Comparison

Rex Discovery vs The Stack

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

Head to head
About

Rex Discovery

Discover movies and TV shows tailored to your taste. This app uses AI to understand your preferences and suggest titles, making group decisions easier and helping you organize your watch list.

Highlights
  • AI-powered conversational discovery
  • Personalized taste profile
  • Group decision making with 'Party'
  • Customizable watch lists
  • Streaming service integration
Features
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Rex is a content intelligence app for movies and TV. Built to understand your taste, your context, and the way you actually choose what to watch, Rex helps turn endless entertainment options into smarter, more personal discovery. Start by creating your taste profile with the genres, actors, movies, shows, and streaming services you like. Rex uses that information to help surface titles that fit you, whether you’re looking for something specific, saving ideas for later, or deciding with a group. With Rex AI, you can search through entertainment in a more natural way. Ask for a certain mood, genre, actor, director, era, length, or type of night. Rex helps interpret what you mean and gives you recommendations that are easier to understand, compare, and act on. Party brings content intelligence to group decisions. Invite friends into a shared session, capture everyone’s preferences, and let Rex help identify movies or shows that make sense for the whole group. With Lists, you can save, organize, and revisit titles across different moods, genres, occasions, or personal collections. Key features: Rex AI Conversational content discovery for movies and TV. Personal Taste Profile Build a smarter recommendation experience around your favorite genres, actors, movies, shows, and streaming services. Party Use group preferences to help decide what to watch together. Custom Lists Save and organize titles into collections you can return to anytime. Streaming-Aware Discovery Personalize your experience around the platforms you already use. Rex is built for a world with more content than ever, giving you a smarter way to discover, organize, and choose what to watch. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

The Stack

Features
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The Stack is a media tracker that works like a to-do list. Someone recommends a film, a series, a book, a comic or a game? Add it to your stack and get to it whenever. ONE TRACKER, ONE QUESTION. You only have a block of time and attention, so why have several tracking apps? Movies, TV shows, books, comics, manga and video games live in one stack with the same four statuses for everything: Pending, In progress, Finished, Dropped. FAST TO ADD, EASY TO FIND. Search once across catalogues for film and TV, books, comics and games, tap to add, and the cover, year and details come with it. Filter by type or status, and see at a glance what is waiting for you. NO ACCOUNT NEEDED. Open the app and start adding. Everything is saved on this device from the first tap. If you want the same stack on another device or want to change phones, add your email and sign in with a one-time code. No passwords, no profile, no social features. FREE, WITH NOTHING BEHIND A PAYWALL. The Stack is free and fully featured. There are no ads, no subscriptions, no premium tier and no limits on how much you track. If you want to support the developer there is an optional tip in Settings; it unlocks nothing, by design. BUILT TO BE USED. Dark interface, full VoiceOver support, English and Spanish. Made by one person who couldn't keep up with her media pile. Catalogue data comes from TMDB, IGDB, Open Library, AniList and Metron under their terms. The Stack shows titles, covers and details only; it does not host, stream or link to the works themselves.

Screenshots

Rex Discovery4 screens
The Stack4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: The Stack at 15.1 against Rex Discovery's 18.2. 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Rex Discovery sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month and The Stack sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Rex Discovery versus The Stack: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRex DiscoveryThe Stack
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.9 (8 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings8 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 10 days—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS18.215.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size38 MB44 MB
Age rating12+12+
DeveloperRex Entertainment CorpAlmudena Bernardos

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Rex Discovery

Subscriptions2
  • Rex Unlimited Monthly7 Days trial$3.991 Month
  • Rex Unlimited Yearly$39.991 Year
3 purchases

The Stack

One-time3
  • Small tip$2.49
  • Medium tip$6.99
  • Big tip$11.49

Questions

Is Rex Discovery free?
Rex Discovery is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is The Stack free?
The Stack is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Rex Discovery or The Stack have ads?
Neither Rex Discovery nor The Stack shows ads.

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