Index vs Pattio
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side β with what reviewers say about each.
Index
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Close all those open tabs without the fear of forgetting them. Just click, Index and search later. Find a recipe you want to try? A restaurant? That smoothy blender youβve been waiting to buy... Index it, and search for βfoodβ later to find it all. Happy Indexing!
Pattio
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Your digital shoebox. An endless cork board where you toss notes, photos, links and lists, move them with your finger like real paper, and group them however you like. No structure forced on you: save it first, sort it later β if you ever feel like it. EVERYTHING GOES IN, AND IT GOES IN EASILY Stickies, notes, images, links, checklists, folders, polls, countdowns, expenses, habits, albums, files, videos, places, songs, document scans, notebooks, documents, voice notes, drawings, events, calendars, reminders, doors into other boards and today's weather. Twenty-five kinds of card, every one of them pinned down. Share into it from any app, drag things in from Finder or your photo library, or just paste: Pattio works out on its own whether what you brought is a photo, a link or text. IT MOVES LIKE PAPER The canvas pans and zooms with your fingers. Cards drag, rotate with two fingers and snap straight when they get close. Tap a note and it opens for writing, big and centred, with the colour palette beside it; close it and it goes back to its spot on the board. Photos and folders open big from exactly where they sit, the way iOS apps open, and close again by following your finger. ZONES, NOT FOLDERS Paint a coloured area, give it a name, and drop things into it: whatever lands inside is filed automatically, and whatever leaves is unfiled. AND WHEN YOU WANT ORDER A masonry grid of two, four or six columns, filtered by kind, by folder or by zone. Search everywhere. Export the whole board as a PDF. ON IPHONE, IPAD AND MAC A real native menu bar and proper keyboard shortcuts on Mac. Drawing with Apple Pencil on iPad. Home screen widgets. Eight app icons to choose from. Dark mode with a warm night palette, not a grey one. IN YOUR LANGUAGE Thirteen languages: Catalan, Spanish, English, French, German, Italian, Dutch, European and Brazilian Portuguese, Japanese, Korean, and Simplified and Traditional Chinese. IT WORKS WITH NO ACCOUNT Pattio is complete on your device without signing up for anything. An account is optional and only does one thing: sync. Private boards travel end-to-end encrypted, with a key that is yours alone and that we do not hold. No ads and no trackers. The only analytics are pseudonymous β a random per-install identifier, no account and no content β never read what you write, and switch off in Privacy. AND IF YOU WANT, ITβS SHARED Invite people to a board or hand out a link: whoever opens it can look, vote and add notes right in the browser, with nothing to install and nothing to pay. (A shared board has to be readable in your guestβs browser, so that one stops being encrypted. We would rather say so.) THE PLANS The free plan is enough to use Pattio for real: one board, seventeen kinds of card, sync, sharing and 50 MB in the cloud. The paid plans open up the rest: as many boards as you like, all twenty-five kinds of card, and more space. Β· Free β 1 board Β· 17 kinds of card Β· 50 MB Β· Plus β unlimited boards Β· every kind Β· 5 GB Β· Pro β unlimited boards Β· every kind Β· 15 GB Optional auto-renewable subscription. Payment is charged to your Apple Account when you confirm the purchase, and it renews only if you do not cancel it at least 24 h before the end of the period. You can manage or cancel it in your Apple Account settings. And if you ever leave, you take it all with you: one button downloads a ZIP with every board as JSON and every original file, byte for byte. Free, always, on the free plan too, and even after a subscription lapses. β Terms of use: https://pattio.app/en/terms Privacy: https://pattio.app/en/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Index at none against Pattio's 4. Pattio's advantage is update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 15 months). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price Β· Rating Β· Positive reviews Β· Number of ratings Β· Update frequency Β· Ads Β· In-app purchases Β· Monetization Β· Best chart rank Β· Devices Β· Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Pattio sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Index asks for nothing beyond the download.
Index ships an update every 15 months, Pattio every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 27, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Index | Pattio |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Every 15 months | Every 2 weeks β better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No β better | Yes |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 β better | 16.4 |
| Further details β not scored | ||
| Size | 1 MB | 81 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Joseph Thom | Joan Cama Ribot |
In-app purchases
Index
No in-app purchases
Pattio
- Plus7 Days trial$2.991 Month
- Pro7 Days trial$4.991 Month
- Plus7 Days trial$22.991 Year
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- Pro7 Days trial$44.991 Year









