Stash Anything vs Rune Secure Notes
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Stash Anything
This app helps you organize digital content like links, photos, and ideas from various sources, replacing the need for screenshots. Save and find anything from anywhere, organized into smart or custom collections for easy access.
- Save links, articles, and web pages
- Stash Instagram posts, Amazon products, Reddit threads
- Organize into smart or custom collections
- Search across all saved content
- Share sheet integration for quick saving
- Works offline
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Stop screenshotting everything you want to remember. Save it in Stash. Find it when you need it. Recipes buried in Photos. Links lost in messages. Articles sitting in open tabs. Give your everyday finds one place to live. SAVE FROM THE SHARE MENU Save links from other apps, or add photos, screenshots, videos, PDFs and notes. Keep recipes, shopping wishlists, travel ideas and inspiration together. SORT IT YOUR WAY Create colorful stashes and sub-stashes. Save to Unstashed when you are in a hurry, then use automatic suggestions to help choose where each item belongs. FIND WHAT YOU SAVED Search your library, including recognized text inside screenshots, images and PDFs. Browse visual previews and return to the things you saved. KEEP IT WITH YOU Use iCloud sync across iPhone, iPad and Mac, or choose local-only storage. Original media may need time to upload or download. START FREE Optional Stash Pro upgrades include more capacity and private, locked stashes. View available plans, features and regional prices in the app before purchasing. Less screenshot clutter. More things you can actually find. Start your first stash today.
Rune Secure Notes
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Rune is a calm, fast notes app for people who don't want to trust an app with their data. Your notes never leave your device, they are encrypted at rest, and the app makes no network connections at all. There is no account, no cloud, and no sign-up. Privacy by construction, not by promise: • No telemetry, no analytics, no crash reporting, no advertising, no tracking, none, not "anonymised", not "aggregated". • No networking code. Put your device in airplane mode and everything still works. If anything ever tries to reach the network, that is a bug. • No account and no server. There is no "we" that could hold your data. Real encryption: • Your passphrase derives a key with Argon2id; notes are sealed with XChaCha20-Poly1305 authenticated encryption. Only ciphertext is ever written to disk. • The passphrase is never stored and is not recoverable. If you forget it, your notes are gone, no reset, no backdoor. That is the price of real privacy. • A wrong passphrase simply cannot decrypt your notes. • Optional Face ID / Touch ID unlock: opt in to unlock with biometrics. Even then the passphrase is never stored — only the in-memory key is cached behind the biometric prompt. What you can do: • Create, edit, search, and organise plain-text notes with a clean, calm layout. • Auto-lock on inactivity and lock-on-background; the app starts locked. • Export an encrypted backup (safe to keep anywhere); plaintext export is gated behind an explicit warning. • Capture voice notes and transcribe them to text entirely on your device with on-device speech recognition — no audio and no transcript ever leaves your phone. Free and open source under the GNU GPLv3. The security-critical code is a small, dependency-light core so it can be read and audited. Releases ship with cryptographic provenance and are built reproducibly, so you can verify the binary was built from this source.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Rune Secure Notes at none against Stash Anything's 2. Rune Secure Notes also leads on update cadence (every 2 days vs weekly) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). 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
Both are free to download. Stash Anything sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $7.99 per year. Rune Secure Notes asks for nothing beyond the download.
Stash Anything ships an update weekly, Rune Secure Notes every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 9, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Stash Anything | Rune Secure Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (80 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 70.6% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 80 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Weekly | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac | iPhone, iPod, Mac |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 39 MB | 58 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Sean-Thomas Hammon | Rory Standley |
In-app purchases
Stash Anything
- Stash Pro (Annual)7 Days trial$7.991 Year
- Stash Pro Lifetime$9.99
Rune Secure Notes
No in-app purchases
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