Comparison

Skedgets vs Parallax

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

Head to head
About

Skedgets

Create visual notes and sketches that can be displayed directly on your device's home screen. Customize your creations with various drawing tools and background options. Share your designs as images or display them in different widget sizes.

Highlights
  • Create visual notes and sketches
  • Display on home screen widgets
  • Multiple drawing tools
  • Customizable background colors/images
  • Preview widget sizes (small, medium, large)
  • Share as images
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Create Skedgets to draw your ideas, notes and sketches and display them on your home screen. Use different drawing tools, select a background color or background image from your photo library. Preview how your Skedgets will look like in widgets of small, medium and large size. Share Skedgets as images (e.g. to add them to your photo library) and display Skedget names in widgets. Skedgets is free! No in-app purchases and free of ads!

About

Parallax

This AI companion offers private, on-device assistance or connects to various cloud AI providers. It allows side-by-side response comparison, live web context retrieval, and generates charts directly in conversations. Features include voice input, file analysis, image generation, and cross-device continuity.

Highlights
  • On-device and cloud AI integration
  • Side-by-side response comparison
  • Live web context retrieval
  • In-chat chart generation
  • Cross-device conversation continuity
  • Voice input and spoken responses
  • File and photo analysis
Features
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Parallax AI is your private, flexible AI companion—available across iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, Apple TV, and Apple Vision Pro. PERSPECTIVES Ask once, hear more. Perspectives brings together your private on-device AI and configured cloud providers in one response. See each labeled viewpoint, spot the differences, and get a balanced synthesis to help you decide with confidence. YOUR AI, YOUR CHOICE Use On-Device AI for private help on supported devices, or connect your own API keys for OpenAI, Google Gemini, xAI/Grok, Groq, Mistral, Together, Perplexity, Anthropic, or Cursor. Switch providers instantly, save your favorites, and choose the right model for everyday help, research, coding, creative work, or deep reasoning. PICK UP ANYWHERE Start a conversation on one Apple device and continue on another. Parallax keeps your recent conversations and cloud setup in sync through iCloud, so your work stays within reach—from iPhone to Apple Vision Pro. LIVE, CAPABLE, AND READY Get live web context for current questions, weather details, native charts, voice input and spoken replies, file and photo analysis, image generation, URL fetching, long-term memory, templates, and agent tools. PRIVACY FIRST On-Device AI stays on your device. Cloud requests go directly to the providers you choose using your own API keys. Incognito Mode keeps conversations out of history and memory. Free to use. No ads. No required account.

Screenshots

Skedgets4 screens
Parallax4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Parallax at every 2 days against Skedgets's every 6 months. Parallax also leads on device support (6 vs 3). Skedgets's advantage is iOS requirement (14.0 vs 26.0). On price, rating, ratings volume 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Skedgets against 5.0 for Parallax. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Skedgets ships an update every 6 months, Parallax every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 28, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 6 level
Skedgets versus Parallax: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSkedgetsParallax
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Number of ratings11
Update frequencyEvery 6 monthsEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV, Apple Watch, Vision Pro — better
Requires iOS14.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size2 MB7 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperThomas GöringChris Nicolaidis

Customer experience

Skedgets

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Parallax

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Skedgets

No in-app purchases

None

Parallax

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Skedgets free?
Skedgets is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Parallax free?
Parallax is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Skedgets or Parallax?
Skedgets and Parallax are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Skedgets or Parallax have ads?
Neither Skedgets nor Parallax shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Skedgets or Parallax?
Skedgets ships an update every 6 months, and Parallax every 2 days. Most recently, Skedgets was updated on October 24, 2026 and Parallax on October 28, 2026.

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