KDE Connect vs Filum
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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.
Filum
Securely scan, organize, and manage important personal documents with on-device AI. It automatically categorizes files, extracts key information, and provides timely renewal reminders for items like passports and visas. Access your encrypted documents easily for offline use or when needed for uploads.
- On-device AI document scanning and categorization
- Automatic extraction of dates and key information
- Offline searchable document vault
- End-to-end encryption on your device
- Expiry and renewal reminders
- Document export and recovery phrase
- Integration with iPhone's document picker
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Your documents, cached and sealed. Filum is a vault for the documents you can't afford to lose — passports, IDs, residence permits, tax forms, leases, medical and vet records. Scan them once. Filum does the rest. IT FILES ITSELF Snap a document and on-device AI reads it, sorts it by type, and pulls out the dates and numbers that matter. A passport becomes a passport. A lease becomes a lease. Everything becomes searchable — instantly, even offline. ENCRYPTION HAPPENS ON YOUR DEVICE Every file is encrypted with AES-256-GCM on your iPhone before it syncs. Your keys are derived in the Secure Enclave and never sent to our servers. We store ciphertext and nothing else. WHAT WE CAN'T SEE - Your documents — never - Filenames, types, or extracted fields — never - Your encryption key — never All we hold are encrypted blobs and the sizes and timestamps needed to sync them. EXPIRY RADAR Filum tracks renewals — passports, visas, residence permits, insurance — and warns you before they lapse. It counts to the six-month validity rule most destinations enforce, not the date printed on the document. BUILT FOR PEOPLE WITH PAPERWORK IN MORE THAN ONE COUNTRY Moving abroad means residence permits, apostilles, translated certificates, pet passports, and forms from two tax authorities. Filum keeps all of it in one place, files it automatically, and puts it in your iPhone's document picker — so when a government portal asks you to upload proof, it's two taps away. YOURS TO KEEP Export your entire vault any time. No lock-in. The only way back into your vault is a 24-word recovery phrase that belongs to you alone — we can't recover it for you, and that's exactly the point. OPEN CORE Filum's encryption core is open source under MIT. Read it instead of taking our word: github.com/CorvidSoft/filum-crypto PRIVACY POLICY: filumapp.com/privacy TERMS OF SERVICE: filumapp.com/terms
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Filum at 5.0 against KDE Connect's 4.2. Filum also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 61%) and update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 3 months). KDE Connect's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2) and ratings volume (279 vs 3). On price 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
Both are free to download. Filum sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. KDE Connect asks for nothing beyond the download.
Filum holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: KDE Connect has 279 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 61% of KDE Connect's written reviews are positive against 100% of Filum's.
KDE Connect ships an update every 3 months, Filum every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | KDE Connect | Filum |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.2 (279 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 60.8% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 279 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 8 MB | 59 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | KDE e.V. | CorvidSoft |
Customer experience
KDE Connect
Filum
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
Filum
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
KDE Connect
No in-app purchases
Filum
- Filum Pro Monthly$4.991 Month
- Filum Pro Yearly$39.991 Year









