Binder vs CoHiro
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Binder
Organize and search all your important documents in a digital filing cabinet. Scan, import, and categorize files into colorful binders with customizable tabs. Set reminders for deadlines and secure your sensitive information with password protection.
- Digital binders with customizable tabs
- OCR-powered document search
- Scan and import documents
- Password protection for binders
- Deadline reminders and calendar integration
- iCloud sync across devices
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Keep all your important documents organized and searchable in one place. Binder lets you create colorful binders with customizable tabs – just like a real filing cabinet, but in your pocket. **Scan & Search Everything** Scan documents with your camera or import from photos and files. Powerful OCR technology makes every document searchable – find any receipt, contract, or note instantly. **Stay Organized** Create binders for different categories – home, car, health, finances. Add tabs to organize further. Customize colors and icons to make them yours. **Never Miss a Deadline** Set reminders for important dates found in your documents. Get notified and add events directly to your calendar. **Private & Secure** Protect sensitive binders with password protection. Your documents sync securely via iCloud across all your devices. **Features:** • Colorful binders with customizable tabs • OCR-powered instant search • Password protection • Reminders & calendar integration • iCloud sync • Import from camera, photos, or files
CoHiro
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CoHiro is a shared grocery shopping list and the pantry inventory that feeds it. Mark something as running low and it is on the list by itself. Your home, on the same page. CoHiro does the remembering, so it never all lands on one person. One list, live on every phone Add something and it appears on everyone's phone in real time, whatever phone they carry. No sending screenshots, no reading the list out over the phone in aisle four. The list updates for every member the moment anything changes, so it is never at home on the fridge while you stand in the store. A pantry that writes the next shop Every item in your home is in stock, running low, or out. Notice the coffee is low while you are making it? Mark it in two taps and it lands on the shared shopping list on its own. By the time anyone heads out, the list has already written itself. Shopping runs, together Heading to the shops? Say so, and everyone gets reminded in time to add their last-minute items. Can't go yourself? Ask if anyone can, no pressure, just a nudge. In the store, the list works as a checklist for grocery shopping: tick things off as they land in the bag. Put the shopping away and the pantry updates to match. Shelves that sort themselves New items sort themselves onto named shelves. It's a guess, and you can change it in one tap. Starter packs set up a shelf and its basics in one go, so a new household is useful from its first minute. The list stays organized without anyone playing librarian. One store, in the order you walk it Name the shops you actually go to and arrange your shelves in the order you walk them. The list then follows that route. Whatever a shop does not carry sits at the end, out of your way. Scan it onto the list Point your camera at a product barcode and CoHiro gets it ready for your shopping list or pantry. It suggests the name and shelf, and you confirm with a tap. Whatever it does not know yet, you add by name once, and it remembers the barcode for next time. Considerate by design Quiet hours keep notifications silent during each member's own quiet window. And the Lately view on Home shows who did what this week, so the quiet work of keeping a home stocked gets seen. For every kind of household Families, couples, roommates and housemates, students sharing a flat, friends splitting a place: if you share a fridge, you are a household. CoHiro works as a grocery list app for couples and a shopping list app for roommates, and a family fits just as well. CoHiro works with the phones your household already has, so nobody is left off the list. You can belong to more than one household, a flatshare and a family at once, and everyone has the same rights: anyone can add, shop, and invite. Private, plainly Your household is invite-only. Join by entering a code or scanning a QR code; codes expire after 72 hours, and you can revoke a code at any time. No public profiles, no strangers, just the people you invited. CoHiro is free to use. No ads, no tracking, no analytics service. There is no ad SDK in CoHiro; your shopping list is nobody's ad space. Your data is stored in Frankfurt, Germany. Sign in with Apple or Google, and if you ever leave, you can delete your account from inside the app. It really is deleted. CoHiro is calm on purpose: a small set of things done well, in plain language, with a small mascot called Hiro doing the remembering. If the family shopping list lives on the fridge and the last shopping run lives in three chat threads, give CoHiro the job. One grocery list you can share with your family, one pantry everyone can see, one household on the same page.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: CoHiro at none against Binder's 1. CoHiro also leads on ads (none vs shown) and iOS requirement (16.4 vs 18.6). On price, update cadence 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
Both are free to download. Binder sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. CoHiro asks for nothing beyond the download.
Binder ships an update every 5 days, CoHiro weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 20, 2026 and October 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Binder | CoHiro |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.3 (3 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 3 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 5 days — better | Weekly |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 18.6 | 16.4 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 21 MB | 70 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | App4Life Sweden AB | Niugio UG (haftungsbeschraenkt) |
In-app purchases
Binder
- Remove Ads$0.49
CoHiro
No in-app purchases









