Privli vs Script Smith
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Privli
This app facilitates secure, offline file transfers directly between your devices. It prioritizes user privacy by operating entirely without an internet connection, cloud storage, or user accounts.
- Completely offline operation
- No internet connection required
- No cloud data uploads
- No user accounts or sign-ups
- Direct peer-to-peer transfers
- No analytics or tracking
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Privli sends files and clipboard directly between your devices — fully cross-platform — with no internet, no account, and no data collection. It's the nearby-sharing app that doesn't lock you into one ecosystem. Move a photo from one device to another, copy text on your laptop and paste it on your phone, send a video to a friend across the table — all over your local Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, never the cloud. WHY PRIVLI • Truly cross-platform — one app for all your devices, desktop and mobile. • Reaches phones that don't have Privli — send to many nearby phones through their built-in sharing, with nothing to install on their side. • Files and clipboard — text, images, photos, videos, documents, archives. No file-type limit. • No setup — no registration, no pairing, no sign-in. Open the app and share. • One-time purchase — no subscription, no ads, no upsells. PRIVACY IS THE FOUNDATION, NOT A FEATURE To guarantee your data stays yours, Privli is designed to be completely offline. This means: NO Internet connection is ever used for your transfers. NO data is ever uploaded to a cloud server. NO user accounts or sign-ups. NO analytics or anonymous tracking. Your files are transferred directly, peer-to-peer, between your devices. Nothing more. Logs stay on your device; you decide if you ever email them to us for support. SENDING TO A PHONE THAT DOESN'T HAVE PRIVLI Privli works with the built-in nearby-sharing found on many popular phones. To send to one, ask the other person to open their phone's nearby-sharing and set visibility to "Everyone" (on newer phones, "Everyone for 10 minutes") — their device will then appear in Privli. Sharing between two Privli devices needs no extra steps. Privli the app is a paid, closed-source product, funded by your purchase — never by collecting or selling your data.
Script Smith
This app helps you write and time short video scripts offline. It offers tools to structure your content, estimate runtime, and generate production reports. Plan your shoots effectively before recording.
- Offline scriptwriting
- Runtime estimation engine
- Beat-based script structure
- Production readiness reports
- Hook formulas and formats
- Scrolling teleprompter
- Shot list creation
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Take Lab measures real delivery time between your taps as you read a script beat by beat, then saves a snapshot for comparison and revision. HOW IT WORKS 1. Write a script in Scripts, then choose it in Take Lab. 2. Start the take, read each beat and tap Next as you finish. Pause when needed; leaving the app pauses timing. 3. Finish, add a note and save the take. Reopen its original script snapshot, compare an earlier identical script and share the timing report. Beat-based writing, estimated runtime, production packs, hook and format libraries, shot planning and auto-paced rehearsal remain available in five main tabs. A saved take keeps its original text even after the script changes. WHAT TO KNOW Timing follows your taps and excludes pauses. No speech recognition, microphone or audio recording is used by Take Lab. Keep takes under two hours and individual beats under one hour. Up to 100 spoken beats and 200 saved takes. A changed script is not presented as an identical comparison. iPhone and iPad.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Script Smith at $3.99 against Privli's $9.99. Script Smith also leads on update cadence (weekly vs fortnightly). Privli's advantage is device support (4 vs 2) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 17.0). On rating, ratings volume, 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
Privli costs $9.99 and Script Smith $3.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Privli against 5.0 for Script Smith. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 1 respectively.
Privli ships an update fortnightly, Script Smith weekly. The most recent releases landed on September 27, 2026 and October 14, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Privli | Script Smith |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $9.99 | $3.99 — better |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 9 MB | 39 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 宣飞 刘 | Robert Corbin |
Customer experience
Privli
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In-app purchases
Privli
No in-app purchases
Script Smith
No in-app purchases






