Comparison

Patternum vs Stamp Collection

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

Head to head
About

Patternum

Easily create interactive and responsive knitting and crochet patterns. Add detailed information, manage sizes, and generate charts with custom symbols. Share your creations as PDFs or within the app.

Highlights
  • Interactive pattern creation
  • PDF pattern export
  • Gauge, glossary, yarn, and needle details generator
  • Size management system
  • Customizable chart generator
  • Add text, images, and videos to patterns
  • Private and public pattern sharing
Features
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Patternum is the first Knitting and Crochet Pattern creation tool, fully optimized to let you create easily and quickly interactive and responsive patterns. The patterns created with Patternum can be used by knitters and Crocheters in the app for a perfect crafting experience, or they can be downloaded as PDF. Among the numerous features of Patternum: PATTERN DETAILS: Gauge, glossary, yarn, needles, technics details generator to let you enter all needed additional information about your pattern easily and very fast SIZE DETAILS: Size management system that helps you give all related size-specific instruction in a clear and easy way. No more () or , , , needed! CHARTS GENERATOR: Create your own charts in a few clicks using our predefined symbols or creating your own symbols, preview your colors charts directly in the app. PATTERN CONTENT: Add text, images, videos PATTERN PUBLICATION: You can decide to keep your pattern private (share it only with your friends, sell it… ) or make it public to the users of the App. You can very easily share your pattern with a dedicated link, and your friends will be able to import the pattern in the App, as well as to download the pattern as a PDF.

About

Stamp Collection

Features
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Stamp Collection is a digital album for philatelists — built for collectors of Australian and international stamps, commemoratives, first day covers, miniature sheets, postal history, revenues and thematic collections. Catalogue what you own, photograph the front and back of every item, record condition and provenance, and keep track of what your collection is worth. Everything stays on your device. **ANSWER THE QUESTIONS YOU ACTUALLY ASK** · Which Australian stamps do I own? · Which years am I missing? · What is my collection worth? · Which of my stamps are mint? · Which dealer sold me this one? · Where is each stamp stored? · Which stamps do I have duplicates of? **A PROPER CATALOGUE ENTRY** Country, issue name, catalogue number, year, denomination, issue date, type, theme, series, condition, gum condition, perforation, watermark, printing method and colour — with mint, used and cancelled recorded independently, because a holding of several copies can be more than one. Only the country and the issue name are needed to save. Everything else can be filled in whenever you know it. **THE PHOTOGRAPH IS THE RECORD** Front and back scans on every stamp, shown large. The back carries the watermark, the gum and any repairs — for a philatelist that is not a secondary image, it is half the record. Front and back scans never count towards the free photo limit. **ORGANISE IT YOUR WAY** Collections for your albums — Australia, Great Britain, Birds, Space, Olympics, First Day Covers, Miniature Sheets, Revenue Stamps, Postal History. Storage locations for where each item physically is: album, stock book, binder, display frame, safe, box, archive folder. **VALUE AND PROVENANCE** Record what you paid, from whom and when. Record valuations over the years and watch how the value has moved. Every figure is one you entered — Stamp Collection has no price guide and does not pretend to. **GRID OR LIST, FILTERED ANY WAY** Filter by country, year, theme, series, type, condition, mint/used/cancelled, collection, storage location, dealer, favourites, or stamps you have not valued yet. Sort by value, year, country, issue name, purchase date or recently added. Search across every field at once, including your own notes. **REPORTS THAT ARE ACTUALLY USEFUL** Complete collection, insurance inventory, collection valuation, purchase history and wish list — as PDFs with photographs, or CSV for a spreadsheet. Storage locations are left out unless you switch them on, because a document naming your safe is worth thinking about before you share it. **COMPLETELY PRIVATE** · No account required · Works completely offline · Schmapps cannot access your collection · Your data never leaves your device unless you choose to export it · No tracking, no analytics, no advertising **FREE VERSION** Up to 100 stamps, 3 collections and 75 attached photographs, with an unlimited wish list, unlimited purchase history, unlimited storage locations, full search and filtering, and basic statistics. **LIFETIME UNLOCK — ONE PAYMENT, NOT A SUBSCRIPTION** Unlimited stamps, collections and photographs. Advanced statistics and charts. Collection valuation and valuation history. Duplicate finder. Missing-year analysis. PDF reports. CSV export. Backup and restore. Biometric lock. Every premium feature added in future. Nothing you have catalogued is ever locked, hidden or deleted — with or without the unlock. **HONEST ABOUT WHAT IT IS NOT** Stamp Collection has no price guide and no market data. It cannot identify a stamp from a photograph. It holds no catalogue data of its own — you type your own references, from whichever catalogue you use. It never converts between currencies; each is totalled separately. And a stamp you have not valued is left out of your totals rather than counted as nothing.

Screenshots

Patternum4 screens
Stamp Collection4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Patternum at none against Stamp Collection's 1. Patternum also leads on iOS requirement (12.4 vs 26.0). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Stamp Collection sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Patternum asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Patternum versus Stamp Collection: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPatternumStamp Collection
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.4 (25 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews54.5% of reviews—
Number of ratings25 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 6 months—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS12.4 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size90 MB44 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAnnapurnApp Technologies UG haftungsbeschranktSchmapps PTY LTD

In-app purchases

None

Patternum

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Stamp Collection

One-time1
  • Stamp Colection Pro$3.99

Questions

Is Patternum free?
Patternum is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Stamp Collection free?
Stamp Collection is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Patternum or Stamp Collection have ads?
Neither Patternum nor Stamp Collection shows ads.

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