Comparison

Buck vs Trace

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

Head to head
About

Buck

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Your S3 buckets, always within reach. Buck-It is a powerful, beautifully designed mobile client for S3-compatible cloud storage. Whether you use AWS S3, MinIO, Cloudflare R2, Supabase, Wasabi, Backblaze, or any S3-compatible endpoint. Buck-It gives you full control from your iPhone. BROWSE & MANAGE • Browse folders and files with a fast, intuitive file browser • Create folders, rename, delete, and organize your cloud storage • Search across your entire bucket instantly • View image details including EXIF data, dimensions, and camera info UPLOAD & DOWNLOAD • Upload files and photos directly from your device • Download files for offline access • Reliable background transfers that continue even when the app is closed • Track all active and completed transfers in one place GALLERY VIEW • View your photos and videos in a beautiful gallery layout • Built-in image viewer with zoom and pan • Integrated video player for seamless media playback FOLDER SYNC • Set up automatic two-way sync between local folders and S3 • Upload-only, download-only, or bidirectional sync modes • Schedule sync intervals and restrict to Wi-Fi only • Background sync keeps everything up to date automatically SHARE SECURELY • Share files directly or generate temporary pre-signed download links • Choose link expiry from 1 hour up to 7 days SECURITY FIRST • Credentials stored in the secure enclave — never in plain text • Biometric lock with Face ID or Touch ID Take control of your cloud storage. Download Buck-It today. Terms of use : https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

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Trace

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You'll Forget What You Read Today. Trace Won't. You read six articles, finished a podcast, and saved three more things to read later. By Friday, most of it is gone. The links scatter across browser history, three news apps, and a save list you never reopen. Trace fixes this with one idea: record the day, not the link. What you finished and what you still mean to get to, in one place. WHAT IT DOES Share anything to Trace as you go: articles, podcast episodes, songs, books. Trace collects them and turns each day into one clean, browsable entry, listed in the order you took them in, with the time on each. Tap a date and you see exactly what went into your head that day. The capture costs nothing to learn, because it rides the iOS share sheet you already use. WHY ONE ENTRY PER DAY MATTERS Most save-it-later tools work one item at a time. Pipe ten articles to Notion and you get ten separate pages to sort through later. Trace produces a single daily report that holds everything, every format in one stream, every title already wrapped as a clickable link to its source. That is the difference between a pile of clippings and a finished record. You stop assembling the day by hand, because the day arrives assembled. ONE LIST FOR EVERYTHING YOU MEAN TO GET TO Every news app has its own save button, and every save list is capped, buried, and walled off from the rest. Save a piece in one app, a video in another, a podcast in a third, and you have three lists to remember and the wrong app to open. Trace pulls them into one stream, each item a tap from its source. Share the things you want to come back to, and they wait in a single place instead of scattered across apps you forget you used. Everything Trace captures lives on your device. Nothing routes through a server. When you want the data elsewhere, you choose where it goes: • Notion: send the daily report straight into a database, such as your journal. • Obsidian: export to a vault folder. • Files: drop reports into any folder, including iCloud Drive. • Manual: export today as a PDF or your whole archive as a zip. No account. No subscription. No lock-in. The exits are clean, so your record is always yours to take. BUILT TO FEED A SECOND BRAIN The daily report is consistently structured: titles, sources, timestamps, and live links, the same shape every day. That makes it easy for you to read and easy for an AI agent to use. Ask the agent sitting on your Notion, "find the articles I read about the SpaceX IPO back in May," and it works from one well-formed record per day instead of parsing scattered pages or a save list it cannot filter by date. Trace does not try to be the agent. It makes the agent's job easier. FOR RESEARCH, IT WRITES THE BIBLIOGRAPHY Gathering sources by hand means copying a URL, copying the title, then stitching them together in your document, over and over. Trace hands you the formatted, linked list already built. When your reading for a project clusters across a few days, the report is a working bibliography you can lift straight into a draft. When it runs over weeks, the agent pulls the relevant subset out of your daily logs. Either way, the tedious step is gone. WHO IT'S FOR People who read a lot across formats, keep a structured journal in Notion or Obsidian, and want the day consolidated rather than the item saved. If that is you, nothing else does this cleanly. Trace records what you consumed, hands it off to the systems you already live in, and gets out of the way.

Screenshots

Buck3 screens
Trace4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Trace at none against Buck's 2. Buck's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.6 vs 17.0). On price and ads there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price Ā· Rating Ā· Positive reviews Ā· Number of ratings Ā· Update frequency Ā· Ads Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Monetization Ā· Best chart rank Ā· Devices Ā· Requires iOS

CostPrice Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Ads Ā· Monetization

Both are free to download. Buck sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Trace asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard3 real differences Ā· 3 level
Buck versus Trace: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBuckTrace
PriceFreeFree
Update frequency—Every 2 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.6 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size50 MB7 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperKaan OzgenMasayuki Ishido

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Buck

Subscriptions2
  • Buck-It | Monthly7 Days trial$4.991 Month
  • Buck-It | Yearly7 Days trial$5.991 Year
None

Trace

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Buck free?
Buck is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Trace free?
Trace is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Buck or Trace have ads?
Neither Buck nor Trace shows ads.

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