Comparison

Clew vs stashy

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

Head to head
About

Clew

Capture and organize quotes, notes, and highlights from books, articles, films, and podcasts. Discover connections between your saved content through powerful tagging and intelligent recommendations. This app acts as a digital commonplace book, synced across all your devices.

Highlights
  • Save highlights from books, web, film, TV, and podcasts
  • Organize and search saved content
  • Discover connections between saved items
  • Tagging and intelligent recommendations
  • Syncs across all devices
  • Camera scanning for book pages
Features
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Clew is the fastest, easiest way to save passages, quotes, and notes from the things you read, watch, and listen to, so you can start discovering connections between everything you save. Remember the last time you wrote in the margin of a novel, only to finish the book and never see that thought again? How many times have you clipped parts of articles, songs, and podcasts and saved them to a note somewhere, hidden and forgotten? Clew is a single place for all your highlights, clips, and favorite lines—stored, organized, and searchable in one place. It's a commonplace book that you'll always have with you, easily searchable and synced between all your devices. Clew helps you connect thoughts across sources, centuries, and media types through powerful tagging and intelligent recommendations. Start discovering connections between everything you've saved from: - Books and poems you read - Movies and TV shows you watch - Podcasts and audiobooks you listen to - Songs you love - Articles you read online or on paper Simply copy-and-paste text into the app, use the Share extension, or scan book pages and documents with your device's camera to save a new highlight. Clew makes it easy to sort and search your highlights by source (author, website, etc.), date saved, publication year, genre, keywords, and more. Build your collection, and watch as you start finding connections and patterns across books, artists, decades, genres, languages, and more. This is your new favorite place to store, sort, and share clippings from all your favorite media, whether it's a mind-blowing plot twist in a novel, a hilarious quote in a movie or play, a devastating song lyric, a grand discovery in an article, or simply a quirky adjective you can't wait to use in your own writing. This is Clew. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

stashy

Save and organize links, videos, and articles for later. This app helps you keep track of all your favorite content, sort it by topic or urgency, and even set reminders to revisit it. Syncs across all your devices via iCloud.

Highlights
  • Save links, videos, and articles instantly
  • Organize content by topic or urgency
  • Create custom folders and tags
  • Watchlater list for videos
  • Reminders for saved content
  • iCloud sync across devices
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Everything worth a second look, kept in one calm place. A link you meant to read. A photo of a label. The PDF someone sent you. A voice memo about a chair you saw in a shop. Right now those live in ten different apps, and you find them again by accident. Stashy is where they all go instead. SAVE ANYTHING • Links, with the title, the site and its picture pulled in for you • Photos from your library or straight from the camera • PDFs and files from anywhere on your device, up to 25 MB • Notes written in Markdown, with headings, lists and links • Voice memos, written down as you record them so you can search what you said • Paper, scanned into a clean multi page PDF You do not have to open the app to save something. Tap Share in Safari, Photos, Files or anywhere else, pick Stashy, and it is waiting next time. On iPad and Mac you can also just drop things onto the window. IT READS SO YOU DO NOT HAVE TO Every save is read once, on your device, by Apple's on device model. It gets a short summary in the page's own language, a category chosen from the ones you already keep, and hidden keywords that make it findable later. Nothing is uploaded to do any of this. It runs on your iPhone, iPad or Mac. FIND IT AGAIN Search looks through titles, summaries and those hidden keywords, so you can search for what something was about rather than what it was called. It even works across languages: search "Stuhl" and an English article about a chair still turns up. Or just ask. Ask Your Library answers questions from your own saves and shows you which ones it used. Your saves appear in Spotlight too, so you can find one without opening Stashy at all. REMIND YOURSELF, LATER Open anything and pick a time in one tap: in an hour, this evening, tomorrow, this weekend, next week, or an exact time you choose. The Reminders tab groups everything by when it is due, and you can snooze or tick things off with a swipe. Reminders are scheduled privately on your device. IT SORTS ITSELF OUT Your categories are tiles in the Library. New saves file themselves into them, and when something genuinely fits nowhere, Stashy suggests a new one. Rename them, re emoji them, or leave them alone. ONE LIBRARY, EVERY SCREEN Stashy is a real iPhone app, a real iPad app and a real Mac app, not one stretched to fit the others. The Mac version has a sidebar, a menu bar item and keyboard shortcuts for everything. It all syncs through your own iCloud, so what you save on one is already there on the others, and one purchase covers all three. PRIVATE BY DEFAULT No account. No sign up. Your library lives in your own iCloud, and summaries, categories, keywords and voice transcription all happen on your device. Stashy is made by one person. If it turns out to be useful, a rating genuinely helps.

Screenshots

Clew4 screens
stashy4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is monetization model: stashy at free against Clew's free with in-app purchases. stashy also leads on update cadence (every 4 days vs every 3 weeks) and ratings volume (20 vs 3). Clew's advantage is iOS requirement (18.0 vs 26.0). On price, rating, ads and in-app purchases 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. Clew sells 3 one-off in-app purchases and stashy sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Clew against 5.0 for stashy. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: stashy has 20 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Clew ships an update every 3 weeks, stashy every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Clew versus stashy: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterClewstashy
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (3 ratings) — better5.0 (20 ratings)
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings320 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 4 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, Mac — better
Requires iOS18.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size36 MB53 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperThomas TwardzikHinrich Bomsdorf

Customer experience

Clew

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

stashy

All ratings20 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews19 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Clew

One-time3
  • Small Tip - $0.99$0.99
  • Generous Tip - $2.99$2.99
  • Super Tip - $9.99$9.99
3 purchases

stashy

One-time3
  • Buy me a coffee$4.00
  • Buy me lunch$12.00
  • Support the project$50.00

Questions

Is Clew free?
Clew is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is stashy free?
stashy is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Clew or stashy?
Clew is rated higher. Clew averages 5.0 out of 5 from 3 ratings, while stashy averages 5.0 from 20 ratings.
Do Clew or stashy have ads?
Neither Clew nor stashy shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Clew or stashy?
Clew ships an update every 3 weeks, and stashy every 4 days. Most recently, Clew was updated on October 24, 2026 and stashy on October 25, 2026.

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