Comparison

Stuff To Get vs Lumen

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

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About

Stuff To Get

Organize all your shopping needs with this versatile list manager. It syncs across devices, allows barcode scanning for quick additions, and offers voice control via Siri. Share and print lists easily for efficient shopping trips.

Highlights
  • Cloud synchronization across devices
  • Barcode scanning for item addition
  • Siri integration for voice commands
  • Dedicated shopping and editing modes
  • Product bundles for recurring items
  • Widgets and Apple Watch complications
  • Share and print shopping lists
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Are you ready to take your shopping from haphazard to heavenly? Welcome to Stuff To Get, your everything shopping list! Stuff To Get is so much more than just a simple grocery list manager, it can handle any type of Shopping List you throw at it. Letting you keep all of your shopping trips neat, organized and efficient. Never forget to pick up an item again! CLOUD CONNECTED Stuff To Get saves everything in your personal iCloud account, so it's accessible from every device you run Stuff To Get on. That means you could start a list on your Mac, edit it on your iPhone or iPad and use your Apple Watch to check items off the list as you shop. Stuff To Get will always keep everything in sync. BARCODE SCANNING You can attach a barcode to any Products and later scan it to quickly add that item to any Shopping List. Say you just used the last of the ketchup... Grab your iPhone, scan the barcode on the bottle and add it to your grocery list in a snap! Additionally, you can add your Loyalty card to any Store and use Stuff To Get while checking out, instead of the physical card. WORKS WITH SIRI Stuff To Get can work with Siri to allow you to use your voice to maintain your Shopping Lists. Driving in the car and remember you need to buy milk? Simply ask Siri to add it to your list! SHOPPING & EDITING MODES When you are editing or maintaining any of your Shopping Lists, Stuff To Get will present a UI tailored to adding and editing Products in the list. When you are ready to go shopping, enter the Shop Mode and Stuff To Get will minimize the UI to just the elements you need. Allowing you to quickly and easily check items off the list, distraction-free. PRODUCT BUNDELS Have a list of things you always buy together, like ingredients for a salad or your award winning chili recipe? Create a Product Bundle and you can quickly add all of the Items in the Bundle to any Shopping List with a single tap. WIDGETS & WATCH COMPLICATIONS Stuff To Get provides a Widget that can be added to your Today View or Home Screen so you can get at-a-glance info on the state of your Shopping Lists. Additionally, Stuff To Get provides a Complication that can be added to the face of your Apple Watch. As you pick up Items, they are moved from your Items to Buy to your Items in Cart list. The Widget and Complication will be updated to reflect your Percent Completed in real time. SHARE & PRINT LISTS Need a family member to pick up a few items on your list? Easily share Shopping Lists via Messages... even with people who don't have iPhones. Want to go old school? Stuff To Get allows you to quickly print out you Shopping Lists too. PRODUCT CATEGORIES By choosing what Product Categories belong to which Store, you can control the list of Products displayed when adding an item to a Shopping List. So bananas will never show up when adding items to a hardware store or lumber show up when editing your grocery list. Additionally, items are grouped by Category in your Shopping Lists making it easy to pickup similar types of Products in the same place in the Store. PRODUCT FAVORITES & HISTORY Instead of coming with a predefined list of hundreds of thousands of Products, Stuff To Get lets you build up a collection of only the items you love and use. That way you don't have to drudge through hundreds of brands or products you don't use, just to find the exactly one you're after... Or worse, you just give up and pick the first thing on the list, even though it not what you really want. Every time you add or edit a Product, Stuff To Get will remember it so you can quickly add it to any Shopping List in the future. In no time, you'll build up the list of your Products, done your way. EXPERIENCE SHOPPING NIRVANA This is only a few of the many features that Stuff To Get provides to elevate you to Shopping Nirvana! Download Stuff To Get today and experience the difference for yourself.

About

Lumen

This app acts as a browser that remembers what you read, building a personal knowledge base from engaged pages. It allows you to ask questions in plain English about your reading history, with answers generated by an on-device AI. All your data remains private and offline.

Highlights
  • On-device AI knowledge base
  • Plain English questioning
  • Automatic content organization
  • Private and offline browsing
  • Tracker blocking
  • Source citation for answers
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Lumen is a browser with a memory. Most browsers forget the second you close a tab. Lumen does not. As you read, it quietly builds a personal knowledge base from the pages you actually engage with, and then lets you ask questions about any of it in plain English, answered by an AI model that runs entirely on your device. Nothing you read, nothing you ask, and nothing Lumen learns about you ever leaves your phone. WHAT IT DOES Lumen reads along with you. It distinguishes between pages you genuinely read and pages you opened and swiped away, and it extracts the meaningful content from the ones that stuck. That content gets summarized, embedded, and organized into a searchable knowledge base, all on-device. Later, when you want to find something, you do not have to dig through history or remember which tab it was in. You just ask: "What did I read about sourdough starters last week?" "Summarize that article about the new M-series chips." "What were the main arguments in that piece I read on Tuesday?" Every answer cites the pages it came from, so you can jump straight back to the source. AUTO-ORGANIZED Your reading sorts itself into a clean hierarchy: Topics, Websites, and Pages. Each level carries its own AI-generated summary, so you can scan what you have been learning at a glance. No tagging, no folders to maintain. Lumen handles it in the background. PRIVATE BY DEFAULT Lumen has no server. There is quite literally nothing to send. On-device LLM: a quantized Llama 3.2 model runs locally through Apple's MLX framework. Local SQLite storage: your reading history, summaries, and embeddings never leave the device. Built-in privacy: tracker blocking, third-party cookie blocking, and fingerprint resistance. Secure: HTTPS-only by default, with mixed-content blocking. No strings attached: no accounts, no sync, no telemetry, no ads. The AI weights download once on first launch (~700 MB). After that, everything works fully offline: browsing, reading, asking, answering. BUILT FOR iOS Lumen is written from scratch in Swift and SwiftUI, designed specifically for iPhone and iPad. It uses Apple's own frameworks wherever it can: NLEmbedding for semantic search, WKWebView for browsing, SQLite with FTS5 for full-text queries, and MLX Swift for on-device inference. Zero third-party trackers. Zero external services. WHO IT'S FOR While most browsers treat the web as a feed to scroll past, Lumen treats it as a library worth keeping. If you read a lot online and constantly think "I know I saw something about this recently but I cannot find it again," Lumen is for you. Researchers, students, writers, developers, and lifelong learners. You do not need to change how you browse. Browse normally, and Lumen takes care of the rest. REQUIREMENTS iOS 18 or later. iPhone with Apple Silicon recommended for the fastest on-device AI performance.

Screenshots

Stuff To Get4 screens
Lumen4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Lumen at 100% against Stuff To Get's 33%. Lumen also leads on price (Free vs $0.99) and rating (5.0 vs 4.0). Stuff To Get's advantage is device support (4 vs 1). On ratings volume, ads, in-app purchases 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

Lumen is free to download; Stuff To Get costs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Lumen holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 4 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 33% of Stuff To Get's written reviews are positive against 100% of Lumen's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Stuff To Get ships an update every 47 months, Lumen every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Stuff To Get versus Lumen: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterStuff To GetLumen
Price$0.99Free — better
Rating4.0 (3 ratings)5.0 (4 ratings) — better
Positive reviews33.3% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings34 — better
Update frequencyEvery 47 monthsEvery 2 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — betteriPhone
Requires iOS18.018.0
Further details — not scored
Size15 MB28 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperAppracatappra, LLCDaniel Kosukhin

Customer experience

Stuff To Get

All ratings3 ratings
Positive66.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative33.3%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive33.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative66.7%

Lumen

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Stuff To Get

No in-app purchases

None

Lumen

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Stuff To Get free?
Stuff To Get costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Lumen free?
Lumen is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Stuff To Get or Lumen?
Lumen is rated higher. Stuff To Get averages 4.0 out of 5 from 3 ratings, while Lumen averages 5.0 from 4 ratings.
Do Stuff To Get or Lumen have ads?
Neither Stuff To Get nor Lumen shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Stuff To Get or Lumen?
Stuff To Get ships an update every 47 months, and Lumen every 2 weeks. Most recently, Stuff To Get was updated on November 3, 2026 and Lumen on November 5, 2026.

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