ActionMate vs Deets
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
ActionMate
This app enhances the functionality of the iPhone 15 Pro's Action Button by integrating with the Shortcuts app. It allows users to trigger a variety of custom actions based on device orientation, screen status, and gestures, offering expanded use cases beyond default options.
- Action Button customization
- Integrates with iOS Shortcuts
- Context-aware actions (orientation, screen status)
- Gesture-based triggers
- Sample shortcuts included
- Usage tutorials
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ActionMate is a practical tool designed to enhance the usage of Action Button in conjunction with the Shortcut app. The action button is a new physical button added to the iPhone 15 Pro / Pro Max models, replacing the silent mode switch. It is recommended to use ActionMate on iPhone 15 Pro / Pro Max models for the best experience. Although the iOS system provides several default action button functions, ActionMate can help you greatly expand the function usage of the action button. Pressing the function button in different states can trigger various features, such as: - Pressing the action button in portrait mode to turn silent mode on/off; pressing it in landscape mode will open the camera. - Pressing the action button when the device screen is facing up will display a payment QR code; pressing it when the screen is facing down will start a one-touch recording. - Shaking the device after pressing the action button will change the wallpaper; not shaking the device after pressing will take a screenshot and share it directly. ... These are just a few basic examples of ActionMate's capabilities. With the high degree of freedom provided by the iOS Shortcut app, you can use ActionMate to stack a wide variety of complex functions. Even if you're not familiar with the iOS Shortcut app, ActionMate includes and will continue to update a number of sample shortcuts for one-click access. It also provides a number of shortcut usage tutorials to help you solve any problems. ActionMate will continue to improve in the long term. If you have any feature suggestions, please contact us through the App's built-in feedback mechanism.
Deets
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Deets is an address book that gets out of the way. Open it and the search field is already waiting. Type two or three letters and the right person is there, name first, with the number or address you wanted directly underneath — no photographs to load, no coloured initial blobs, nothing decorative competing with the thing you came for. YOUR CONTACTS, NOT A COPY OF THEM Deets reads and writes the Contacts app already on your iPhone, so anything synced there — iCloud, Google, Exchange, a work CardDAV account — is simply there. Edit a contact in Deets and the change lands in Contacts. There is no second database and nothing to import to get started. ADD A CONTACT FROM ANYTHING Scan a business card with the camera, choose a photo of one, paste a signature block out of an email, or open a vCard. Every path runs on your device. Deets shows you exactly what it read, including the lines it could not place, before anything is saved. SHARING WITHOUT THE SHARE SHEET Show a QR code someone can point a phone at, or copy a clean block of plain text that survives an email. Your own card is a first-class thing, not just another entry. WIDGETS, SIRI AND SHORTCUTS Put the people you reach for most on the Home Screen, in small, medium or large. Say “Search Deets” or “Show my card in Deets” to Siri, or build a shortcut of your own around them. ON YOUR OTHER DEVICES Deets is one app across iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch and Mac. Favorites, your own card, your accent colour and your field order follow you over iCloud. On the Mac a single hotkey summons the same search from anywhere. On the watch, your favorites and their numbers are on your wrist, read-only by design. PRIVATE BY CONSTRUCTION Deets contains no networking code — not on iPhone, not on the watch, not on the Mac. There is no account, no analytics, no advertising identifier and no third-party code. Card scanning runs on your device. The only thing that ever leaves is your own settings, to your own iCloud, and even there your contacts are named by a one-way digest rather than by name or address. FREE Deets is free on iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch, with no ads and nothing locked. Deets for Mac comes with a 14-day free trial, then a one-time purchase. Requires iOS 26 and access to your Contacts.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: ActionMate at every 2 days against Deets's every 5 days. ActionMate also leads on iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). Deets's advantage is device support (4 vs 1). 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
Both are free to download. ActionMate sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Deets sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
ActionMate ships an update every 2 days, Deets every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 26, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | ActionMate | Deets |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 12.5% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 days — better | Every 5 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 20 MB | 7 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Potatso Lab LTD | Mike Shear |
In-app purchases
ActionMate
- ActionMate Pro$4.99
Deets
- 14-Day TrialFree
- Deets for Mac$9.99









