Gravel Host vs Basic Bins
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Gravel Host
Easily deploy and manage your own high-performance Minecraft server with dedicated hosting. Monitor, configure, and control your game servers with intuitive tools suitable for all experience levels.
- One-click server deployment
- Real-time server monitoring
- Easy configuration and management
- 24/7 support team
- Dedicated servers
- Customizable server settings
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Gravel Host puts your game servers in your pocket. Deploy, monitor and control your Minecraft and game servers from anywhere — no laptop needed. Whether you're launching your first server or you're a seasoned admin, Gravel Host is built to be simple, fast and powerful. Everything you need to run your server is right at your fingertips. WHAT YOU CAN DO • Power control — start, stop and restart in one tap • Live stats — real-time CPU, RAM and disk usage • Console — watch live logs and send commands • Files — browse and edit with a built-in code editor • Backups — create and restore on the go • Databases, schedules, startup variables and network settings • Sub-users — invite others and set their permissions MADE FOR MINECRAFT • See who's online and manage players in real time • Op, kick, ban and whitelist with a tap • Install plugins, mods and modpacks straight from the app STAY IN THE LOOP • Push notifications when a server goes offline or back online • A home-screen widget for status and player counts at a glance SAFE AND SUPPORTED Your servers are protected against DDoS attacks, and our support team is available around the clock. As online services grow, DDoS attacks have become increasingly common — we take the steps needed to keep your servers online and secure. Available in English and French. Note: Gravel Host is the companion app for Gravel Host game hosting — you'll need a Gravel Host account and at least one server to sign in.
Basic Bins
Easily catalog your storage items by photographing them. The app automatically names items and allows you to add notes and counts. Print QR code labels for your bins to quickly scan and view contents without opening them.
- Photograph items for automatic naming
- Add notes and counts to items
- Printable QR code labels for bins
- Searchable inventory via iPhone search
- Track items checked out by users
- Organize by location, box, and item
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You are standing in the storage unit with the door up, looking at forty identical boxes, and the thing you drove here for is in one of them. Basic Bins is the inventory you will actually keep. Photograph what goes in the box and it names itself. Print a label, scan it months later, and see everything inside without lifting the lid. PHOTOGRAPH IT, DON'T TYPE IT The reason inventory apps get abandoned is the typing. Point the camera at something and Basic Bins names it for you. Snap the drill, the Christmas lights, the box of cables, and keep moving. Corrections are one tap if it guesses wrong. Retake a photo any time, or add one to something you typed in a hurry. Add a note or a count to anything: six folding chairs, the drill that is missing its charger. Search reads both, and when nothing matches exactly it shows the closest thing rather than saying it found nothing. Your things turn up in iPhone search too. Pull down on the home screen, type what you are after, and the result says which box it is in. Tap it and Basic Bins opens there. Only your own inventory is listed, so a shared library stays private. Add what something would cost to replace, on the few things where it matters. The printable inventory totals the ones that do, box by box and location by location, and says how many it counted. Pick the currency once and every value uses it. The location screen shows what is priced so far and what still needs a price. A QR LABEL FOR EVERY BIN Print a label, stick it on the box, and the box is now searchable. Scan it with your phone and the whole contents list comes up. No opening, no digging, no lifting a tote down to find out it is the wrong one. Labels print from your own printer on plain paper or sticker sheets. Nothing to buy. BUILT THE WAY STORAGE ACTUALLY WORKS Locations hold boxes. Boxes hold items. Some things are not in a box at all, and that is fine: the bike, the ladder, the floor lamp all live loose in the location. Each location is a full-width photo of the place, so you know the unit by its orange doors before you read the name. Drag the photo to choose which part shows, or switch to a grid in Settings. Every box gets an icon you can change from its menu. Move a box to another location when the garage becomes the basement. Everything inside goes too. Drag boxes and items into whatever order you actually walk the room in. The printable list follows it. Take something out and check it out in the app, and it shows as out with your name on it. Inside the box, the item says who has it and for how long, right under its name. Put it back and it clears. The Out screen lists everything that has left, longest gone first. This is the part that stops the "I thought you had it" conversation. SHARE IT WITH THE PEOPLE YOU LIVE WITH Storage is rarely one person's problem. Invite someone and you both see the same bins, both add to them, and both know what left. Whoever you invite joins free, and their own inventory stays private. WHAT'S FREE AND WHAT'S PREMIUM Free: one location, fifty items, and the full experience of both. QR labels, camera naming, and item values are included. It is a real inventory, not a demo. Premium, as many locations and items as you have, and household sharing. Everything you cataloged on the free plan stays yours, and stays readable, if you ever stop. Every color scheme is free on both, the light default and the dark Ink included. IT IS YOUR INVENTORY, NOT OURS No account to create. Your locations, boxes, items, and photos sync across your own devices through iCloud, and they live in your iCloud, not on our servers. Export a backup any time and keep it wherever you like. Export a printable inventory or a spreadsheet for insurance, a move, or an estate, totals and your own notes included. The spreadsheet opens in Numbers, Excel or Google Sheets. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://basicapps.tech/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Gravel Host at none against Basic Bins's 1. Gravel Host also leads on ratings volume (7 vs 1) and iOS requirement (16.0 vs 18.0). Basic Bins's advantage is update cadence (daily vs every 10 months). On price, rating, review sentiment and ads 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
Both are free to download. Basic Bins sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $59.99 per year. Gravel Host asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Gravel Host against 5.0 for Basic Bins. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Gravel Host has 7 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
Gravel Host ships an update every 10 months, Basic Bins daily. The most recent releases landed on October 5, 2026 and October 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Gravel Host | Basic Bins |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (7 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 7 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 10 months | Daily — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 6 MB | 10 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Gravel Host | Sean Trapani |
Customer experience
Gravel Host
Basic Bins
In-app purchases
Gravel Host
No in-app purchases
Basic Bins
- Premium$59.991 Year









