Comparison

ISew vs SpoolKit

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

Head to head
About

ISew

Organize your sewing supplies with this app. Catalog fabrics and notions with details like stock levels, composition, and prices. Link materials to projects to track costs and profit.

Highlights
  • Fabric catalog with photos and stock levels
  • Notions tracking by pieces or meters
  • Link materials to projects
  • Automatic cost and profit calculation
  • iCloud sync across devices
  • Custom materials and shops directories
Features
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ISew is an app for sewists, tailors and crafters: fabrics, notions, patterns and projects in one place, with stock levels and cost. FABRICS • A card with photo, composition, color, width and price per meter • Several photos per fabric: front, back, label • Receipt photo for each purchase • Stock is calculated for you: use some, and the remainder updates • Storage locations: which box or shelf the fabric is in • Search by name, article, composition, color, shop and location • A hint for fabrics that are running low • Shoot a fabric right in the app and crop it for the card NOTIONS • Buttons, zippers, ribbons, thread — by pieces or by meters • The same photos, color, storage locations and stock as fabrics PROJECTS • A studio view: what you are sewing now, your queue of ideas and a gallery of finished work • Three statuses: want to sew, in progress, finished • Each idea shows what is ready to start: pattern, what to buy • Ideas line up in a queue — drag them into the order you intend to sew • Cost is calculated from the fabrics and notions used • Selling price and what you earned over materials PATTERNS • Their own tab: where a pattern came from, which sizes, a photo • See everything sewn from it — one pattern, five t-shirts • Projects record a size: the same pattern for you and for your mum SHOPPING LIST • Note what you need to buy — 4 meters for a dress or 5 buttons • Purchases are grouped by project, with the total at the top • Once bought, turn it into stock with one swipe — the fields are already filled in TOTALS • How much is on your shelves — in meters and in money • Usage history for a day, a week, a month or your own dates • Year in review: projects finished month by month with photos, revenue and spending YOUR DATA IS YOURS • Export the whole catalog to CSV for Excel and Numbers • iCloud sync across your devices • Choose your currency The app grows from users' letters — almost everything here was someone's request. Tell us what you are missing: the channel link is in Settings.

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

ISew4 screens
SpoolKit4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: ISew at none against SpoolKit's 3. ISew also leads on update cadence (every 8 days vs every 2 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. SpoolKit sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. ISew asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

ISew ships an update every 8 days, SpoolKit every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 13, 2026 and November 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
ISew versus SpoolKit: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterISewSpoolKit
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 8 days — betterEvery 2 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS17.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size4 MB6 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperUrban Andrei Ivanovich, IPInnovaLabWorks

In-app purchases

None

ISew

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

SpoolKit

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

Questions

Is ISew free?
ISew is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is SpoolKit free?
SpoolKit is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do ISew or SpoolKit have ads?
Neither ISew nor SpoolKit shows ads.
Which is updated more often, ISew or SpoolKit?
ISew ships an update every 8 days, and SpoolKit every 2 weeks. Most recently, ISew was updated on November 13, 2026 and SpoolKit on November 10, 2026.

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