elspet vs Stow
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
elspet
Control and manage your smart home devices with this comprehensive platform. Organize devices by room, manage family members with different access levels, and create personalized control panels. Seamlessly link different products for unified operation.
- Room-based device classification and control
- Family administrator and member management
- Modular functional design
- Personalized control panel creation
- Device linkage control
- Quick device access
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Elspet application is a general version control client for our company's smart home hardware products in the whole house smart scene, and it is an operating platform for users to control and manage smart devices. It is convenient to classify and control the intelligent hardware devices in the home according to the room. Supports setting up family administrators and ordinary members to achieve family authority management. At the same time, it adopts modular functional design, which can flexibly add different devices and panels; you can choose common components in the template library provided by our company, quickly build personalized control panels, and easily implement device access. Different products are connected to the same client to achieve linkage control, which is convenient to operate; eliminating the need for client development investment by brand manufacturers to achieve product intelligence faster.
Stow
This app helps you track the books you want to read, are currently reading, and have finished. It uses an extensive catalog to automatically fill in book details and allows for simple shelf management and progress logging without social features or ads.
- Automatic book cataloging
- Three distinct reading shelves
- Progress logging with progress bar
- Completion date tracking
- Simple library overview
- Ad-free and private experience
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Books you want to read, and books you've finished. That's the whole idea. Stow is a quiet reading tracker for people who just want a record of what they read. No feed to scroll, no followers to collect, no streak to break, and nothing recommended to you by an algorithm. You put books on shelves, and Stow remembers. THE CATALOGUE DOES THE TYPING Search millions of works from Open Library, the open catalogue run by the Internet Archive. Title, author, cover, publication year and page count all arrive filled in. THREE SHELVES, ONE TAP APART Want to read. Reading now. Read. Moving a book between them is a single tap, and the shelf updates the moment you do it. PROGRESS WORTH LOGGING Log the page you stopped on. Whatever you're reading sits at the top of your library with a quiet progress bar, so picking it back up takes no searching. THE DATE YOU FINISHED, KEPT Every book you mark as read keeps its completion date, and your Read shelf stays ordered by it — a reading diary you never had to write. AT A GLANCE Your library opens on a simple count: how many books you've read, how many are waiting, how many you're in the middle of. No charts, no goals to fall behind on. HOW IT WORKS 1. Search the catalogue. Type a title or an author. 2. Put it on a shelf. Want to read, or straight to reading now if you've already started. 3. Mark it read. One tap when you finish. Stow records the date. WHAT STOW DOESN'T DO There is no advertising anywhere in the app, and no third-party analytics or tracking software of any kind. Nobody else can see your shelves — there is no social layer to opt out of, because there isn't one. We don't profile you based on what you read, and we never sell your data. Your account holds your name, your email and your library. That's it. LEAVING IS EASY Deleting your account is a button in the app, not an email thread. Profile, then Delete account. It permanently erases your library, your reading progress and your account. DESIGNED TO BE READ Warm paper tones, a proper serif for book titles, and no clutter. Stow is meant to feel like the endpapers of a book rather than another bright app fighting for your attention. Free to use. Book information comes from Open Library. Questions or ideas: bookstow7@gmail.com
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Stow at every 5 days against elspet's every 16 months. Stow also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.6). elspet's advantage is ratings volume (2.1K vs 1) and iOS requirement (14.0 vs 16.4). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Stow holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: elspet has 2.1K ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
elspet ships an update every 16 months, Stow every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on November 7, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | elspet | Stow |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (2.1K ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 38.8% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 2.1K — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 16 months | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 204 MB | 58 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 慧 丁 | Thinko Learning Pvt Ltd |
Customer experience
elspet
Stow
Bugs and requests
elspet
Reported bugs
5 issues- Litter getting stuck in the middle
- Litter spilling out of the box
- Inability to fully empty the litter
- Unreliable app connection
- Malfunctioning features
Requested features
5 requests- Notify when litter box is full
- Ability to track multiple cats
- Longer cleaning cycle option
- Easier cleaning process
- Improved app functionality
Stow
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
elspet
No in-app purchases
Stow
No in-app purchases









