CardBox Wallet vs StreamBox
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
CardBox Wallet
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Your wallet, on your iPhone. And nowhere else. CardBox holds the cards you actually carry — bank and payment cards, ID cards, your driver's license, vehicle registration, transit passes, loyalty and membership cards — as a deck you flick through with your thumb. Scan a card and CardBox straightens it, cleans it up, and reads the details off the front. All of that happens on your iPhone. There's no account to create, no server to sync with, and nothing watching what you do. CardBox contains no networking code at all. SCAN IT ONCE • Point the camera at your card, or pick a photo you already have • Drag the four corners onto the card and it's flattened out square • Brightness, saturation and denoise sliders to clean up the result • The original scan is kept, so you can re-adjust later without ever degrading it IT KNOWS WHAT IT'S LOOKING AT CardBox recognises ten kinds of card and fills in the fields each one actually carries — number and expiry for a bank card, valid-till and vehicle class for a licence, chassis and engine number for an RC. Guessed wrong? Change the type in a tap and the fields follow. A DECK, NOT A LIST Your cards fan out like a hand you're holding. Drag to browse. Tap to bring one forward, tap again to lift it out. Swipe to flip it over. Long-press for everything saved on it. BEHIND YOUR FACE Ask for Face ID, Touch ID or your passcode before CardBox opens, before a card is shared, and before a backup is imported. If Face ID fails it falls back to your passcode, so a bad scan can never lock you out of your own cards. SHARE WITHOUT EXPOSING Send a card to someone and it travels encrypted with AES-GCM, behind aand give them the code separately. Without it, the file is unreadable. YOURS TO KEEP • Export any card as a PDF • Back up your whole wallet to Files, or to iCloud Drive if you want it on your other devices • Delete the app and your cards go with it PRIVACY, PLAINLY No servers. No account. No analytics, no advertising, no third-party SDKs, no cloud sync. Text recognition runs on Apple's Vision framework, entirely on your device. We never see your cards because there is nowhere for them to go. The honest flip side: we can't recover them for you either. Make a backup. CARDBOX PLUS Free wallets hold five cards and one card share a month. CardBox Plus is a one-time purchase — not a subscription — and unlocks: • Unlimited cards • PDF export • Unlimited card sharing CardBox is a place to keep your cards, not a payment app. It can't tap, pay, or stand in for the real thing at a counter. Requires iPhone running iOS 18 or later. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
StreamBox
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StreamBox is a modern, lightweight streaming browser, media player, and offline asset manager crafted for media enthusiasts. Key Features: - Stream Sniffing and Multi-Format Playback: Supports HLS (M3U8), MP4, MOV, WebM, as well as MP3, M4A, AAC, and more. - Picture-in-Picture (PiP) and Background Audio: Enjoy seamless background listening and lock screen playback controls. - Offline Cache and Smart Folders: Organize your favorite audio, video, and web image assets with customizable multi-level folders. - Batch Web Image Extraction: Easily detect and extract high-resolution images from webpages with batch preview and one-tap download. - Privacy Protection (PRO): Secure your personal media collections with Face ID / Touch ID App Lock. - Native System Sharing: Share links directly from Safari and other apps into StreamBox to start streaming instantly. Disclaimer: StreamBox is a local media player and streaming analysis utility tool. Users are strictly responsible for complying with local copyright regulations and intellectual property laws. StreamBox does not host, provide, or encourage the infringement of copyrighted content. Auto-Renewable Subscription Notice and Legal Terms: - Plan Title: StreamBox PRO Yearly Subscription - Subscription Period: 1 Year (Auto-Renewable) - Payment and Renewal: Payment will be charged to your Apple ID account at confirmation of purchase. Subscription automatically renews annually unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current billing period. Your account will be charged for renewal within 24 hours prior to the end of the current period. - Manage and Cancel: You can manage and cancel your subscriptions anytime by going to your App Store Account Settings after purchase. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://www.apple.com/legal/privacy/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: CardBox Wallet at none against StreamBox's 2. On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. StreamBox sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per year. CardBox Wallet asks for nothing beyond the download.
| Parameter | CardBox Wallet | StreamBox |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | — | Every 2 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 11 MB | 31 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Prantosh Pran Bhattacharyya | Chung Hui Huang |
In-app purchases
CardBox Wallet
No in-app purchases
StreamBox
- StreamBox PRO Yearly$2.991 Year
- StreamBox PRO Lifetime$7.99
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