KidBase vs Patch Vault
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
KidBase
This app helps parents privately record and track their child's development and memories. It features timelines, growth charts, and milestone trackers, with automatic counters and quick-log widgets for essential activities. All data is synced privately via iCloud and is never sold or tracked.
- Private journal and memory timeline
- Growth charts with WHO percentiles
- Sleep and feeding quick-log widgets
- Automatic age and birthday counters
- iCloud sync across devices
- Milestone trackers
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KidBase is the all-in-one private journal for parents who want to remember everything. Capture every first smile, step, word, tooth with beautiful timelines, growth charts, and milestone trackers designed just for babies and young kids. • Automatic age & “days until birthday” counter • Sleep & feeding tracker with quick-log widgets • Height/weight charts with WHO percentiles • Private photo journal & memory timeline • iCloud sync across your devices (end-to-end private) • No ads, no tracking, no data sold... ever! • Completely free to use (supported by an optional tip jar) Made by a dad who wanted one safe place to keep every memory of his kids. Now yours too. Perfect for newborns, toddlers, and beyond.
Patch Vault
Organize and catalog your patch and challenge coin collections with detailed records, photos, and tracking. Easily search, filter, and view item origins on a map. Gain insights into your collection's trends and history.
- Catalog patches and challenge coins
- Add multiple photos
- Track detailed item information
- Search and filter collection
- View origins on interactive map
- Review collection stats and trends
- Sync privately with iCloud
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Keep your patches, challenge coins, and badges organized, photographed, and easy to find. Patch Vault brings your collection's details together on iPhone and iPad. Record the department, station, location, acquisition date, purchase price, tags, notes, and photos for every item, whether it came from a trade, station visit, event, or gift. - Catalog patches, challenge coins, and badges in one collection. - Search names, departments, locations, tags, and notes. - Combine tag, type, format, and favorite filters to find the items you want. - Explore where your items came from on an interactive map. - Sort by title, department, date, price, or recently added. - Earn achievements for collection size, geography, photos, and more. Track progress and share milestones. - Share individual items, collection summaries, and achievements as image cards. - Add photos from other apps using the share sheet. - Keep collection totals and achievement progress close with Home Screen widgets. - Use Siri and Shortcuts for collection stats or a random patch, and find items in Spotlight. - Sync your collection across your devices with iCloud. - Export backups with photos, restore your collection, or export a CSV spreadsheet. - Personalize your app icon and tint. Made for collectors of fire, police, EMS, dispatch, search and rescue, military, government, and other patches, coins, and badges. Start free with up to 25 items and one photo per item. Vault Unlock is an optional, one-time in-app purchase that adds unlimited items, unlimited photos per item, and collection charts.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: KidBase at none against Patch Vault's shown. KidBase also leads on monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases) and iOS requirement (18.0 vs 26.0). Patch Vault's advantage is update cadence (fortnightly vs every 2 months). On price, rating, ratings volume and in-app purchases 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. KidBase sells 4 one-off in-app purchases and Patch Vault sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for KidBase against 5.0 for Patch Vault. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 2 respectively.
KidBase ships an update every 2 months, Patch Vault fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | KidBase | Patch Vault |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 2 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 26 MB | 59 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | +4 |
| Developer | Jared Eddie Countryman | Robotic Snail Software LLC |
Customer experience
KidBase
Patch Vault
In-app purchases
KidBase
- Diaper Money$0.99
- Cup of Coffee$4.99
- Date Night Fund$9.99
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- College Fund Starter$19.99
Patch Vault
- Small Tip$0.99
- Medium Tip$4.99
- Large Tip$9.99
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- Premium$14.99









