DEON vs visualOS
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
DEON
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DEON is your Universal Visual Collaboration Platform - Open and edit DEON Projects which you created on macOS or Windows or create new Projects right from your iPad. - The infinite zoomable workspace for whiteboarding, workshops, development, management, brainstorming, design, planning, hybrid work and far beyond. - Collaborate in real-time, see the cursors of other users, follow their presentations. - Use your Apple Pencil to make notes, highlight content or create drawings with pressure sensitivity support! - Embed documents inside the workspace. Automatically synchronised with SharePoint and OneDrive! - If you are familiar with zoomable Apps like miro, MURAL or Freeform you will love the DEON Universal Visual Collaboration Platform! - DEON for iPad will be constantly improved for you. Please send your feedback directly to support@deon.de - DEON is a German Company, based in Berlin. DEON is hosted in the EU, compliant with the highest security and privacy standards. NOTE: This version is for the new DEON multi-tenant cloud service deon.cloud. If you are connecting to cloud.deon.eu or any OnPrem DEON Server, please use the other version in the App Store.
visualOS
This app offers an infinite canvas for visual thinkers, organizing notes, folders, images, and to-do lists. It works entirely offline, saving your data as real files in a folder on your device, which can then sync via your cloud service.
- Infinite canvas for visual thinking
- Offline access and real file saving
- Syncs with your own cloud storage
- Organize notes, images, and to-dos
- Hierarchical boards within boards
- Markdown file support
- Freehand drawing and magnetic arrows
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visualOS is an infinite canvas for people who think visually. It is an infinite canvas for notes, folders, images, to-do’s and sketches. It works fully offline and saves to real files in a folder on your device. YOUR DATA IS A FOLDER YOU CAN OPEN Connect any folder on your disk and visualOS mirrors your canvas into it — every folder on the canvas is a real folder, every document a Markdown file, every image an image. Put the folder in iCloud or Dropbox and it syncs through your cloud, not ours. If you ever leave, everything stays readable. Forever. OFFLINE ISN'T A MODE. IT'S THE ARCHITECTURE. On a flight, on the train, in a studio with no signal — visualOS doesn’t care. There is no server to reach, so there is no spinner, no sync wheel, no login wall. Your canvas opens instantly because everything is already here. BOARDS WITHIN BOARDS Any board can hold more boards. A project becomes a world: moodboards inside client boards inside your studio. Drag elements into a board to file them away; breadcrumbs keep you oriented; a double-tap takes you deeper. NO ACCOUNT. NO SUBSCRIPTION. Open it and work. There's nothing to sign up for, nothing to verify, nothing to cancel. Pay once and it's yours forever — one purchase unlocks every Apple device. FREE IN THE BROWSER BUT THE APP GOES FURTHER Try visualOS free in your browser at visualos.app. When you're ready for it everywhere, the app adds what a browser can't: true offline access on the train or a plane, native pan-and-zoom gestures, Apple Pencil drawing, and your boards saved as real files that sync across iPhone, iPad and Mac through your own iCloud. EVERYTHING ELSE • Notes & rich text • Long-form documents stored as plain Markdown • Interactive to-do lists on the canvas • Images & PDFs — drag, paste or drop them in • Freehand drawing • Magnetic arrows that snap and bend • Search every board at once • Groups, locking and a snap grid Your ideas. Your files. ABOUT US As creatives, we’ve always relied on visual canvas tools to organize our thoughts, plan projects, and make sense of ideas. But one thing kept bothering us: our files and knowledge were always tied to cloud-based services. We wanted the freedom to access everything offline, without worrying about losing our work or giving up our privacy. So why can’t our own files on our device be visualized in the same intuitive way? And that’s how the idea for visualOS was born: a visual representation of your internal folder structure — offline, private, and secure. Your data stays on your device, where it belongs. We’re Sarah and Gerald, a husband-and-wife team who have been living, loving, and building things together for more than 20 years. Creating visualOS has been a ton of fun and thanks to AI we were able to push it further than we initially imagined. Now we’d love to hear what you think. If visualOS helps you work a little more creatively or makes your files easier to navigate, we’d be grateful if you shared it with others.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: DEON at Free against visualOS's $12.99. visualOS's advantage is update cadence (every 3 days vs every 3 weeks) and device support (3 vs 1). On 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
DEON is free to download; visualOS costs $12.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
DEON ships an update every 3 weeks, visualOS every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on September 10, 2026 and September 23, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | DEON | visualOS |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $12.99 |
| Rating | — | 4.4 (5 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 85.7% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | — | 5 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | — | Paid |
| Devices | iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 182 MB | 20 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Deon GmbH & Co.KG | Dorweiler & Reimertz GbR |
In-app purchases
DEON
No in-app purchases
visualOS
No in-app purchases





