export via Files app and Email
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Strongbox Zero is a version of the well known and loved Strongbox with all of the networking code and as many third party libraries stripped out as we could! Think of it as the Drag Racer version of Strongbox! If you're a fan of Local Only password managers this could be the right choice for you. We recommend you get to know (and love!) the regular Strongbox first through the Freemium app. Once you're happy and sure you want to go local only, go for Strongbox Zero... Strongbox Zero is an application for keeping all your passwords safely stored and protected by one master password. Supporting the open source Password Safe and KeePass formats. *** Features *** - Face ID/Touch ID Unlock for the ultimate in convenience, security and speed. - PIN Code Unlock with a Duress PIN option for those tricky situations. - YubiKey protection - secure your databases with a hardware token. - Secure - protected by time tested military grade cryptography. - Private - Isolated In-App attachments viewer for your sensitive documents, photos & videos. - Audit your passwords - Automatically check your database for weak passwords - Search your entire set of passwords and secrets instantly and powerfully, with deep search. Autocomplete new entries, and auto generate secure passwords. - Compatible - Import/Export by Files app, Email, CSV, iTunes File Sharing - Standards compliant - using the time tested Password Safe and KeePass formats so you can import any existing password safe you have. - Features galore - Incredibly configurable password generation including Diceware (XKCD) & regular passwords. - Timed Auto Clear Clipboard. - Entry History. - KeePass Field References, Tags & Custom Icons. - Two Factor Authentication codes (TOTP) - QR Code, Steam & Manual. --------------------------------------------------------------------- • Payment will be charged to iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase • Strongbox Privacy Policy may be found here: https://strongboxsafe.com/privacy-policy/ • Strongbox Terms of Use may be found here: https://strongboxsafe.com/terms/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Smart Receipts at $44.99 against Strongbox Zero's $99.99. Smart Receipts also leads on rating (4.5 vs 4.3). Strongbox Zero's advantage is ratings volume (21 vs 2) and review sentiment (75% vs 65%). On update cadence, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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
Smart Receipts costs $44.99 and Strongbox Zero $99.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Smart Receipts holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Strongbox Zero has 21 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 65% of Smart Receipts's written reviews are positive against 75% of Strongbox Zero's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Smart Receipts ships an update every 10 days, Strongbox Zero every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 8, 2026 and September 22, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Smart Receipts | Strongbox Zero |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $44.99 — better | $99.99 |
| Rating | 4.5 (2 ratings) — better | 4.3 (21 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 64.7% of reviews | 75.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 21 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 10 days — better | Every 2 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 29 MB | 96 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | MWare Technologies AS | Phoebe Code Limited |
Customer experience
Smart Receipts
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In-app purchases
Smart Receipts
No in-app purchases
Strongbox Zero
No in-app purchases
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