Comparison

Phone to Paper vs Binly

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

Head to head
About

Phone to Paper

Transform your phone's essential data into a portable paper booklet. Easily print calendars, contacts, reminders, and notes on a single A4 sheet. Keep vital information accessible offline, even when your phone isn't available.

Highlights
  • Create paper booklets from phone data
  • Include calendar events
  • Add important contacts
  • Incorporate reminders and notes
  • Add photos, screenshots, or maps
  • Print-friendly design options
  • Save or share as PDF
Features
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Phone to Paper brings important information from your phone to paper. Create a compact paper booklet containing your calendar, important contacts, reminders and personal notes. Print it on a single A4 sheet, fold it and keep the information nearby when your phone is empty, unavailable or simply not needed. FEATURES • Add events from a selected calendar • Choose important contacts • Put open reminders on paper • Add a photo, screenshot or map • Use pages for notes, checklists and free writing space • Choose print-friendly greys or optional accent colours • Preview the complete booklet before printing • Share or save the result as a PDF PRIVATE AND OFFLINE Phone to Paper works without an account and without tracking. Your booklets remain stored locally on your device. Calendars, contacts, reminders and photos are accessed only when you choose to use them. Phone to Paper is available in Dutch and English.

About

Binly

Consolidate all your saved digital content in one private space. Organize links, notes, photos, documents, and more using folders and tags. Seamlessly sync across your Apple devices via iCloud.

Highlights
  • Save web links, notes, photos, and documents
  • Organize with folders and tags
  • Sync across Apple devices via iCloud
  • Share Extension for direct saving
  • Private cloud storage with no account needed
  • Take photos directly within the app
Features
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Binly is your private place for everything you want to save now and find again later. A useful link. A quick note. A photo. A GIF. A PDF. A video. A document you do not want to lose. Instead of spreading everything across different apps, screenshots, downloads and photo albums, keep it together in Binly. Sync across your Apple devices Save something on your iPhone and access it on your iPad or Mac through iCloud. Your Binly content stays in sync automatically. Save almost anything: • Web links • Notes and ideas • Photos and GIFs • PDFs and documents • Videos • Files you want to keep for later Create folders and stay organized Make your own folders for work, travel, recipes, ideas, documents or anything else. Use tags, search your saved items and choose between grid or list view. Everything stays easy to find. Save directly from other apps Found something useful in Safari or another app? Use the Share Extension and send it straight to Binly. Take photos without clutter Take a photo directly inside Binly and keep it there, without filling your main Photos library with things you only wanted to save for later. Your own private cloud Your items stay on your device and sync through your own private iCloud account. No separate Binly account or sign-up is needed. Privacy without the fine print: • No tracking • No advertising • No Binly account required • No Binly cloud server • Your data stays yours Works across your Apple devices Save something on your iPhone and have it available on your iPad through iCloud. Available in English, Dutch, French, German, Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese. No subscription. No monthly fee. Just one small one-time price. Binly — save it now, find it when you need it.

Screenshots

Phone to Paper4 screens
Binly4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Phone to Paper at Free against Binly's $1.99. Phone to Paper also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.5) and iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). Binly's advantage is ratings volume (8 vs 2). On update cadence, 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

Phone to Paper is free to download; Binly costs $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Phone to Paper holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 8 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Phone to Paper ships an update every 8 days, Binly weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Phone to Paper versus Binly: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPhone to PaperBinly
PriceFree — better$1.99
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better4.5 (8 ratings)
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings28 — better
Update frequencyEvery 8 daysWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree — betterPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, Mac — better
Requires iOS17.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size2 MB4 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperBjorn KolbeekAhmed Khelifi

In-app purchases

None

Phone to Paper

No in-app purchases

None

Binly

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Phone to Paper free?
Phone to Paper is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Binly free?
Binly costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Phone to Paper or Binly?
Phone to Paper is rated higher. Phone to Paper averages 5.0 out of 5 from 2 ratings, while Binly averages 4.5 from 8 ratings.
Do Phone to Paper or Binly have ads?
Neither Phone to Paper nor Binly shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Phone to Paper or Binly?
Phone to Paper ships an update every 8 days, and Binly weekly. Most recently, Phone to Paper was updated on October 31, 2026 and Binly on November 6, 2026.

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