RoadPact vs Shortboard
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
RoadPact
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12 households share your road. Who owes what for the new culvert? When was the last grading, and how much did it cost? If your private road is run on a stack of spreadsheets, emails, and "I think we agreed last spring," RoadPact is for you. RoadPact keeps the records for a shared private road - members, cost-sharing, meetings, and maintenance - all on your iPhone. Built for the volunteer who actually keeps the books for a private road association or shared-driveway group. WHAT ROADPACT DOES - Member roster - every parcel, owner, frontage, and share - Assessment calculator - split a maintenance cost across parcels by frontage, equal share, or usage, automatically - Shared-cost ledger - record who owes what and who has paid (recordkeeping only; RoadPact does not process payments) - Maintenance log - grading, culverts, snowplowing, gravel, drainage, repairs, with vendor and cost - Meeting minutes and vote records - annual and special meetings - A records PDF you can hand to a lender, a buyer, your accountant, or your attorney WHY ROADPACT When you sell or refinance on a private road, your lender often wants a recorded road maintenance agreement and a history of upkeep. When a neighbor disputes a bill, you want the meeting minutes and the math. Generic split-the-bill apps don't know that Maine and California treat private-road cost-sharing differently. RoadPact keeps it all in one place. WHAT ROADPACT IS NOT - NOT legal advice, and NOT a substitute for an attorney - The records it creates are NOT a legally recorded agreement - NOT affiliated with any town, county, road commission, or DOT - NOT a payment service - it never moves money PRIVATE BY DESIGN Your records live on this iPhone. No account to make. No cloud. Face ID lock is available whenever you want it. FOR EVERYONE 1 road, up to 4 parcels, a basic maintenance log, one assessment calculation, and a next-meeting reminder. WITH PRO $14.99 a year with a 7-day free trial, or a single $39.99 Lifetime purchase. Pro adds: - Assessment calculator - split a cost across parcels by frontage, equal share, or usage. - Shared-cost ledger - record who owes what and who has paid (recordkeeping only; no payments). - Meeting minutes and vote records for annual and special meetings. - Full maintenance log - grading, culverts, snowplow, gravel, repairs, with vendor and cost. - Records PDF packet for a lender, buyer, accountant, or attorney. - Unlimited roads and parcels - no 1-road, 4-parcel cap. - State private-road-law reference (Maine SRA, California Civil Code 845, and more). - Home screen widgets - next meeting and outstanding assessments. Subscriptions renew automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the period. Manage or cancel anytime in your Apple ID settings. The Lifetime option is a single purchase with no auto-renewal. Important Data Notice: RoadPact stores all data locally on your iPhone. The app does not include built-in data export, import, or backup features beyond records-PDF generation. Your data is included in iOS Backups (iCloud Backup or Finder/iTunes backups) when those are enabled. If you delete RoadPact without an iOS Backup available, your data will be permanently lost. iPhone-only, by design. Privacy Policy: https://app-legal-pages.vercel.app/roadpact/privacy Terms of Service: https://app-legal-pages.vercel.app/roadpact/terms
Shortboard
Create custom shortcut buttons on your Home and Lock Screens. Launch apps, shortcuts, or App Shortcuts directly from a widget with a single tap. Personalize the look with various styles, icons, and colors.
- Customizable shortcut widgets
- Home and Lock Screen support
- App and Shortcut launching
- Icon and color customization
- Multiple widget sizes
- Transparent widget option
- Shortcuts app integration
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Tap a tile, and it just runs. Shortboard turns your Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets into boards of shortcut buttons. Every tile runs a shortcut, an app or an App Shortcut right in place, and the Shortcuts app never comes forward. Pick a style, choose your shortcuts in Edit Widget, and give each one an icon that makes sense. The things you do every day, one tap each. BOARDS FOR EVERY SIZE • Each board is made for one widget size: Small (up to 20 slots), Medium (40), Large (50) or Extra Large (64). • Add slots and the tiles get smaller. The rows arrange themselves. • Shortcuts, apps and App Shortcuts sit side by side on the same board. • Touch and hold the widget, tap Edit Widget, pick a board and choose your shortcuts. They fill the slots in order. MAKE IT YOURS • Six styles: Cloud, Pastel, Neon, Mono, Candy and Ink. Start from a look in Discover, or from a blank board. • Light, dark, or matching your system. • Go transparent and your wallpaper shows through, or pick a colored background. • Shortboard · Liquid Glass puts any board on a frosted glass widget. • Give any slot its own icon, glyph color and tile color. Fine-tune the font, tile shape, icon size and spacing. • Preview transparent boards on your own wallpaper before they go on your Home Screen. ICONS THAT MAKE SENSE • Shortcuts reach a widget without icons. Give each one a symbol, an emoji, a photo or an app's icon, matched by its name. • Name a shortcut after an app in your library, and it wears that app's icon automatically. • Keep a library of your apps with their real icons, plus dark icons for dark boards. • Bring your apps in fast: import the apps on your iPhone from iOS's app usage log, share an app's App Store page to Shortboard, search the App Store, pick from popular apps, or bring over your apps from WidgetLoft. LOCK SCREEN • A wide board fits up to eight shortcuts, in one or two rows. • A round button holds one shortcut or four. • Lock Screen boards are free and unlimited. SHORTCUTS AUTOMATION • Shortboard adds its own actions to the Shortcuts app: Create Board, Update Board, Find Boards, Delete Board, Set Shortcut Icon and Remove Shortcut Icon. • Run them from an automation, and your boards and widgets update on their own. EASY FROM THE FIRST TAP • An animated welcome and short tours on the real screens show you around. • Step-by-step guides for everything Shortboard can do, in Settings → How it works. • Available in nearly 40 languages. PRIVATE BY DESIGN • No account, no tracking, no ads. • Your boards, icons and settings stay on your device. • Only app names and App Store IDs go to Apple, to fetch icons. • Purchases and Pro screen visits go to our purchase service under a random ID. • The app usage log is read on your iPhone and never uploaded. FREE AND PRO • Free: 2 Home Screen boards with up to 8 slots each. Lock Screen boards and the app library are free and unlimited. • Shortboard Pro unlocks unlimited Home Screen boards and every slot each size allows, up to 64 shortcuts on one board. • Pro is a one-time purchase, not a subscription. Pay once, keep it forever. Questions or ideas? Write to infokoksoft@gmail.com Website: https://mucahitk.com/shortboard Terms of Use: https://mucahitk.com/shortboard/terms-of-use Privacy Policy: https://mucahitk.com/shortboard/privacy-policy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Shortboard at daily against RoadPact's every 5 months. RoadPact's advantage is iOS requirement (17.0 vs 27.0). 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
Both are free to download. RoadPact sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $14.99 per year and Shortboard sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
RoadPact ships an update every 5 months, Shortboard daily. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | RoadPact | Shortboard |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (8 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | — | 8 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months | Daily — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | — | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 27.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 5 MB | 22 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 慧慧 高 | Mucahit KOKDEMIR |
In-app purchases
RoadPact
- Pro Annual7 Days trial$14.991 Year
- Pro Lifetime$39.99
Shortboard
- Shortboard Pro (Lifetime)$4.99
- Shortboard Pro (Lifetime)$9.99








