Comparison

Vault Notes by Hansson vs SID3KICK

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

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Vault Notes by Hansson

Features
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Vault Notes is a private, text-first notes app built for iPhone and iPad. Write notes and todos, organize notebooks, use reminders, and keep your text in sync across devices connected to the same WebDAV. Attachments like photos, audio, video, PDFs, and other files stay local on the device where they were added, which keeps sync fast, lightweight, and dependable. Vault Notes is designed for people who want a focused notes library that stays efficient instead of turning into a heavy file vault. Highlights - Notes, todos, checklists, and subtasks - Notebooks and nested notebook organization - Text-first WebDAV sync across your devices - Local attachments with file, image, PDF, audio, and video support - Native share extension - Reminder scheduling - App Lock with biometric protection on supported devices - Multiple profiles and sync settings

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SID3KICK

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SID3KICK records what you say out loud, transcribes it, and turns it into notes you can search and question later. Speech recognition runs on the device. Recordings, transcripts and summaries are stored on the device. There is no account, no sign-in, and no server of ours involved. HOW IT WORKS Tap the mic on Home and talk. SID3KICK captures the audio, transcribes it, writes a summary, pulls out the action items it heard, and flags dates and appointments so you can add them to your calendar in one tap. SIX TABS Home: a record button that pulses with the level of your voice, an elapsed-time readout, and your latest captures. Ask: put a question to everything you have recorded. Ask what you said about the lease last week and it answers across every stored transcript and summary, using the date, time and place each capture was tagged with. To-dos: action items pulled from what was actually said, split into open and done, plus anything you add by hand. Tap one to jump back to the recording it came from. Days: a written digest of a day with that day's action items appended as a checklist, generated when you ask for it. Recordings: every capture with status, duration and playback. Open one for the transcript, the summary, the events it found, the place it was recorded, and the original audio. Settings: all of the above, spelled out in plain language. TRANSCRIPTION, YOUR CHOICE On device: Apple's speech recognizer with on-device recognition forced on. No key, no account, no network, and the audio never leaves the phone. Cloud: OpenAI speech-to-text with your own API key, when you want that accuracy instead. AI: YOUR PROVIDER, YOUR KEY Summaries, action items, event extraction, daily digests and the Ask tab run through whichever provider you set in Settings: OpenAI, Anthropic, an Ollama or LM Studio instance on your own network, or any endpoint that speaks the OpenAI chat-completions API. You paste your own key or base URL. Nothing is sent to any of them until you configure one, and pointing the app at a local model keeps every byte inside your network. AI usage is billed to you by the provider you choose. SID3KICK logs every call it makes: provider, model, input and output tokens, audio seconds and the computed cost, with all-time, today and this-month totals, a price table you can edit, and $0 against local engines. WHERE YOUR DATA GOES No accounts. No analytics. No crash reporting. No ads. No tracking SDKs. There is no SID3KICK server for your data to sit on. Apart from turning coordinates into a place name, which asks the system geocoder and only when location tagging is on, every network destination is one you typed into Settings yourself. Location tagging starts in its low-power mode, which keeps the place name while blurring coordinates to roughly a kilometre, and you can switch it off entirely. MAKE IT YOURS Dark and light, each with five accent colours, plus a retro sci-fi console theme that keeps its own signature palette. Rename the assistant and the new name is used throughout the app. The layout adapts from iPhone SE to iPad and holds together at 200% text size. HONEST LIMITS Summaries, digests and the Ask tab need an AI provider configured. Recording, playback and on-device transcription work with nothing configured at all. Recording laws differ by place. Some require every participant's consent, others only yours. You are responsible for recording lawfully wherever you are. Privacy policy: https://sid3kick.app/privacy/ Terms of use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ sid3kick.app - by codedatda.casa

Screenshots

Vault Notes by Hansson4 screens
SID3KICK4 screens

Verdict

The call

Vault Notes by Hansson and SID3KICK are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters โ€” price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases among them โ€” neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Vault Notes by Hansson ships an update every 5 days, SID3KICK every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on November 11, 2026 and November 10, 2026 respectively.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Vault Notes by Hansson versus SID3KICK: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterVault Notes by HanssonSID3KICK
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 5 daysEvery 3 days โ€” better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac โ€” betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.016.0 โ€” better
Further details โ€” not scored
Size10 MB13 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperHansson IncCodedatda.casa

In-app purchases

None

Vault Notes by Hansson

No in-app purchases

None

SID3KICK

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Vault Notes by Hansson free?
Vault Notes by Hansson is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is SID3KICK free?
SID3KICK is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Vault Notes by Hansson or SID3KICK have ads?
Neither Vault Notes by Hansson nor SID3KICK shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Vault Notes by Hansson or SID3KICK?
Vault Notes by Hansson ships an update every 5 days, and SID3KICK every 3 days. Most recently, Vault Notes by Hansson was updated on November 11, 2026 and SID3KICK on November 10, 2026.

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