TMI Gifts vs Essential Stencil
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
TMI Gifts
Discover seasonal, holiday, and craft DIY items to enhance your home's aesthetic. Find unique gifts for everyone and creative supplies to embrace a do-it-yourself mentality. Enjoy wholesale prices on specialty gifts and DIY necessities without bulk purchase requirements.
- Seasonal gifts
- Holiday gifts
- Craft DIY items
- Home decor
- Unique gift items
- Wholesale prices for all
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TMI Gifts is your destination for seasonal gifts, craft DIY items, and holiday gifts. We offer everything you need to improve your home’s aesthetic and add some unique character to your space, all while embracing a do-it-yourself (DIY) mentality. We offer unique items that double as perfect gifts for everyone in your life. From stunning home decor pieces to our wide array of creative supplies, we’re your friendly source for specialty gifts and DIY necessities. TMI Gifts began in 2004. Since then, we’ve been supplying home decor and gifts to customers all across the United States. Our goal centers around providing the best products and prices to all of our customers, both large and small. Our current headquarters are based in Northeast Mississippi, a great central location for our Southern US customers. Thanks to our commitment to online and telephone sales, we also ensure that prospective customers nationwide have easy access to our wonderful products. Unlike many other DIY-focused stores, we offer wholesale prices to anyone, without requiring a bulk purchase. Using this business model, we’re able to supply unique products to all of our customers at a price anyone can afford. It’s all part of our mission to provide the best service possible and ensure that our customers feel welcome and at home when they shop with us.
Essential Stencil
Discover and shop premium, reusable stencils for crafting. Made from durable mylar, these stencils are designed for repeated use, saving you time and effort while ensuring beautiful results for your projects.
- Premium reusable stencils
- Durable mylar material
- Save time and effort
- Gorgeous results
- Wide selection of designs
- Easy to clean
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Shop our premium Reusable Sign Stencils: Made of flexible mylar, these amazingly durable stencils are rugged enough to reuse over & over. You'll save time, effort & waste... and get gorgeous results every time.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Essential Stencil at every 3 weeks against TMI Gifts's every 6 months. Essential Stencil also leads on review sentiment (97% vs 83%) and ratings volume (752 vs 243). TMI Gifts's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 16.4). On price, rating, 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for TMI Gifts against 4.9 for Essential Stencil. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 243 and 752 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 83% of TMI Gifts's written reviews are positive against 97% of Essential Stencil's.
TMI Gifts ships an update every 6 months, Essential Stencil every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | TMI Gifts | Essential Stencil |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (243 ratings) | 4.9 (752 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 83.3% of reviews | 97.2% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 243 | 752 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 6 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 181 MB | 76 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Tracy Chambers | Essential Stencil |
Customer experience
TMI Gifts
Essential Stencil
Bugs and requests
TMI Gifts
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Essential Stencil
Reported bugs
1 issue- Login screen not working for some users
Requested features
2 requests- More children/nursery themed designs
- Expanded product lines
In-app purchases
TMI Gifts
No in-app purchases
Essential Stencil
No in-app purchases
Questions
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