Comparison

ScreenVault vs Pawwall

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

Head to head
About

ScreenVault

Organize your cluttered screenshot library into a searchable archive. This app uses on-device OCR to extract text and categorize screenshots for easy retrieval. It offers privacy-focused processing and tools to manage, review, and clean up your images.

Highlights
  • Automatic screenshot import
  • On-device OCR text extraction
  • Smart category organization
  • Search by text, title, or tags
  • Flashcard review for important items
  • Archiving and safe deletion
  • Privacy-focused processing
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ScreenVault helps you turn a cluttered screenshot library into an organized, searchable personal archive. The app scans your screenshots, extracts text with on-device OCR and organizes them into useful categories such as recipes, shopping, travel, bills, health, ideas, events and more. You can search by extracted text, title or tags, review important screenshots as flashcards, archive items you want to keep out of the main feed and clean up screenshots safely when they are no longer needed. ScreenVault is designed with privacy in mind. Screenshot analysis happens on your device and your screenshots and extracted text stay private! ScreenVault Pro unlocks advanced workflow tools for larger screenshot libraries, including unlimited flashcards, custom titles, tags, custom categories, advanced filters, saved smart filters, batch actions, batch tag and title edits and bulk cleanup tools. Key Features: • Automatically import screenshots from your photos library • Extracts readable text from screenshots with OCR • Organizes screenshots into smart categories • Search by extracted text, screenshot title or tags • Manually change categories when needed • Mark important screenshots as flashcards for review • Archive screenshots without deleting them • Delete screenshots from ScreenVault or photos • Export and share original screenshots • Privacy-focused on-device processing ScreenVault Pro: • Unlimited flashcards • Custom screenshot titles • Tags • Custom categories • Advanced filters by category, tag and date • Saved smart filters for frequently used filter combinations • Batch archive, delete and category changes • Batch tag edits • Batch title prefix and suffix edits • Bulk cleanup tools, including deleting all items in the Deleted tab

About

Pawwall

Features
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Stuck in the scroll again? Meet Mau, the cat who gets you out. The feed never ends. Your time does. Pawwall puts a warm, stubborn cat between you and your doomscroll: pick the apps that eat your evenings once, and Mau pauses them with Apple's Screen Time, on a schedule or right now. GET YOUR TIME BACK Every hour Mau guards is an hour you keep. Home shows your day in real numbers: the time guarded today, how often you reached for a paused app and backed off, a seven-day strip, and your goal (under the hours a day you told Mau). Nothing is invented; everything is counted on your device. SEE YOUR LIFE IN SCREEN YEARS Setup asks a few short questions: your name, your hours a day, the habits you want to change, your age. Then Pawwall shows 90 dots, one for each year of a life, and how many would go to screens at your pace. Every figure is an estimate computed on your device from your own answers, and Mau sets up your first plan to win some of those years back. YOUR WORST APPS, PAUSED BY A CAT Choose your apps or whole categories once. Set a plan (Night focus, a work block, or Focus now for 15, 25, 45 or 60 minutes) and Mau keeps watch. Open a paused app and Apple's system shield appears: "Mau's paw is on this one." with your plan and the time your apps come back. "Stay focused" closes it. SLIPPED? NO SHAME. "Pause with Mau" opens Court: a breathing Mau, one breath ring, and one simple question about what pulled you in: boredom, stress, habit or FOMO. Then it's your call: "I'm good," or open the app for five minutes. No shame spiral, no guilt mechanics. PROOF IT'S WORKING Open "Your week with Mau" from the Home menu: the hours Mau guarded, the times you backed off, your best day, and how each plan kept its word. Real numbers from your own device, shareable as a night card. Your Quiet Score keeps the long count alongside. MAU'S ON DUTY FROM MINUTE ONE Mau greets you by name with your first plan armed. One tap, "Protect the next 25 minutes", guards the apps you already chose. Mau breathes, blinks, twitches an ear and reacts to your day; soft sounds respect your silent switch, gentle haptics mark every kept session. Home Screen widgets, Live Activities and the Dynamic Island keep your focus status one glance away. QUIET BY DEFAULT Every reminder is opt-in. Plan-start alerts are off until you turn them on, per plan. "Check-ins from Mau", an occasional nudge back sent by push, is off by default and sends nothing unless you switch it on. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No ads. No account. Pawwall never reads what you do inside your apps; your app choices and focus history stay on your device. Usage analytics (coarse events, never which apps, no account needed) help us improve. In Europe you choose first and can switch them off anytime in Settings. Terms (EULA): https://pawwall.app/terms/ · Privacy: https://pawwall.app/privacy/ REQUIREMENTS Pausing apps requires Apple's Family Controls authorization. Pawwall is made for adults managing their own device and attention; it is not a parental-control product. If Screen Time authorization is unavailable or denied, Pawwall tells you plainly and shows how to turn it on; it never pretends your apps are paused.

Screenshots

ScreenVault4 screens
Pawwall4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Pawwall at every 2 days against ScreenVault's every 2 weeks. 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. ScreenVault sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Pawwall sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

ScreenVault ships an update every 2 weeks, Pawwall every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
ScreenVault versus Pawwall: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterScreenVaultPawwall
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS18.117.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size5 MB105 MB
Age rating9+4+
DeveloperWolfram WackerZentropi LLC

In-app purchases

1 purchases

ScreenVault

One-time1
  • ScreenVault Pro$2.99
4 purchases

Pawwall

Subscriptions3
  • Mau's Circle Weekly$5.997 Days
  • Mau's circle Monthly$12.991 Month
  • Mau's circle Annual7 Days trial$49.991 Year
One-time1
  • Mau's circle Lifetime$99.99

Questions

Is ScreenVault free?
ScreenVault is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Pawwall free?
Pawwall is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do ScreenVault or Pawwall have ads?
Neither ScreenVault nor Pawwall shows ads.
Which is updated more often, ScreenVault or Pawwall?
ScreenVault ships an update every 2 weeks, and Pawwall every 2 days. Most recently, ScreenVault was updated on October 23, 2026 and Pawwall on October 31, 2026.

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