Comparison

Shortwave vs Tiny Keeps

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

Head to head
About

Shortwave

This AI-powered email client streamlines your inbox with intelligent organization, writing assistance, and team collaboration tools. It helps you manage emails, schedule meetings, and turn messages into actionable tasks, all while learning your unique style.

Highlights
  • AI-powered email writing and drafting
  • Intelligent inbox organization and clutter removal
  • Real-time team collaboration and email assignment
  • AI-assisted meeting scheduling
  • Email to-do list conversion
  • Customizable AI prompts and automations
  • Management of multiple Gmail accounts
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AI-NATIVE EMAIL FOR BUSINESS "The AI revolution is coming for your email" – Business Insider "This app is like ChatGPT for your email, and it changed my life" – Digital Trends "The Google Inbox successor I’ve been waiting for" – The Verge YOUR AI EMAIL ASSISTANT Supercharge your productivity with advanced AI & real-time team collaboration. Write emails, improve drafts, schedule meetings, analyze threads, translate text, and more using Shortwave’s powerful AI Assistant. ORGANIZE YOUR INBOX WITH AI With 1-tap, Shortwave’s AI Assistant can identify urgent emails, group threads into todos, and sweep away the remaining clutter so you can get to inbox zero with zero effort. SHARE & DISCUSS EMAILS WITH YOUR TEAM Get the right people involved and bring everyone up to speed fast with private team comments and live thread sharing. Assign emails to teammates to delegate next steps. WRITE EMAILS WITH AI Write personalized emails with AI in seconds, or use instant AI replies to get full drafts in just one tap. Shortwave learns your unique writing style and even facts about you from the emails you send. IMPROVE AND PROOFREAD DRAFTS Complete your drafts, adjust length and tone, translate into other languages, and more with a built-in AI editor. SEARCH AND FIND ANSWERS Use AI-powered search to find emails fast, or to analyze your entire team's emails & attachments for the answers you need SCHEDULE MEETINGS WITH AI Spend less time juggling calendars with AI-powered scheduling features. Create events, send AI-generated scheduling emails, accept calendar events with one click, and more. GET ORGANIZED WITH SPLITS AND BUNDLES Focus your time & attention by dividing your inbox into tabs for important emails, specific senders, labels & even custom queries. Use bundles for fast triage of promotions, newsletters, updates, and other automated emails. TURN EMAILS INTO TODOS Transform your overflowing inbox into an organized list of action items. Group, rename, prioritize, and add notes, right in your inbox. SET DELIVERY SCHEDULES Avoid interruptions by deferring when emails arrive in your inbox, so you only receive emails when you want them. VIEW READ STATUSES See when people read your emails to get the context you need to prioritize your time and write effective follow-ups. Close more deals and collaborate better with your team. SCREEN UNWANTED SENDERS Guard your inbox from noise with one-click block and unsubscribe. FINE-TUNE PUSH NOTIFICATIONS Granular push controls let you minimize distractions with personalized alerts for specific senders and types of emails. CUSTOMIZE EVERYTHING Customize AI prompts and automate your team’s work with AI Snippets & AI Automations. Adjust tons of details in settings, and make Shortwave yours with custom colors and beautiful light & dark modes. MANAGE MULTIPLE ACCOUNTS Organize all of your Gmail accounts from one app and seamlessly switch between them in a single swipe. SYNCS WITH GMAIL Migrate seamlessly to Shortwave from your existing Gmail or Google Workspace account with all of your labels, filters, and other settings imported. If you have questions or want to learn more about Shortwave and best practices, you can find resources here: https://www.shortwave.com/docs/

About

Tiny Keeps

Effortlessly preserve your child's artwork and schoolwork with quick photo capture and automatic labeling. Organize creations by child, batch import, and create digital books to share with loved ones. Keep memories without the clutter.

Highlights
  • Quick photo capture of artwork
  • Automatic title and description generation
  • Separate profiles for each child
  • Batch import and cropping
  • Create digital books from saved items
  • Option to discard physical copies
Features
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Your kid made 400 things this year. You kept three. Tiny Keeps is the fastest way to save your child's artwork and schoolwork before it fades, tears, or quietly disappears into the recycling. Take a photo. That's the whole job. It writes the labels so you don't have to Every piece you save gets a title, a short description, and a category automatically. No typing, no tagging, no "I'll organize this later." Years from now you'll actually know what that purple scribble was — and how old they were when they made it. Built for the pile, not the single masterpiece Import a whole batch at once. Crop out the kitchen table. Save fifty pieces in a sitting without fighting a folder structure. One place per kid Separate profiles for each child, so nothing gets mixed up. Switch between them with a tap. Turn a year into a book Compile your favorites into a beautifully laid-out digital book — cover, captions, the works. Share it with grandparents, godparents, and anyone who keeps asking for updates. No printing, mailing, or scrapbook supplies required. Keep the paper or don't That's the point. Once it's in Tiny Keeps, you can let the physical copy go without the guilt — or keep the ten that really matter and free up the drawer. What's free Save up to 50 keeps and create books at no cost. AI titles and descriptions are free for everyone, always. Whatever you create or save, you will always have access to. Tiny Keeps Pro Unlimited keeps and unlimited books. Available as a monthly or yearly subscription. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. Subscriptions renew automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel anytime in your Apple Account settings. Terms of Use: https://tinykeeps.app/terms Privacy Policy: https://tinykeeps.app/privacy Questions? support@tinykeeps.app

Screenshots

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Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Shortwave at none against Tiny Keeps's 2. Shortwave also leads on ratings volume (751 vs 1) and iOS requirement (14.0 vs 17.0). Tiny Keeps's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.7). On price, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Tiny Keeps sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per month. Shortwave asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Tiny Keeps holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Shortwave has 751 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Shortwave versus Tiny Keeps: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterShortwaveTiny Keeps
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (751 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews65.4% of reviews—
Number of ratings751 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS14.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size26 MB63 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperShortwave Communications, Inc.Suhel Daud

Customer experience

Shortwave

All ratings659 ratings
Positive95.1%
Neutral1.8%
Negative3.0%
Written reviews211 reviews
Positive65.4%
Neutral10.9%
Negative23.7%

Tiny Keeps

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

Bugs and requests

Shortwave

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Unreliable email bundling and threading
  • Inconsistent performance and stability issues
  • Bugs with email forwarding and attachment handling

Requested features

5 requests
  • Add support for more email providers
  • Improve iPad and tablet optimization
  • Enhance customization options for labels and actions
  • Integrate with more productivity apps and services
  • Provide better transparency around data usage and privacy

Tiny Keeps

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Shortwave

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Tiny Keeps

Subscriptions2
  • Tiny Keeps Pro (Monthly)$5.991 Month
  • Tiny Keeps Pro (Annual)14 Days trial$29.991 Year

Questions

Is Shortwave free?
Shortwave is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Tiny Keeps free?
Tiny Keeps is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Shortwave or Tiny Keeps?
Tiny Keeps is rated higher. Shortwave averages 4.7 out of 5 from 751 ratings, while Tiny Keeps averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Shortwave or Tiny Keeps have ads?
Neither Shortwave nor Tiny Keeps shows ads.

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