VisualRecord vs Compaxi
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
VisualRecord
This app offers a visual database for recording information about objects, including photos. It allows for powerful searching using SQL or a simpler fetch interface. Ideal for cataloging valuables for insurance or personal inventory.
- Visual record keeping
- Attach multiple photos per record
- Store textual descriptions
- SQLite database storage
- SQL query language support
- Intuitive 'fetch' interface for filtering
- Use iPad camera or Photo Library
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VisualRecord for iPad provides an easy to use, visual record keeping database. With its intuitive interface, VisualRecord allows you to record information about a particular object, including one or more pictures of the object itself. The information you supply about the object, including photos, is stored in the form of a record in a SQLite database table. This allows you to use the powerful SQL query language to search over the records you've created and filter the data to suit your needs. In addition, VisualRecord provides a "fetch" interface which requires no prior knowledge of SQL that also allows you to filter your data based on simple criteria. When you add a new record for a particular object to your database table, VisualRecord makes it easy to insert a picture of the object into the record itself using your iPad's Photo Library or Camera. The records in your database table can include textual fields of arbitrary length. This allows you to include descriptive text in the record associated with the object in question. VisualRecord is ideal for record keeping of your valuables for insurance purposes.
Compaxi
This app helps you organize your thoughts, memories, and experiences into a personal knowledge graph. It uses AI to find connections across your history, allowing you to ask questions about your past and visualize your life's patterns. Import photos and data to build your graph faster.
- Conversational journaling with AI
- Personal knowledge graph
- Semantic search across history
- Photo import with memory extraction
- Interactive graph visualization
- Daily journaling reminders
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Write about your day, a decision you're weighing, or a memory that resurfaced, and Compaxi automatically organizes everything into a personal knowledge graph of people, places, and experiences, finding connections across your entire history. No new format to learn. Just talk to Compaxi the way you'd talk to a good friend. Share what happened, what you're thinking about, or what you're trying to figure out. Every conversation becomes part of your personal memory graph. Connections you didn't see coming: That coffee chat last Tuesday and a career decision from two years ago? They're linked. Compaxi finds second, third, and fourth-order connections across everything you've ever written, patterns you'd never spot in a traditional journal. Ask your past. Plan your future. "What led to my best decisions?" "Who have I lost touch with?" "What was I feeling the last time I faced something like this?" Ask real questions and get answers drawn from your own experiences, not generic advice. Your knowledge graph, visualized: See your memories as an interactive graph. Events, people, and places appear as nodes. The connections between them reveal the hidden structure of your life: the recurring themes, the people who shaped your thinking, the places where breakthroughs happened. Jumpstart with what you already: Import photos from your library and Compaxi extracts the memories behind them, or connect your Instagram or bring in conversations from other AI assistants to build your graph faster. Private by design: No ads. No data sales. Ever. Features • Conversational journaling powered by AI • Personal knowledge graph connecting people, places, and events • Semantic search across your entire history • Photo import with automatic memory extraction • Instagram and AI data import • Interactive graph visualization • Daily journaling nudges and follow-up reminders
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Compaxi at none against VisualRecord's 1. On price, rating, ratings volume and ads 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. VisualRecord sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Compaxi asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for VisualRecord against 5.0 for Compaxi. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 1 respectively.
| Parameter | VisualRecord | Compaxi |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 10 months | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 17.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 4 MB | 7 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Kal-El Software | Mert Gerdan |
Customer experience
VisualRecord
Compaxi
In-app purchases
VisualRecord
- Remove App Restrictions$2.99
Compaxi
No in-app purchases









