Comparison

xDesk vs RollGuard

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

Head to head
About

xDesk

Organize all your personal data in one place, from notes and photos to documents and recordings. Create custom cards for anything, with built-in tools for scanning, recording, and managing deadlines. Share information securely with others via iCloud.

Highlights
  • Customizable data cards
  • Integrated recorder with transcription
  • Document scanner to PDF
  • Deadline tracking and countdowns
  • Secure iCloud sharing
  • Cross-device support (iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch)
Features
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Why switch between five apps when one will do? xDesk is the Swiss Army knife of your personal data: an archive you build yourself, where everything has a card and every card has its place. Notes, photos, scanned documents, recordings with their transcript, deadlines, the grocery list, contacts, routes. One app, and the same one in your pocket, on the table, on the desk and on your wrist: iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch. NO SERVERS, NO SIGN-UP Your data lives in your iCloud. We don't ask for an account, we don't ask for an email, we have no servers to put it on: we never had any. What you write in xDesk is yours, stays yours, and is seen only by you and the people you choose to share it with. A CARD FOR EVERYTHING A folder for the house, one for the car, one for clients, one for grandma and her recipes. You build each card yourself, as a grid: text, numbers, dates, photos, maps, QR codes, drawings, signatures. Twenty seconds. Or start from one of sixteen ready-made models: document, vehicle, warranty, Wi-Fi network, subscription, meeting, list. RECORD, AND IT BECOMES TEXT A recorder that writes down what it hears, on your phone, without sending the audio to anyone. If there are two of you, it tells the voices apart. A scanner that straightens crooked pages and turns them into a PDF. A calendar that picks the deadlines out of every card and puts them on your first page, with a countdown. SHARE WITH FRIENDS AND FAMILY A folder shared through iCloud: the grocery list your kids update from their phone, quotes with colleagues, site photos with the crew. Inside there is also the space's chat, end-to-end encrypted, so the important thing sits next to the thing it refers to. WALK, TRAVEL, TRAIN Record a route, plan the stops of a trip with computed times, keep your heart rate from the watch. It all ends up in cards, like everything else. FREE TO START The free part stays free: unlimited cards and folders, the recorder, the scanner, one shared folder. When xDesk becomes the way you work there is xDesk Pro: full transcripts with speakers told apart, unlimited models, PDFs with your letterhead, messages in shared spaces, the password vault. Monthly, yearly, or once and forever. Next time someone asks "where did you put it?", answer with a tap. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

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RollGuard

Features
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Find the sensitive photos hiding in your camera roll before someone else does. RollGuard scans your photos for passports, driver's licenses, national ID cards, payment cards — including card backs — screenshots of passwords and credentials, photographed WiFi and router labels, and other private images — entirely on your iPhone. It even scans in Airplane Mode — proof that nothing is uploaded, nothing is analyzed in the cloud. There's no account to create. Review what's flagged, then keep, hide, or delete — you're always the one who decides. RollGuard finds identity documents wherever they're hiding in your camera roll — passports, national ID cards, driving licenses, health and tax documents, residence permits — built and tested against real specimen documents from 180 countries and territories, in more than 30 languages. It doesn't just spot things that look like documents: passports and modern ID cards from any country are read and checked against their own machine-readable rules, and anything it can't verify is still flagged for you to decide. Passports from 100 MRZ-verified states have checked out against their own check digits in testing. Deep coverage for Australia, New Zealand, the UK, Ireland, Canada and the US, broad coverage across Europe — and growing. Before you hand over your work phone. IT prepping a device for return, or handing one back yourself — a fast scan flags anything private that shouldn't travel with the hardware. Before you sell or trade it in. Old passwords, screenshotted 2FA codes, a photo of your license from years ago — RollGuard finds what a factory reset alone won't help you notice before it's gone for good. Before you hand your phone to family. Kids playing games, family scrolling through photos — a quick pass first means nothing private turns up by accident. Before you travel. A lighter camera roll for border crossings and unfamiliar hands. Or just a spring clean. "What's actually in my thousands of photos?" — most people genuinely don't know. Find out what's hidden in there. RollGuard's free tier does more than a typical free trial: it runs a genuinely complete scan of your last 30 days — every category, every action, no artificial limits inside that window, re-scannable anytime — with the full review queue included: real thumbnails, tap to zoom, and keep, hide, or delete, all free. It also keeps going: working through the rest of your library on its own, showing you a real running count of what's flagged out there. Pro unlocks the review queue for everything beyond your last 30 days — without it, finding a specific older flagged photo yourself would mean scrolling through thousands of images by hand; Pro does that for you. One-time purchase, forever: no subscription, no recurring charges, ever. RollGuard also flags possibly sensitive images using Apple's own on-device detection, following your iPhone's Sensitive Content Warning setting — nothing about those images ever leaves your phone either. RollGuard never tells you your library is "safe." It flags what it finds for your review — you make every call.

Screenshots

xDesk4 screens
RollGuard4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: RollGuard at every 4 days against xDesk's fortnightly. xDesk's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (18.0 vs 26.0). On price, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. xDesk sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per year and RollGuard sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

xDesk ships an update fortnightly, RollGuard every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on September 26, 2026 and September 21, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
xDesk versus RollGuard: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterxDeskRollGuard
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (3 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings3 — better—
Update frequencyFortnightlyEvery 4 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — betteriPhone
Requires iOS18.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size60 MB55 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperNas-GamesDavid Smith

In-app purchases

3 purchases

xDesk

Subscriptions2
  • 1 Year sub. 15 days trial$6.991 Year
  • All Features (1Year)$6.991 Year
One-time1
  • lifetime unlock$24.99
1 purchases

RollGuard

One-time1
  • RollGuard Pro$19.99

Questions

Is xDesk free?
xDesk is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is RollGuard free?
RollGuard is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do xDesk or RollGuard have ads?
Neither xDesk nor RollGuard shows ads.
Which is updated more often, xDesk or RollGuard?
xDesk ships an update fortnightly, and RollGuard every 4 days. Most recently, xDesk was updated on September 26, 2026 and RollGuard on September 21, 2026.

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