Comparison

Balsio vs Stash

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

Head to head
About

Balsio

This professional chat application helps you keep work conversations separate from personal life. It allows communication with colleagues and external contacts using only work emails, fostering focused productivity and cross-organizational collaboration.

Highlights
  • Separate work and personal conversations
  • Chat using work email only
  • Connect across companies
  • Collaborate with clients and partners
  • Interoperability with WhatsApp (select regions)
Features
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Balsio – A chat app for work conversations Work messages often end up in the apps we use with friends and family. Balsio gives work conversations a separate place. With Balsio, you can: - Message anyone using their work email. No phone numbers needed. - Keep work and personal messages in separate apps. - Keep all your team's chats in one shared workspace. Invite a new person once, and they can join any team chat they need. - Talk with people outside your company: clients, partners, and suppliers. They do not have to join your team. - Message your WhatsApp contacts without leaving Balsio (available in the European Economic Area, where contacts have enabled third-party chats). - Organize chats into lists by project or client, reply in threads, and snooze chats or mark them as done. Tools like Slack and Teams are for conversations inside your company. Balsio is for your team and for the people outside your company: clients, partners, and suppliers. If you have used a personal chat app before, Balsio will feel familiar.

About

Stash

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STASH saves links. Share a page from Safari, YouTube, Mail or anything else with a share sheet, and it is in your list a second later. The title and the source fill themselves in, along with a summary when the page offers one, so the list reads like something you wrote instead of a wall of URLs. Sort it or do not. Collections hold the links that belong together, tags cut across them, and a note holds the reason you saved the thing in the first place. Search reads titles, tags, sources, notes and summaries, and every result tells you which one matched. No account. No sync. No feed, no recommendations, nothing to subscribe to. Your library lives on your phone, not on a server. Links you share are sealed before they leave it, and the copy we keep for 7 days is one we cannot read. The app sends anonymous counts of which features get used and nothing more, never a URL, a title or a note. Export the whole stash as a JSON file whenever you want it somewhere else. Free, and it stays free.

Screenshots

Balsio4 screens
Stash4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Balsio at weekly against Stash's every 6 weeks. Balsio also leads on device support (3 vs 1). On price, ads, in-app purchases 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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Balsio ships an update weekly, Stash every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 12, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Balsio versus Stash: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBalsioStash
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyWeekly — betterEvery 6 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac — betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size51 MB3 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperFyello Productivity SIAJonathan Nyst

In-app purchases

None

Balsio

No in-app purchases

None

Stash

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Balsio free?
Balsio is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Stash free?
Stash is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Balsio or Stash have ads?
Neither Balsio nor Stash shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Balsio or Stash?
Balsio ships an update weekly, and Stash every 6 weeks. Most recently, Balsio was updated on October 24, 2026 and Stash on October 12, 2026.

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