Trove vs MAP SmartStack
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Trove
Organize, back up, and share all your files and media in one place. Play audiobooks, edit videos, scan documents to searchable PDFs, and transcribe voice memos. Secure your data with on-device encryption and optional passcodes.
- File and media management
- Audio and video playback with advanced controls
- Document scanning to searchable PDF
- Voice memo transcription
- Secure backup and restore
- On-device encryption
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Trove is one app for the files you use: PDFs, books, photos, videos, music, recordings, scans. Press play on an audiobook and Trove remembers where you stopped. Have a PDF or a book read to you in a natural voice, and watch each word light up as it's spoken. Scan a document and it comes out as a PDF you can search. Back the whole library up, encrypted. No account, no subscription, no ads, no tracking. A REAL AUDIO PLAYER • Remembers your spot in every file, even if you move or rename it • Plays MP3, M4A, M4B, WAV, FLAC, AIFF and more • Audiobook chapters and background playback, with Lock Screen controls • Skip ±15/±30s, speed 0.75× to 2×, sleep timer, playlists • Bookmarks in long audiobooks and podcasts, with names and notes READ ALONG, IN A NATURAL VOICE • Read Aloud lights up each word as it's spoken, in PDFs, EPUB books, text files, and saved web pages. Tap a word to start there • Find: tap a chapter and a verse from a grid, type John 3:16, or search for a phrase and start reading from it • Skip by chapter, verse, or sentence, on screen or from the Lock Screen and your headphones. Any speed, from half to two and a half times • Leave out verse numbers, footnotes, page headers, contents, or pictures and tables • Links in books and PDFs work. A footnote opens where you are • Highlights and notes in books, bookmarks with names and notes, a sleep timer, and your place kept in every document • Your text size and font. Light or dark, with your iPhone or as you set it • Save any document as an audiobook with named chapters, or Listen on the Go: the rest of the chapter as audio, for a walk • Fourteen natural American and British voices. A one-time download that runs on your device • The natural voices know some 2,800 Bible names and say them the way you've always heard them, checked against Strong's Concordance. A word that still comes out wrong, you can teach Trove • Apple's voices work too, including your Personal Voice SCAN & WORK WITH DOCUMENTS • Scan documents to a searchable PDF • Highlight, underline, sign, and mark up PDFs. Links in a PDF take you to their page • Rich-text notes, or plain text, Markdown, and CSV • Turn photos, Word files, text, and web pages into PDFs. Merge PDFs • Summarize a document or ask it a question with Apple Intelligence YOUR FILES, ORGANIZED • List or grid with thumbnails. Search looks inside subfolders • Rename, move, copy, share, compress • Custom folder colors and icons, Favorites, Recents • Tags, each one a smart folder • Clear duplicate files • Recently Deleted, 30 days to change your mind CAPTURE & BRING FILES IN • Record voice memos • Transcribe a recording to a searchable note, on your device • Import from Files, iCloud Drive, and Photos • Link a folder from iCloud Drive, Dropbox, Google Drive, or OneDrive • A private browser. Save a page to read offline • AirDrop in, or "Save to Trove" from any app's share sheet • Home Screen widget and Siri Shortcuts PRIVATE & SECURE • Lock files in a vault behind Face ID • Optional passcode to open the app • Encrypted, password-protected backup to iCloud Drive or Files. Places, bookmarks, and notes come back too • Everything stays on your device FREE & TROVE PRO Trove is free to browse, organize, bring files in from anywhere, make PDFs, share, print, and play your audio and video. Trove Pro unlocks the rest with a single purchase. No subscription: • Pick up audio right where you left off, plus playlists and bookmarks with notes • Read Aloud in natural voices that know the Bible's names (checked against Strong's), with the follow-along highlight, Find, any speed, bookmarks, and Save as Audiobook • Cloud folders • Summarize & Ask • Voice recorder, with on-device transcription • Custom folder colors and icons • Notes, document scanning, OCR, and merging PDFs • Highlights in PDFs and books • Face ID vault and encrypted backup Buy once and it's yours, on iPhone and iPad.
MAP SmartStack
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SmartStack helps facility and engineering teams capture exhaust fan assessment data for Measured Air Performance and ICO Vision review. Start with facility and contact information, then organize the site's fan sets. Record fan tags, nameplate details, quantity, total airflow, motor horsepower, fan speed, measured power, inlet static pressure and bypass damper information. Add notes and supporting files to keep the field evidence together. Prepare and save assessment drafts on your device. When connected, sign in to ICO Vision to submit an assessment, synchronize changes, and follow review feedback and available analysis results. Use SmartStack to: • Create and organize facility assessments. • Capture fan set identity, equipment details and operating measurements. • Record energy cost information and assessment notes. • Add photos and fan submittal documents. • Check required fields and numeric values before submission. • Synchronize assessments and send updates to ICO Vision. • Access review messages, feedback and analysis documents available to your account. Draft assessments can be prepared locally. An authorized ICO Vision account and an internet connection are required for submission, synchronization, messages and remote documents. Available services depend on your organization's access. SmartStack supports field data collection and engineering assessment workflows. Energy outcomes depend on site conditions and the subsequent engineering analysis.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: MAP SmartStack at none against Trove's 1. MAP SmartStack also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 18.0). On price, 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
Both are free to download. Trove sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. MAP SmartStack asks for nothing beyond the download.
| Parameter | Trove | MAP SmartStack |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 3 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 41 MB | 27 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Robert Egan | ICO Energy and Engineering |
In-app purchases
Trove
- Trove Pro$14.99
MAP SmartStack
No in-app purchases









