Comparison

UniVault vs Beaver Notes

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

Head to head
About

UniVault

Organize your digital life by saving and categorizing links, articles, and videos. Access your curated content across all devices with a seamless share extension and manual entry options. Keep your online resources neatly managed and instantly retrievable.

Highlights
  • Save links and notes
  • Categorize with custom collections
  • Seamless share extension
  • Manual entry and notes
  • Cross-device synchronization
  • Secure digital vault
Features
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UniVault is your ultimate personal and secure link manager, completely free, designed to meticulously organize your digital world. It's more than just a link saver; it's a comprehensive tool to keep all your valuable online resources—articles, websites, videos, and more—neatly categorized and instantly accessible across all your devices. Are you constantly discovering interesting links online but don't have time to explore them immediately? UniVault is the efficient link-saving app you need. Any link you find on the internet, whether it's an insightful article, a must-watch video, or a useful website, can be saved directly into UniVault for quick reading or viewing later, at your convenience. Say goodbye to lost links and open tabs! Saving links on the go is effortless with our seamless "Share Extension" feature. When you're browsing on your mobile device and find a news article or any webpage you want to keep, simply tap the "Share" button in your browser, select UniVault from the list, and a modal will appear, allowing you to save the link instantly without interrupting your flow. UniVault also offers flexible manual entry options. You can easily copy and paste URLs directly into the app, adding your own descriptions for context. Furthermore, you can create manual notes within UniVault, making it a versatile space not just for links, but for related thoughts and information. Take control of your digital clutter by organizing your saved links into custom collections. Create categories that make sense to you—be it "Work Projects," "Reading List," "Recipes," "Travel Plans," or anything else. This allows for easy management and retrieval of your links, so you find what you need when you need it. The core benefit of UniVault is providing a single, unified place for all your digital resources. Access your saved links and notes from your iPhone, iPad, or other devices, ensuring your curated content is always with you, perfectly synchronized and readily available. Start building your personal, organized digital vault today with UniVault!

About

Beaver Notes

Features
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Beaver Notes is a fast, native client for the open-source Beaver Notes server — a self-hosted note wall you run on your own infrastructure. Write markdown notes. Drop in photos, videos and files. Everything lands on your server, nowhere else. No accounts to sign up for, no third-party services, no analytics, no telemetry. FEATURES • Multi-server — connect to as many self-hosted Beaver Notes servers as you need and switch between them from the sidebar. • Local-first sync — an outbox queue keeps everything working offline and catches up the moment the server comes back. • Markdown editor — bold, italic, code, lists, links, headings, with live preview. • Attachments — photos, videos, and arbitrary files. Images appear in an adaptive grid with a fullscreen viewer. Inline video playback. • Upload progress — per-file and per-message progress overlays, including retry on failure. • Image editor — crop, draw, filters, and optional optimization before upload. • Video trim & optimize — HEIC and H.265 encoding to keep uploads small. • Quick input — a compact composer at the bottom of the wall for fast capture. • Search — local full-text search with type, tag, pinned and date filters. • Spotlight — your notes are findable from the system search. • Privacy — biometric lock with Face ID / Touch ID, auto-lock timeout, and the option to hide previews in the App Switcher. • Storage controls — per-server cache size limit and one-tap erase. • Multi-platform — adapted layouts for iPhone, iPad, and Mac, with native sidebar, context menus, swipe actions, and keyboard shortcuts. PRIVACY The app talks only to the self-hosted server you configure. No analytics SDKs. No third-party services. No developer-side backend. Read the full privacy policy at https://eduard256.github.io/beaver-notes-apple/PRIVACY.md REQUIREMENTS You need a running Beaver Notes server. The server is open source — see https://github.com/eduard256/beaver-notes

Screenshots

UniVault4 screens
Beaver Notes4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: UniVault at 12.0 against Beaver Notes's 17.0. On price, ads, 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.

Scorecard1 real difference · 8 level
UniVault versus Beaver Notes: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterUniVaultBeaver Notes
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 4 months—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, Mac
Requires iOS12.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size39 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperGary Thomas GeorgeArtur Jeremicz

In-app purchases

None

UniVault

No in-app purchases

None

Beaver Notes

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is UniVault free?
UniVault is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Beaver Notes free?
Beaver Notes is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do UniVault or Beaver Notes have ads?
Neither UniVault nor Beaver Notes shows ads.

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