PILE vs Tenoa
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
PILE
Organize notes, photos, links, and files privately and securely using your iCloud Drive. Access your organized content across Mac, iPhone, and iPad with seamless syncing. Enjoy a distraction-free experience with no ads and customizable features.
- Private & Secure iCloud storage
- Organized content retrieval
- Flexible storage for various file types
- Customizable tags and pinning
- Seamless cross-device syncing
- Distraction-free, ad-free experience
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The only private, beautiful way to organize everything. Seamlessly synced across Mac, iPhone, and iPad. Keep your notes, bookmarks, files, images, inspiration, memories, articles, and documents safe and accessible with PILE. Key Features: - Private & Secure: All data is stored in your iCloud Drive—no third-party servers, no tracking, no AI. - Organized & Ready: Retrieve deleted items for up to 30 days with our bin system. - Flexible Storage: Save notes, links, photos, videos, and more from any device. - Customization: Unlock tags, pinned items, and visual customization with one simple subscription. Why PILE? - Your data stays yours—secure, private, and always in your control. - Maintain a distraction-free environment with no ads. - Effortless synchronization through iCloud ensures your content is available anytime, anywhere. Subscription: - One subscription unlocks all features, with discounts for students and yearly plans. Join PILE for a transparent, secure, and beautifully organized digital life. Subscription auto-renews until cancelled, more info in https://pile.ie/#terms
Tenoa
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Tenoa is a local-first visual library. You save the things worth keeping: pages, images, videos, notes. They become plain files in a library you own, on your own devices. WHAT YOU DO WITH IT - Save from anywhere. Share to Tenoa from Safari, Instagram, or any app with a share sheet. - Browse it visually. Your library is a grid of the things you saved. - Find things again. Search across everything you have saved. - Open it anywhere. Your items are plain files. You can read them, back them up, and move them without Tenoa. NO ACCOUNT There is nothing to sign up for. You never give Tenoa an email address. Open the app and start saving. YOUR LIBRARY STAYS YOURS Tenoa has no accounts or tracking. It hosts no library, and items live on your devices. If you pair Tenoa on this device with the Tenoa desktop app, your library syncs between them peer to peer with end-to-end encryption; Tenoa-operated rendezvous servers only help your devices find each other and never see readable content. WORKS WITH YOUR COMPUTER The desktop app adds browser capture and runs AI summaries and tags on your computer. An optional cloud AI is off by default and uses only your own provider key. Searching by meaning also lives on the desktop. Pair once and everything you save on your phone appears on your desktop, and the other way around. The iPhone and iPad app also works on its own: save, browse, and search without any other device. WHAT IT COSTS This app is free. No subscription, no in-app purchases. A sample library is included so you can look around before you save anything of your own. Questions: hello@tenoa.app
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Tenoa at 100% against PILE's 7%. Tenoa also leads on rating (5.0 vs 1.6) and in-app purchases (none vs 5). PILE's advantage is update cadence (every 3 days vs fortnightly) and ratings volume (24 vs 1). On price, ads, 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
Both are free to download. PILE sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Tenoa asks for nothing beyond the download.
Tenoa holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 1.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: PILE has 24 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 7% of PILE's written reviews are positive against 100% of Tenoa's.
PILE ships an update every 3 days, Tenoa fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on November 4, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | PILE | Tenoa |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.6 (24 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 7.4% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 24 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 days — better | Fortnightly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Freemium | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 48 MB | 28 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Awesome Apps Company Ltd. | Kofi Kumi |
Customer experience
PILE
Tenoa
In-app purchases
PILE
- Monthly for Students$2.991 Month
- Monthly for Professionals$3.991 Month
- Yearly Offer$12.991 Year
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- Yearly - Offer$12.991 Year
- Yearly for Everyone$22.991 Year
Tenoa
No in-app purchases









