Dropbox vs ScreenCrate
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Dropbox
Securely store, sync, and share your files and photos across all your devices. Easily upload, access, and send documents, videos, and more from anywhere, even offline. Offers robust backup and recovery features for peace of mind.
- Automatic photo and video upload
- Offline file access
- Large file sharing via links
- Document scanning to PDF
- Version history and file recovery
- Cross-device synchronization
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Dropbox lets you upload, save, and transfer photos and files to the cloud. Backup and sync your pictures, videos, documents, and other files to cloud storage and access them from any device, anywhere. With advanced sharing features, it’s easy to share and send photos or files to family, friends, and co-workers. Features: • Automatically upload videos and photos from your camera roll to cloud photo storage - all in the background - for easy video sharing and photo sharing. • Access any file in your account - even offline - and preview over 175 different file types with no special software required. • Easily send large files by copying and pasting a link you can give to anyone, even if they don’t have a Dropbox account. • Scan documents, receipts, IDs, photos, and more using your mobile device and transform them into high-quality PDFs, so you can view and send anywhere. • Sync folders on your PC or Mac to Dropbox with computer backup, and recover older versions or restore deleted files with version history and file recovery. Sign up now for your free Dropbox Plus trial. You’ll get 2 TB (2,000 GB) of storage space - that’s enough room to save files from all your linked devices. And with Dropbox Rewind, you can roll back any file, folder, or your entire account, up to 30 days. Before starting a trial or completing payment, you’ll see the plan price. This amount will be charged to your Apple ID account at confirmation of purchase and on renewal and will vary by plan and country. Dropbox subscriptions renew monthly or yearly, depending on your plan. Your account will be charged for renewal 24 hours before the end of your current billing period. To avoid auto-renewal, turn it off within at least 24 hours before your subscription renews. You can turn off auto-renewal anytime from your Apple ID account settings. You can manage and cancel your subscriptions by going to your account settings on the App Store after purchase. Dropbox is a secure cloud solutions leader trusted by Fortune 500 companies for their most sensitive data. Over 14 million paid users choose Dropbox because they know they can count on a company that’s also dedicated to their security and privacy—no matter what they do or where they are. Let Dropbox be your all-in-one file storage, file organizer, file transfer, and file sharing solution for all your devices. We’d love to hear from you! Join the Dropbox community: https://www.dropboxforum.com Terms of Service: https://www.dropbox.com/terms Privacy Policy: https://www.dropbox.com/privacy
ScreenCrate
This app helps you save and organize everything you find online, from links and screenshots to notes and photos. It features nested boards for project organization, calendar integration, and powerful search capabilities, including text recognition in screenshots. It also offers features like price drop alerts and a reader mode for articles.
- Save from any app
- Nested boards for organization
- Calendar integration with reminders
- Searchable text in screenshots
- YouTube playlist creation
- Evidence Locker with verifiable fingerprints
- Price drop alerts for products
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Save anything from any app, then find it in seconds. ScreenCrate keeps your links, screenshots, photos and PDFs in boards, watches prices for you for free, and seals web pages as proof no one can say you changed. No account. No cloud. No subscription. MADE FOR - Shoppers: save the product, get an alert when the price drops or it comes back in stock. - Collectors: track what you paid against what your collection is worth today. - Parents and anyone in a dispute: capture texts, posts and pages as sealed, tamper-evident records. - Medical records: keep lab results, prescriptions and receipts on your phone, locked with Face ID. - Trips, recipes and projects: one board instead of twenty open tabs. SAVE FROM ANY APP See something worth keeping, hit Share, pick ScreenCrate. Links, screenshots, photos, videos, articles, products, and notes all land in one place. BRING WHAT YOU ALREADY SAVED Coming from another app? Import your library from Instapaper, Raindrop, or your browser's bookmarks file, and everything arrives with its tags, its folders, and the date you originally saved it. Duplicates are skipped. BOARDS, AND NOW BOARDS INSIDE BOARDS Build a board for anything you are planning: a wish list, a trip, recipes, a home project. Boards now nest inside each other like folders, so a big project can hold its own smaller pieces instead of becoming a pile. SHARE A BOARD WITH ANYONE Turn any board into a single web page and send it to someone. They open it in their browser, with your saves, notes and prices laid out and nothing to install. If they have ScreenCrate too, they can add the whole board to their own crate in one tap. PUT IT ON A CALENDAR Anything you save can carry a date. Appointments, repeats and reminders, a day view you can scroll back through, and a Today panel on the home screen showing what the day holds. Share a whole day as one document. FIND IT BY WHAT YOU REMEMBER ScreenCrate reads the text in your screenshots on your device, so the one with the address or the phone number is findable by typing what was written on it. Pro adds search by meaning: describe "that blue jacket" and it finds the jacket. WATCH THE THINGS YOU SAVED Save YouTube links to a board and that board becomes a playlist you can sit down and watch, playing in order through the official YouTube player. Sleep Mode dims everything around the player for winding down at night. EVIDENCE LOCKER Capture a web page exactly as you see it, sealed with a verifiable SHA-256 fingerprint so anyone can later confirm it was not altered. Useful for harassment, disputes, and anything you may need to prove later. Sealed capture and verification are free for everyone. PRICE DROP ALERTS, FREE Save a product and ScreenCrate watches the price in the background. When it drops, or hits the number you set, your phone tells you. If it sells out, you are told when it comes back. READER MODE AND NOTES Save an article and read it clean, without the clutter. Attach a note to anything, so the reason you saved it comes back with it. Give a note its own color or a photo behind it so the one you want is the one you spot. EVERYTHING STAYS ON YOUR PHONE No account, no cloud you are forced into, no analytics, and no crash-reporting service. Your saves, your searches, and your images stay on your device. SCREENCRATE PRO One purchase, not a subscription. Pro adds search by meaning, the full Evidence Locker with cases and trusted timestamps and an evidence report PDF, your own photos as board covers, revisit reminders that resurface what you forgot, unlimited backups, and no ads anywhere.
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Verdict
Dropbox and ScreenCrate both sit at 4.8 stars, but that hides the real split: 100% of ScreenCrate's written reviews are positive against 48% of Dropbox's. Dropbox's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and ratings volume (927K vs 3). On price, rating, update cadence 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. Dropbox sells 9 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per month and ScreenCrate sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
ScreenCrate holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Dropbox has 927K ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 48% of Dropbox's written reviews are positive against 100% of ScreenCrate's.
Dropbox ships an update every 2 weeks, ScreenCrate every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 28, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Dropbox | ScreenCrate |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (927K ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 47.8% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 927K — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks — better | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Best chart rank | #5 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 229 MB | 193 MB |
| Age rating | +12 | 4+ |
| Developer | Dropbox, Inc. | Diego Cordova |
Customer experience
Dropbox
ScreenCrate
Bugs and requests
Dropbox
Reported bugs
5 issues- Freezing on login screen
- Duplicate file uploads
- Incorrect file timestamps
- Incompatibility with iOS updates
- Disappearing recent files
Requested features
5 requests- Select all option for uploads
- Background upload support
- Integrated media player
- Increased free storage
- Flexible paid plan options
ScreenCrate
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Dropbox
- Dropbox Simple - Monthly1 Month trial$6.991 Month
- Dropbox Plus - Monthly$11.991 Month
- Dropbox Plus - Monthly1 Month trial$11.991 Month
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- Dropbox Plus - Monthly14 Days trial$11.991 Month
- Dropbox Professional - Monthly$19.991 Month
- Dropbox Professional - Monthly1 Month trial$19.991 Month
- Dropbox Family - Monthly1 Month trial$19.991 Month
- Dropbox Plus - Annual2 variants$119.991 Year
- Dropbox Plus - Annual1 Month trial$119.991 Year
ScreenCrate
- ScreenCrate Pro$5.99









