Comparison

SpoonieDay vs Stacks

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

Head to head
About

SpoonieDay

This app helps you manage your daily "spoons" based on the Spoon Theory. Track activities to understand their impact on your mood and energy levels, and plan your day to conserve energy.

Highlights
  • Spoon theory management
  • Activity tracking
  • Mood and energy level monitoring
  • ML-driven insights
  • Energy-saving planning
  • Simple interface
Features
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Based on the hugely popular Spoon Theory, this app helps you manage your "spoons". Track and monitor your daily activities to see how they affect your mood and energy levels. - SIMPLE INTERFACE: Life Shouldn't be Complicated - ML DRIVEN INSIGHTS: Discover trends with your Activities - EASY PLANNING: To Help you Save your Energy Great for those looking to learn spoon theory as well as experienced spoonies looking for a better way to manage their day. HAVE A SPOONIE DAY!

About

Stacks

Create and share rich, personal messages with friends and family. Combine audio, photos, videos, and text to tell stories or save memories. Enhance your messages with features like time capsules and location-based sharing.

Highlights
  • Create rich messages with audio, photos, videos, GIFs, and text
  • Share via link, access code, or in-app
  • Time Capsule messages
  • Location-based sharing
  • Optional AI-powered creative tools
  • Expanded media storage with subscription
Features
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Messages + AI + NFC Utilities Stacks is an NFC utility for creating messages you can share digitally or attach to something physical. Create stacks with voice, photos, videos, GIFs, and text. Share them in the app, send them with a link or access code, share through Messages, or write them to an NFC tag for gifts, prints, cards, stickers, packages, keepsakes, and creative projects. You can also create location-based messages, location-locked messages, and Time Capsules that reveal at the right place, the right time, or the right moment. Whether you’re a family saving a memory, a creator sharing work, a maker adding meaning to something physical, or a friend sending something more thoughtful, Stacks helps you say more than a regular message can. Features: • Create messages with voice, photos, videos, GIFs, and text • Share stacks through links, access codes, NFC tags, or in the app • Attach digital stories to gifts, prints, cards, stickers, packages, and keepsakes • Create location-based and location-locked messages • Create Time Capsules for future moments • Use optional AI-powered creative tools • Upgrade to Stacks PRO for expanded storage and AI features Stacks PRO is an optional monthly auto-renewing subscription that includes expanded media storage and access to AI features. AI credits are also available for select tools, including image editing and image-to-video generation. Terms of Use: https://mystacksapp.com/legal/terms

Screenshots

SpoonieDay4 screens
Stacks4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Stacks at 5.0 against SpoonieDay's 4.1. Stacks also leads on update cadence (every 5 days vs monthly). SpoonieDay's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 3) and ratings volume (38 vs 2). On price and ads 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. Stacks sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. SpoonieDay asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Stacks holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: SpoonieDay has 38 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

SpoonieDay ships an update monthly, Stacks every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 20, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
SpoonieDay versus Stacks: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSpoonieDayStacks
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.1 (38 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews64.4% of reviews—
Number of ratings38 — better2
Update frequencyMonthlyEvery 5 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size3 MB98 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperBlackburn LabsJose Araneta

Customer experience

SpoonieDay

All ratings36 ratings
Positive83.3%
Neutral5.6%
Negative11.1%
Written reviews45 reviews
Positive64.4%
Neutral15.6%
Negative20.0%

Stacks

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

SpoonieDay

Reported bugs

8 issues
  • Unable to sign up/register emails
  • App crashes on login screen
  • Invalid account/password errors
  • Does not stay logged in
  • Forgot password reset not working
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  • App not calculating spoons correctly
  • Blue bar with bubbles is distracting
  • Copy function repeats activities on the same day

Requested features

18 requests
  • Personalize starting spoons
  • Carry over unused spoons to next day
  • More activity options
  • Category for naps
  • Dark mode
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  • Save master list of common tasks
  • Import tasks from further back than 1 week
  • Export individual days
  • Copy/paste activities for other days
  • Sort/reorder tasks
  • Manually set/edit total spoons for each day
  • Save custom spoon entries
  • Recurring tasks/activities
  • More flexibility in tracking sleep patterns
  • Allow for more than 4 spoons per activity
  • Stats on spoon usage
  • Link with other task apps
  • Add pain notation

Stacks

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

SpoonieDay

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

Stacks

Subscriptions1
  • 10 GB Storage + AI$1.991 Month
One-time2
  • 40 Ai Credits$3.99
  • 400 Ai Credits$39.99

Questions

Is SpoonieDay free?
SpoonieDay is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Stacks free?
Stacks is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, SpoonieDay or Stacks?
Stacks is rated higher. SpoonieDay averages 4.1 out of 5 from 38 ratings, while Stacks averages 5.0 from 2 ratings.
Do SpoonieDay or Stacks have ads?
Neither SpoonieDay nor Stacks shows ads.
Which is updated more often, SpoonieDay or Stacks?
SpoonieDay ships an update monthly, and Stacks every 5 days. Most recently, SpoonieDay was updated on October 20, 2026 and Stacks on October 24, 2026.

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