Clients vs DeckPilot
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Clients
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Stop opening three apps every time a client calls. Clients is a native iPhone and Mac app that connects your contacts, your notes, and your projects in one app. Your client history and notes, your active projects, and your follow-ups all live together, so you always know a client's status before you pick up the phone, go into a meeting, or send that email. It's not trying to replace your project management or your contacts app or your notes app. It's all three, in one app. CLIENTS, NOTES, AND PROJECTS, CONNECTED Most apps keep your clients in one place and your work in another. Clients links them. Every client has their own project list, conversation history, notes, and follow-up reminders, so the context you need is always one tap away. CLIENT HISTORY Log every call, meeting, or email as they happen. Each client has a running timeline so you always know what was said and what's next. PROJECTS AND MILESTONES Track every project, milestone, and issue from start to finish. Organize work with teams, tags, and priorities, without the complexity of tools built for large teams. FOLLOW-UP REMINDERS Set a follow-up from any conversation. It stays attached to the client, not buried in a to-do list. CALENDAR VIEW See every client interaction, project milestone, and follow-up in one calendar. Know what's coming before it sneaks up on you. FAVORITES Pin your most active clients and projects in the sidebar for fast access. No digging. NATIVE ON IPHONE AND MAC Built in Swift for iPhone and Mac. Fast, private, no subscription required. Built for people who manage their own clients and do the work themselves. No enterprise features you'll never use. Just the context you need, without the complexity you don't.
DeckPilot
Transform your iPhone, iPad, or Apple Watch into custom button decks for your Mac. Streamline workflows with customizable buttons, macros, and gestures that adapt to your active application. Enjoy tactile feedback and dynamic visual cues for enhanced productivity.
- Customizable button decks for Mac apps
- Macro builder with AppleScript and Shortcuts integration
- Tactile feedback and customizable haptics
- Dynamic button states and visual cues
- Trackpad gesture emulation
- Touch Bar functionality on mobile devices
- MIDI support for DAWs
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Made for people who care about how they work with their Mac. The keyboard, mouse, and trackpad shape how you reach into your Mac. There's another way. DeckPilot turns your iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch into custom button decks that follow whichever app you're in. Logic, Xcode, Figma, Slack: the right buttons are always under your thumb. Quick to set up Install on your Mac and iPhone, connect once over Wi-Fi or USB. Auto-reconnects the way AirDrop does. No hardware to buy. Buttons for everything Tap to open Figma. Tap to mute Zoom. Tap to fire a 5-step macro. Build them from apps, files, websites, keyboard shortcuts, AppleScript, or Apple Shortcuts, and chain anything together in a visual macro builder. 300,000+ icons, or bring your own. One button, more than one move Tap for one thing, double-tap for another, hold for a third. Or hold to pop open a whole submenu of buttons from a single tile. One button can run your whole flow. Buttons you can feel Every press lands with a real mechanical click and a tactile thump. Pick the feel, from a crisp keyboard to a soft, heavy thock, with sound and haptics you tune separately. Your Mac's clipboard, on your phone Everything you copy on your Mac lands in a searchable history on your phone. Pin what you reuse, see when you copied it, and send any snippet back to your Mac with a tap. Images come through full-size. Every workflow its own look A teal gradient and big icons for your DAW. A tight grid with greyscale icons for your code editor. Pick from the community gallery or design your own. Buttons that already know A red mic pill on your Zoom button when you're muted. A live waveform on Spotify when it's playing. You stop checking your Mac, because the buttons already know. Keep your favorites close Pin the decks you live in and they stay a swipe away, whatever app you're in. Trackpad gestures you know Two fingers down to minimize, two up to maximize, three across to switch spaces. Or bind any swipe to almost anything: Apple Shortcuts, AppleScript, macros, jumping decks. Touch Bar, reborn Apple's Touch Bar is gone. DeckPilot brings it back as a floating glass strip on your phone. Volume, brightness, media, mic mute, a clock, and live Battery, CPU, and Memory readouts, colored to match each deck. Widgets on every screen Home Screen widgets put your top buttons one tap from anywhere. The Lock Screen widget shows your active deck without unlocking, and joins iOS 17+ StandBy on a charger. On your wrist, too A dedicated Apple Watch deck with multiple pages and real app icons. Digital Crown for volume and brightness. Complications for one-tap Mute and Play/Pause. Built-in MIDI for any DAW Faders, knobs, XY pads, velocity pads, and transport for Logic Pro, GarageBand, Ableton Live, FL Studio, and anything that speaks MIDI. Also good - Built-in AppleScript editor with ten dark themes - Auto-lock and OLED-safe auto-dim after a short idle - Share .deckpacks, browse community templates, try Demo Mode without pairing - Privacy-first. Commands stay on your Wi-Fi, nothing leaves your network Made for developers, designers, streamers, and musicians who want a faster way to drive their Mac. To unlock the full kit, DeckPilot offers an optional Pro subscription. Pro: $7.99/month or $39/year, auto-renewable. Lifetime: $79 one-time. Pro adds multi-page decks, larger grids, MIDI, macros, AppleScript, app-aware switching, multi-launch buttons, advanced gestures, Apple Watch, per-deck themes, and Shortcuts. Payment is charged to your Apple ID at confirmation. Subscriptions renew automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel anytime in your App Store account settings. Terms: https://deckpilot.co/terms Privacy: https://deckpilot.co/privacy Support: https://deckpilot.co/support
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: DeckPilot at Free against Clients's $9.99. DeckPilot also leads on update cadence (every 4 days vs every 4 weeks) and iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). Clients's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 3) and chart position (#196 vs unranked). 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
DeckPilot is free to download; Clients costs $9.99 up front. DeckPilot sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $7.99 per month. Clients asks for nothing beyond the download.
Clients ships an update every 4 weeks, DeckPilot every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 6, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Clients | DeckPilot |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $9.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (6 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | — | 6 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 weeks | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | — | Free with in-app purchases |
| Best chart rank | #196 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, Mac | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 31 MB | 20 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | David Wilder | Keshav Kewlani |
In-app purchases
Clients
No in-app purchases
DeckPilot
- DeckPilot Pro$7.991 Month
- DeckPilot Pro$39.001 Year
- Founding Member$79.00









