Comparison

PaceOut vs Falcon File Manager

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

Head to head
About

PaceOut

Features
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PaceOut helps families make screen time calmer, clearer, and easier to manage together. Parents can create a Pace Plan with a daily allowance, broad paced areas, wrap-up warnings, bedtimes, and scheduled pauses. Children get a simple view of their own pace, with clear time remaining and gentle warnings before it is time to stop. When plans change, a child can ask for more time. Parents can review requests, add time, pause screen time, and send a short note from their own device. PaceOut keeps both sides informed without turning every screen-time decision into an argument. KEY FEATURES - Parent and child experiences designed for their different needs - Daily allowances and calm wrap-up warnings - Weekday and weekend bedtime plans - Broad pacing areas with exact Screen Time selections kept on the child device - Child requests for more time - Parent controls for pausing, adding time, and sending a note - Multi-child family overview and setup health - Pace history, scheduled pauses, notifications, widgets, Apple Watch surfaces, and Siri Shortcuts where available - In-app account deletion, purchase restoration, and subscription management PRIVACY BY DESIGN PaceOut uses Apple technologies including Family Controls, CloudKit, StoreKit, Sign in with Apple, and App Groups. Exact app and category selection tokens remain on the child device. PaceOut uses privacy-restricted, anonymous product analytics to improve the app, but does not use advertising, cross-app tracking, session replay, or analytics profiles. PaceOut Premium is an optional auto-renewable annual subscription. The current price, billing period, and any eligible introductory offer are shown by Apple before purchase. Subscriptions can be restored in PaceOut and managed from Apple Account settings. Screen Time controls require compatible Apple devices, Family Sharing or supported individual authorization, and permission on the child device. Feature availability can vary by device and Apple account configuration. Terms: https://www.getpaceout.com/terms Privacy: https://www.getpaceout.com/privacy Support: https://www.getpaceout.com/support

About

Falcon File Manager

Features
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Falcon File Manager is a private home for your videos, music, photos, and files. Bring in your media, organise it your way, and play almost anything in one app. ORGANISE EVERYTHING Sort your library into folders with different icons, choose from over 50 layout options. Automatic bookmarks remember the last item you opened in each folder, so you can jump straight back in. SEARCH AND FAVOURITES Search by name within a folder or across your whole library, filter by file type, and mark anything as a favourite so it is always easy to find. VIDEO PLAYER A powerful built-in player with wide format support, including MP4, MOV, M4V, MKV, AVI, FLV, WMV, WebM, and TS. It plays HDR video, loads subtitles both embedded and as external SRT files, supports picture in picture, and remembers where you left off. MUSIC PLAYER Play your music and audiobooks in MP3, M4A, AAC, FLAC, WAV, and OGG. Build playlists, see album artwork, and keep playing in the background while you use other apps or lock your screen. Smart Resume picks long tracks back up exactly where you stopped, ideal for audiobooks and podcasts, while short tracks always start from the beginning. Apple Music is also supported. PHOTOS AND LIVE PHOTOS Supports JPG, PNG, HEIC, animated GIF, and WebP. Live Photos play back with sound, and you can browse your Apple Photos library from inside the app. DOCUMENTS AND OTHER FILES Open PDFs and ePub books, read and edit text and code files including TXT, Markdown, JSON, XML, YAML, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, and preview office documents such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Pages. Scan documents and create new text files on the spot. Falcon stores and organises any file type at all, even ones it cannot open. LINK EXISTING FOLDERS Link folders from the Files app or iCloud and work with them in place, with no need to import or copy. Everything stays where it is and in sync. PRIVATE Your files stay on your device, with no account, no tracking, and nothing synced to our servers. If you use iCloud Backup, your data is included in your own personal device backup, by your choice. Lock private folders with a PIN, Face ID, or Touch ID. CHOOSE YOUR LOOK Choose from over 36 themes, each with light and dark variants, or design your own using the built in Theme Studio. Give any folder or your Home screen its own header photo, and switch the app icon to match your style. CAST TO YOUR TV Send your videos to the big screen with AirPlay, Screen Mirroring, Google Cast, and DLNA, with surround sound tracks playing through your TV or home theatre. Music can play to AirPlay too. If your TV supports one of these, you are ready to go. TRANSFER OVER Wi-Fi Move files between your phone and your computer through a web browser. No cable and no extra software needed. PORTAL FOLDER Link iPhones and iPads together to stream or download their contents onto another device over Wi-Fi. ZIP AND ARCHIVES Create zip files and lock them with a password, protected by AES-256, a strong and widely trusted encryption standard. You can also extract ZIP, RAR, and 7z archives, including password-protected ones. FIND DUPLICATES Track down duplicate files across your library, including folders you have linked from the Files app. TRASH BIN Deleted items move to the Trash, so you can restore anything you remove by mistake, or empty it to reclaim space.

Screenshots

PaceOut4 screens
Falcon File Manager4 screens

Verdict

The call

PaceOut and Falcon File Manager 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. PaceOut sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $9.99 per year and Falcon File Manager sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
PaceOut versus Falcon File Manager: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPaceOutFalcon File Manager
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 10 daysโ€”
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch โ€” betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.016.0 โ€” better
Further details โ€” not scored
Size21 MB126 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperNebula Craft Design LtdPaul Rowland

In-app purchases

1 purchases

PaceOut

Subscriptions1
  • PaceOut Premium7 Days trial$9.991 Year
1 purchases

Falcon File Manager

One-time1
  • Falcon Pro$9.99

Questions

Is PaceOut free?
PaceOut is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Falcon File Manager free?
Falcon File Manager is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do PaceOut or Falcon File Manager have ads?
Neither PaceOut nor Falcon File Manager shows ads.

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