Comparison

Qards vs Run4Password

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

Head to head
About

Qards

Organize your thoughts and prepare for presentations with digital note cards. Create, edit, and arrange cards within decks, then swipe through them in full-screen. Your notes sync automatically across all your devices.

Highlights
  • Create and edit decks of note cards
  • Arrange note cards within decks
  • Full-screen card swiping
  • Automatic cross-device syncing
  • Organize everyday thoughts
  • Prepare for speeches and presentations
Features
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Create Note Cards for your everyday thoughts, or write down keywords and cues for your next speech. Structure your Note Cards in decks and swipe through them in full-screen. Qards is the perfect tool when you want to make notes for your next speech or presentation! With Qards you can: - Create and edit decks of Note Cards. - Edit and order a deck's Note Cards as you please. - Swipe through a deck of Note Cards in full-screen. And all your Note Cards are of course automatically synced and made available across your devices!

About

Run4Password

Features
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Run 4 Password keeps your passwords on your iPhone and nowhere else. There is no account to create, no email to hand over, and nothing to subscribe to. The app contains no networking code at all — and you do not have to take that on faith. Turn on Airplane Mode and use it. Everything works, because nothing was ever going to leave. WHAT IT DOES • Stores your passwords in a vault encrypted with AES-GCM, unlocked by a 6-digit PIN • Ties the encryption key to this iPhone's Secure Enclave, so the vault cannot simply be copied off and attacked somewhere else • Fills passwords for you in Safari and other apps, with Face ID or Touch ID • Signs you in with passkeys, and saves new ones, without a password to type • Keeps your 2FA codes beside the password they belong to, counting down • Brings your passwords, passkeys and codes across from Apple Passwords in one import • Keeps the site each password belongs to, and finds it when you search • Generates strong passwords and passphrases • Hides the app from the app switcher and blocks screenshots while it is open • Locks itself when you leave it • Moves your passwords to another phone by holding the two together — no server, no account • Works in English, German and Italian BACKUPS, HONESTLY Nothing leaves this phone unless you export it — and what you export is encrypted before it leaves. When you make a backup, the app seals your whole vault into a single file and asks you where to put it. It hands you ten randomly chosen words to write on paper; those words, and nothing else, open that file. We do not keep a copy, and there is no way for us to recover one. Put the file somewhere you can find it again and keep the paper somewhere else — either one on its own is useless. That backup restores onto a different phone. That is the point of it. MOVING TO A SECOND PHONE If you want the same passwords on two phones you own, you do not need a file, an account or a server. Hold the two phones facing each other. Each one shows the other a code, you check that both screens show the same six digits, and the passwords travel across as pictures on the screen. This is what the camera is used for, and it is the only thing it is used for. Nothing is photographed and nothing is saved — the camera reads a code and forgets it. Nothing is ever deleted by this. Passwords already on the receiving phone stay exactly as they are; anything new is added. If the same entry differs on both phones, that phone asks you which one to keep. WHAT WE CANNOT DO FOR YOU If you forget your PIN and have no backup, your passwords are gone. There is no reset link, no support address that can help, and no key escrow. That is not a gap in the product — it is what "only you can open it" actually means, and any app that offers you a way back in is telling you something about who else can get in. NO TRACKING No analytics. No crash reporting. No advertising identifier. Nothing is collected, because there is nothing here that could send it.

Screenshots

Qards4 screens
Run4Password4 screens

Verdict

The call

Qards and Run4Password are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters — price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Qards ships an update every 4 months, Run4Password every 5 months. The most recent releases landed on September 22, 2026 and September 19, 2026 respectively.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Qards versus Run4Password: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterQardsRun4Password
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (14 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings14 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 4 months — betterEvery 5 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS16.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size4 MB11 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperThomas Asheim SmedmannEni Veshi

In-app purchases

None

Qards

No in-app purchases

None

Run4Password

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Qards free?
Qards is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Run4Password free?
Run4Password is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Qards or Run4Password have ads?
Neither Qards nor Run4Password shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Qards or Run4Password?
Qards ships an update every 4 months, and Run4Password every 5 months. Most recently, Qards was updated on September 22, 2026 and Run4Password on September 19, 2026.

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