Sew Help Me Lite vs Stash Hub
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Sew Help Me Lite
Organize your sewing projects, fabric stash, and patterns. Develop ideas into projects, create shopping lists, and store photos of your creations. Features a detailed search and links to favorite resources.
- Organize fabric stash and patterns
- Develop ideas into projects
- Link patterns to fabrics
- Create shopping lists
- Store photos of creations
- Detailed search functionality
- Sync across devices with iCloud
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The complete sewing and dressmaking organiser. Organises your fabric stash and patterns. 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 and keep notepads iCloud enabled to sync across all your devices. No adverts. No subscriptions. No logins. No data-mining. This "Lite" version is limited to 5 items so you can try before you buy. Get the full paid-for version of Sew Help Me to remove the 5 item limit of the "Lite" version. Just a single one-off lifetime purchase.
Stash Hub
Digitally organize your sewing supplies, including fabrics, patterns, and notions. Manage projects, track measurements, and create shopping lists to streamline your sewing workflow. Visualize projects with mockups and prevent duplicate purchases.
- Digital sewing stash organization
- Fabric, pattern, and notion management
- Project and shopping list tracking
- Magic Input for online listings
- Advanced search and filtering
- Measurement recording
- Magic Mockup visualization
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Stash Hub is a purpose built app to digitally store your entire sewing stash. Everything at your fingertips, wherever you are. Keep all your fabrics, patterns, measurements, notions and shopping lists in one place to help you manage your projects and organise your sewing life. Never order the same thing twice! Awesome Features: - Easily save your fabrics, patterns, projects, notions, measurements, vouchers and shopping lists - Add extra information about each item along with pictures, links and attachments - Use Magic Input to create records directly from online shop listings - Quickly find what you’re looking for with search & advanced filters - Browse your whole collection with eases (no rummaging required!) - Record and update the measurements of yourself, family and friends - View interesting stats about your stash - Use Magic Mockup to combine fabrics & line drawings to easily visualise your projects without learning any new skills - Easily share your projects to social media - Keep a shopping list handy for your next trip to the shops or online sale - Access your stash on web by going to https://web.stashhubapp.com This app is currently under active development and we welcome and questions or feedback. Contact us: hello@stashhubapp.com Stash Hub offers two auto-renewing subscription options: £3.49 per month £34.99 per year These prices are for United Kingdom customers. Pricing in other countries may vary and actual charges may be converted to your local currency. The subscription will automatically renew unless turned off in your iTunes Account Settings at least 24 hours before the current period ends. You can go to your iTunes Account settings to manage your subscription and turn off auto-renew. Your iTunes account will be charged when the purchase is confirmed. Terms and Conditions: https://stashhubapp.com/terms-and-conditions/ Terms of use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://stashhubapp.com/privacy-policy/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Stash Hub at 96% against Sew Help Me Lite's 50%. Stash Hub also leads on rating (4.9 vs 4.0) and update cadence (every 5 days vs every 2 months). Sew Help Me Lite's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2). On price, 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
Both are free to download. Stash Hub sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.49 per month. Sew Help Me Lite asks for nothing beyond the download.
Stash Hub holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Stash Hub has 98 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 50% of Sew Help Me Lite's written reviews are positive against 96% of Stash Hub's.
Sew Help Me Lite ships an update every 2 months, Stash Hub every 5 days. Both last shipped on November 3, 2026.
| Parameter | Sew Help Me Lite | Stash Hub |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (2 ratings) | 4.9 (98 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews | 96.1% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 98 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.5 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 197 MB | 118 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 4+ |
| Developer | David Saunders | Douglas Todd |
Customer experience
Sew Help Me Lite
Stash Hub
Bugs and requests
Sew Help Me Lite
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Stash Hub
Reported bugs
4 issues- Magic input fails with many websites
- Pattern data disappearing after entry
- Recent update breaks website compatibility
- Inconsistent synchronization across devices
Requested features
8 requests- Search functionality for patterns
- Photo uploads for notions category
- Embroidery designs section
- User roles and admin permissions for shared accounts
- Inspiration picture storage in projects section
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- Drag and drop sorting for entries
- Improved magic input for patterns
- Additional currency and date format options
In-app purchases
Sew Help Me Lite
No in-app purchases
Stash Hub
- Stash Hub Premium1 Month trial$3.491 Month
- Stash Hub Premium1 Year trial$32.991 Year
Questions
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