Comparison

Needlentory vs FUEGO Guide

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
Features
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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

FUEGO Guide

This AI companion helps you overcome overthinking and indecision. It guides you to identify underlying beliefs and the stories you tell yourself, leading to clarity and action without offering direct advice.

Highlights
  • AI clarity companion
  • Identify triggered beliefs
  • Distinguish situation from story
  • Guides decision-making
  • Designed for overthinkers
  • No guilt-tripping notifications
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OVERTHINKING A DECISION? Replaying a conversation that hasn't even happened yet? Second-guessing something you said? Feeling stuck between what you want and what everyone expects? FUEGO Guide helps you understand what's happening before you decide what to do next. FUEGO is an AI thinking partner for real-life situations, overthinking, and difficult decisions. It helps you slow down, question assumptions, explore different perspectives, and choose your next move. HOW IT WORKS Slow down before you react. When something gets under your skin, it's not always obvious why. FUEGO helps you pause and notice what's happening instead of automatically reacting. Understand what's influencing you. Explore the beliefs, fears, assumptions, and expectations that may be shaping how you interpret a situation. See your options more clearly. Consider different perspectives and possible responses without someone else deciding what's right for you. Choose what to try next. You decide what feels worth trying. Real life gives you new information, and you decide what to carry forward. BUILT FOR REAL LIFE For the conversations you keep replaying. The decisions you keep postponing. The boundaries you're struggling to set. The moments when you feel something strongly but aren't sure what to do with it. You don't need to have everything figured out before you start. A DIFFERENT KIND OF AI FUEGO doesn't exist to make decisions for you. It helps you strengthen your ability to make them yourself. No pressure to show up every day. No guilt for taking a break. The goal isn't to need FUEGO forever. It's to become someone who trusts their ability to think, choose, and act. YOUR LIFE. YOUR GAME. YOUR MOVE. FUEGO is a place to practice self-leadership, one real-life situation at a time. Available in English and Spanish. IMPORTANT INFORMATION FUEGO Guide is an AI-powered self-reflection and decision-making tool, not therapy or medical care. It does not diagnose or treat medical or mental health conditions and is not a substitute for qualified professional support. FUEGO Guide™ · Crismelazos Consulting LLC

Screenshots

Needlentory4 screens
FUEGO Guide4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: FUEGO Guide at 100% against Needlentory's 57%. FUEGO Guide also leads on rating (5.0 vs 3.9) and in-app purchases (none vs 10). Needlentory's advantage is ratings volume (123 vs 3). On price, update cadence 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

Both are free to download. Needlentory sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. FUEGO Guide asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

FUEGO Guide holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.9. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Needlentory has 123 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 57% of Needlentory's written reviews are positive against 100% of FUEGO Guide's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Needlentory ships an update every 9 days, FUEGO Guide every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Needlentory versus FUEGO Guide: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterNeedlentoryFUEGO Guide
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.9 (123 ratings)5.0 (3 ratings) — better
Positive reviews56.6% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings123 — better3
Update frequencyEvery 9 days — betterEvery 2 weeks
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS18.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size59 MB16 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperDiana BiałogrzywaCrismelazos Consulting LLC

Customer experience

Needlentory

All ratings123 ratings
Positive71.5%
Neutral4.9%
Negative23.6%
Written reviews76 reviews
Positive56.6%
Neutral11.8%
Negative31.6%

FUEGO Guide

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

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

FUEGO Guide

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
None

FUEGO Guide

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Needlentory free?
Needlentory is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is FUEGO Guide free?
FUEGO Guide is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Needlentory or FUEGO Guide?
FUEGO Guide is rated higher. Needlentory averages 3.9 out of 5 from 123 ratings, while FUEGO Guide averages 5.0 from 3 ratings.
Do Needlentory or FUEGO Guide have ads?
Needlentory shows ads; FUEGO Guide does not.
Which is updated more often, Needlentory or FUEGO Guide?
Needlentory ships an update every 9 days, and FUEGO Guide every 2 weeks. Most recently, Needlentory was updated on October 29, 2026 and FUEGO Guide on October 25, 2026.

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