Comparison

Needlentory vs Freshwise

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

Freshwise

This app helps you manage your food inventory by tracking expiry dates. It uses AI to identify food items from photos, suggests shelf life, and categorizes them by freshness. Receive reminders for expiring items and view reports on your kitchen's health and food waste.

Highlights
  • AI food identification from photos
  • Automatic shelf life suggestions
  • Freshness status at a glance
  • Expiry reminders
  • Kitchen health and waste reports
  • Practical food safety tips
  • Quick logging templates
Features
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Freshwise — your food freshness manager. Take a photo when you bring food home. Freshwise helps identify the food name, category, quantity, shelf life, and package text, then sorts everything by freshness so you can see what to eat today and what is about to expire. PHOTO LOGGING, WITH AI HELP Take a photo or choose one from your library. Built-in AI vision can extract the name, category, quantity, unit, storage location, and package text, and suggest a storage period. Results fill the form automatically and remain editable. You can also enter food manually without configuring an AI key. FOOD STATUS AT A GLANCE See Fresh, Watch, Soon, Due Today, Expired, Eaten, or Discarded at a glance. Remaining freshness is shown as both a percentage and a number of days. FOCUS ON WHAT NEEDS ATTENTION The home screen surfaces food that is expiring soon, due today, or already expired, sorted by date so you know when to eat, share, freeze, or discard it. EXPIRY REMINDERS Choose local notifications 3 days before, 1 day before, on the due date, or after expiry. Each item sends at most one notification per day. Changing a date reorders reminders; marking food eaten or discarded cancels them. KITCHEN HEALTH SCORE AND WASTE REPORT Each month, see a kitchen health score based on expired, soon-to-expire, and fresh inventory, plus items added, eaten, discarded, and nearing expiry. PRACTICAL FOOD SAFETY TIPS Five guides cover near-expiry food, refrigerator organization, nutrition labels, reheating leftovers, and freezing portions. QUICK TEMPLATES Log common foods such as cut watermelon, leftovers, opened milk, raw meat, and frozen food in seconds, then adjust the details. YOUR AI MODEL Connect your own vision model through a compatible API. The API key is stored securely in the system Keychain. Your custom model is preferred, with an automatic fallback when needed. LOCAL FIRST Your records and food photos stay on your iPhone. There is no backend, account system, or cloud sync. Supports Simplified Chinese, English, Korean, and Japanese, with Light, Dark, and Automatic appearance modes. Freshwise is designed for everyday kitchen management, shared refrigerators, meal planning, and reducing food waste. AI identification and freshness suggestions are for everyday management only. Consider the food’s appearance, smell, storage conditions, and package instructions when making safety decisions. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://www.freeprivacypolicy.com/live/2d6b2ea4-a712-4e96-a461-6339e1e8effc

Screenshots

Needlentory4 screens
Freshwise3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Needlentory at 57% against Freshwise's 0%. Needlentory also leads on update cadence (every 9 days vs every 6 weeks). Freshwise's advantage is ads (none vs shown). On price, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Needlentory sells 10 one-off in-app purchases and Freshwise sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $0.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Needlentory ships an update every 9 days, Freshwise every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 28, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Needlentory versus Freshwise: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterNeedlentoryFreshwise
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.9 (123 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews56.6% of reviews — better0.0% of reviews
Number of ratings123 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 9 days — betterEvery 6 weeks
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS18.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size59 MB4 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDiana Białogrzywa璞 菅

Customer experience

Needlentory

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

Freshwise

Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral100.0%
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

Freshwise

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

Freshwise

Subscriptions1
  • Freshwise Pro Monthly$0.991 Month

Questions

Is Needlentory free?
Needlentory is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Freshwise free?
Freshwise is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Needlentory or Freshwise have ads?
Needlentory shows ads; Freshwise does not.
Which is updated more often, Needlentory or Freshwise?
Needlentory ships an update every 9 days, and Freshwise every 6 weeks. Most recently, Needlentory was updated on October 29, 2026 and Freshwise on October 28, 2026.

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