Comparison

Nauu vs Clipfile

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

Head to head
About

Nauu

Organize tasks into simple lists with intuitive gestures for progress updates. Customize the layout with adjustable fonts, alignment, and themes for a distraction-free experience. Offers Face ID protection and options to pin tasks for focused productivity.

Highlights
  • Gesture-based task completion
  • Customizable layout and themes
  • Face ID protection
  • Pinning of in-progress tasks
  • Minimalist, distraction-free design
Features
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Nauu is a to-do list that gets out of the way. No streaks to keep up, nothing shouting for attention. Just your tasks, in the order you want them, on a screen with nothing else on it. WRITE IT DOWN, MOVE IT ALONG Add a task and it is on the list. Tap it to finish it. Swipe right to pick a status — to do, in progress, done or flagged — and swipe left to delete. Touch and hold to pick a task up and drag it where it belongs. Only one task at a time can be In Progress, and it is the loudest thing on the screen. It is the one you are doing. Finished tasks step aside into a single line under the list: out of the way, still there. Delete something by mistake and you have a few seconds to undo it. A LIST FOR EVERY CORNER OF THINGS Shopping, work, the trip in October. Swipe between them, and make as many as you like. MAKE IT LOOK HOW YOU THINK Ranged left, centered or right. Bigger text, or smaller. Hide the status icons for a list that is nothing but words — then choose whether a tap finishes a task or opens it, because it should do the one you reach for most. Hide the controls entirely and let the screen go quiet while you work. Light, dark, or whatever your phone is already on. Lock Nauu behind Face ID, and it locks again the moment you leave. THE SMALL THINGS Tap the empty space under a list to start a new task — one tap, not two. Hold that same space and paste a list from Notes, Messages or an email, and every line becomes a task. NAUU PRO One purchase. No subscription. • Widgets — your current task on the Home and Lock Screen, and you can tick it off without opening the app • Due dates — give a task a time, and Nauu says so when it comes • Repeating tasks — daily, weekly, monthly. Finish one and the next takes its place, already dated • Descriptions — room for the details, kept out of sight until you need them • Siri and Shortcuts — add and finish tasks without opening the app • iCloud sync — the same tasks on every device • Shared lists — share a list with anyone, and whoever joins does not need Pro • History and stats — everything you have finished, with a quiet look at your week • Ten accent colors and six app icons Your lists stay free and unlimited, whether you buy Pro or not.

About

Clipfile

Features
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Clipfile saves what you're reading — the whole article, not just the link. Open the Clipfile extension from Safari's page menu and the article is saved, text and all. It is read out of the page you already have open, in your own logged-in session, so anything you can read in Safari comes through complete — including the articles behind a subscription you pay for. Links alone go stale; a saved article doesn't. Saving from another app works too: share a link to Clipfile from anywhere. If you also use Clipfile for Mac, it fills in the article's text for links saved that way, where the page allows it. A READER THAT WORKS OFFLINE Read in Clipfile's reader: clean text in a typeface chosen for reading, at the size your eyes prefer, on a warm paper or bright white page, in light or dark. The saved copy is there on a plane or the subway, and it is still there after the original page has moved, changed or gone. YOUR LIST, KEPT IN ORDER Unread and Read, a search that covers titles, sites and your own notes, and folders that sort themselves: Clipfile files each article under a topic as it arrives, and you can group your list by folder or leave it as one list. A widget keeps your most recent unread articles on your Home Screen, and if something has sat unread for two weeks, Clipfile gives you a gentle nudge. NOTES ON WHAT YOU SAVE Add a note to any article — why you saved it, the line that mattered, what to do with it. Notes are searchable, so the article you can't find by its headline turns up by what you wrote about it. ON YOUR MAC TOO Clipfile for Mac saves from Safari with one keystroke and brings your list up over whatever you're doing. It's the same list, on every device. NO ACCOUNT There is no sign-up. Your iPhone, iPad and Mac find each other through iCloud Keychain, and Link a Device pairs anything iCloud Keychain can't reach with a one-time code. Your list syncs through Clipfile's own server, filed under a random key rather than under your name, and the text of saved articles is stored there encrypted. To sort articles into folders, their titles and web addresses are sent to Google's Gemini. There are no analytics, no advertising and no third-party SDKs. YOUR DATA, YOURS TO TAKE Export your whole list as JSON or CSV at any time, from Settings. Clipfile is free on iPhone and iPad.

Screenshots

Nauu4 screens
Clipfile4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Nauu at none against Clipfile's 2. Clipfile's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs every 6 weeks) and iOS requirement (16.0 vs 26.0). On price, 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

Both are free to download. Clipfile sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Nauu asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Nauu ships an update every 6 weeks, Clipfile weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 18, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Nauu versus Clipfile: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterNauuClipfile
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeksWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, Mac — better
Requires iOS26.016.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size30 MB4 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMark StoumannMike Shear

In-app purchases

None

Nauu

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Clipfile

One-time2
  • 14-Day TrialFree
  • Clipfile for Mac$6.99

Questions

Is Nauu free?
Nauu is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Clipfile free?
Clipfile is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Nauu or Clipfile have ads?
Neither Nauu nor Clipfile shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Nauu or Clipfile?
Nauu ships an update every 6 weeks, and Clipfile weekly. Most recently, Nauu was updated on October 18, 2026 and Clipfile on October 24, 2026.

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