Comparison

InvenTree vs BookStax

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

Head to head
About

InvenTree

Manage your inventory and stock control with this mobile application. It offers powerful, lightning-fast inventory knowledge in your pocket through tightly integrated barcode scanning.

Highlights
  • Inventory management
  • Stock control database integration
  • Barcode scanning
  • Pocket inventory knowledge
  • Native iOS integration
Features
Currently charting
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This iOS app integrates natively with the InvenTree open source inventory management and stock control database. With tightly integrated barcode scanning functionality, the app provides powerful, lightning fast inventory knowledge in your pocket.

About

BookStax

Access and manage your self-hosted BookStack knowledge base natively on iPhone. Edit pages with a Markdown editor, search your content, and access it offline. Prioritizes privacy with secure API token storage.

Highlights
  • BookStack hierarchy navigation
  • Full-text search with filters
  • Markdown editor with live preview
  • Offline read access
  • Secure API token connection
  • Light/Dark/System mode
  • Multi-language support
Features
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BookStax brings your self-hosted BookStack wiki to iPhone and iPad as a native app. Read, write and search – directly on your own server. Read • Shelves, books, chapters and pages – the same structure as in BookStack • Images, callouts, tables and collapsible blocks look like they do on the web • Favorites and recently opened pages on the home screen Write • Markdown editor with preview, or the visual editor • Upload images, add tags, insert callouts • Quick Note: capture an idea – without a connection it is uploaded later Search • Full-text search with filters for content type and tag • Find downloaded pages in Spotlight, too Notifications (Pro) • Push notifications from your wiki: new and updated pages, comments, new chapters and books • For admins: keep an eye on new users, registrations, API tokens and changed settings • Choose the events per server – BookStax sets up the webhook in BookStack Offline and widgets • Download books and shelves and browse them without a connection, images included • Widgets for your favorites and an overview of your wiki AI helpers for your pages • Summarize, translate or proofread your own pages • With Apple Intelligence right on your device, or with an AI service you connect yourself Privacy • Your API token is stored in the iOS Keychain. If you like, Face ID or Touch ID locks the app. • BookStax connects to your BookStack server. AI requests go only to the service you set up yourself. • For notifications, BookStack sends events to the BookStax push service. It only forwards the ones you choose to Apple and stores no content. • Anonymous usage statistics (e.g. first launch, server connected) help improve the app – no server addresses, content or personal data. You can turn them off in Settings under "Security". Free and Pro Reading, writing, search, offline reading, widgets and AI are free. BookStax Pro, a one-time purchase, adds: • Notifications from BookStack: pages, comments, books and administration • Shortcuts & Siri: search, open and create pages, fetch content for your own automations • Sharing & export: share page links, export as PDF, Markdown, HTML or text, save text, links and photos from other apps to BookStack • Offline editing with automatic sync • Multiple server profiles • Three premium reader themes, a custom accent colour, one colour per server Requirements • Your own BookStack instance and an API token from your BookStack profile • No server yet? You can try BookStax with the BookStack demo server right in the app. Good to know — BookStax is an independent client and not an official product of the BookStack project. It requires your own self-hosted BookStack server and does not include a server of its own. About the project: https://www.bookstackapp.com / BookStax Pro is a one-time purchase – no subscription, no automatic renewal. Purchases can be restored in the app. / Terms of use (Apple's standard EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

InvenTree4 screens
BookStax4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: InvenTree at 100% against BookStax's 50%. InvenTree also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 4) and chart position (#51 vs unranked). BookStax's advantage is price (Free vs $7.99) and rating (5.0 vs 3.7). On update cadence, ads and device support 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

BookStax is free to download; InvenTree costs $7.99 up front. BookStax sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. InvenTree asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

BookStax holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 1 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 100% of InvenTree's written reviews are positive against 50% of BookStax's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

InvenTree ships an update fortnightly, BookStax every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 28, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard8 real differences · 3 level
InvenTree versus BookStax: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterInvenTreeBookStax
Price$7.99Free — better
Rating3.7 (3 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews — better50.0% of reviews
Number of ratings3 — better1
Update frequencyFortnightlyEvery 9 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaidFree — better
Best chart rank#51 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.6 — better18.6
Further details — not scored
Size62 MB16 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperOliver WaltersSven Uwe Hanold

Customer experience

InvenTree

All ratings3 ratings
Positive66.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative33.3%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

BookStax

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%

In-app purchases

None

InvenTree

No in-app purchases

4 purchases

BookStax

One-time4
  • Page$2.99
  • Themes & more Servers$5.99
  • Book$5.99
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  • Encyclopaedia$12.99

Questions

Is InvenTree free?
InvenTree costs $7.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is BookStax free?
BookStax is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, InvenTree or BookStax?
BookStax is rated higher. InvenTree averages 3.7 out of 5 from 3 ratings, while BookStax averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do InvenTree or BookStax have ads?
Neither InvenTree nor BookStax shows ads.
Which is updated more often, InvenTree or BookStax?
InvenTree ships an update fortnightly, and BookStax every 9 days. Most recently, InvenTree was updated on October 30, 2026 and BookStax on October 28, 2026.

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