Comparison

Ready24 vs Hardtack

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

Head to head
About

Ready24

Prepare your emergency backpack quickly with a customizable checklist. Get free advice on how to act in various emergency situations and learn how to use your survival gear. Includes reminders for expiring products in your emergency kit.

Highlights
  • Customizable packing lists
  • Emergency situation behavior tips
  • Survival gear usage guides
  • Product expiry reminders
  • Emergency backpack preparation
Features
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In wenigen Minuten deinen Fluchtrucksack packen, dank der Ready24-Packliste. Kostenlos erhältst du Tipps zum Verhalten in verschiedenen Notsituationen. Außerdem gibt es nützliche Hinweise zum Gebrauch deiner Survival-Ausrüstung. Jetzt auch mit Erinnerungsfunktion, wenn Produkte in deinem Notfallrucksack ablaufen und du deine Notration oder andere Ausrüstung erneuern solltest.

About

Hardtack

Features
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Hardtack is the calm, reliable, offline-first home inventory app. Catalog your household reserves (water, food, first-aid, tools, energy, documents) and see at a glance how many days of self-sufficiency your home really has. Pay once. Own forever. No account, no cloud, no ads, no usage telemetry. Your data stays on your device. WHAT HARDTACK DOES • Home inventory, your way Add items with quantities, units, unit costs and notes. Organize by category and by location: pantry, garage, cellar, vehicle, kit bags and your own custom places. • Add by barcode Scan a product and its details fill in automatically: name, brand, nutrition values, net weight and the product image once it is recognised online. Works with UPC and EAN codes. Once a product is identified, its name and nutrition values stay available offline on your device. Manual entry remains available as a fallback. • Expiry date tracking An item can carry several dates, each with its own quantity: a product bought more than once stays one item, and the scanner reopens it for the new purchase's date. Local notifications warn you 7 days then 1 day before each date, and a removal eats into what expires soonest first. Nothing slips through forgotten. • Days of self-sufficiency A clear dashboard computes your days of water, calories and key reserves from your household composition. Add household members and their needs for a personalized estimate. • Ready-made kits, and kits of your own Start from proven checklists: 72-hour bag, vehicle kit, blackout kit, earthquake kit, basic first-aid, infant and pet kits, with visual completion progress. Hide the ones that do not apply, rename, reorder, edit line by line, duplicate, or build your own. • Smart rotation & restocking A first-in-first-out view surfaces what to use next. Items below your minimum threshold flow into an automatic shopping list you can export. • Stock removal & spending tracking Take a quantity out in one gesture, without deleting the item, or scan your products as you go. Keep an eye on what your reserves cost, with a breakdown by category. • Privacy controls built in Optional app lock (Face ID / Touch ID / PIN), item-name obfuscation and a decoy view keep your inventory private on a shared or lost device. • Local sharing, no cloud Share an inventory snapshot with family as an encrypted QR code, scanned on the other device, imported locally. No server in the middle. • Export and back up Export to CSV or JSON and save a local backup through the native share sheet to Files, Drive or iCloud Drive. Your data, in your hands. BUILT TO LAST Hardtack is a one-time purchase, not a subscription treadmill. The free version covers your whole household, expiry reminders and an overall self-sufficiency score, capped at 10 items, 1 storage location, 1 kit template (Bug-out 72h), 1 theme and 1 accent color. The full version lifts these caps and unlocks the detailed self-sufficiency breakdown (water, calories, medication), custom kits, privacy controls, scan-out mode, export and local sharing, all for a single one-time purchase. Localized in English, French, German and Spanish. Questions or feedback? Reach us at atech.contact@proton.me.

Screenshots

Ready244 screens
Hardtack4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Ready24 at none against Hardtack's 1. Hardtack's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (weekly vs every 2 months). On price, device support and iOS requirement 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. Hardtack sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Ready24 asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Ready24 ships an update every 2 months, Hardtack weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 9, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 5 level
Ready24 versus Hardtack: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterReady24Hardtack
PriceFreeFree
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsWeekly — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationAd-supported—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS15.115.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size36 MB44 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperOrgidea Ready24 UG (haftungsbeschrankt)Aurore Troubat

In-app purchases

None

Ready24

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Hardtack

One-time1
  • Hardtack Pro$17.99

Questions

Is Ready24 free?
Ready24 is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Hardtack free?
Hardtack is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Ready24 or Hardtack have ads?
Ready24 shows ads; Hardtack does not.
Which is updated more often, Ready24 or Hardtack?
Ready24 ships an update every 2 months, and Hardtack weekly. Most recently, Ready24 was updated on October 9, 2026 and Hardtack on October 25, 2026.

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