Comparison

KDE Connect vs Shower Thoughts Notetaker

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

Head to head
About

KDE Connect

Seamlessly integrate your devices with features like a shared clipboard, file sharing, and remote control. Use your phone as a virtual touchpad or keyboard, and even control presentations remotely. All communication is secured with end-to-end encryption.

Highlights
  • Shared clipboard
  • File and URL sharing
  • Virtual touchpad and keyboard
  • Remote presentation control
  • Remote command execution
  • End-to-end encryption
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KDE Connect provides a set of features to integrate your workflow across devices: - Shared clipboard: copy and paste between your devices. - Share files and URLs to your computer from any app. - Virtual touchpad and keyboard: Use your phone screen as your computer's touchpad or keyboard - Remote presentation remote: control a laser pointer on the screen of your computer by moving your phone around. - Remote commands: run commands on your computer from your phone. - End-to-end TLS encryption: your information is safe. Please note you will need to install KDE Connect on your other computers/phones/tablets and keep the version up-to-date for the latest features to work. This app is part of an open source project and it exists thanks to all the people who contributed to it. Please visit the KDE Connect website to grab the source code.

About

Shower Thoughts Notetaker

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Shower Thoughts is a push-to-talk voice notes app for the thoughts that arrive in the cracks between tasks — walking, driving, the moment before you forget. Hold a button, speak, release. The recording is transcribed entirely on your device and saved as a searchable note. The audio is deleted the instant the transcript lands. No account. No cloud. No network requests. Works in airplane mode. — On-device speech recognition. Powered by whisper.cpp, a tiny open-source speech model that runs on your iPhone's own silicon. Nothing about what you say is sent to a server. There is no server. — Audio deleted on success. The recording is treated as transient working data. The moment the transcript is committed to the local database, the audio file is removed from disk. If transcription fails, the audio is kept so you can retry — then deleted as soon as the retry succeeds. — Search every word. Full-text search across every transcript you've ever saved. Find the thought you had on Tuesday by typing two words from it. — Export when you need it. One tap produces a JSON file of every note and hands it to the iOS share sheet. Save it to Files, send it to yourself, drop it into another app — it's your data. — Built for thinking, not curation. No tags, no folders, no categories. Search is the only way back to a note, because curating is the work this app was designed to avoid. Privacy specifics: • No data ever leaves your device — there is no server to send it to • No analytics, no telemetry, no third-party SDKs collecting anything • Microphone access is used only while you are actively holding the record button • Open source: github.com/kilsekddd/shower-thoughts

Screenshots

KDE Connect4 screens
Shower Thoughts Notetaker4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is device support: KDE Connect at 4 against Shower Thoughts Notetaker's 2. On price, ads, in-app purchases and iOS requirement 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.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
KDE Connect versus Shower Thoughts Notetaker: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterKDE ConnectShower Thoughts Notetaker
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.2 (279 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews60.8% of reviews—
Number of ratings279 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 months—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better16.0
Further details — not scored
Size8 MB101 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperKDE e.V.Bobbi Jordan

Bugs and requests

KDE Connect

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Clipboard push feature not working
  • App crashes on launch for some users
  • Incompatibility with certain device/OS combinations
  • Inability to discover/connect to devices in some cases

Requested features

5 requests
  • Add support for background operation
  • Improve multi-file transfer capabilities
  • Integrate with system share sheet
  • Implement two-finger scrolling and other gestures
  • Add SMS/notification sync features

Shower Thoughts Notetaker

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

KDE Connect

No in-app purchases

None

Shower Thoughts Notetaker

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is KDE Connect free?
KDE Connect is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Shower Thoughts Notetaker free?
Shower Thoughts Notetaker is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do KDE Connect or Shower Thoughts Notetaker have ads?
Neither KDE Connect nor Shower Thoughts Notetaker shows ads.

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