FileCue vs Tri Clipper
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
FileCue
This app transforms important documents into organized reminders and secure records. It scans or imports documents, uses on-device OCR to extract key information like due dates and expiry dates, and helps you set smart reminders for follow-up tasks. Keep track of bills, IDs, and other essential paperwork effortlessly.
- Scan or import documents
- On-device text recognition (OCR)
- Automatic task suggestions
- Smart reminders and notifications
- Organized task management
- Sensitive document protection
- Local-first document management
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FileCue turns everyday documents into organized records, actionable tasks, and timely reminders. Scan paper documents with the camera, import an image from Photos, or enter details manually. FileCue uses Apple Vision to recognize text on device, extract important information, and help you track due dates, payment dates, expiration dates, amounts, and follow-up actions. THREE LANGUAGES FileCue is available in English, Arabic, and Persian. Choose a language in Settings or follow your device, with full right-to-left layouts for Arabic and Persian. Documents are read and stored in all three languages. Summaries, extracted information, and suggested tasks are kept in English, Arabic, and Persian, so changing the app language changes what you read without re-analyzing the document. A reading switch moves the extracted information between English and your own language, and every reading can be corrected by hand. Names, numbers, and reference codes are preserved exactly as printed. SMART DOCUMENT ANALYSIS Standard OCR and document analysis are available on supported devices. On eligible devices, FileCue Pro can use Apple Intelligence on device to improve summaries, categories, important dates, and suggested actions. BILINGUAL AND ARABIC-SCRIPT DOCUMENTS FileCue reads Gulf identity cards and driving licences, Iranian national identity cards and driving licences, machine-readable passports, and bilingual bills and policies, and understands both Gregorian and Solar Hijri dates. PRIVATE ICLOUD SYNC Documents, scanned images, and tasks stay synchronized through your private iCloud account across your iPhone and iPad, and synchronization can be turned off to keep a device's records on that device alone. Text recognition and document analysis remain on device. INTERACTIVE HOME SCREEN WIDGETS View open, late, upcoming, undated, and completed tasks without opening FileCue. Small, medium, and large widgets support filtering, pagination, and direct links to related documents, and follow your chosen language and writing direction. TASKS AND REMINDERS Review suggested tasks, edit them or add your own, assign due dates, and receive notifications when something needs attention. DOCUMENTS FOR EVERYDAY LIFE Use FileCue for bills, receipts, passports, ID cards, driving licenses, bank cards, insurance documents, contracts, letters, and other important records. PRIVACY FEATURES Sensitive document types can be recognized automatically. Hide sensitive images behind tap-to-reveal and protect bank card details for safer viewing. FILECUE PRO LIFETIME Make one purchase to unlock unlimited documents and tasks, Apple Intelligence document analysis, custom extracted-information rows, copying, sharing, export, and premium document management. The free plan includes up to three documents and two tasks per document. Existing documents remain available after reaching the limit. Apple Intelligence requires an eligible device and must be enabled. Feature availability may vary by device, language, and region. Stay organized, avoid missed deadlines, and keep important documents always on cue.
Tri Clipper
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Tri Clipper saves web pages into your own Trilium server, straight from Safari. It reads the article, drops the navigation and the clutter around it, and files what is left as a proper Trilium note: HTML, with the title, author, publication date and address already attached as labels. WHAT YOU CAN CLIP • The article, found for you • Only what you selected • Passages you highlighted, and nothing else • The whole page • A link with its description, when the page itself is not worth keeping TEMPLATES A template decides four things: where the note goes, what it is called, which labels it carries, and what its body looks like. Give a template the sites it should claim, and clipping from those sites picks it by itself. Titles and labels are written with variables — the page title, its author, the publication date, any meta tag, any JSON-LD field, or the text of any element you name. Filters shape them: format a date, take the first author out of a list, cut a long title down to size. HIGHLIGHTS Turn on highlight mode, mark the passages worth keeping, and clip those. Clip the same page again later and the new passages join the note you already made, instead of starting a second one. BEFORE ANYTHING IS SENT The popup shows the note that is about to be written: the real title, the real labels, the real body, rendered. Change any of them there and that is what Trilium receives. YOUR SERVER, YOUR NOTES Point it at your own Trilium and paste an ETAPI token. That is the only place anything is ever sent. There is no account to make, no service in between, and nothing is collected. ON MAC, IPHONE AND IPAD One purchase covers all three. The Mac version puts a button in Safari's toolbar; on iPhone and iPad the clipper lives in Safari's page menu. Templates and settings are entered per device. REQUIREMENTS A Trilium server with ETAPI enabled that the device can reach. Built and tested against Trilium 0.105. A server on your own network can be plain http; one reached from further away — which is what a phone away from home needs — has to be https. Tri Clipper is not affiliated with or endorsed by the Trilium project.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: FileCue at Free against Tri Clipper's $1.99. Tri Clipper's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and iOS requirement (16.0 vs 26.1). On update cadence, ads 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
FileCue is free to download; Tri Clipper costs $1.99 up front. FileCue sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Tri Clipper asks for nothing beyond the download.
FileCue ships an update every 3 weeks, Tri Clipper monthly. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and November 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | FileCue | Tri Clipper |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $1.99 |
| Rating | 5.0 (4 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 4 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Monthly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Freemium | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 26.1 | 16.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 9 MB | 6 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Ebrahim Rahban | Justin Meyer |
In-app purchases
FileCue
- FileCue Pro Lifetime$4.99
Tri Clipper
No in-app purchases









