Comparison

masterfile vs Sift

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

Head to head
About

masterfile

Features
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masterfile is five everyday tools in one quiet place. Scratch, Vault, Budget, Notes+, and Kanban. Built for people who'd rather think than juggle apps and for those ready to start tracking. โ€” Scratch โ€” Type anything. As you write, a chip appears suggesting where the line belongs, tap it to promote. Credentials go to Vault, money goes to Budget, ideas go to Notes+, tasks go to Kanban. One note keeps your mind clear, the modules keep your day organized. โ€” Vault โ€” Logins, cards, and credential keys, locked behind your device's authentication and stored only on your device. No account, no sync, no tracking. Real device-level encryption underneath as masterfile just makes it pleasant to use. โ€” Budget โ€” Multi-currency budgeting that actually understands how Filipinos, especially freelancers and remote workers earn. โ‚ฑ, $, ยฅ, โ‚ฌ, and 20+ more currencies tracked in parallel. Net worth stacked by currency, category-level budgets, calendar view, and a calm pie chart of where the month went. โ€” Notes+ โ€” Plain notes for the quick stuff, rich notes when you need them. Folders, tags, internal linking, checklists, bookmarks, document-scanning, camera, attachments. Reading mode opens each note like a printed page you set yourself. Highlights, links, and headings all preserved where you put them. โ€” Kanban โ€” Every project, sorted into columns. Priority flags, due dates, color labels, archived cards, and an aging indicator that quietly tells you which cards have been waiting too long. โ€” Widgets, Notifications, the rest โ€” 19 home-screen widgets across all five modules. Credit card due dates, budget thresholds, friendly nudges. Soft prompts to keep you tracking, organizing, and checking in. Every alert opt-in, every one off by default. โ€” How masterfile stays calm โ€” No account. No tracking. No ads. masterfile lives on your device, owned by you. One purchase unlocks every module, every widget, every alert. Yours forever, no subscription, no renewal. Launch special โ€” one-time unlock at the launch price, until July 31. Regular pricing returns on August 1.

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Sift

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Every screenshot, exactly where you'll look for it. Sift reads the screenshots on your iPhone, files each one into a collection โ€” Trips, Receipts, Recipes, Codes, Shopping, Chats, Places, Reading and Events โ€” and pulls out what matters: flight and gate, Wi-Fi passwords, totals, addresses, dates and booking references. SORTED AUTOMATICALLY Open Sift and your new screenshots are already filed. While Sift is open, a new screenshot is read and filed right away. FIND ANYTHING Search the words in the image, a date, or what it was for: "wifi at the airbnb", "receipt last week", "flight to tokyo". Search runs on your iPhone. SIFT MODE Swipe through new screenshots in about a minute: right to keep, left to delete, up to act. Deletions wait for one batch you review, then Apple asks you to confirm. Deleted screenshots stay in Recently Deleted for 30 days. ONE-TAP DETAILS Copy a Wi-Fi password, a verification code, a total or a booking reference. Open links and addresses in Maps. WIDGETS AND SHORTCUTS Your inbox and what's expiring on the Home Screen and Lock Screen, Sift mode in Control Center, and "Sift my screenshots" for Siri and Shortcuts. READ ON YOUR IPHONE. NEVER UPLOADED. Sift has no server and no account. Text recognition, sorting and search all happen on your iPhone. No analytics, no ads, no tracking. SIFT PRO Add flights and events to Calendar, get reminded, save addresses and numbers to Contacts, let boarding passes, codes and tickets clear themselves when they're done, and Deep clean duplicates and old screenshots. Sift Pro is available as a yearly subscription with a 7-day free trial, or monthly. Sorting, search and Sift mode stay free. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase or when the free trial ends. Subscriptions renew automatically unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel in Settings > your name > Subscriptions. Terms of Use: https://sift-five-tan.vercel.app/terms Privacy Policy: https://sift-five-tan.vercel.app/privacy

Screenshots

masterfile4 screens
Sift4 screens

Verdict

The call

masterfile and Sift are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters โ€” price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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. masterfile sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Sift sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
masterfile versus Sift: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParametermasterfileSift
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyWeeklyโ€”
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
DevicesiPhone, iPad โ€” betteriPhone
Requires iOS18.618.0 โ€” better
Further details โ€” not scored
Size10 MB3 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperLouis CadaCharles Ley Baldemor

In-app purchases

1 purchases

masterfile

One-time1
  • masterfile unlock$2.99
2 purchases

Sift

Subscriptions2
  • Sift Pro Monthly$2.991 Month
  • Sift Pro Yearly7 Days trial$19.991 Year

Questions

Is masterfile free?
masterfile is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Sift free?
Sift is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do masterfile or Sift have ads?
Neither masterfile nor Sift shows ads.

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