Comparison

Textile vs Stash

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

Head to head
About

Textile

A minimalist notes app designed for simplicity and speed on iPhone. It focuses on providing a clean interface for typing and saving notes with elegant typography, free from distractions like ads or complex features.

Highlights
  • Minimalist design
  • Elegant typography with curated fonts
  • No user login or cloud storage
  • Focus on core note-taking functionality
  • Bug-free at launch
  • Simple and fast interface
Features
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Textile is the notes app for people who just want to write. No login, no account, no subscription, no ads. Buy it once and it's yours forever. Textile does one thing perfectly: it gives you a beautiful, distraction-free place to type. WHAT YOU GET • A carefully curated set of elegant fonts, including sans-serif, serif (roman and italic), and monospace, because typography changes how writing feels. • Automatic iCloud backup and restore. Your notes are safe, and they come back if you reinstall. • A Home Screen widget: tap to jump straight into a new note. • Dynamic Type and dark mode, everywhere in the app. • Plain text, always. Nothing proprietary, nothing to lock you in. WHAT YOU DON'T GET No half-built checklists, no drawing tools, no cloud accounts to configure, no cryptic menus, no upsells. Textile is built on the belief that a tool should do one thing perfectly, not a hundred things badly. Simplicity, typography, quality. A smaller feature set means every feature is bulletproof: reliable, fast, and streamlined. Let your phone get out of your way. Questions or requests? Use the feedback form in Textile's Settings, or email lukebradfordapps@gmail.com.

About

Stash

Capture fleeting thoughts instantly without creating new documents. Organize notes in a single, connective thread, and interact with them using intuitive gestures like highlighting and crossing off. Enjoy secure note locking with Face ID.

Highlights
  • Instant note capture
  • Connective note thread
  • Gesture-based interaction
  • Face ID note locking
  • Markdown alternative gestures
Features
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Stash is a notes app designed for how you actually think. Stash doesn't make you create a new document anytime you want to capture your fleeting thoughts. Instead, you can add a note faster than you can send a text. Stash doesn't store each note in disconnected silos. Instead, you can see all your thoughts in one connective thread. Stash doesn't support markdown. Instead, you can double-tap to highlight, swipe to cross off, and long press to lock with Face ID. Yeah, Stash doesn't do a lot, but it does exactly what you need it to, better than any other app out there. Terms: https://stashtosave.com/terms Privacy: https://stashtosave.com/privacy

Screenshots

Textile4 screens
Stash4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Stash at Free against Textile's $2.99. Textile's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2) and ratings volume (9 vs 3). On rating, review sentiment, update cadence and ads 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Stash is free to download; Textile costs $2.99 up front. Stash sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Textile asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Textile against 5.0 for Stash. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 9 and 3 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Textile ships an update every 2 weeks, Stash monthly. The most recent releases landed on September 30, 2026 and September 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Textile versus Stash: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTextileStash
Price$2.99Free — better
Rating5.0 (9 ratings)5.0 (3 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings9 — better3
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeks — betterMonthly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFreemium
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS17.6 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size7 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperLuke BradfordShreyas Parat

Customer experience

Textile

All ratings9 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews14 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Stash

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Textile

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Stash

Subscriptions2
  • Stash Premium (Monthly)$3.991 Month
  • Stash Premium (Yearly)$11.991 Year

Questions

Is Textile free?
Textile costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Stash free?
Stash is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Textile or Stash?
Textile and Stash are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 9 and 3 ratings respectively.
Do Textile or Stash have ads?
Neither Textile nor Stash shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Textile or Stash?
Textile ships an update every 2 weeks, and Stash monthly. Most recently, Textile was updated on September 30, 2026 and Stash on September 25, 2026.

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