Comparison

stash.bar vs Obius

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

Head to head
About

stash.bar

Features
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Stop re-explaining yourself to ChatGPT, Claude, or every new AI tool you open. Stash is the personal context layer for AI — capture once, and every tool you use already knows you. Forward an email. Talk into a voice memo. Share a screenshot. Drop a link. Whatever's easiest. Stash quietly organizes everything you put in — people, projects, ideas, decisions — into a structured graph of what you're working on. No folders. No tags. No setup. Then, when you open Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, or any AI tool that speaks MCP, your context is already there. Same prompt, smarter answer. Different tool, same brain. — Capture without thinking. Voice on the walk. Screenshot of the chart. Link you'll come back to. Thought at 2am. — Find what you almost forgot. Ask in plain English. Stash returns the moment you said it, the article you saved, the decision you made. — Watch your world organize itself. People, projects, ideas — extracted automatically. Linked. Kept current. A living wiki of how you think, written from everything you do. — Build context as you work. Every AI you use reads from the same brain — and writes back to it. Your thoughts are yours. Encrypted. Never shared. Never used to train AI models. Full export anytime, in open formats. No ads, no trackers, no data brokering. Made in Asbury Park, NJ.

About

Obius

This app offers a visual workspace for organizing notes and ideas. It allows for reusable content blocks, color-coded sections for intent, and AI-powered features for content generation and semantic search. It prioritizes privacy with local-first storage and end-to-end encryption.

Highlights
  • Visual workspace for notes and ideas
  • Reusable content blocks (Loops)
  • Color-coded sections by intent
  • AI-powered content generation and search
  • Version history and snapshots
  • Offline functionality and end-to-end encryption
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Obius — Notes that evolve. Designed for the way you think. Your ideas don't arrive in straight lines. Obius is a visual workspace where notes carry color, ideas connect to each other, and what you wrote yesterday folds into what you're building today. Built for founders, PMs, designers, researchers — and anyone who outgrew Apple Notes but never quite fit into Notion. LOOPS — WRITE ONCE, REUSE EVERYWHERE Drop a Loop into any note — a named, reusable content block like @launch_checklist or @weekly_review. Edit it in one place, every copy updates instantly. Perfect for running lists, shared context, and anything you reference more than once. SECTIONS THAT CARRY MEANING Every section has an intent — a color that tells you at a glance what kind of thinking lives there. Open ideas, questions you're sitting with, work in motion, issues to fix, things that are done. Five colors. Five intents. Your thinking, visible. — Drag and drop to reorder — Collapse, expand, and nest sections — Rich content: text, checklists, code, quotes, images, audio — Tap once to change a section's intent ECHOES — REMINDERS THAT BRING THE NOTE BACK Attach a time-based reminder to any Loop. Unlike calendar pings, an Echo resurfaces the full note when the moment matters — with all its context intact, not a one-line nag. OBIUS INTELLIGENCE AI that lives inside the workspace, not in another tab. — Generate full pages from a single prompt — Edit, rewrite, and refine content in place — no copy-pasting between apps — Smart titles that actually describe the page — Semantic search that finds ideas, not just keywords — Research context: pull what you need, paste, and think from there INSIGHTS THAT SURFACE WHAT MATTERS Obius watches your pages for patterns so you don't have to. Cleanup suggestions, related notes you forgot about, lists hiding in your text, and safety flags for leaked credentials or secrets. VERSION HISTORY, BUILT IN Every note quietly snapshots itself. Browse the timeline, restore any earlier version, watch your thinking evolve over time. No save button. No lost work. SHARE LIVE OR FROZEN Generate a short public link to share a live note that updates as you edit — or freeze a snapshot in time. Readable URLs. View counts. Comments optional. CALENDAR See your work across time. Plan ahead, look back, stay oriented — without leaving Obius. LOCAL-FIRST. PRIVATE BY DEFAULT. — Pages stored on your device first — Works fully offline; syncs when you reconnect — End-to-end encrypted sync — No tracking. No selling data. Not now, not ever. — Optional local-only mode for maximum privacy YOUR MIND. YOUR ARCHITECTURE. Obius isn't another notes app. It's a workspace shaped like thinking — simple enough to start in seconds, deep enough to grow with how you actually work. Designed for the way you think. Terms of Use (EULA): https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vRq_bt_Z_V7ci7lS3hHLzq4QjRrDFJsJu6Ab-oedeeSakGPGcx_dJlG3EDAzdetptd21GPyEtzTxKbg/pub Privacy Policy: https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vRbJ9cYTWnyQSYeL8JrTOizC0eC-f8rhoicqh3GttTDIrbNlesR-_auwkFz2OLsTTzguDG3YLtzwnEY/pub

Screenshots

stash.bar4 screens
Obius4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: stash.bar at none against Obius's 4. Obius's advantage is iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.2). On price, ads 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. Obius sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. stash.bar asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
stash.bar versus Obius: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
Parameterstash.barObius
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Number of ratings—1 — better
Update frequency—Weekly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
Monetization—Freemium
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS26.217.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size1 MB23 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperTyler KloseDemetri Hodges

In-app purchases

None

stash.bar

No in-app purchases

4 purchases

Obius

Subscriptions3
  • Obius Pro Founder$4.991 Month
  • Obius Pro Monthly$9.991 Month
  • Pro Annual$79.991 Year
One-time1
  • Power Pack$9.99

Questions

Is stash.bar free?
stash.bar is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Obius free?
Obius is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do stash.bar or Obius have ads?
Neither stash.bar nor Obius shows ads.

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