stashy vs Backpack
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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.
Backpack
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Backpack puts all your important documents in one place - passports, insurance, tickets, receipts, and more. It doesn’t just store them. Backpack surfaces what you need, exactly when you need it. No accounts. No cloud. No setup. Just add and go. Connect your email and Backpack finds documents for you - boarding passes, insurance policies, receipts, and more. Nothing is added without your approval. SMART FEATURES • Automatically organised - documents sorted into Travel, Insurance, Medical, Finance, Identity and more • Ask anything - get instant answers from your documents • Never miss an expiry - passports, visas, insurance and more • Find anything instantly - search naturally, no folders needed • Smart access - the right documents appear exactly when you need them SMART ACCESS Your documents surface automatically based on what’s happening in your life: • Near an airport? Your passport and boarding pass appear • Doctor’s appointment tomorrow? Your insurance is ready • Passport expiring soon? It moves to the top • Heading to the office? Contracts and tax documents surface • The more you use Backpack, the smarter it gets PRIVACY FIRST • Everything stays on your device • AI runs fully on-device • No accounts, no cloud storage, no tracking • Email access is read-only - credentials are never stored ADD DOCUMENTS IN SECONDS • Scan with your camera • Import from files or photos • Share from any app • Find documents directly from your email PRICING Backpack is free with up to 5 documents. Unlock unlimited documents with a one-time Backpack Pro purchase. BACKPACK PRO • Unlimited documents • Full AI summaries for every document • Automatic expiry reminders at 90, 30, and 7 days • Unlimited Ask Backpack questions • Get notified when new documents arrive in your inbox • Smart Access widget for your home screen • Create custom document categories • One-time purchase. No subscription
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Verdict
The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Backpack at 15.1 against stashy's 26.0. On price, ads, in-app purchases 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
Both are free to download. stashy sells 3 one-off in-app purchases and Backpack sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
| Parameter | stashy | Backpack |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (20 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 20 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 53 MB | 44 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Hinrich Bomsdorf | USMAN ALI KHAN |
In-app purchases
stashy
- Buy me a coffee$4.00
- Buy me lunch$12.00
- Support the project$50.00
Backpack
- Backpack Pro$9.99









