Comparison

Pierre Apps vs Sill

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

Head to head
About

Pierre Apps

Features
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Pierre brings your household's day-to-day into one place — no more juggling five different apps for the things a family actually needs to track together. • Chores — assign tasks, rotate them automatically between household members, track streaks • Budget — categorized spending, monthly trends, at-a-glance totals • Calendar — shared or separate views, subscribe to outside calendars (Google, Outlook, etc.) • Meal Plan & Recipes — plan the week, turn ingredients into a grocery list with one tap • Calories & Weight — log meals by search or barcode scan, track trends over time • Notes, Journal, Habits, Water, Hard 75 — the smaller daily things, covered too Built for households with more than one person: switch between family members instantly, and choose per-module whether something is shared or kept separate.

About

Sill

Stream your Mac's desktop or individual windows to your iPhone or iPad. Control your computer remotely using touch, keyboard, or Apple Pencil with encrypted connections. Offers flexible streaming quality and connection options.

Highlights
  • Stream Mac windows or desktop to iPhone/iPad
  • Remote control with touch, keyboard, Apple Pencil
  • Encrypted connections with TLS 1.3
  • Adjustable streaming quality and frame rate
  • Virtual display option for continuous updates
  • Multiple connection modes (Wired, Wi-Fi, Direct, Remote)
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Sill shows a window from your Mac, or its whole desktop, on your iPhone or iPad, and lets you use it with touch, a keyboard, a touchscreen trackpad or Apple Pencil. It streams straight from your Mac to your device over your own network, so there is no account to create and no server in between. You pair each device once, and every connection is encrypted. Both parts are free: the Sill app for iPhone and iPad, and Sill for Mac. Streaming: * Any single Mac window, or the whole Desktop, on your iPhone or iPad * Hardware HEVC video, up to 120 fps on ProMotion screens (60 elsewhere); the rate follows each device * Seven bitrate quality presets, from Low (4 Mbps) to Extreme (150 Mbps), plus Resolution, a frame-rate limit and Prioritize Encoding Speed * Text size (Aa): resizes your Mac window to fit your screen, so text is the size you want * Optional virtual display: a window streams from its own HiDPI display, sized to your device, and keeps updating even when covered on your Mac; full-screen video works too Controls: * Touch: tap to click, drag to scroll with momentum, touch and hold to right-click * Apple Pencil as the mouse, with hover * Software and hardware keyboards, with ⌘, ⌃ and ⌥ shortcuts, plus a key row with latching modifiers and a Spotlight key * Laptop layout when you hold the device upright: the picture on top, a key row and a trackpad (two-finger scroll, two-finger tap, hold then drag, three-finger gestures for Mission Control, App Exposé, switching Spaces, Apps and Show Desktop) * Dedicated iPhone and iPad layouts * Each Mac app's menus (File, Edit, View, etc) on your device, behind a Menus button * Window thumbnails: switch with a tap; hold one for close, minimize and full screen; drag to reorder * An Apps drawer: open windows and all installed apps, with search, and it launches apps Connecting: * Finds your Mac automatically; each Mac has 4 modes: Wired, Wi-Fi, Direct or Remote * USB cable (Wired) support, and a live session moves between the cable and Wi-Fi without dropping * Direct Wireless Connection (Direct, optional), for when you and your Mac don't share a network * Remote Access from anywhere through your own VPN, such as Tailscale, or a port forward * Pairing: every connection encrypted with TLS 1.3; pair each device once by QR code or a 12-digit code, and a USB cable pairs by itself; Require pairing is on by default * Your Mac keeps its keys in the protected part of its keychain that only Sill can read Sill for Mac: * A ~6 MB menu bar app with a live status card: each device, its frame rate and latency * Settings: General, Devices, Streaming, Virtual Display, Remote Access and Permissions * Launch at Login, a log window, and an update check that tells you when a new version is out * A notarized disk image download from getsill.app Sill for iPhone and iPad: * A Settings panel that changes your Mac's stream settings, and shows the connection and latency * A first-run tour, and Take the Tour to replay it * Tells you when your Mac or the device needs an update Free and open source (Apache 2.0) No account, no servers, no tracking: video goes straight from your Mac to your device, forever! Website: https://getsill.app/ GitHub: https://github.com/Saffsanity/sill Site GitHub: https://github.com/Saffsanity/sill-site

Screenshots

Pierre Apps4 screens
Sill4 screens

Verdict

The call

Pierre Apps and Sill are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters — price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Pierre Apps ships an update every 3 days, Sill every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Pierre Apps versus Sill: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPierre AppsSill
PriceFreeFree
Rating—4.9 (43 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—43 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 daysEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
Monetization—Free
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS16.4 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size63 MB3 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMATTHEW JON TIEMANNNOAH WILLIAM SAFFER

In-app purchases

None

Pierre Apps

No in-app purchases

None

Sill

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Pierre Apps free?
Pierre Apps is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Sill free?
Sill is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Pierre Apps or Sill have ads?
Neither Pierre Apps nor Sill shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Pierre Apps or Sill?
Pierre Apps ships an update every 3 days, and Sill every 2 days. Most recently, Pierre Apps was updated on October 24, 2026 and Sill on October 29, 2026.

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