GradPad vs Keka
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
GradPad
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The simplest way to manage your GradPad Resident account from your fingertips. The GradPad Resident app brings everything you need all in one place: • Make rent payments • View all your documents in one place • Contact the site team The GradPad Resident app is free to download. It's quick and easy to install and makes managing your accommodation easy.
Keka
This app allows you to compress and encrypt files for secure storage and sharing. It also supports browsing and extracting a wide variety of compressed file formats, including encrypted and encoded archives.
- Compress files in multiple formats
- Encrypt files for secure sharing
- Extract various archive formats
- Support for 7Z, ZIP, RAR, TAR, and more
- Handle encrypted and encoded archives
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Keka is a full featured file archiver, as easy as it can be. With Keka you can compress as many files as you want in a bunch of formats. You can also encrypt them to store and share securely and with privacy. Keka can also browse and extract lots of compressed files, from ZIP and 7Z to RAR archives. Whether they are encrypted or encoded in with old charsets this is not a problem for Keka. Compression formats supported: 7Z, ZIP, TAR, ZSTD, GZIP, BZIP2 and AppleArchive (AAR) Extraction formats supported: 7Z, ZIP, RAR, TAR, GZIP, BZIP2, AAR, XZ, ZSTD, ISO, LZMA, EXE, CAB, MSI, PAX, JAR, APK, APPX, XPI, IPA, CPGZ, CPIO, XIP, CPT and many more Terms of Use: https://www.keka.io/termsofuse
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: GradPad at Free against Keka's $3.99. GradPad also leads on iOS requirement (12.0 vs 18.5). Keka's advantage is update cadence (every 2 months vs every 9 months) and chart position (#59 vs unranked). On ads, in-app purchases 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
GradPad is free to download; Keka costs $3.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
GradPad ships an update every 9 months, Keka every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | GradPad | Keka |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $3.99 |
| Rating | — | 4.8 (163 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 82.4% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | — | 163 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 9 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | — | Paid |
| Best chart rank | — | #59 — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Vision Pro — better |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 18.5 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 56 MB | 42 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Yardi Systems, Inc. | Jorge Garcia Armero |
Bugs and requests
GradPad
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Keka
Reported bugs
13 issues- Occasional decryption failures
- Compression fails when using the share button
- Background tasks fail when resuming
- Permission to access files reappears after being revoked
- Cannot decompress .part files
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- Cannot decompress .tar.gz files
- Cannot decompress LZ4 files
- Windows compatibility issues with character encoding
- Removal of .7z AES256 encryption support
- Inability to decompress external split archives
- Extraction failed errors reported by some users
- Compression fails for large numbers of files
- Permission bug: permission reappears after revoking
Requested features
14 requests- Add support for .tar.gz decompression
- Add support for .part files
- Add option to name archives before compression
- Add ability to compress multiple folders at once
- Add ability to add files to existing compressed files
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- Add option to delete compressed file after compression
- Add option to view documents without creating a copy
- Add password confirmation fields
- Add testing of archives for integrity
- Add support for LZ4 file decompression
- Add support for splitting archives on iOS (like macOS)
- Add Chinese language support
- Improve German translation quality
- Clarify location of 'keka folder'
In-app purchases
GradPad
No in-app purchases
Keka
No in-app purchases
