Plato Lock vs Cat Scratches
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Plato Lock
Securely store and easily retrieve all your account information in one encrypted location. Your data is protected by Apple's encryption and synced via iCloud for safe and convenient access.
- Store account information
- Easy retrieval
- Apple encryption
- iCloud sync
- Secure data storage
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Plato Lock allows you to store info for all of your accounts in one place, and you can easily retrieve them later when needed! Since the data is safely encrypted by Apple and stored in iCloud, rest assured that your data is always secure and accessible.
Cat Scratches
Streamline your web content workflow by sending articles and selected text directly to your writing app. This tool offers customization options for templates and tags, ensuring content is organized as you save it. It integrates seamlessly with your preferred writing environment and provides a fallback option for broader compatibility.
- Capture selected text or full pages
- Send content directly to Drafts
- Fallback to Share Sheet
- Customize templates, tags, and filters
- Sync extension settings with iCloud
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Cat Scratches is a Safari extension for sending clean website text to Drafts. It can also use the Share Sheet for Notes, Mail, Messages, and other apps. Automatically extract the main article body, or select text to clip a passage. Use it to: • Send the page title, source URL, and text to Drafts • Save captures to Notes or other apps through the Share Sheet • Convert captures to readable Markdown • Choose templates, tags, and cleanup settings How it works: 1. Enable the Cat Scratches Safari extension 2. Open a webpage in Safari 3. Run Cat Scratches 4. Review or edit the capture in Drafts, Notes, or another app Cat Scratches only reads a page when you run the extension. It does not track browsing history or collect data. Source code is available at https://github.com/ddegner/cat-scratches.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Plato Lock at 5.0 against Cat Scratches's 4.0. Cat Scratches's advantage is update cadence (every 4 days vs every 3 weeks) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.6). On price, ratings volume, 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Plato Lock holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 4 respectively.
Plato Lock ships an update every 3 weeks, Cat Scratches every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on November 4, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Plato Lock | Cat Scratches |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better | 4.0 (4 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 4 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 5 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | An Luu | David Degner |
In-app purchases
Plato Lock
No in-app purchases
Cat Scratches
No in-app purchases
