Needlentory vs Beader
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Needlentory
Organize your embroidery supplies, including threads, beads, and fabrics. Track your inventory, manage projects, and create shopping lists. Back up your data to cloud services.
- Organize threads, beads, and fabrics
- Create custom material palettes
- Track inventory quantities
- Manage embroidery projects
- Generate shopping lists
- Cloud backups
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Your embroidery stash, perfectly organised. Needlentory is a powerful embroidery inventory and stash organizer that keeps your threads, beads and fabrics in one place. Always know what you own, what you need to buy, and where every project stands. PALETTES Create custom material palettes or import ready-made ones from Needleply — threads, beads and fabrics from 50+ manufacturers in seconds. Build organised palettes and keep only the manufacturers you actually use. STOCK Track your threads, beads and fabrics with a simple inventory system. See exactly what’s in your stash, set quantities, create checklists and avoid buying duplicates. PROJECTS Manage your embroidery projects with linked materials and required quantities. Instantly see what’s in stock and what still needs to be purchased. Filter by status, group projects into collections and track your progress with notes over time. PURCHASES View your full shopping list in one place — for a single project or across all of them. Mark items as bought and keep everything up to date. Copy the list for online shopping or export it to PDF. BACKUPS Keep your inventory safe with backups to iCloud, Dropbox, Google Drive or Box. Restore your data on any device in seconds. Start organising your embroidery stash today and stitch with confidence.
Beader
Design intricate bead patterns with customizable dimensions, bead types, and schemes. Collaborate with others and sync your creations across devices using iCloud.
- Create bead schemes
- Customizable dimensions
- Multiple bead types
- iCloud sync
- Share and collaborate
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Create bead schemes with different dimensions, different types and different bead types. iCloud sync and ability to share / collaborate.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Beader at 93% against Needlentory's 45%. Beader also leads on rating (4.7 vs 3.9) and iOS requirement (14.1 vs 18.0). Needlentory's advantage is price (Free vs $0.99) and update cadence (every 9 days vs every 11 months). On ads, in-app purchases, monetization model 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
Needlentory is free to download; Beader costs $0.99 up front. Needlentory sells 10 one-off in-app purchases and Beader sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Beader holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 3.9. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Needlentory has 123 ratings behind it against 19, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 45% of Needlentory's written reviews are positive against 93% of Beader's.
Needlentory ships an update every 9 days, Beader every 11 months. The most recent releases landed on September 24, 2026 and September 17, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Needlentory | Beader |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $0.99 |
| Rating | 3.9 (123 ratings) | 4.7 (19 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 44.9% of reviews | 92.9% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 123 — better | 19 |
| Update frequency | Every 9 days — better | Every 11 months |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 14.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 58 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Diana Białogrzywa | Viktor Gavrilov |
Customer experience
Needlentory
Beader
Bugs and requests
Needlentory
Reported bugs
13 issues- Floss numbers get deleted
- Paid for no add features, yet adds still play
- Update removed feature to see which project threads are used in
- Can't look at a specific color to see which patterns need it
- Can't just mark pattern has color, wants skein allotment
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- Updated now unusable, unable change or update anything
- iCloud backup not appearing on iPad
- CCW stock count incorrect
- App crashes/doesn't open
- Lost all data after app became useless
- Ads after every data entry
- Crashing a lot
- Adding colors to stock/projects not saved
Requested features
20 requests- Quick way to check off threads (Purchase to Stock)
- Option to collapse sections when searching 'Add Thread'
- Reduce clicks to edit skein counts
- Bulk edit/delete skein counts
- Option for 'metres/yards' thread count
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- More ways to list Projects (e.g., by Status)
- Keep updating threads in Needleply (new brands)
- Dark mode option
- Add Appletons wool palette
- Option to purchase ad-free version
- Shopping list ordered by project
- Archive projects
- See shopping list ordered by project
- Filter projects by category (To Do)
- Filters/options to group by family of colors
- Preload more floss brands (DMC, Classic Colorworks, Dinky Dyes)
- Import whole sets of floss
- Type in hex code for DMC colors
- Subtract threads from stash automatically when project is finished
- Ability to unarchive projects and automatically add missing colors to shopping list
Beader
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Needlentory
- Threads$0.99
- Premium for 1 month$1.99
- Dropbox$2.99
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- Box$2.99
- Google Drive$2.99
- Premium for 6 months$9.99
- Canvas$12.99
- Premium for 1 year$17.99
- Premium Lifetime$39.99
- Kit$49.99
Beader
- Remove ads$2.99
