Comparison

Clew vs Dash

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

Dash

Features
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Quickly capture your thoughts and tasks so you can focus on what really matters.

Screenshots

Clew4 screens
Dash4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Dash at none against Clew's 3. On price, ads, 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. Clew sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Dash asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard1 real difference · 8 level
Clew versus Dash: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterClewDash
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (3 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings3 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS18.018.0
Further details — not scored
Size33 MB9 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperThomas TwardzikMathew Jacob

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
None

Dash

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Clew free?
Clew is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Dash free?
Dash is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Clew or Dash have ads?
Neither Clew nor Dash shows ads.

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