Ridwell vs ReferenceFrame
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Ridwell
Easily dispose of hard-to-recycle items with convenient doorstep pickups. Schedule collections, track your impact, and feel good knowing your items are being reused or recycled by trusted partners.
- Schedule doorstep pickups
- Collect hard-to-recycle items
- Receive real-time notifications
- Track community impact
- Transparent item destinations
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Get rid of your stuff the right way with Ridwell. Seamlessly schedule your upcoming pickups, receive real-time notifications, and see the impact you’re making with the Ridwell community! Collect hard-to-recycle items in your Ridwell bags. We give you bags to store your plastic film, threads, and other hard-to-recycle things that might otherwise go to waste. Easy pickups from your front door. We come to your front door to pick up your stuff every two weeks. Just let us know when you have stuff to pick up! Feel great about where your stuff goes. You’ll always know where your stuff is going to be reused or recycled with one of our partners. Together, Ridwell members save tons from the landfill every year to support our community, keep our oceans clean, and build a brighter future. If you're in need of any support, please contact us at app@ridwell.com.
ReferenceFrame
This app calculates all necessary dimensions for custom picture framing, including mat cuts and material depths. It ensures your artwork fits within the frame's rabbet and generates a detailed cut list and technical diagram. Works offline and supports various measurement units.
- Calculates frame, mat, and cut dimensions
- Checks artwork fit within rabbet
- Generates technical cross-section diagrams
- Exports PDF summary
- Saves configurations and design history
- Supports inches (with fractions) and millimeters
- Works entirely offline
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ReferenceFrame does the math for custom picture framing. Enter your artwork size and frame stock dimensions, and it sorts out mat cuts, rabbet clearances, material stack depths, and a complete cut list. WHAT IT DOES - Calculates frame, mat, and cut dimensions from your artwork size - Checks that everything actually fits in the rabbet (and tells you when it won't) - Generates a technical cross-section diagram with labeled dimensions - Plans corner spline slots: placement and safe depth for your moulding - Lays out hanging hardware: hanger positions, wire length, and where the hook lands - Estimates finished weight and wire tension from real wood, glass, and board densities - Exports a PDF summary you can take to the workshop - Saves configurations and keeps a history of your designs DETAILS - Inches (including fractions) or millimeters - Traditional rabbet or sight-size (full-bleed) frame styles - "Cut to fit" sizes that honor assembly clearance - Standard and custom artwork sizes - Adjustable defaults for frame stock, mat width, material thicknesses, and more - Works entirely offline — nothing leaves your device Built for anyone who's ever needed to know exactly how wide to cut a mat, and would rather not find out the hard way that they were off by an eighth.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Ridwell at Free against ReferenceFrame's $4.99. Ridwell also leads on ratings volume (8.2K vs 1). ReferenceFrame's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 2 months). On rating, in-app purchases 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
Ridwell is free to download; ReferenceFrame costs $4.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for Ridwell against 5.0 for ReferenceFrame. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Ridwell has 8.2K ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Ridwell ships an update every 2 months, ReferenceFrame every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 20, 2026 and October 15, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Ridwell | ReferenceFrame |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $4.99 |
| Rating | 4.9 (8.2K ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 73.3% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 8.2K — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases — better | Paid |
| Best chart rank | — | #138 — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 14.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 17 MB | 26 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Ridwell, Inc. | Graham Larue |
Customer experience
Ridwell
ReferenceFrame
Bugs and requests
Ridwell
Reported bugs
2 issues- Incorrect pickup status notifications
- Drivers unable to access buildings
Requested features
3 requests- Advance scheduling for pickups
- More recycling categories
- Proactive notifications for missed pickups
ReferenceFrame
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Ridwell
No in-app purchases
ReferenceFrame
No in-app purchases









