Comparison

Needlentory vs Packable

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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.

About

Packable

Features
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Make packing and moving manageable with this essential inventory tracking app. Create detailed inventories with searchable origins and destinations, QR code box labels, and automatically generated shipping manifests. Pack your box, attach a QR code label, and scan it when your box arrives at your destination to keep track of what items have safely arrived. Never worry about losing your favorite items during a house move ever again! Features: - Easy-to-use interface to quickly add a new item (such as a piece of furniture or box) to your inventory - Option to tag each item as heavy, fragile, valuable or temperature sensitive - Itemized box content: make item lists for high-value items within an individual box (e.g., say you want to keep track of all individual records in a box of LPs, or all your individual LEGO sets in a box of LEGO) - Option to add the item’s value - never argue with the shipping or insurance company again over the value of lost items - Automatically generated ID number and QR code for each item, indicating the item’s origin, destination, value, and any relevant tags (heavy, fragile, etc.) - Add a photos to each item - Automatically generated shipping manifests for customs and moving companies - Multiple destinations/storage locations. Movers would know where to ship items based on separate labels that show the destination

Screenshots

Needlentory4 screens
Packable4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Needlentory at Free against Packable's $0.99. Packable's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and iOS requirement (15.2 vs 18.0). On in-app purchases 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Needlentory is free to download; Packable costs $0.99 up front. Needlentory sells 10 one-off in-app purchases and Packable sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Needlentory versus Packable: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterNeedlentoryPackable
PriceFree — better$0.99
Rating3.9 (123 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews44.9% of reviews—
Number of ratings123 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 9 days—
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS18.015.2 — better
Further details — not scored
Size58 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDiana BiałogrzywaOleg Popov

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

Packable

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

10 purchases

Needlentory

One-time10
  • 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
1 purchases

Packable

One-time1
  • Packable Premium$14.99

Questions

Is Needlentory free?
Needlentory is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Packable free?
Packable costs $0.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Do Needlentory or Packable have ads?
Needlentory shows ads; Packable does not.

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