Comparison

Dapple Authenticator vs TypeDraw

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

Head to head
About

Dapple Authenticator

This app is a FIDO-compliant passkey manager that uses unique biometric methods to generate and secure your passkeys. It ensures you never lose access to your accounts without storing sensitive biometric data or syncing to the cloud. Enjoy cross-platform compatibility and enterprise management options.

Highlights
  • FIDO-compliant passkey management
  • Patent-pending biometric passkey generation
  • No cloud sync for passkeys
  • Biometric data not stored
  • Cross-platform compatibility
  • Enterprise management features
Features
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Dapple Authenticator is a FIDO-compliant passkey manager with the following features: * Uses patent-pending biometric methods to generate passkeys, ensuring that you never lose your passkeys. * Does not store biometric information or sync passkeys into the cloud. * Cross-platform compatibility * Enterprise management features

About

TypeDraw

This app combines the tactile feel of a paper notebook with digital convenience. Type, draw, and scribble notes, with smart features to organize and find them easily. Customize your pages and handwriting for a truly personal note-taking experience.

Highlights
  • Type, draw, and scribble notes
  • Smart Marks for text and drawing integration
  • Handwriting to font conversion
  • Customizable page and ink colors
  • Multiple notebook support
  • Searchable notes and table of contents
  • PDF export
Features
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Pay-per-book: Your first notebook with unlimited pages is included with your initial purchase, and you can add up to four more books for a one-time fee of $1.99 each. All features included, forever. No subscriptions, ever. That is a promise. TypeDraw brings the joy and simplicity of a paper notebook into the digital world, with smart tools to find your notes whenever you need them and endless ways to make it yours. All topped with stunning cover art made by real humans. No account required. Your notes stay local and private on your device, or sync through your own iCloud account if you choose. Your data stays yours, and you can even lock your book. Export a single page or your whole book as a PDF and send it to your files, your agents or your mother. - Opens to what matters in the moment: a fresh page, your most recent note, or a note from that restaurant you’re finally visiting again after years. To enter swipe the book cover or jump straight into what you need with a beautiful Home Screen widget. - Type, draw and write anywhere, just as you would in a real notebook. Add photos, PDFs, timestamps, checklists, titles, bullet points and more to your notes. Turn the pages with a curl or a tap, sketch with your fingers, or use Apple Pencil on iPad and iPhone Duo. It adapts to how you want to use it: whether you prefer typing, drawing or using Apple’s Scribble feature, TypeDraw adjusts to you, not the other way around. - Enjoy a free canvas where text and drawings belong together. Highlight or underline text, and your strokes automatically convert to responsive “Smart Marks” that adapt when you edit words, change line breaks or adjust the layout. - Make it yours! Turn your handwriting into a font you can type with in just minutes. Choose your page colour, ink colour, font size and text colour either for all pages or for one specific page only and get really crazy. Pick lined, grid, blank or dotted paper and explore 12 handwritten typefaces from Shaped Fonts and preinstalled iOS system fonts. Ooh, and wait until you've seen our gorgeous Dark Mode. - Choose from beautiful cover artworks from the TypeDraw collections, explore premium art from illustrators like Gabor Estefan and make your notebook something truly satisfying to look at every time you open it. Take that, generative AI! - Add up to four additional notebooks to your setup. Each requires a small one-time in-app purchase so we can keep the app subscription-free. Switch between books by long-pressing the cover, selecting one in Settings or, on iPhone Duo and iPad, swiping in the desk view. - Keep an overview with a table of contents you can sort by page number, time or location… so the notes nearest to you are always easy to find. All notes are searchable, too, and you can reorder them with a simple drag and drop. - Have fun and don’t take life too seriously!

Screenshots

Dapple Authenticator3 screens
TypeDraw4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Dapple Authenticator at Free against TypeDraw's $4.99. Dapple Authenticator also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.5) and in-app purchases (none vs 4). TypeDraw's advantage is update cadence (every 2 days vs monthly) and ratings volume (82 vs 2). On 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Dapple Authenticator is free to download; TypeDraw costs $4.99 up front. TypeDraw sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. Dapple Authenticator asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Dapple Authenticator holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: TypeDraw has 82 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Dapple Authenticator ships an update monthly, TypeDraw every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on November 8, 2026 and November 13, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard8 real differences · 3 level
Dapple Authenticator versus TypeDraw: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDapple AuthenticatorTypeDraw
PriceFree — better$4.99
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better4.5 (82 ratings)
Positive reviews—82.7% of reviews
Number of ratings282 — better
Update frequencyMonthlyEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
Best chart rank—#1 — better
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS18.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size401 MB57 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDapple Security IncTrautmann & Dorre GbR Shaped Agency

Customer experience

Dapple Authenticator

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

TypeDraw

All ratings82 ratings
Positive82.9%
Neutral8.5%
Negative8.5%
Written reviews81 reviews
Positive82.7%
Neutral12.3%
Negative4.9%

In-app purchases

None

Dapple Authenticator

No in-app purchases

4 purchases

TypeDraw

One-time4
  • Atlantic Notebook$1.99
  • Bordeaux Notebook$1.99
  • Highlands Notebook$1.99
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  • Sahara Notebook$1.99

Questions

Is Dapple Authenticator free?
Dapple Authenticator is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is TypeDraw free?
TypeDraw costs $4.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Dapple Authenticator or TypeDraw?
Dapple Authenticator is rated higher. Dapple Authenticator averages 5.0 out of 5 from 2 ratings, while TypeDraw averages 4.5 from 82 ratings.
Do Dapple Authenticator or TypeDraw have ads?
Neither Dapple Authenticator nor TypeDraw shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Dapple Authenticator or TypeDraw?
Dapple Authenticator ships an update monthly, and TypeDraw every 2 days. Most recently, Dapple Authenticator was updated on November 8, 2026 and TypeDraw on November 13, 2026.

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