Homechart vs Linkwarden
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Homechart
This app helps organize your entire household by managing budgets, calendars, recipes, tasks, health information, and inventory. It offers a privacy-focused experience with no ads and works across all your devices.
- Budgeting and saving tools
- Integrated calendars and events
- Health and allergy tracking
- Inventory and pantry management
- Markdown-based notes and wiki
- Task and to-do list management
- Recipe and meal planning
- Password and secret management
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Homechart manages your budgets, calendars, recipes, tasks, and so much more. Designed for everyone in your household, works with all of your devices. In the cloud or self-hosted. Privacy focused, no ads. Homechart is the only app you need for: Budgeting and Saving - Take charge of your budget using categories and goals. Pay your bills, then pay yourself by distributing your income each month into your categories. Calendars and Events - See everything in one simple view. Homechart aggregates your scheduled transactions, meals, and tasks along with your events. Health and Allergies - Track foods, allergies, symptoms, behaviors and more for everyone in your household. Discover insights and correlations between symptoms and foods. Inventory and Pantry - Always know what's in stock, when your warranties expire, and more. Intuitively catalog everything in your house. Notes and Wiki - Markdown-based notes lets you easily create rich formatted pages. Reference anything in Homechart like budgets, recipes, or tasks to create links from a single page. Planning and To Dos - Conquer your to-do list with easy to use task tracking. Household and personal projects let you delegate work or take on the world yourself. Recipes and Meal Planning - Easy meal planning lets you add recipes to customizable meal times. Sort your recipe collection by rating, last time made, and more. Rewards and Gifts - Provide positive reinforcement for your household members using stamp cards to track achievements or give them rewards. Secrets and Passwords - Protect your household's passwords and secrets. Store encrypted values in personal or household vaults. Shopping and Grocery - Buy only what you need using a simple shopping list manager. Automatically identify items by store and category. Terms of Use: https://web.homechart.app/about/terms
Linkwarden
Collect, organize, and preserve important links for offline access. Save content directly from your device's share sheet and enjoy a reader view for a focused reading experience.
- Organize links
- Save from share sheet
- Offline reading
- Cache data
- Reader view
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The official Linkwarden companion mobile app. Collect, read, and fully preserve what matters! Here are the current features so far: - Create and organize links - Save links from share sheet - Full offline support - Highlights & annotations - Customizable reader view - And more! Please note that we’re adding new features with every new release! Note: Linkwarden requires either a Linkwarden Cloud subscription or a connection to your own self-hosted Linkwarden server. Terms of Use: https://linkwarden.app/tos Privacy Policy: https://linkwarden.app/privacy-policy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is monetization model: Linkwarden at free against Homechart's free with in-app purchases. Linkwarden also leads on review sentiment (63% vs 50%). Homechart's advantage is update cadence (every 10 days vs every 3 weeks). On price, rating, ratings volume 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. Homechart sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and Linkwarden sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.00 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.3 for Homechart against 4.2 for Linkwarden. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 6 and 14 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 50% of Homechart's written reviews are positive against 63% of Linkwarden's.
Homechart ships an update every 10 days, Linkwarden every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Homechart | Linkwarden |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (6 ratings) — better | 4.2 (14 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews | 62.5% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 6 | 14 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 10 days — better | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 11 MB | 45 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Candid Development LLC | Linkwarden |
Customer experience
Homechart
Linkwarden
In-app purchases
Homechart
- Homechart Household (Monthly)$4.991 Month
- Homechart Household (Yearly)$49.991 Year
Linkwarden
- Linkwarden Cloud - Monthly14 Days trial$4.001 Month
- Linkwarden Cloud - Yearly14 Days trial$36.001 Year
