If Required vs PorchFile
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
If Required
This app securely stores and shares vital personal information, instructions, and guidance with trusted contacts. It ensures that important details about accounts, documents, and even physical items are accessible when needed most, providing peace of mind for families.
- Store personal notes and guidance
- Share account and document details
- Provide location for physical items
- Include pet care instructions
- End-to-end encryption
- Offline instruction support
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Life happens. Leave nothing unsaid. If Required gives you a private place for the things your family may someday need to know — from the words you want to leave them to the everyday details only you know. Write a letter to your kids. Leave instructions for your family. Explain where important documents are kept. Tell someone where to find the spare keys, the safe, family photos, digital assets, or something tucked away that nobody else knows about. You don't have to put everything online. If something sensitive should stay offline, simply leave directions to where it can be found. You decide what to leave. You decide who receives it. You decide who you trust. Choose trusted confirmation contacts and require one, two, or three confirmations before your information is released. Your notes stay private until your conditions are met. And with Personal Follow-Up, there's another layer of reassurance: if receipt of your notes isn't confirmed, a real person — not AI — follows up with your chosen contact by email, text, and phone. Use If Required for: - Personal letters and messages - Things only you know - Important instructions - Locations of documents and valuables - Pet care details - Family photos and digital assets - Directions to information you prefer to keep offline You don't have to prepare everything today. Start with one thing they should know. Add the rest when you're ready. **For everything you know. For everyone you love.** Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
PorchFile
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Are you like us and have one file, somewhere in your house, that has all (or should I say, most…) of your receipts and records related to your home closing and home improvement projects? PorchFile is a new way to store this information, digitally, so that is is easily accessible when you need it.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: PorchFile at none against If Required's 3. PorchFile also leads on iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.1). On price, ads and device support 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. If Required sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $12.99 per year. PorchFile asks for nothing beyond the download.
| Parameter | If Required | PorchFile |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 9 days | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 33 MB | 39 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | memhold inc | Porchfile LLC |
In-app purchases
If Required
- If Required$12.991 Year
- If Required$12.99
- Premium features$34.99
PorchFile
No in-app purchases
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