Crew vs Twine
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Crew
This app provides a native iOS experience for browsing Stack Overflow content. It offers a clean, ad-free interface with powerful navigation and filtering tools for questions, answers, and comments. Enjoy a streamlined way to engage with the developer community.
- Native iOS design
- Ad-free browsing
- Powerful question filters
- Dark mode
- Real-time question previews
- Gesture navigation
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#PH daily pick 29/01/2020 "Crew brings the web service to a native app with a beautiful UI that makes browsing Stack Overflow much nicer than on the web." - MacStories "Crew isn't just an app, though. It's been designed with iOS guidelines in mind, making it look and feel every bit the native iPhone and iPad experience in a way the Stack Overflow website just can't match." - iMore Crew is a beautiful StackOverflow app built for fast navigation with powerful set of features. The delightful interface is coupled with extensive features that feel part on your device, whilst elevating your Stack Overflow experience. It’s created specifically with iOS design guidelines in mind, so it fits right at home on your device. Browse question without distraction or ads, use filter, add comments, or visit specific website areas like tags profile or badges section. You can quickly view list, tabs, inbox, notifications and more using gestures and context menu. Crew is an unofficial app, and side effects may include an incredible browsing experience. EXCITING FEATURES: - Trends and search support - All questions,answers and comments from Stack Overflow in your hands. - Search support - Rich rendering of questions - Dark mode - Beautiful iOS centric Ui - Universal app for iPhone and iPad. - Compose question with real time previews. - Powerful question filters (month, week, votes and more) It’s constatly evolving. If you have anything you’d specifically like to see, come to the Settings section and text me, I’d love to hear it! This app is not affiliated with or endorsed by Stack Overflow. Terms Of Use: https://www.danieljamestronca.com/crew/terms-of-use Privacy Policy: https://www.danieljamestronca.com/crew/privacy-policy
Twine
This app lets you read your RSS feeds without algorithmic interference, offering a clean interface and customizable reading experience. Manage your feeds, bookmark articles, and enjoy background syncing with dynamic theming and light/dark modes.
- Support for RDF, RSS, Atom, and JSON feeds
- Comprehensive feed management (add, edit, remove, pin, group)
- Customizable reader view with adjustable typography
- Bookmark articles for later reading
- Background feed synchronization
- OPML import/export for feed management
- Light/Dark mode and dynamic theming
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Twine offers a simple and beautiful user experience to browse your RSS feeds without any algorithm and puts you in control Features: - Supports multiple feed formats. RDF, RSS, Atom and JSON feeds - Feed management: Add, Edit, Remove & Pin feeds, Feed grouping - Access to pinned feeds/groups from bottom bar in the home screen - Smart fetching: Twine looks for feeds when given any website homepage - Customizable reader view: Adjust typography and sizes, view articles without any distractions or fetch full article or reader article in the browser. - Bookmark posts to read later - Search posts - Background sync - Import and exports your feeds with OPML - Dynamic content theming - Light/Dark mode support - Widgets Privacy: - No ads and doesn't track your usage data. We only collect crash reports anonymously. EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Twine at 100% against Crew's 67%. Crew's advantage is rating (4.4 vs 4.0) and ratings volume (64 vs 13). On price, 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
Both are free to download. Crew sells 7 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month and Twine sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $1.49 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Crew holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 64 and 13 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 67% of Crew's written reviews are positive against 100% of Twine's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Crew ships an update every 10 days, Twine every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 14, 2026 and September 21, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Crew | Twine |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (64 ratings) — better | 4.0 (13 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 66.7% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 64 — better | 13 |
| Update frequency | Every 10 days — better | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 59 MB | 225 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Daniel James Tronca | Sasikanth Miriyampalli |
Customer experience
Crew
Twine
In-app purchases
Crew
- Monthly Subscription$1.991 Month
- Yearly Subscription3 Days trial$19.991 Year
- Smoothie-sized Tip$0.99
- Sandwich-sized tip$2.99
- Buffet-sized Tip$7.99
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- Deluxe-sized tip$16.99
- Lifetime Subscritpion$39.99
Twine
- Twine Premium Monthly$1.491 Month
- Twine Premium Yearly7 Days trial$9.991 Year
- Twine Premium Lifetime$14.99
- Twine Premium Lifetime$23.99









