Comparison

ShareMe vs GiftKey

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

Head to head
About

ShareMe

Transfer files wirelessly between nearby devices quickly and securely without needing an internet connection. Supports photos, videos, documents, apps, and large files with no quality loss. Offers a web share feature for device-to-laptop transfers.

Highlights
  • Offline nearby file sharing
  • Super-fast transfer speeds (up to 40MB/s)
  • Resume interrupted transfers
  • No quality loss
  • Secure local transfer
  • Web Share for device-to-laptop transfers
Features
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NOTHING TO INSTALL ON THE COMPUTER. THAT IS THE WHOLE IDEA. ShareMe turns your iPhone into a small web page. Open the browser that is already on your Windows PC, Mac, Linux machine or tablet, type in the address ShareMe shows you, and you are looking at your phone. No software on that computer. No cable. No account. No cloud. HOW WEB SHARE WORKS 1. Tap Web Share on the iPhone. It shows an address such as http://192.168.1.6 2. Type that address into the browser on your computer. Use http, not https. 3. The iPhone asks you to accept. Tap Accept. 4. Browse the phone's photos, videos, music and documents in the browser and download them at original size - or drag files from your desktop onto the page to send them to the iPhone. Both directions, one page, any computer where you are allowed to open a browser. Useful on a work machine where you cannot install anything. No Wi-Fi network in the room? Turn on Personal Hotspot, join it from the computer, and Web Share works exactly the same. IPHONE TO IPHONE, WITH NO INTERNET AT ALL Both phones need ShareMe. After that there is no router, no mobile data and no internet connection involved - only the Wi-Fi or Bluetooth radio being switched on. Photos, videos, music, contacts (.vcf) and documents (PDF, DOC, PPT, XLS, ZIP) move straight from one phone to the other. - The two phones find each other on their own. No QR code, no pairing code, no sign-in. - Received photos and videos save straight into your Photos app. - Preview everything that arrived inside the app, and swipe to delete what you do not want. - Cancel a transfer from either side, at any moment. FULL SIZE. NOT A COPY OF A COPY. Nothing is compressed and nothing is resized. A 4K video arrives as the same 4K video. Multi-gigabyte files are fine. Whole camera rolls are fine. WHAT IS FREE AND WHAT IS NOT iPhone-to-iPhone transfer is free and unlimited. Web Share gives you 2 free sessions; after that it needs a subscription. We are telling you here rather than after you install. The subscription is offered weekly, monthly or yearly, and the exact price in your currency is shown in the app before you buy anything. ShareMe is free to download and is supported by ads. PRIVACY Files travel from your device to the other device across your own local network. There is no ShareMe server in the middle, no cloud storage, no account and no sign-up. Nothing is uploaded anywhere, and nothing is kept after the transfer. WHAT SHAREME DOES NOT DO Better you know now than after installing: - No iPhone to Android, and no Android to iPhone. - No cloud storage and no online backup. - No USB or cable transfer. - No NAS, SMB or printing. TIPS THAT SAVE PEOPLE TIME - Put http:// in front of the address. Browsers assume https, and https will not connect. - Keep the phone and the computer on the same Wi-Fi, or use Personal Hotspot. - Keep ShareMe open on screen while a transfer is running. - If a phone does not appear, make sure both phones have ShareMe open on the transfer screen. SUBSCRIPTION TERMS Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. The subscription renews automatically unless it is cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period, and your account is charged for renewal within 24 hours of the end of that period. You can manage or cancel a subscription in your Apple Account settings after purchase. Privacy Policy: https://sites.google.com/view/share-me-file-transfer/privacy-policy Terms of Use: https://sites.google.com/view/share-me-file-transfer/terms-of-use

About

GiftKey

Features
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GiftKey turns your camera into a keyboard. Tap into any text field, switch to the GiftKey keyboard, and tap Scan. GiftKey opens to the camera, you scan the barcode, and the code is typed straight into the field you came from. It works in every app — your point of sale, Notes, Safari, spreadsheets, ticketing systems, inventory tools, anything with a text field. Built for retail staff who scan gift cards, vouchers and product codes into a POS all day and are tired of reading digits off a card and typing them by hand. HOW IT WORKS Tap Scan, scan the barcode, then tap the back arrow at the top left of the screen. The code is typed into the field you were in. Two taps. iOS does not allow any keyboard to use the camera directly — that is an Apple restriction, not a GiftKey limitation. Every camera-based scanner keyboard works this way. FREE, PROPERLY FREE No subscription. No in-app purchases. No scan limits. No ads. No account. No trial. NOTHING IS COLLECTED GiftKey contains no networking code at all. Not disabled — absent. Barcodes are decoded on your device by Apple's own frameworks and typed into your field. Nothing is stored, nothing is uploaded, and GiftKey never reads what is already in the field. THE GIFT CARD GUARD Turn on the built-in "Gift card (8-20 digits)" filter and GiftKey will refuse to type anything that is not 8 to 20 digits. Scan a product barcode by mistake and nothing happens — instead of putting the wrong number in a gift card field. EVERY COMMON BARCODE Code 128, Code 39, Code 93, EAN-13, EAN-8, UPC-A, UPC-E, ITF-14, Interleaved 2 of 5, Codabar, QR, Data Matrix, PDF417 and Aztec. Turn off the ones you never use to make scanning faster and misreads less likely. SHAPE THE OUTPUT • Add a prefix or suffix • Strip EAN/UPC check digits • Convert between UPC-A and EAN-13 • Find and replace with a regular expression • Press Return or Tab automatically after each code • Custom validation patterns of your own BATCH MODE Scan a whole stack in one go. Separate codes with Return, Tab or a comma and fill a spreadsheet column in a single trip. ABOUT FULL ACCESS GiftKey needs it to read your settings and to open its own app to scan. That is the whole reason. There is no networking code in GiftKey — nothing can leave your device even in principle. The FAQ inside the app explains this in plain language.

Screenshots

ShareMe4 screens
GiftKey4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: GiftKey at none against ShareMe's 3. 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. ShareMe sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per 7 days. GiftKey asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
ShareMe versus GiftKey: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterShareMeGiftKey
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.8 (6 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings6 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS16.216.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size40 MB1 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperNandini PatelMatthew Groves

In-app purchases

3 purchases

ShareMe

Subscriptions3
  • Weekly IAP$2.997 Days
  • Monthly IAP$6.991 Month
  • Yearly IAP7 Days trial$14.991 Year
None

GiftKey

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is ShareMe free?
ShareMe is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is GiftKey free?
GiftKey is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do ShareMe or GiftKey have ads?
Neither ShareMe nor GiftKey shows ads.

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