Comparison

Showrunner* vs Avec

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

Head to head
About

Showrunner*

This tool helps creatives store, share, and discuss their work. Upload large files, bookmark links, or record media. Collaborate instantly with timestamped comments and shareable links for easy delivery.

Highlights
  • Store any file up to 100GB
  • Instant timestamped comments
  • Shareable links for external viewing
  • Bookmark links, photos, and recordings
  • Collaborate with project teams
  • High-quality file storage
Features
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The messenger for small teams who make things. One room for your work, your team, and your agents. Signal > noise - Only the notifications that matter. - Tasks captured. Files organized. Great with media - Send files up to 250GB. - Leave a voice note on a timestamp. Mark up a frame. - Pick the moments. Have Runner stitch them together. Stop playing fetch - Repeated work becomes reusable skills. - @mention files, pages, and issues from your other tools. Voice that feels human - One tap. No links. No calendar. - Share a file. Runner turns what you say into feedback on the right passages and moments. - Notes and action items land back in the thread. Nothing gets buried - Search across messages, files and media. - See who's doing what. - One version history across documents, links, and files. Coming Soon Bring your own agent - Have any agent work with your files, notes, tasks, and media. - Give an agent a task. Ask another to check its work. - Agents hand work to each other and your team.

About

Avec

Streamline your email management with intelligent prioritization and voice-based replies. This app transforms email from a chore into a quick, one-minute ritual by showing you what matters most first. It integrates seamlessly with your existing Gmail accounts.

Highlights
  • AI-powered email prioritization
  • Voice-to-email replies
  • Smart notifications
  • Calendar event integration
  • Unified inbox for multiple Gmail accounts
  • Swipe gestures for quick actions
  • One-tap unsubscribe
Features
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With Avec, email goes from a chore to a 1-minute ritual. Avec shows you the emails that matter first, one at a time, and lets you reply with your voice. Free, works with your existing Gmail accounts (personal and work). YOUR PERSONALIZED EMAIL ALGORITHM Avec prioritizes your inbox and shows your important emails one by one. No more scrolling past important messages buried under newsletters and promos. Importance is learned per sender from what you do, and you can override it on any email. Prefer a regular inbox? Switch to List view anytime. NOTIFICATIONS THAT TELL THE WHOLE STORY Stay on top of things without opening your inbox. Avec’s notifications are judicious, and summarize what an email says and what needs your attention, right on your lock screen. Choose alerts for your highest-priority messages, every important email, or just login codes. REPLY WITH VOICE Use voice to send emails in seconds. Say a few key points and let Avec draft a perfect email for you. Review it, tweak it with voice, and send. ALL YOUR GMAIL IN ONE PLACE Add your work, personal, and side-project Gmail accounts and triage them as one. Each card shows which account it came from, and one tap filters down to just that account when you want to focus. And search all of them at once when you’re not sure where to find an email. SWIPE TO ZERO One at a time, in no time. Swipe through your Stack the way you swipe through everything else on your phone (yes, it’s like Tinder for email). Swipe right for Done, left to save for Later, down to stop hearing from a sender. Changed your mind? Undo. Get to inbox zero in seconds, no discipline needed. KEEP YOUR CALENDAR UP-TO-DATE, NO EFFORT NEEDED Meetings, reservations, flights; Avec finds plans in your email and adds them to Google Calendar. Review suggestions yourself, or turn on automatic adding to keep your calendar up to date as plans change. YOUR GMAIL, YOUR RULES Avec is a layer on top of Gmail, not a replacement for it. You decide what happens in Gmail when you swipe: archive, or just mark as read and keep in your inbox. Nothing is sent, archived, or deleted without your permission. NOTHING FALLS THROUGH THE CRACKS Mark emails you can’t handle yet as Todo. Avec reads them and suggests the date itself, so “can you get this to me by Thursday” reminds you on Thursday without you setting anything. When a Todo comes due it returns to the top of your Stack and reminds you. SMARTER NOTIFICATIONS Most apps show you a sender and a subject and make you open the app to find out if emails matter. Avec’s notifications tell you what the email says and what it wants from you, in a sentence, on the lock screen. LOGIN CODES, INSTANTLY Login codes you receive over email autofill throughout your apps, so you never dig through your inbox to find a 6-digit code. ASK YOUR INBOX Avec's search is different. Instead of sifting through threads, just ask. Avec gives you great answers in seconds. ONE-TAP UNSUBSCRIBE Not every sender deserves the same attention. Once you’ve handled what matters, unsubscribe with a single tap. Or block a sender outright. CLEAR YOUR BACKLOG Thousands of old emails waiting in your inbox? Review the important ones and clear everything else in under a minute. Then see how tall your backlog was. BUILT FOR THREADS AND INVITES Long thread? Read the summary instead. Calendar invite? RSVP yes, no, or maybe without leaving the email, and add it to your calendar in a tap. Download Avec and try it free now.

Screenshots

Showrunner*4 screens
Avec4 screens

Verdict

The call

Showrunner* and Avec both sit at 5.0 stars, but that hides the real split: 100% of Avec's written reviews are positive against 67% of Showrunner*'s. Avec also leads on update cadence (every 2 days vs every 2 weeks) and ratings volume (463 vs 12). Showrunner*'s advantage is device support (3 vs 1). On price, rating, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Showrunner* against 4.9 for Avec. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Avec has 463 ratings behind it against 12, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 67% of Showrunner*'s written reviews are positive against 100% of Avec's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Showrunner* ships an update every 2 weeks, Avec every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and November 4, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Showrunner* versus Avec: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterShowrunner*Avec
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (12 ratings) — better4.9 (463 ratings)
Positive reviews66.7% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings12463 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac — betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size160 MB184 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperByLines Inc.Nearly Extraterrestrial Technology, Inc.

Customer experience

Showrunner*

All ratings13 ratings
Positive92.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative7.7%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive66.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative33.3%

Avec

All ratings450 ratings
Positive99.6%
Neutral0.2%
Negative0.2%
Written reviews46 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Showrunner*

No in-app purchases

None

Avec

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Showrunner* free?
Showrunner* is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Avec free?
Avec is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Showrunner* or Avec?
Showrunner* is rated higher. Showrunner* averages 5.0 out of 5 from 12 ratings, while Avec averages 4.9 from 463 ratings.
Do Showrunner* or Avec have ads?
Neither Showrunner* nor Avec shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Showrunner* or Avec?
Showrunner* ships an update every 2 weeks, and Avec every 2 days. Most recently, Showrunner* was updated on October 30, 2026 and Avec on November 4, 2026.

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