Comparison

LSST vs HexaConverter

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

Head to head
About

LSST

Features
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Tired of Lock Screen widgets that show you your battery (which is already right there) or the weather (you just looked outside)? LSST is the app that dares to do what others didn't: let you display mildly useful text on your Lock Screen. Add a phone number, some information, whatever — in not one, but two distinct text slots (because we still can't just span the entire screen). Features: - Displays static text. - On your Lock Screen. - Nothing strange.

About

HexaConverter

This app converts various file types directly on your device, ensuring privacy as no data is uploaded. It supports image, PDF, document, audio, video, and archive conversions, with options for resizing, merging, splitting, compressing, and more.

Highlights
  • On-device file conversion
  • Supports images, PDFs, documents, audio, video, archives
  • Image resizing, cropping, quality adjustment
  • PDF merging, splitting, compression, text extraction
  • Audio conversion with bitrate selection
  • Video container change, trimming, compression
  • ZIP, TAR, GZ archive creation and extraction
  • Metadata stripping from images
Features
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HexaConverter converts your files entirely on your device. Nothing is uploaded, nothing touches a server, and there is no account to create. The app declares no internet permission at all — so it is not technically capable of sending your files anywhere. That is not a promise, it is a property you can check. WHAT IT CONVERTS Images — PNG, JPG, BMP, GIF and TIFF, with WebP read as input. Resize to a bound, crop to a shape, and set JPEG quality. PDF — merge several documents, split into single pages, rotate, compress, and extract the text layer to a file. Documents — Markdown, HTML, plain text, CSV and JSON, in the pairs that convert faithfully. Plus text to PDF. Audio — MP3, AAC, FLAC, WAV and OGG, at a bitrate you choose. Convert a batch and it keeps going while you use the rest of the app. Video — change the container, trim without re-encoding, compress, or pull out the audio track. Archives — create and extract ZIP, TAR and GZ. Protect a ZIP with AES-256, which opens in 7-Zip, WinZip and Keka. Scan — photograph pages one after another and bind them into a single PDF. Reorder by dragging, and add a line of text under any page. Erase metadata — strip EXIF, XMP and IPTC from a JPEG or PNG without recompressing the picture. The pixels are copied across untouched. FREE, AND THAT IS ALL Every feature is free. No ads, no subscriptions, no in-app purchases, no trial. GOOD TO KNOW Some limits are real, and we would rather you read them here than discover them after installing: • Office formats — DOCX, XLSX and PPTX — are not supported. There is no faithful way to convert them on a phone, and doing it properly would mean uploading your file to a server. That would break the one thing this app is for. • Video re-encoding produces WebM. HexaConverter links an LGPL build of FFmpeg, which carries no H.264 encoder, so "compress to MP4" is not something it can honestly offer. • Changing a video container copies the existing streams rather than re-encoding them, so it works only where the target format can carry those codecs. • Trimming a video cuts on keyframes, so the cut may land slightly before the point you set. • Text exported to PDF uses a standard font covering Latin characters only. Files stay on your phone. Convert them there.

Screenshots

LSST2 screens
HexaConverter4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: LSST at none against HexaConverter's shown. HexaConverter's advantage is iOS requirement (15.0 vs 18.5). On price, in-app purchases 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

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

Scorecard2 real differences · 6 level
LSST versus HexaConverter: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLSSTHexaConverter
PriceFreeFree
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Update frequency—Weekly
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNoNo
Monetization—Ad-supported
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS18.515.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size1 MB70 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAlastair MooneyROSHAN GHANSHYAMBHAI HIRAPARA

In-app purchases

None

LSST

No in-app purchases

None

HexaConverter

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is LSST free?
LSST is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is HexaConverter free?
HexaConverter is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do LSST or HexaConverter have ads?
HexaConverter shows ads; LSST does not.

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