Comparison

Type One Style vs Threadly

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

Head to head
About

Type One Style

This app offers vibrant, high-quality patches to personalize and protect diabetes monitoring devices. It aims to make managing diabetes more colorful and positive, fostering a supportive community and offering discounts on products.

Highlights
  • Device protection patches
  • Personalize medical devices
  • Diabetes community access
  • Discount on first order
  • Raise diabetes awareness
Features
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We're on a mission to raise awareness of diabetes through colour & positivity. To provide useful products of the high quality that people with diabetes deserve, in a fun way. Take your devices from cold & clinical to bright & beautiful with our world-leading patches. Live without the fear of losing a Dexcom or Libre (and many other devices) ever again. The proof? We've already protected over 1,000,000 diabetes devices around the world, and this number keeps climbing. Join our diabetes community today and get 20% off your first order when you install our app.

About

Threadly

Features
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Threadly is a home for craft patterns, designers, testers and makers. Browse crochet, knitting, amigurumi, embroidery, sewing, quilting and other craft patterns. Save favourites, organise your pattern library, view owned patterns in a protected reader, manage yarn stash details, and follow independent designers. For designers, Threadly includes tools to manage a shop, upload patterns, organise sections, run pattern tests, host CALs, manage bundles, review feedback, and protect digital patterns with watermarking and access controls. Threadly is built for makers who want patterns, projects and community in one place.

Screenshots

Type One Style4 screens
Threadly4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Threadly at none against Type One Style's shown. On price, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Type One Style versus Threadly: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterType One StyleThreadly
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (190 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews84.6% of reviews—
Number of ratings190 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 5 weeks—
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.1 — better16.4
Further details — not scored
Size54 MB48 MB
Age rating4+9+
DeveloperType One Style LimitedDominic Mann

Bugs and requests

Type One Style

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Cannot log in to account
  • Tracking information shows nothing for shipped orders
  • Automated replies to customer service inquiries

Requested features

3 requests
  • More Medtronic stickers
  • Option to turn off specific app notifications (e.g., promotional)
  • Cut out for Dexcom or Omnipod

Threadly

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Type One Style

No in-app purchases

None

Threadly

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Type One Style free?
Type One Style is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Threadly free?
Threadly is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Type One Style or Threadly have ads?
Type One Style shows ads; Threadly does not.

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