PiSugar vs Karakeep App
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
PiSugar
Monitor and control your PiSugar battery system remotely. View battery status, charging information, and customize button functions. Supports managing multiple batteries simultaneously.
- View battery level
- Monitor charging status
- Configure custom buttons
- Manage RTC settings
- Support for multiple batteries
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Manage your PiSugar battery from your iPhone. Pair PiSugar with PiSugar-server to connect to your Raspberry Pi and: • View battery level, voltage, and charging status • Manage multiple PiSugar devices • Configure safe shutdown, scheduled wake-up, RTC, and custom button actions • Configure Raspberry Pi Wi-Fi over Bluetooth • Open secure terminal sessions over Bluetooth with BLE SSH • Browse official PiSugar products, manage your cart, and check out securely Orders placed through the PiSugar Store can be viewed and managed at https://account.pisugar.com/. No account is required for device management, and the app contains no ads. Store checkout and order management may require online services and an account. Bluetooth is used only to discover, connect to, and manage nearby Raspberry Pi devices. Device configuration data stays on your device and is not uploaded to developer servers.
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: Karakeep App at 71% against PiSugar's 0%. Karakeep App also leads on rating (4.6 vs 2.3) and update cadence (every 5 weeks vs every 11 months). 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.
Karakeep App holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 2.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Karakeep App has 44 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 0% of PiSugar's written reviews are positive against 71% of Karakeep App's.
PiSugar ships an update every 11 months, Karakeep App every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 4, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | PiSugar | Karakeep App |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.3 (3 ratings) | 4.6 (44 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 70.6% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 3 | 44 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 11 months | Every 5 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 38 MB | 56 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Guangzhou Soft Electric Technology Co., Ltd. | Mohamed Bassem |
Customer experience
PiSugar
Karakeep App
In-app purchases
PiSugar
No in-app purchases
Karakeep App
No in-app purchases
