Cratify vs Mote
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Cratify
Effortlessly catalog your belongings with intelligent photo recognition and flexible labeling. Track ownership, manage items within containers, and organize collections across your home. Share inventory with household members for collaborative management.
- AI-powered item naming from photos
- Flexible Handmarks labeling system
- Search by name, description, and tags
- Track ownership and shared items
- Nested container management
- Organize items into collections
- Household sharing with permissions
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Know what you own, where it is, and whose it is. Photograph a shelf and Cratify names each possession on it, files it in the right container, and shares it with your household. NEW IN CRATIFY: HANDMARKS Many home inventory apps rely on you buying their QR labels. With Handmarks, whatever is already on a container becomes the code you scan: a strip of tape with a name on it, marker on the cardboard, or a kid's drawing. Photograph it once. After that, point Scan at it and that container opens with everything inside. Labeled more than one side? Add a Handmark for each side. Anyone you share the container with can scan it too. ONE PHOTO, EVERY POSSESSION NAMED Point your camera at a shelf, a closet or a garage wall. Multi-Scan finds each possession in the photo, names it and files it in that container, and you can fix any name it got wrong. SEARCH THAT FINDS IT Search looks through names, descriptions, categories, tags, containers, rooms, people and collections, forgives typos, and includes possessions your household shares with you. Browse as a list or a grid of big photos. WHO OWNS WHAT Every possession can belong to someone in your household, from the kids to the dog. Each person gets a page with what's theirs, and shared possessions always show who owns them. CONTAINERS INSIDE CONTAINERS A bin can sit on a shelf, and a shelf in a closet. Open any container to see everything inside it, all the way down, with totals. Own three of the same thing? Set a quantity instead of adding it three times. ONE LIST, EVERY PLACE Collections span your rooms, containers and places, so one list covers your holiday decorations, camping gear or record collection, wherever each piece is kept. Heading to the cabin? See what's already there and what's still at home, and check things off as you pack. QR CODES AND BARCODES Every possession and container also has its own QR code, which you can print on any printer. Scan it to open it. Scan a product barcode to find the possession it belongs to. BUILT FOR HOUSEHOLDS Share locations, rooms and containers with the people you live with, as editors or view-only. Sharing is included on every plan. Get a notification when someone joins your household or shares with you, and pick which reminders you want. RECEIPTS AND DOCUMENTS, TOO Save receipts and documents alongside your possessions, pull up just your receipts when you need them, and see totals in the currency you pick. Use it on your phone and on the web. PERFECT FOR - Families keeping track of whose things are whose - Moving, storage units and seasonal gear - Collectors cataloging what they own - A record of your belongings for insurance - Helping parents downsize PRICING Your home isn't something you rent month to month, and knowing what's in it shouldn't come with a monthly bill. Start free with up to 250 possessions and 50 AI identifications a month. New accounts can try everything free for 3 days, with no card and no charge. Lifetime is one payment that unlocks unlimited possessions and AI identification, Multi-Scan, adding Handmarks, product barcode scanning and every future feature. It never renews. Scanning a Handmark someone in your household added is free on every plan. YOUR DATA, PROTECTED Your inventory is private by default. Only the people you share with can see it. We never sell or share your possessions, photos or household details with advertisers. You can export or delete your data at any time. Questions? Visit thecratesapp.com or email support@thecratesapp.com Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Mote
Quickly capture and access essential notes directly from your device's lock screen. Organize thoughts, set reminders, and keep your mind clear with automatic saving and optional private mode.
- Lock screen notes
- Automatic saving
- Scheduled reminders
- Private mode
- Note history
- Note sharing
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Mote keeps the note you need right now close at hand. Capture a thought in seconds, edit it anytime, and move finished notes to History. Notes save automatically on your device. Mote Plus adds more contexts for different parts of life, Scheduled Notes, and Private Mode. Choose a monthly or yearly subscription, or unlock Plus with a one-time Lifetime purchase. Schedule a note for later with an optional reminder. On supported iPhones, you can choose to show it on the Lock Screen. Private Mode requires Face ID or your device passcode to open Mote. Mote needs no account and has no note sync. Device backups may include your notes. Share a note whenever you choose. Terms of Use (Mote): https://wenka93.github.io/mote-legal/terms.html Privacy Policy: https://wenka93.github.io/mote-legal/privacy.html Apple Standard EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Mote at 5.0 against Cratify's 4.2. Mote also leads on update cadence (every 3 days vs every 2 weeks). Cratify's advantage is ratings volume (5 vs 1) and device support (3 vs 1). On price, review sentiment, ads 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. Cratify sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month and Mote sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Mote holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Cratify has 5 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
Cratify ships an update every 2 weeks, Mote every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Cratify | Mote |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.2 (5 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 5 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 89 MB | 11 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Brandon Nolte | Ivan Borisov |
Customer experience
Cratify
Mote
In-app purchases
Cratify
- Plus Monthly$2.991 Month
- Premium Monthly3 Days trial$3.991 Month
- Pro$4.991 Month
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- Lite$5.991 Year
- Plus$19.991 Year
- Premium Yearly1 Month trial$39.991 Year
- Premium Yearly$39.991 Year
- Pro$49.991 Year
- Founder2 variants$19.99
- Lifetime$49.99
Mote
- Mote Plus Monthly$0.991 Month
- Mote Plus Yearly$6.991 Year
- Mote Plus Lifetime$9.99









