Comparison

Homechart vs TroveStack

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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

About

TroveStack

This app helps you resurface saved content through a daily review process that learns your preferences. Save anything from anywhere, organize it with categories and tags, and find it quickly with powerful search. Your data remains private by default.

Highlights
  • Daily review with preference learning
  • Save content from any app via Share Sheet
  • Organize with categories and tags
  • Fast keyword, category, and tag search
  • Private by default, no account required
Features
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Save it once. See it again. Most things you save get forgotten. TroveStack is built around a short Daily Review that resurfaces a few items from your trove each day — and learns from your choices to bring back what actually matters. What you can do with TroveStack: • Daily Review, tuned by you — A short daily pass through a few resurfaced items. Tap Like to boost what matters and see it more often. Tap Less Often to give something a longer break. Most days it takes about 10 seconds. • Save from anywhere — Use the iOS Share Sheet to save posts from social apps, links, photos, screenshots, and notes — all into one place on your phone. • Organize as you save — Add a category and tags at the moment of saving, so your saves stay structured instead of becoming a pile. • Find things fast — Search by keyword, category, tag, or source when you need something specific. • Private by default — No public profile, no social feed, no required account. Your saved content stays on your phone. The app may download small settings updates, but it doesn't upload your saved content.

Screenshots

Homechart4 screens
TroveStack4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: TroveStack at 100% against Homechart's 50%. TroveStack also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.3) and in-app purchases (none vs 2). Homechart's advantage is update cadence (every 10 days vs every 3 months) and device support (3 vs 1). On price, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Homechart sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. TroveStack asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

TroveStack holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 6 and 6 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 50% of Homechart's written reviews are positive against 100% of TroveStack's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Homechart ships an update every 10 days, TroveStack every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Homechart versus TroveStack: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHomechartTroveStack
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.3 (6 ratings)5.0 (6 ratings) — better
Positive reviews50.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings66
Update frequencyEvery 10 days — betterEvery 3 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.6 — better18.6
Further details — not scored
Size11 MB7 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperCandid Development LLCRathmacknee Labs LLC

Customer experience

Homechart

All ratings6 ratings
Positive83.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative16.7%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%

TroveStack

All ratings6 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Homechart

Subscriptions2
  • Homechart Household (Monthly)$4.991 Month
  • Homechart Household (Yearly)$49.991 Year
None

TroveStack

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Homechart free?
Homechart is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is TroveStack free?
TroveStack is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Homechart or TroveStack?
TroveStack is rated higher. Homechart averages 4.3 out of 5 from 6 ratings, while TroveStack averages 5.0 from 6 ratings.
Do Homechart or TroveStack have ads?
Neither Homechart nor TroveStack shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Homechart or TroveStack?
Homechart ships an update every 10 days, and TroveStack every 3 months. Most recently, Homechart was updated on November 3, 2026 and TroveStack on October 30, 2026.

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