Essential Stencil vs BBCrafts
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Essential Stencil
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BBCrafts
Shop the latest arrivals and promotions from BBCrafts directly on your iOS device. Easily place orders, manage waitlisted items, and receive email notifications for order fulfillment and shipping updates.
- Browse new arrivals and promotions
- Easy ordering and checkout
- Waitlist items
- Purchase back-in-stock items
- Email notifications for shipping
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Welcome to the BBCrafts App! The best way to shop with BBCrafts on iOS! About Us: Features: - Browse all of our most recent arrivals and promotions - Easy ordering and checkout - Waitlist items and purchase them when they are back in stock - Email notification for order fulfillment and shipping
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Verdict
The clearest difference is monetization model: BBCrafts at free against Essential Stencil's free with in-app purchases. Essential Stencil's advantage is ratings volume (751 vs 3). On price, rating, update cadence and ads 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 Essential Stencil against 5.0 for BBCrafts. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Essential Stencil has 751 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Essential Stencil ships an update every 3 weeks, BBCrafts monthly. The most recent releases landed on September 23, 2026 and June 1, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Essential Stencil | BBCrafts |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (751 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 97.2% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 751 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Monthly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 75 MB | 60 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Essential Stencil | BBCrafts |
Customer experience
Essential Stencil
BBCrafts
Bugs and 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
BBCrafts
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Essential Stencil
No in-app purchases
BBCrafts
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is Essential Stencil free?
Is BBCrafts free?
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Do Essential Stencil or BBCrafts have ads?
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