Thready vs Quilty Solid
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Thready
Easily discover, track, and organize your embroidery threads and floss. Browse thousands of colors, manage your existing stash, and create wishlists for future projects. Features a user-friendly interface with night mode support.
- Discover new thread colors
- Browse DMC embroidery floss catalog
- Track existing thread inventory
- Create wishlists for needed threads
- Search by color name or ID
- Night mode interface
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Thready helps you discover and track all of your threads and floss easily. Thready is a friendly application for those crafters who want to track their embroidery floss instead of scribbling notes on paper. Want thread? Have thread? Need thread? Thready has you covered. ** FEATURES ** Thready has a super simple (and pretty) interface that will help you to organize your threads and floss. ** DISCOVER NEW THREADS! ** - Discover new colors you'll want to work with immediately. - Browse through thousands of DMC catalogue embroidery floss colors. - It's fun to scroll through all of the amazing colors DMC has released. - Search by color name or ID. ** LIST THE THREADS YOU HAVE ** - Have a list of all of the threads you have on the go! - With 1,600+ threads and counting, big collections happen. No floss hoarder shaming here. Track what you have! ** LIST THE THREADS YOU NEED ** - Do you have the ambition to collect all floss colors? No problem! Thready has a dedicated screen for all of the threads you need. - Easily save the threads you need for easy shopping! ** NIGHT MODE ** - If your device's night mode is on, Thready will now display a more easy-on-the-eyes interface - Night Mode will only work on Apple devices that support Night Shift (https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT207570) More features and threads coming soon! --- --------- ** Currently Supported Threads ** My goal with Thready is to HAVE ALL THE THREADS. And while Thready does not currently have all the threads, it is regularly updated with new ones. Visit Reddit.com/r/Thready where you’ll find a sticky post titled “Currently Supported Threads” to see all the threads in Thready right now. --- --------- ** TESTIMONIALS ** I love the app and don’t want to move to a different one :) - Stephanie Awesome app! Super easy to use and very helpful in keeping my hoards of thread organized so I know what I have/need for new projects. - App Store Reviewer If you are looking for a basic tracker to manage your embroidery floss stash, this is it. - App Store Reviewer --- --------- Ideas? Suggestions? Bugs? Love? Come share on our subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/Thready
Quilty Solid
This app serves as a digital reference for quilting solid fabric colors from various manufacturers. It offers tools for color matching, palette creation, and swatch comparison against uploaded photos, aiding quilters in their fabric selection process.
- Solid color reference from multiple manufacturers
- Sortable color swatches
- Pantone color matching
- Palette building and randomizer
- Swatch matcher against uploaded photos
- Customizable solid lines inclusion
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A Quilty Solid provides a reference for quilting solids colors. It includes representations of solids from multiple manufacturers including Art Gallery, Kaufman Kona, Aurifil thread, and more. The tools include a color reference list with sortable swatches, color detail with harmony interactions, a Pantone color matcher that provides color matching against Pantone colors, a palette building and randomizer tool, and a swatch matcher against an uploaded photo. Help for each tool is provided on an additional screen. User settings can control which solids lines are included in the app.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Quilty Solid at Free against Thready's $2.99. Quilty Solid also leads on rating (4.4 vs 4.0). Thready's advantage is review sentiment (76% vs 62%) and chart position (#96 vs unranked). On ratings volume, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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
Quilty Solid is free to download; Thready costs $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Quilty Solid holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 61 and 25 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 76% of Thready's written reviews are positive against 62% of Quilty Solid's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Thready ships an update every 8 days, Quilty Solid weekly. The most recent releases landed on September 21, 2026 and September 9, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Thready | Quilty Solid |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $2.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.0 (61 ratings) | 4.4 (25 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 75.7% of reviews — better | 61.5% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 61 — better | 25 |
| Update frequency | Every 8 days | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Best chart rank | #96 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 32 MB | 27 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Adam Sawicki | Steph Skardal |
Customer experience
Thready
Quilty Solid
Bugs and requests
Thready
Reported bugs
5 issues- Home screen blocked by unclosable message
- App cannot be opened due to update message
- Update message overlays screen, rendering app useless
- Number ticker doesn't always register changes
- Need list not popping up (resolved by restarting app)
Requested features
32 requests- Ability to add own threads (custom)
- Button to add quantity instead of dial
- Size filter
- EMC family filter
- Sort by name or color
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- Ability to add notes
- Update with more DMC colors (beyond 4190)
- Swipe to delete colors
- "Need transition to have" ability
- Account for syncing across devices
- Add variegated floss
- Add DMC Coloris line
- Tap numbers to add quantity
- Ability to add fractions (e.g., 0.5)
- Make variegated threads numbers visible
- Scan thread barcodes
- Add hand-dyed floss
- Make multiple lists for projects
- Track Mill Hill beads
- Scan barcode and type number
- Better way to mark 'needed' as purchased
- Create custom categories
- Add other thread brands (Weeks Dye Works, Threadworx)
- Add notes on individual threads
- Document projects (wish lists, patterns)
- Add DMC Coton Floche A Broder
- Option to have multiple lists
- Track Pearl and Satin DMC threads
- Sort list by amount owned
- Display total skeins owned/needed
- Add comments to 'Have' list items
- Ability to add custom fabric inventory
Quilty Solid
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Thready
No in-app purchases
Quilty Solid
No in-app purchases
