Comparison

Tips & Tricks vs System Activity Monitors

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

Head to head
About

Tips & Tricks

Unlock your iPhone's full potential with daily updates on the latest news, features, and tips. Discover hidden app functions, master iOS, and stay informed about new devices. Get unbiased reviews, privacy advice, and price drop alerts for your favorite apps.

Highlights
  • Daily tech news updates
  • Interactive iOS quizzes
  • Over 200 iOS tips and tricks
  • Coverage of iOS updates
  • App and game reviews
  • Price drop alerts
  • Privacy advice and scam warnings
Features
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Whether you’ve just upgraded or you’ve been using iPhone for years, we help you get more from iOS with clear tutorials, breaking Apple news, and practical tips you’ll actually use. From mastering iOS’s latest features to discovering time-saving shortcuts, privacy settings, and clever tricks built into your device, Tips & Tricks makes sure you never miss a thing. UPDATED DAILY • Tip of the Day to sharpen your iPhone skills • Breaking Apple news and analysis • App and game reviews you can trust • Privacy guidance and scam warnings to keep you safe • Tutorials and advice from our expert writing team • Buyer’s guides, app roundups, toolkits, and more ALSO INCLUDED • A built-in guidebook with 200+ essential iPhone tips • AI-powered upgrade assistant to help choose between Apple devices • Home Screen widgets for the latest news and tips • iOS update notifications so you never miss new features
 • Save tips and articles for easy access
 • Powerful search across thousands of expert articles Tips & Tricks has been helping iPhone users since the early days of the App Store. With over 10 million downloads and multiple appearances in Apple’s “Best of the Year,” we’re a trusted source for clear advice, expert analysis, and easy-to-follow iOS tutorials. WHAT OUR READERS SAY 5/5 “Simple, logical, and beautifully designed. Very well done" 5/5 “I used every tip! Very useful!” 5/5 “A real eye-opener! I thought I knew a lot, but I didn’t!”
 5/5 “I absolutely love this app. It shows me things I never knew I could do with my iPhone and iPad.” 5/5 "This app is extremely useful, even for those who think they know it all." TIPS PRO Tips & Tricks is supported by occasional ads. Upgrade to Tips Pro to unlock every article, remove ads, and more. Tips & Tricks Pro offers auto-renewable subscriptions: - Monthly subscription - Annual subscription A free trial is available for new subscribers. Subscriptions automatically renew unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. You can manage and cancel subscriptions in your Apple ID account settings. LEGAL Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://www.tapsmart.com/tapsmart-apps/tips-tricks-privacy-policy/

About

System Activity Monitors

Monitor your device's health with this comprehensive tool. Track memory, battery performance, storage, and network details. Get detailed camera information and helpful battery-saving tips to optimize your iPhone.

Highlights
  • Memory usage tracking
  • Battery performance monitoring
  • Device IP and hardware address
  • Battery saving tips
  • Used and free space indicator
  • Detailed camera information
  • System and hardware specs
Features
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The System Activity Monitor stands out as the most inclusive health check application available on the App Store. It diligently tracks memory usage, battery performance, device details such as IP address and hardware address, provides battery tips, furnishes comprehensive system information, and indicates used space on your iOS device. Now, it comes with enhanced camera information, offering detailed insights into your iPhone camera system, covering telephoto, wide, and ultra-wide lenses. This app serves as a precise tool to monitor battery life, delivering timely tips that maximize your battery usage for an optimal and prolonged battery life. KEY FEATURES: 1. Battery tips are shown to help save battery life while using the iPhone. 2. Tap battery to see the battery capacity for your favorite apps. 3. Shows the used and free space on your iPhone/iPod. 4. Shows the IP address acquired, and hardware address of your device. 5. Displays a long list of device information, like physical specs, hardware info, and many more. These are the different views on the App. Memory view: Shows the used and free iPhone memory available as used by other apps. This is shown in an excellent speedometer animation view. Close out the other apps, and see the memory being reclaimed in this app, when the speedometer shows the free memory available increase. This has an LED indicator with blue, green, yellow and red colors indicating the amount of memory being used. Battery view: This view shows the battery available for discharge, how much time to recharge to make it full, and when it is charged to FULL, displays an indication, as "FULLY CHARGED", as opposed to quick charge. It has glow panels on the top to let you know, how much battery is available. Tap the battery on the fill, to show the detailed break up of battery availability for 3G talk time, browsing, videos, games etc. Animated battery charging with current flashes inside the battery. Space used view: This is shown as a pie-chart that presents the used and free space available on your iOS device. Info view: Now it shows a lot more device information, like system information, camera information, display, hardware and physical characteristics. It shows whether you device is connected to Wi-Fi or cellular and its IP address. ## Few of our user TESTIMONIALS ## $ Way cool This is a terrific system tracker. - Macquest $ Definitely get this App.! Love the cool dashboard. Tells you what's going on in the Apple brain in your iPad or iPhone. This App rules. - Battyguy $ Simple App ! Great tool! Helps to keep your standby time ridiculously long and device running smoothly. - Spader1969. $ I have tried many products like this one and so far I keep coming back to this one. - Markeith3000 Subscription Info Sysmon, our paid subscription product, is paid per year for annual subscriptions, per month for monthly subscriptions, and per week for weekly subscriptions. Payment will be charged to iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase. Subscription automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Account will be charged for renewal within 24 hours prior to the end of the current period an annual subscription, monthly subscription, and weekly subscription, as the case may be. Subscriptions may be managed by the user and auto-renewal may be turned off by going to the user's Account Settings after purchase Any unused portion of a free trial period, if offered, will be forfeited when the user purchases a subscription, where applicable.” Privacy policy and terms of use https://tektontek.com/termsofuse.php STAY UPDATED - Website - https://sysmon.tektontek.com Twitter - @AppLifeStyle Facebook - facebook.com/tektontek

Screenshots

Tips & Tricks4 screens
System Activity Monitors4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Tips & Tricks at 4.8 against System Activity Monitors's 4.2. Tips & Tricks also leads on update cadence (every 5 weeks vs every 3 months) and ratings volume (4.1K vs 774). System Activity Monitors's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 26.0). On price, review sentiment, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Tips & Tricks sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and System Activity Monitors sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Tips & Tricks holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Tips & Tricks has 4.1K ratings behind it against 774, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 68% of Tips & Tricks's written reviews are positive against 76% of System Activity Monitors's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Tips & Tricks ships an update every 5 weeks, System Activity Monitors every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 17, 2026 and October 18, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Tips & Tricks versus System Activity Monitors: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTips & TricksSystem Activity Monitors
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (4.1K ratings) — better4.2 (774 ratings)
Positive reviews68.1% of reviews76.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings4.1K — better774
Update frequencyEvery 5 weeks — betterEvery 3 months
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS26.013.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size54 MB28 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperIntelligenti LtdTekton Technologies (P) Ltd.

Customer experience

Tips & Tricks

All ratings4,086 ratings
Positive96.0%
Neutral2.5%
Negative1.5%
Written reviews295 reviews
Positive68.1%
Neutral6.4%
Negative25.4%

System Activity Monitors

All ratings774 ratings
Positive79.6%
Neutral5.6%
Negative14.9%
Written reviews658 reviews
Positive76.0%
Neutral7.6%
Negative16.4%

User reviews

Tips & Tricks

From 4.1K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Helpful tips and tricks
  • 🚀 Useful information
  • 💡 Informative and interesting
  • 👍 Great learning tool
  • 👍 Awesome app

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Crashes and not working
  • 🔍 Ads and paywall issues
  • 📖 Too much reading, needs more visuals
  • 🔍 Difficulty finding information

System Activity Monitors

From 774 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 💯 Excellent app
  • 🎆 Great app
  • 🔒 Respects privacy
  • 🔋 Helpful battery tips
  • 👍 Simple and straightforward

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Buggy updates
  • 💰 Subscription-based model
  • 🔒 Privacy concerns due to required login
  • 🔍 Limited functionality for free version
  • 🔍 Inaccurate device information

Bugs and requests

Tips & Tricks

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • Constant crashing and loading issues
  • Incompatibility with newer iOS versions

Requested features

3 requests
  • Ability to bookmark favorite tips
  • Improved navigation and search
  • More frequent updates and new content

System Activity Monitors

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Crashes on certain devices
  • Login/registration issues
  • Incorrect memory/CPU usage reporting

Requested features

5 requests
  • Ability to close/manage running apps
  • More detailed app-level usage breakdown
  • Dark mode option
  • Widgets for quick access
  • Ability to reclaim memory/free up storage

In-app purchases

10 purchases

Tips & Tricks

Subscriptions3
  • Premium Content Experience3 Days trial$4.991 Month
  • First Year Special Offer7 Days trial$49.991 Year
  • Premium Content Experience7 Days trial$99.991 Year
One-time7
  • Go Ad Free$0.99
  • Go Ad Free$1.99
  • Go Ad Free$2.99
Show 4 more
  • Go Ad Free$4.99
  • Go Ad Free$7.99
  • Go Ad Free$39.99
  • Go Ad Free$239.99
4 purchases

System Activity Monitors

Subscriptions3
  • Sysmon Pro$3.997 Days
  • Sysmon Pro3 Days trial$6.991 Month
  • Sysmon Pro7 Days trial$29.991 Year
One-time1
  • Real Time Graphs$2.99

Questions

Is Tips & Tricks free?
Tips & Tricks is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is System Activity Monitors free?
System Activity Monitors is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Tips & Tricks or System Activity Monitors?
Tips & Tricks is rated higher. Tips & Tricks averages 4.8 out of 5 from 4.1K ratings, while System Activity Monitors averages 4.2 from 774 ratings.
Do Tips & Tricks or System Activity Monitors have ads?
Tips & Tricks shows ads; System Activity Monitors does not.
Which is updated more often, Tips & Tricks or System Activity Monitors?
Tips & Tricks ships an update every 5 weeks, and System Activity Monitors every 3 months. Most recently, Tips & Tricks was updated on October 17, 2026 and System Activity Monitors on October 18, 2026.

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