Comparison

CleanPad vs Stacklist

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

Head to head
About

CleanPad

Capture your thoughts, ideas, and memories in a cozy and secure digital space. This app offers a minimalist interface with customizable categories and enhanced privacy features, including automatic locking and biometric authentication for your notes.

Highlights
  • Cozy and customizable design
  • Distraction-free editing
  • Note categorization and tagging
  • Automatic private note locking
  • Biometric authentication
  • Local storage for privacy
  • Grid and list view options
Features
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CleanPad is thoughtfully designed to provide a cozy and secure space for capturing your thoughts, ideas, and memories. With its inviting design and focus on privacy, it feels like a personal sanctuary for note-taking. CleanPad features a minimalist interface that helps you focus on what truly matters. With customizable categories, enhanced privacy, and an experience designed to feel at home, CleanPad makes keeping your thoughts organized simple and intuitive. Features: • Cozy Design: A warm, thoughtfully crafted interface that feels at home and transitions seamlessly between light and dark modes. • Streamlined Editing: A clean and distraction-free Edit Screen for updating titles and content, as well as categorizing, sharing, or deleting your notes. • Categories: Organize your notes with ease. Create, edit, and delete categories, then filter your notes using beautiful color-coded tags. • Private Notes: Keep personal notes in a protected space that locks automatically when you leave the app and supports Face ID, Touch ID, or your device passcode for secure access. • Seamless Navigation: The Dock keeps everything within reach, letting you navigate your notes, access categories, and create new notes with ease. • Local Storage: Your notes stay exclusively on your device, keeping your thoughts personal and private. • Customizable Views: Switch effortlessly between grid and list views to organize your notes your way. NOTE: List View is available only on iOS. • Quick Actions: Long-press a note to quickly share it, move it to or remove it from the private space, or delete it. • VoiceOver Support: Enhanced accessibility features help make CleanPad inclusive and easy to navigate with VoiceOver. Rediscover the joy of note-taking with CleanPad, a place where your ideas and memories stay private, accessible, and beautifully organized.

About

Stacklist

Organize and share your favorite content, from articles and videos to travel plans and wishlists. Discover curated collections from other users and keep your interests accessible across all your devices.

Highlights
  • Save and organize articles, videos, images, and links
  • Discover and curate content from other users
  • Plan and share travel itineraries
  • Share stacks via social media or direct links
  • Customize stacks with notes and tags
  • Sync content seamlessly across devices
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Stacklist is where you save and share the things you love. Restaurants, articles, videos, products, places, books, recipes... anything you find online. Save it once, organize it into stacks, and find it again whenever you want. Build your profile around the things you actually recommend. Share a stack with a friend planning a trip. Send your favorite restaurants to someone moving to your city. Save the gear, the articles, the playlists and keep it all in one place that's actually yours. Follow people whose taste you trust. Browse their stacks. Save individual cards to your own profile. Build collections together. Save anything from anywhere Articles, videos, links, products, places, photos, documents. If it has a URL, it goes in your Stacklist. Organize the way you think Group things into stacks by topic, trip, mood, or whatever makes sense to you. Add notes, tags, and context so you remember why you saved it. Share what you love Send a stack to a friend. Post your profile link. Let people follow you for the things you actually recommend, not for how often you post. Browse and discover Explore what other people are building. Save cards from their stacks to yours. Find people whose taste lines up with yours. Sync everywhere Your stacks are with you on every device. Save from your phone, organize on the web, share from wherever. Stacklist is free to use. Upgrade for additional features. Terms of Use (EULA) By using Stacklist, you agree to the standard Apple Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy https://stackl.ist/privacy

Screenshots

CleanPad4 screens
Stacklist4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: CleanPad at none against Stacklist's 12. Stacklist's advantage is ratings volume (19 vs 1) and update cadence (every 9 days vs monthly). On price, rating, ads 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Stacklist sells 12 in-app purchases, starting at $2.00 per month. CleanPad asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for CleanPad against 4.9 for Stacklist. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Stacklist has 19 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

CleanPad ships an update monthly, Stacklist every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
CleanPad versus Stacklist: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCleanPadStacklist
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better4.9 (19 ratings)
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings119 — better
Update frequencyMonthlyEvery 9 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size8 MB35 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperUriel Alejandro Ortega AguilarStacks, Incorporated

Customer experience

CleanPad

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Stacklist

All ratings19 ratings
Positive94.7%
Neutral5.3%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

CleanPad

No in-app purchases

12 purchases

Stacklist

Subscriptions12
  • Curator Plus Monthly$2.001 Month
  • Stacked Monthly$5.001 Month
  • Curator Pro Monthly$8.001 Month
Show 9 more
  • Fully Stacked Monthly$15.001 Month
  • Curator Plus Yearly$19.001 Year
  • Professional Monthly$20.001 Month
  • Stacked Yearly$48.001 Year
  • Business Monthly$50.001 Month
  • Curator Pro Yearly$77.001 Year
  • Fully Stacked Yearly$143.991 Year
  • Professional Yearly$200.001 Year
  • Business Yearly$500.001 Year

Questions

Is CleanPad free?
CleanPad is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Stacklist free?
Stacklist is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, CleanPad or Stacklist?
CleanPad is rated higher. CleanPad averages 5.0 out of 5 from 1 ratings, while Stacklist averages 4.9 from 19 ratings.
Do CleanPad or Stacklist have ads?
Neither CleanPad nor Stacklist shows ads.
Which is updated more often, CleanPad or Stacklist?
CleanPad ships an update monthly, and Stacklist every 9 days. Most recently, CleanPad was updated on October 14, 2026 and Stacklist on October 5, 2026.

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