Sew Help Me vs MakerLog
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Sew Help Me
This app helps sewers organize their fabric stash, patterns, and projects. Develop ideas by linking patterns to fabrics, create shopping lists, and document your creations with photos. Find items easily with a detailed search and store notes and links to useful resources.
- Fabric stash organization
- Pattern management
- Project development
- Shopping list creation
- Photo documentation of creations
- Detailed search functionality
- Links to blogs, websites, and shops
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The complete sewing and dressmaking organiser. Organises your fabric stash, patterns and more. Develop your ideas into projects, linking patterns to fabrics. Make shopping lists for your projects. Take and keep photos of all your creations. Detailed search facility to help you find your fabrics, patterns and projects. Record links to your favourite blogs, websites and shops. Store your threads & notions and keep notepads. iCloud enabled to sync across all your devices. No adverts. No subscriptions. No logins. No data-mining. Just a small one-off lifetime purchase. Free "Lite" version also available to "try before you buy", limited to 5 items.
MakerLog
This app helps crafters and artisans document their creative process, track project finances, and gain insights into their work. It's designed for makers of all skill levels to enhance productivity and focus on their art.
- Project journaling
- Financial tracking
- In-depth analytics
- Transaction history
- Intuitive interface
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-- Your craft, step by step -- Maker Log is a project journal for makers. Keep a journal for every project, collect photos of each stage, and see what every piece earns – from the first sketch to the final sale. -- Made for every maker -- Painting, pottery, woodworking, sewing, knitting, crochet or jewelry making: Maker Log fits around the way you work, so you spend less time on admin and more time on your craft. -- What Maker Log does -- • Journal: Write about each session, add photos, and look back on every step, day by day. • Projects: Give every piece its own page with a cover photo, a photo gallery, its dates and status, and a timeline of its entries, income and costs. • Income and costs: Log materials, commissions and sales against a project and see its profit at a glance. • Insights: See your profit for the year, income and costs month by month, and which projects earn the most. • Search: Find any project, journal entry or transaction by name or by the words in it. • iCloud sync: Your journal stays up to date on all your devices. • Made for iOS 26, with dark mode, large text and VoiceOver support. -- Free and Pro -- Maker Log is free for up to 2 projects and 5 journal entries. Maker Log Pro unlocks unlimited projects and journal entries, and Insights. Whether you work with wood, metal, glass, clay, leather, beads, fabric or yarn – carving, woodturning, blacksmithing, jewelry making, sewing, quilting, embroidery, weaving, felting, macramé, pottery, sculpture, scrapbooking, papercraft, calligraphy, printmaking, candle or soap making – Maker Log keeps every project in one place. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: MakerLog at Free against Sew Help Me's $3.99. Sew Help Me's advantage is rating (4.1 vs 3.0) and in-app purchases (none vs 2). On update cadence, ads 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
MakerLog is free to download; Sew Help Me costs $3.99 up front. MakerLog sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Sew Help Me asks for nothing beyond the download.
Sew Help Me holds the better App Store score, 4.1 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Sew Help Me has 18 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 82% of Sew Help Me's written reviews are positive against 57% of MakerLog's.
Sew Help Me ships an update every 2 months, MakerLog monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Sew Help Me | MakerLog |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $3.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.1 (18 ratings) — better | 3.0 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 81.8% of reviews — better | 57.1% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 18 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Monthly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | Freemium — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.5 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 186 MB | 14 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 4+ |
| Developer | David Saunders | Gruffydd Johnston |
Customer experience
Sew Help Me
MakerLog
In-app purchases
Sew Help Me
No in-app purchases
MakerLog
- Maker Log Pro$2.991 Month
- Maker Log Pro$9.991 Year
