BoardEffect vs ICINA
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
BoardEffect
This app provides a secure, paperless boardroom experience for volunteer leaders. Access meeting packets, annotate documents offline, and view contact information. It syncs with a web-based portal for comprehensive board management.
- Paperless boardroom
- Download meeting packets
- Offline annotation
- Contact directory
- Resource library access (iPad)
- Board handbook management
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The Leading Board Portal for Volunteer Leadership Worldwide. Make your boardroom truly paperless. BoardEffect’s iOS App connects to your BoardEffect board portal. The App allows your board members to: - Download meeting packets - Fully annotate meeting materials including “sticky notes,” drawing, highlighting, underlining, and strike-through - Read and annotate meeting packets both online and offline - Print or email their meeting packets from the App (optional) - View the full contact directory including members’ head shots, biographies, and contact details - View files from your BoardEffect portal’s Resource Library (iPad only) - Download and annotate your Board Handbook, including bylaws, policies, and other documents The BoardEffect iOS App is free and works in conjunction with your secure BoardEffect web-based portal. For more information about BoardEffect, contact us at (866) 672-2666.
ICINA
Securely store important personal information, legal documents, and final wishes for loved ones. Features guided entries, encrypted vaults, and a personal letter to ensure your legacy is handled with care.
- Guided entry for documents and wishes
- Encrypted vault with no cloud sync
- Personal letter to recipient
- Printable handoff packet
- Document scanning with autofill (Pro)
- Expiry reminders (Pro)
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Some day, someone who loves you will need to find everything you kept in your head — the will, the policy that pays the mortgage, who to call first, your final wishes. ICINA is where you put it all, safely, in advance, as an act of care. FOR THE ONE WHO LOVES Build your vault the way you'd leave notes on the fridge. Guided entries walk you through legal documents, money and banking, insurance, medical directives, IDs, property, digital accounts, the people to call, and your final wishes. Write a personal letter to the person who will open it — the app treats that letter as the most important thing in the vault, because it is. Everything you write is auto-saved as an encrypted draft, so nothing is lost mid-thought. When you're ready, seal the vault: ICINA shows you exactly what changed since you last sealed it, then exports a single encrypted file — and a printable handoff packet with their name on it. FOR THE ONE WHO IS LOVED They arrive with a passphrase on a piece of paper, on one of the hardest days of their life. ICINA knows the difference. When they open the vault, your letter comes first — before any list, before any document. Then a calm summary of what you left them, what to do now, and a gentle "start here" order for the first days: who to call, where the important papers are. No paywalls. No upsells. No clutter. Just what you prepared, the way you meant it. PRIVATE BY DESIGN • Encrypted on your device with strong, modern cryptography. • No cloud. No sync. No accounts. No tracking. Your data never leaves your phone unless you export it. • Export a single encrypted .icina file and share the passphrase only with the person you trust — on paper, in person, however you choose. PRO ICINA Pro unlocks document scanning with intelligent autofill — processed entirely on your device by Apple's on-device models, never sent anywhere — plus unlimited items, file attachments, expiry reminders, and the printable handoff packet. Annual or one-time lifetime purchase. ICINA. For the one who loves, and the one who is loved.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: ICINA at 5.0 against BoardEffect's 3.5. ICINA also leads on update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 2 months). BoardEffect's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2) and ratings volume (48 vs 1). On price, ads, device support 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
Both are free to download. ICINA sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $19.99 per year. BoardEffect asks for nothing beyond the download.
ICINA holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: BoardEffect has 48 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
BoardEffect ships an update every 2 months, ICINA every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 30, 2026 and September 18, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | BoardEffect | ICINA |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.5 (48 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 58.3% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 48 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 — better | 17.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 276 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Diligent Corporation | Michael Chung |
Customer experience
BoardEffect
ICINA
In-app purchases
BoardEffect
No in-app purchases
ICINA
- ICINA Pro14 Days trial$19.991 Year
- ICINA Pro — Lifetime$79.99









