Comparison

stashy vs ro

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

Head to head
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.

About

ro

Transform your iPhone home screen into a calm, minimal, and aesthetically pleasing environment. This app offers expertly designed layouts and a toolkit of 9 widgets to support your focus and reduce distractions.

Highlights
  • Minimalist home screen design
  • Customizable app launchers
  • Text-only widgets
  • Minimal dashboards
  • Weather summaries
  • Quote widgets
  • Privacy-focused data handling
Features
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In Danish, "ro" means calm, peace, and tranquility. Your phone should be a tool that supports your focus. ro transforms your iPhone home screen into a calm, minimal, and beautifully aesthetic environment. EFFORTLESS HARMONY ro does the design work for you. Personalize your apps, tint colors, and custom text, while the foundational layouts remain expertly proportioned. This guarantees that your home screen will always look perfectly balanced and distraction-free. 9 CRAFTED WIDGETS Explore a focused toolkit of 9 widgets, including text-only app launchers, minimal dashboards, weather summaries, and subtle quotes. COMMUNITY DRIVEN ro is an evolving, independent project. Join our Discord community to share feedback, request new widgets, and help shape the app's future. PRIVACY FIRST What happens on your home screen stays on your device. ro collects no personal data, uses no analytics trackers, and reads your calendar strictly on-device.

Screenshots

stashy4 screens
ro3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: stashy at 5.0 against ro's 4.3. stashy also leads on monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases) and update cadence (every 4 days vs every 11 days). ro's advantage is iOS requirement (18.6 vs 26.0). On price, review sentiment, ratings volume 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. stashy sells 3 one-off in-app purchases and ro sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

stashy holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 20 and 7 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

stashy ships an update every 4 days, ro every 11 days. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and October 28, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
stashy versus ro: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
Parameterstashyro
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (20 ratings) — better4.3 (7 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings20 — better7
Update frequencyEvery 4 days — betterEvery 11 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac — betteriPhone
Requires iOS26.018.6 — better
Further details — not scored
Size53 MB41 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperHinrich BomsdorfFilip Smalec

Customer experience

stashy

All ratings20 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews23 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

ro

All ratings6 ratings
Positive83.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative16.7%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

3 purchases

stashy

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

ro

One-time1
  • Full Collection$2.99

Questions

Is stashy free?
stashy is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is ro free?
ro is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, stashy or ro?
stashy is rated higher. stashy averages 5.0 out of 5 from 20 ratings, while ro averages 4.3 from 7 ratings.
Do stashy or ro have ads?
Neither stashy nor ro shows ads.
Which is updated more often, stashy or ro?
stashy ships an update every 4 days, and ro every 11 days. Most recently, stashy was updated on October 31, 2026 and ro on October 28, 2026.

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