Comparison

Safekeeper vs Skein Notes

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

Head to head
About

Safekeeper

Securely store and view sensitive data using robust encryption. This app protects passwords, texts, logins, and pictures with bank-grade security. It offers features like auto-destruction, customizable categories, and encrypted backups.

Highlights
  • Robust encryption (AES 256-bit)
  • Master password protection
  • Data auto-destruction
  • Customizable categories with icons
  • Encrypted backup storage
  • Free custom fields editing
Features
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Safekeeper allows you to store and view your data by keeping them safe with the most robust encryption algorithms. You must remember just ONE password, Safekeper makes all the rest, encrypting and protecting all of your data (passwords, texts, logins, pictures) securely. Features: * Security: Safekeeper stores all your information encrypted with the same algorith (AES with 256-bit key) used by banks and governative agencies * Your main password isn't stored in Safekeeper * Data auto destruction enabled (it can be disabled) after a given amount of failed attempts to guess password * Grouping informations to be crypted into categories. * More than 70 predefined icons to customize categories and secrets. * Custom ordering of categories and titles to quick access the secrets * Display data and secrets with filters. * Secrets can be displayed in compact and full view. * Free custom fields editing. * Inserting multiple images. * Backup storage systems secure with encrypted data. * Full free version and iCluod backup with ads. * You can unlock more backup server eliminating ads through a single payment (in-app purchase).

About

Skein Notes

Features
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Skein is a notes app for people who want to keep their own files. Your vault is a folder of plain Markdown on your device or in iCloud Drive. Skein reads and writes those files directly — the same folder you open in Skein for Mac, or in any other editor. Nothing is locked in a database, and there is no service in the middle. Write it down before you lose it The app opens on a capture field. Type the thought and send it; the first line becomes the note's title and Skein files it where you told it to. No dialog, no folder picker, no naming a file before you have written anything. Find it again Search matches titles the moment you start typing and searches inside every note once the index is ready, ranked, with the matching lines and their line numbers — tap one and land on it. The Vault filters by name, by #tag or by folder in one field, and tags are real: tap one anywhere in the app to see everything carrying it. Real Markdown, properly Headings, lists, task lists, tables, footnotes, code blocks, callouts, ==highlights== and [[wikilinks]] — read cleanly and edited as text. A keyboard bar puts the things you actually reach for above the keys, including arrows that move by character and by word, and you can choose which of them appear. Type / for a command, #for a tag it already knows. Canvas Open a JSON Canvas board, move cards, connect them, colour them and write on them. The same file, the same format Obsidian writes, so a board made on the Mac opens here and back again. It keeps your writing safe Skein keeps earlier versions of a note as you edit, so you can go back to what you wrote this morning. When the same note has been changed in two places, Skein keeps both and asks — it never picks a winner quietly. Also Share text from any app straight into your vault. Four themes, including one for reading at night. Dynamic Type throughout, and full VoiceOver support. Skein does not have an account, a subscription for the basics, a server, or telemetry. Your notes never leave your device except through iCloud Drive, which is yours. Skein for Mac is a separate app on the same purchase.

Screenshots

Safekeeper2 screens
Skein Notes4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Skein Notes at none against Safekeeper's 1. Skein Notes also leads on update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 2 months). Safekeeper's advantage is iOS requirement (9.0 vs 17.0). On price, ads 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Safekeeper sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Skein Notes asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Safekeeper ships an update every 2 months, Skein Notes every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 11, 2026 and September 30, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Safekeeper versus Skein Notes: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSafekeeperSkein Notes
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.2 (5 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews90.3% of reviews—
Number of ratings5 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 2 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, Mac
Requires iOS9.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size20 MB10 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperIAKTATomasz Smieja

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Safekeeper

One-time1
  • Unlock all cloud drives for backup$1.99
None

Skein Notes

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Safekeeper free?
Safekeeper is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Skein Notes free?
Skein Notes is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Safekeeper or Skein Notes have ads?
Neither Safekeeper nor Skein Notes shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Safekeeper or Skein Notes?
Safekeeper ships an update every 2 months, and Skein Notes every 2 weeks. Most recently, Safekeeper was updated on October 11, 2026 and Skein Notes on September 30, 2026.

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