Comparison

Shop My Stash vs SpoolKit

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

Head to head
About

Shop My Stash

Manage your fabric collection, plan projects, and avoid duplicate purchases. This app helps quilters and sewers catalog their materials, match colors in-store, and track project needs.

Highlights
  • Catalog fabrics with details
  • Track yardage and precuts
  • Smart search and filtering
  • In-store fabric matching
  • Project planning and tracking
  • Wishlist management
  • Cloud sync and backup
Features
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Shop My Stash is the all-in-one fabric inventory app for quilters and sewers. Organize your entire stash, match colors in the store, and plan projects — all from your phone. ORGANIZE YOUR STASH • Photograph and catalog every fabric with details like manufacturer, designer, collection, colorway, and fiber content • Track yardage, precuts (fat quarters, jelly rolls, charm packs, and more), and cuts over time • Tag, favorite, and filter your collection instantly • Smart search across all fabric properties STORE MODE — SHOP SMARTER • Snap a photo of any fabric while shopping • Instantly see if you already own it (avoid duplicates!) • Find coordinating fabrics from your stash • Uses color-science algorithms for accurate matching under any lighting COLOR MATCHING • Automatic dominant color extraction from photos • Color wheel filtering to browse your stash by hue • Perceptual color science (LAB/DeltaE) for human-accurate results PROJECT PLANNING • Create sewing and quilting projects • Assign fabrics and track allocated vs. available yardage • Define fabric requirements and see what you still need WISHLIST • Save fabrics you want to buy with photos, links, and pricing • Set priority levels and track desired quantities • Convert wishlist items to stash entries when you purchase CLOUD SYNC & BACKUP • Automatic cloud backup keeps your data safe • Access your stash across devices • Web access at shopmystash.app Free to use with up to 50 fabrics. Upgrade to Studio for 500+ fabrics and priority support. Terms of Use (EULA): https://shopmystash.app/terms.html

About

SpoolKit

Features
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SpoolKit is the home for everything in your sewing room. Track your fabric stash by real yardage and value, keep your pattern library with sizes and notes, move every make from queued to finished, and build a photo journal of what you have sewn. What you can do: - Fabric stash: log each cut with its fibre, yardage, width, price, and a photo. See your total yardage, your total value, and a chart of the breakdown by fibre. - Pattern library: keep every pattern with its brand, sizes, and the adjustments you always make, so you never re-measure. - Project queue: track makes through queued, cutting, sewing, on hold, and finished, and link each make to the fabric and pattern it uses. - Yardage check: SpoolKit compares the yards a make needs against the cuts you assigned, so you know before you cut whether you are short. - Notions inventory: count thread, zippers, buttons, elastic, and more, with low-stock warnings so you know what to restock. - Make journal and finished gallery: photograph finished makes and note the fit, the modifications, and whether you would make it again. - Deadlines and reminders: set a due date on a make and get a local reminder. - Syncs across iPhone, iPad, and Mac with iCloud. Free and Pro: SpoolKit is free to keep up to 3 makes and 12 cuts of fabric. SpoolKit Pro unlocks unlimited makes and an unlimited stash, plus a printable stash report PDF and CSV export of your fabric, makes, and notions. Everything you enter stays private. No account, no ads, no tracking. SpoolKit Pro subscription pricing: - Monthly: 3.99 USD per month - Yearly: 24.99 USD per year - Lifetime: 59.99 USD, one payment Pro subscriptions renew automatically until cancelled. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation. Cancel anytime in Settings > Apple Account > Subscriptions; cancellation applies at the end of the current period. Terms: Apple Standard EULA https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Shop My Stash4 screens
SpoolKit4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Shop My Stash at 15.1 against SpoolKit's 18.0. On price, update cadence, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Shop My Stash sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $19.99 per year and SpoolKit sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Shop My Stash ships an update fortnightly, SpoolKit every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and November 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Shop My Stash versus SpoolKit: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterShop My StashSpoolKit
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyFortnightly — betterEvery 2 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.1 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size38 MB6 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMarissa McHughInnovaLabWorks

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Shop My Stash

Subscriptions2
  • Studio$19.991 Year
  • Unlimited$34.991 Year
3 purchases

SpoolKit

Subscriptions2
  • SpoolKit Pro1 Month trial$3.991 Month
  • SpoolKit Pro$24.991 Year
One-time1
  • SpoolKit Lifetime$49.99

Questions

Is Shop My Stash free?
Shop My Stash is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is SpoolKit free?
SpoolKit is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Shop My Stash or SpoolKit have ads?
Neither Shop My Stash nor SpoolKit shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Shop My Stash or SpoolKit?
Shop My Stash ships an update fortnightly, and SpoolKit every 2 weeks. Most recently, Shop My Stash was updated on October 31, 2026 and SpoolKit on November 10, 2026.

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