Card Decks vs Paperly
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Card Decks
Create and share custom card decks for various uses, from team meetings and planning to personal expression and task management. Configure individual cards with display times for timers or reminders, and easily share decks via email or messages.
- Configurable colored text cards
- Group cards into decks
- Create custom card sets
- Timer and countdown functionality
- Share decks via email/messages
- Open source
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Card Decks is a small utility application for your iPhone and iPad which brings you simple, configurable, colored, multi-line text cards that are grouped into card decks. A card deck can be used to show your vote or estimation on a certain topic in a meeting, e.g. in a planning meeting used in agile software development methods like Scrum or Extreme Programming. If the pre-configured cards don't fit your needs, just extend the existing cards or build your own set of cards, e.g. including special estimation numbers like "Pi" or "?". Or, if you are the chair of a session on a conference, you can use a card deck to remind a speaker of the remaining time for the presentation. Or, as a speaker, use a timer card deck to track the remaining minutes. Or, just use your cards to show your opinion, argument, or mood, in a simple, non-verbal way. Or, use the shuffle feature to randomly select a task from a card deck with tasks, or randomly assign tasks to students, team members, etc. Card Decks contains some pre-configured card decks with voting cards, simple colored cards, cards with numbers, colored cards which show remaining minutes, and some timers. Individual card decks can be created with the built-in editor. Each card in a card deck can be configured with a display time. This way, you can build your own countdown timer with individual numbers, texts, reminders, etc. Example timers for 15 and 60 minutes are pre-configured. Additionally, Card Decks supports sending and receiving card decks via e-mail, messages, etc. for sharing your card decks with your friends or colleagues. Either as an URL, or via a JSON-based document. Found a bug? Missing a feature? Drop a line to carddecks@0xc0.de, or open an issue in the project on GitHub. Card Decks is open source and licensed under the terms of the MIT license. Its source code is hosted on GitHub.
Paperly
This app enhances content consumption by making reading articles and watching videos faster and more organized. It offers features like smart highlighting, video saving, and cross-device synchronization. Track your progress and consumption habits with built-in analytics.
- Smart text highlighting
- Bionic reading mode
- Save and organize videos
- iCloud sync across devices
- Share extension for instant saving
- Tag, filter, and sort content
- Progress tracking and analytics
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Paperly - Enhanced Reading & Video Companion Transform how you consume content with Paperly, the intelligent app that makes reading articles and watching videos faster, more enjoyable, and perfectly organized. KEY FEATURES: • Enhanced Reading - Smart text highlighting and bionic reading mode for faster comprehension • Video Support - Save and organize videos from YouTube and other platforms alongside articles • iCloud Sync - Access your content library across iPhone, iPad, and Mac • Share Extension - Save articles and videos instantly from any app • Smart Organization - Tag, filter, and sort by content type, reading status, or date • Progress Tracking - Visual indicators show reading/viewing progress • Analytics - Track your content consumption habits and trends • Bookmarks & Notes - Save important moments and add personal annotations Download Paperly and transform your daily content consumption.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Paperly at 100% against Card Decks's 78%. Paperly also leads on rating (4.8 vs 4.5) and update cadence (every 2 months vs every 5 months). On price, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Paperly holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 4 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 78% of Card Decks's written reviews are positive against 100% of Paperly's.
Card Decks ships an update every 5 months, Paperly every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Card Decks | Paperly |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (2 ratings) | 4.8 (4 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 77.8% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 4 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 — better | 18.2 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 1 MB | 23 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Arne Harren | Jon Shrestha |
Customer experience
Card Decks
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In-app purchases
Card Decks
No in-app purchases
Paperly
No in-app purchases









