Databag vs Karakeep App
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Databag
This self-hosted messaging service offers decentralized and federated communication with end-to-end encryption. Organize conversations by topic and enjoy low latency with mobile alerts for new messages and calls.
- Decentralized communication
- Federated accounts
- End-to-end encryption
- Topic-based threads
- Audio and video calls
- Mobile alerts
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Databag is a selfhosted messaging service. Notable features include: - Decentralized (direct communication between app and server node) - Federated (accounts on different nodes can communicate) - Public-Private key based identity (not bound to any blockchain or hosting domain) - End-to-End encryption (the hosting admin cannot view sealed topics, default unsealed) - Audio and Video Calls (nat traversal requires separate relay server) - Topic based threads (messages organized by topic not contacts) - Lightweight (server can run on a raspberry pi zero v1.3) - Low latency (use of websockets for push events to avoid polling) - Unlimited accounts per node (host for your whole family) - Mobile alerts for new contacts, messages, and calls (supports APN)
Karakeep App
Effortlessly save links, notes, and images with automatic AI-powered tagging for quick retrieval. Search through all your saved content, including link contents, at blazing fast speeds. Organize your saved items into custom lists and share content from any app.
- Automatic AI tagging
- Full-text search
- Custom lists
- Sharing extension
- Save links, notes, and images
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Quickly save links, notes, and images and karakeep will automatically tag them for you using AI for faster retrieval. Content (including link contents) are indexed for blazing fast full text search. Organize you items into custom lists. Sharing extension to hoard items from any other apps.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Databag at 100% against Karakeep App's 71%. Databag also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.6) and update cadence (fortnightly vs every 6 weeks). Karakeep App's advantage is ratings volume (43 vs 1). On price, ads, 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Databag holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Karakeep App has 43 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of Databag's written reviews are positive against 71% of Karakeep App's.
Databag ships an update fortnightly, Karakeep App every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 23, 2026 and October 13, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Databag | Karakeep App |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | 4.6 (43 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 70.6% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 43 — better |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Every 6 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Mac |
| Requires iOS | 13.4 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 45 MB | 64 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Roland Osborne | Mohamed Bassem |
Customer experience
Databag
Karakeep App
In-app purchases
Databag
No in-app purchases
Karakeep App
No in-app purchases
