Desktop Browser vs Hushfile
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Desktop Browser
Browse websites in their full desktop versions directly on your mobile device. Enjoy features like zooming, full-screen mode, and tabbed browsing for a powerful and flexible web experience.
- View desktop versions of websites
- Zoom in and out (1x to 3x)
- Full-screen browsing
- Save and manage favorite websites
- Multiple tabs for multitasking
- Customizable themes and interface
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Web Browser delivers a flexible and powerful browsing experience, letting you view websites in desktop mode right on your phone — no more struggling with limited mobile layouts. Key Features: • Freely zoom in and out from 1x to 3x • Smooth switching between portrait and landscape modes • Full-screen browsing for maximum focus • Easily save and manage your favorite websites • Fast performance with a lightweight install size • Customize the interface separately for portrait and landscape • Privacy-first: only anonymous diagnostic data is collected (you can opt out anytime) • Multiple tabs for efficient multitasking • Personalize your experience with customizable themes Web Browser is built for users who want a complete, fast, and flexible web experience — true desktop browsing, right in your pocket.
Hushfile
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Your photos know where you were standing. Your PDFs know who wrote them, on which computer, and when you last touched them. Most people have never seen any of it. Hushfile shows you — then takes it out, and converts the file while it's at it. LOOK INSIDE YOUR FILES — FREE, UNLIMITED Open a photo and see the exact coordinates written into it, down to a tenth of a metre. See your camera's serial number. See the name your camera has been quietly stamping on every shot. Open a PDF and see the author, the software that made it, and the date you thought was gone. Everything is ranked by how much it gives away: what identifies you, what narrows you down, and what's harmless. The Inspector is free and unlimited, whether or not you ever pay for anything. THEN CHECK OUR WORK After converting, tap "Check the Result Yourself". Hushfile reads the finished file back off the disk and inspects that — not a copy in memory. Anything the Inspector showed you should be gone. Look and see. CONVERT WITHOUT UPLOADING ANYTHING • Photos — HEIC, JPEG, PNG, TIFF, GIF, BMP, PDF. Clean a HEIC and get a HEIC back, not a downgraded JPEG. • PDFs — merge, split into pages, pull out a page range, render pages to images, extract text • Video — MP4, MOV, extract the audio, or turn a clip into an animated GIF • Audio — M4A, WAV, AIFF, CAF • Documents — Markdown, HTML, RTF and plain text to PDF, with real Markdown formatting • Spreadsheets — CSV, TSV, JSON and Markdown tables, in any direction • Resize and re-compress on the way out, with a size estimate before you commit • Convert a whole batch at once, or fold a stack of photos into a single PDF NO SERVER OF OURS Most file converters upload your files to a server. One of the most popular ones declares "User Content" collection on its own App Store privacy label. Hushfile contains no URLSession, no analytics SDK, no crash reporter, no update check, and no server we control. Turn on Airplane Mode and use the whole app. Converting, inspecting, stripping, the Vault, Shred and App Lock all keep working. The only thing that needs a connection is buying or restoring the unlock, because that goes through the App Store. BUILT SO THE FILES STAY PUT • Converted files live in Hushfile's private storage — not the Files app, not a Finder file transfer • iOS file protection keeps them unreadable while your iPhone is locked • Kept out of your iCloud backup by default • Auto-Clear deletes them on your schedule; Shred deletes one on demand • Face ID or passcode App Lock • No account, no sign-up, no email. Hushfile never asks for your Photos, camera, location, contacts or microphone TRACKING PIXELS, TOO Convert an HTML file and Hushfile strips the remote images, scripts and stylesheets before it reads the page — the ones that would have told a stranger the moment you opened it — and tells you how many it found. WHAT IT COSTS Free to download. The Metadata Inspector is free and unlimited, forever. Your first file conversion is free. After that, a single one-time in-app purchase unlocks unlimited conversions. It is not a subscription — there is nothing to cancel, and it restores on every iPhone signed into your Apple Account. WHAT WE DON'T CLAIM There's a screen in the app called "What we can't promise", and it stays there. Hushfile removes the metadata it can read — some formats carry vendor blocks no tool fully decodes, so the promise is the narrower, checkable one: anything the Inspector shows you comes out. We don't do DOCX, XLSX or PPTX. We don't do OCR. Shred deletes a file and lets iOS discard its encryption key, which is the strongest deletion an app is allowed to perform; we don't overwrite flash memory, because no app can. Hushfile — Ai2Life Technologies
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Desktop Browser at Free against Hushfile's $2.99. Desktop Browser also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 1). On ads, device support and iOS requirement 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
Desktop Browser is free to download; Hushfile costs $2.99 up front. Hushfile sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Desktop Browser asks for nothing beyond the download.
| Parameter | Desktop Browser | Hushfile |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $2.99 |
| Rating | 4.5 (31 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 31 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 77 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Thien An Studio LLC | Karan Kohli |
In-app purchases
Desktop Browser
No in-app purchases
Hushfile
- Unlimited Conversions$1.99
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