Comparison

BLACK X vs Xcreen

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

Head to head
About

BLACK X

Control and monitor access to your home from anywhere. Grant temporary or permanent access to trusted individuals and receive real-time notifications about who enters or leaves your property. Integrates with smart home devices for voice control.

Highlights
  • Remote door unlocking
  • Effortless access sharing
  • Activity feed monitoring
  • Customizable smart alerts
  • Voice command integration
  • Rental business management
Features
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At BlackX, we envision your home's entryway as more than just a barrier against the outside world; it's the gateway to selectively welcoming the right individuals into your space, precisely when you want them there. With BlackX, you wield complete authority over your home's access, ensuring you're always in command, regardless of your location. Our product suite empowers you with seamless home access management, offering: - **Universal Key Convenience:** Secure and access your front door from any location, experiencing the freedom of a universal key. - **Effortless Access Sharing:** Eliminate the hassle of hiding or searching for keys by instantly issuing secure access to your trusted friends, family, or associates through the BlackX app. - **Activity Feed Monitoring:** Stay informed with the Activity Feed, monitoring when guests and family members enter or leave your home, all from the intuitive BlackX app. - **Customizable Smart Alerts:** Receive meaningful alerts tailored to your preferences, ensuring you get the information that matters most to you. - **Remote Door Unlocking:** Manage guest entry from anywhere with ease, thanks to the BlackX Wi-Fi Bridge. - **Voice Command Integration:** Enhance your control with voice commands, integrating your BlackX smart devices with Amazon Alexa or Hey Google for hands-free operation. - **Rental Business Empowerment:** Leverage intelligent AI-generated xKeys for a seamless host and guest experience in your rental business. - **Smart Home Ecosystem Compatibility:** Embrace the full potential of your smart home ecosystem, with BlackX designed to work seamlessly alongside leading systems like Google Home and Amazon Alexa, enriching your smart home experience.

About

Xcreen

This app provides a distraction-free environment for cleaning your device's screen. It prevents accidental taps and unwanted actions while offering customizable backgrounds to highlight smudges and grime.

Highlights
  • Distraction-free cleaning environment
  • Prevents accidental taps
  • Customizable background colors
  • Adjustable exit control placement
  • Keeps display awake during cleaning
  • Supports portrait and landscape
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See the mess. Wipe without the worry. Cleaning your screen should be simple. But when the display is asleep, dust and grime can be difficult to see. Touching it wakes the lock screen, where wiping can enter passcode digits, activate controls, or risk an unwanted emergency call. On an unlocked device, wiping can open apps, move icons, or trigger actions you never intended. In all of these situations, there is also no clear, evenly lit background to make dust, fingerprints, smudges, and grime stand out. Xcreen replaces those distractions with a solid cleaning surface that makes the mess easier to spot, whether you are giving your screen a quick wipe or a deeper clean. Ordinary taps inside Xcreen do nothing, so you can clean without worrying about accidental taps. CHOOSE YOUR CLEANING SCREEN • Select from six carefully chosen background colors • Create a custom solid color • Use different colors to reveal different dust, smudges, and streaks • Save your preferred color automatically PLACE YOUR EXIT CONTROL • Position the X in any corner • Keep it away from the area you are cleaning • Hold the X for one second when you are finished • Avoid exiting through an ordinary accidental tap • Save your preferred exit corner automatically MADE FOR CLEANING • Keeps the display awake while cleaning • Supports portrait and landscape orientations • Works on iPhone and iPad • Remembers your cleaning preferences XCREEN PRO Upgrade once with no subscription. • Remove the banner ad from Home • Optionally have Xcreen open directly to your cleaning screen • Start cleaning mode with your saved background color and exit corner already selected Xcreen prevents accidental taps inside the app; system gestures may still be enabled on your device.

Screenshots

BLACK X4 screens
Xcreen4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: BLACK X at none against Xcreen's 1. BLACK X also leads on ads (none vs shown). On price, device support and iOS requirement 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. Xcreen sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. BLACK X asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
BLACK X versus Xcreen: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBLACK XXcreen
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings—2 — better
Update frequencyEvery 5 weeks—
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better16.4
Further details — not scored
Size50 MB55 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperBLACK LIMITED UNIPESSOAL LDASlade Utley

Customer experience

BLACK X

Written reviews4 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Xcreen

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

BLACK X

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Xcreen

One-time1
  • Xcreen Pro$1.99

Questions

Is BLACK X free?
BLACK X is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Xcreen free?
Xcreen is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do BLACK X or Xcreen have ads?
Xcreen shows ads; BLACK X does not.

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