One purchase on your store account
The unlock is a single in-app purchase through Google Play or the App Store. It does not renew, there is no yearly licence, and it comes back on a new phone with the same account.
Deximo Apps / Pay-once apps
Android apps without a subscription
A utility app does one job: merge a PDF, keep your clipboard, find the duplicate photos, scan a receipt. Paying every month for a job that runs on your own phone is a bad fit. These five apps are paid for once, if at all.
"Pay once" here means one in-app purchase on your Google Play account (or your Apple ID, for Everkeep on iPhone). Google Play shows the price for your country on the unlock button, so there is no number on this page to go stale. Every app has a free version first, and what it includes is listed per app below.
- One purchase, no renewal
- A free version that does not expire
- Data stays on the phone
- Restore on a new phone with the same account
What pay once means here
Three things to check before you trust a "no subscription" label
Plenty of apps say "one-time purchase" and then ask again next year. Here is what the phrase means on this page, so you can hold us to it.
A free version, not a timed trial
None of the free versions stop working after a week. Some have a limit on how much you can do (a number of deletes, documents or exports) and some have none at all. The limit for each app is written out below.
Everything happens on the phone
No account, no upload, no sync. That is also why pay-once works: there is no server bill for us to cover each month, so there is nothing to charge you for each month either.
The five apps
What is free, and what the one purchase unlocks
Each app is ours, so the lists below come straight from the app, not from a review. Each one also has a longer guide on why it skips the subscription and what the alternatives charge.
Everkeep
Every photo, video, voice note and written note becomes a page in a book about your child, filed by age. No account and no social feed; the book lives on your phone.
Free, and stays free
- Photos, videos, voice and notes, as many as you like
- The book in chapters by month of life, with firsts and growth
- Import from your photo library, with undo for 30 days
- Lock with a PIN, fingerprint or face; backup files you keep
- Handwriting read into text and voice notes written out, five of each
- One child's book
Everkeep Pro, one purchase
- The printed book as a clean PDF to share, save or send to a printer
- Month films saved to your phone
- A book for every child
- Looking Back: pages that return on their anniversaries
- Handwriting and voice notes turned into text, without a limit
ViaPDF
Thirteen PDF tools that run on the phone: merge, split, compress to a target size, OCR, rotate, stamp and more. Nothing is uploaded.
Free
- All thirteen tools
- See the result before you pay, including the real compressed size
- Your first Save or Share is free
- Copy text from a page to the clipboard
- No ads, no watermark, no account
Full toolkit, one purchase
- Unlimited Share and Save
- Lifetime licence on your Google account
- Searchable PDF export from OCR
- Works offline once the purchase is confirmed
- Restore purchases in Settings on a new phone
Soloclip
Keeps what you copy, searchable, with a guard that keeps passwords and one-time codes out of the history. Nothing leaves the phone.
Free, not a trial
- Unlimited text history on this phone, kept 30 days by default (or 7 or 90)
- Search, smart sorting and one-tap actions
- Sensitive guard for passwords and codes
- Save from the text menu, the Save clip tile, or share
- Links grouped by site, tidy-up, export
- No ads, no account, no upload
Soloclip Pro, one purchase
- Insert from the Soloclip keyboard
- Pins and snippet folders
- Quick Settings pinned strip
- Merge clips and transforms
- Text from screenshots
- Keep history for a year or forever
SparePix
Finds similar photos, bursts and old screenshots so you can clear space without losing the good shot. Photos never leave the phone and you review every delete.
Free
- Scan your photos on this phone
- Review every group, always free
- 15 free photo deletes in total
- No ads, no account, no uploads
Unlock, one purchase
- Unlimited similar deletes
- Full screenshot sweep
- Still on this phone only
- Restore purchases from the paywall or Settings
Filetray
Scans papers into PDFs, reads the words on the page on the phone, and files them in folders so any document can be found later by a word inside it.
Free
- Keep up to 5 documents
- Text recognition on one document
- Folders, tags and rename; search titles, tags and folder names
- Share PDF and Save to Files
- Free PDFs carry a small "Made with Filetray" footer
Filetray Lifetime, one purchase
- Unlimited documents
- Text recognition on every document, read automatically
- Search the words on every page
- Clean PDFs with no watermark
- Restore on another phone with the same Google Play account
The other side
When a subscription does make sense
Subscriptions are not a scam. They are the honest price for a service that keeps running after you close the app: syncing between your phone, tablet and laptop; storing your files on someone else's servers with backups; sharing in real time with family or a team; or processing that happens in the cloud because it is too heavy for a phone. Each of those costs the developer money every month, and a monthly fee is the only way that arithmetic works. If you need any of them, pay for them and expect a subscription.
The apps on this page do none of that on purpose. The PDF is built on your phone, the clipboard history is a database on your phone, the photos are compared on your phone, the scan is read on your phone, the baby book is a file on your phone. There is no account to maintain and no server to keep up, so there is nothing that costs us money month after month. That is the whole reason one purchase is enough, and it is also the trade-off: if you want the same data on two devices, you move it yourself.
FAQ
Questions about paying once
Do I pay again when I get a new phone?
No. The purchase is tied to the store account you bought it with, not to the phone. Install the app on the new phone, sign in to Google Play with the same account, and use Restore purchases in the app's settings or on the unlock screen. For Everkeep on iPhone the same applies to your Apple ID. A purchase made on Google Play does not carry over to the App Store, or the other way round, because they are separate stores. Your data is a separate matter: it lives on the phone, so move it yourself (Everkeep has a backup file for this).
Is there a free version of each app?
Yes, and none of them expires. Everkeep lets you keep unlimited photos, videos, voice notes and written notes for one child for free. Soloclip keeps an unlimited clipboard history for free. ViaPDF gives you all thirteen tools and your first export free. SparePix lets you scan, review every group and make 15 photo deletes for free. Filetray lets you keep up to 5 scanned documents with text recognition on one of them. Each app's one purchase removes the limit or adds the extras listed on this page.
Why do these apps not use a subscription?
Because nothing runs on our servers. Each app does its work on the phone: the PDF is built there, the clipboard history is stored there, the photos are compared there, the scan is read there, the baby book is kept there. There is no account, no sync and no cloud storage to pay for every month, so there is no monthly cost to pass on. A subscription makes sense when a service keeps running for you; these apps do not.
Do I get updates after paying once?
Yes. Updates arrive through Google Play (and the App Store for Everkeep) like any other app, and they do not cost extra. The purchase is a lifetime unlock of the app, not a licence for a year. Every version shipped so far has been included, and that is how we plan to keep working.
Are these apps available on iPhone?
Only Everkeep. It is on both Google Play and the App Store. ViaPDF, Soloclip, SparePix and Filetray are Android only, with no iPhone version. We would rather say that plainly than show a "coming soon" badge.
Want the full comparison for one app? Each guide above weighs that app against the subscription apps in its category. Or go back to all our apps.