Comparison

Gemlyst vs Plop

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

Head to head
About

Gemlyst

Features
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Your "Saved" folder is a graveyard. The pasta you meant to cook, the café in Lisbon, the concert you meant to book, all buried under a thousand other saves. Gemlyst turns what you save into something you can actually use. Share a reel, a video or a screenshot, and Gemlyst reads it and builds a gem: the recipe with its ingredients, every place it mentions on a map, the event with its date and venue. - ONE REEL, EVERY PLACE ON A MAP - "12 cafés you have to try in Porto"? Gemlyst finds the places in the reel and pins them on a map. Put them in a collection and see the whole trip on one map before you go. - RECIPES YOU WILL ACTUALLY COOK - • Ingredients and steps pulled out of cooking reels and videos • Tick off ingredients as you shop • A cookbook you can search, built from the reels you already saved - EVENTS YOU WON'T MISS - • Concerts, exhibitions, markets: date, time and venue saved for you • Add to your calendar in one tap • Works with event posters too, just snap a photo - AND EVERYTHING ELSE YOU SAVE - Films and books to watch and read. Workouts with every exercise listed. Tutorials as clear steps. Products, tips, quotes. Each gem gets the layout that suits it. - PLAN IT TOGETHER - • Add friends and build shared collections together — a trip, a dinner list, a weekend • Make a collection public and share the link; no account needed to view it - FIND ANYTHING AGAIN - • Search across all your gems, collections and people • Browse by category: Food, Travel, Events and more • Your own collections, organized your way - WORKS WHERE YOU ALREADY SAVE - Share straight from Instagram, TikTok and YouTube (Shorts too), or import any screenshot or photo. No copying links around. - BUILT WITH INTENTION - • Calm, Bauhaus-inspired design — no feed, no noise • No ads. Your saves are never sold. • Synced across your devices - FREE AND PRO - Gemlyst is free with 25 imports every week, reset each Monday. If you go over, nothing is lost: your saves wait as unfinished gems until you finish them. Gemlyst Pro gives you 250 imports a week and finishes waiting gems right away. Pro is an auto-renewing monthly or yearly subscription; prices are shown in the app before you buy. Payment is charged to your Apple ID and renews unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the period ends. Manage or cancel in your App Store account settings. Terms of Use: https://gemlyst.com/terms Privacy Policy: https://gemlyst.com/privacy Questions? help@creworker.com PS: I read every email.

About

Plop

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Time doesn't pass. It collects. Plop is a calm focus timer that turns the time you focus into water dripping into a jar. Choose a duration, then watch the water rise as you work. YOUR EFFORT SURVIVES THE BREAK Locking your phone doesn't have to break the flow. Leave Plop for another app and the jar cracks, but your effort is not erased: most of the water stays. Come back and finish the remaining time, and the spilled water returns while the crack becomes a golden mend. Mending is always available; the way back never closes. EVERY FOCUS LEAVES A MARK Every focus you finish or leave for now stays visible as its own jar. See the rhythm of your current week, browse your collection month by month, and watch all your accumulated effort live in a lifetime jar. Plop keeps continuity visible without turning it into a target. YOUR RHYTHM, YOUR WAY Pick 15, 25, or 45 minutes, or set any duration from 5 to 180 minutes. Start your week on Monday or Sunday, then adjust sound, haptics, calm mode, keep-awake, and daily reminders. Use Plop in English or Turkish. Plop also offers a full-screen experience designed for iPad. YOURS ALONE Plop works offline. There is no advertising, analytics, or data transfer; your focus records stay on your device. Choose a duration. Let the first drop fall.

Screenshots

Gemlyst4 screens
Plop4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Plop at none against Gemlyst's 2. Plop also leads on update cadence (every 9 days vs every 3 weeks). 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. Gemlyst sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Plop asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Gemlyst ships an update every 3 weeks, Plop every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 4 level
Gemlyst versus Plop: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGemlystPlop
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 9 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.115.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size47 MB24 MB
Age rating17+4+
Developercreworker ouSeyyit Ahmet KILIC

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Gemlyst

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly$2.991 Month
  • Yearly7 Days trial$29.991 Year
None

Plop

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Gemlyst free?
Gemlyst is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Plop free?
Plop is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Gemlyst or Plop have ads?
Neither Gemlyst nor Plop shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Gemlyst or Plop?
Gemlyst ships an update every 3 weeks, and Plop every 9 days. Most recently, Gemlyst was updated on October 30, 2026 and Plop on October 31, 2026.

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