Comparison

DeckPilot vs Stash

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

Head to head
About

DeckPilot

Transform your iPhone, iPad, or Apple Watch into custom button decks for your Mac. Streamline workflows with customizable buttons, macros, and gestures that adapt to your active application. Enjoy tactile feedback and dynamic visual cues for enhanced productivity.

Highlights
  • Customizable button decks for Mac apps
  • Macro builder with AppleScript and Shortcuts integration
  • Tactile feedback and customizable haptics
  • Dynamic button states and visual cues
  • Trackpad gesture emulation
  • Touch Bar functionality on mobile devices
  • MIDI support for DAWs
Features
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Made for people who care about how they work with their Mac. The keyboard, mouse, and trackpad shape how you reach into your Mac. There's another way. DeckPilot turns your iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch into custom button decks that follow whichever app you're in. Logic, Xcode, Figma, Slack: the right buttons are always under your thumb. Quick to set up Install on your Mac and iPhone, connect once over Wi-Fi or USB. Auto-reconnects the way AirDrop does. No hardware to buy. Buttons for everything Tap to open Figma. Tap to mute Zoom. Tap to fire a 5-step macro. Build them from apps, files, websites, keyboard shortcuts, AppleScript, or Apple Shortcuts, and chain anything together in a visual macro builder. 300,000+ icons, or bring your own. One button, more than one move Tap for one thing, double-tap for another, hold for a third. Or hold to pop open a whole submenu of buttons from a single tile. One button can run your whole flow. Buttons you can feel Every press lands with a real mechanical click and a tactile thump. Pick the feel, from a crisp keyboard to a soft, heavy thock, with sound and haptics you tune separately. Your Mac's clipboard, on your phone Everything you copy on your Mac lands in a searchable history on your phone. Pin what you reuse, see when you copied it, and send any snippet back to your Mac with a tap. Images come through full-size. Every workflow its own look A teal gradient and big icons for your DAW. A tight grid with greyscale icons for your code editor. Pick from the community gallery or design your own. Buttons that already know A red mic pill on your Zoom button when you're muted. A live waveform on Spotify when it's playing. You stop checking your Mac, because the buttons already know. Keep your favorites close Pin the decks you live in and they stay a swipe away, whatever app you're in. Trackpad gestures you know Two fingers down to minimize, two up to maximize, three across to switch spaces. Or bind any swipe to almost anything: Apple Shortcuts, AppleScript, macros, jumping decks. Touch Bar, reborn Apple's Touch Bar is gone. DeckPilot brings it back as a floating glass strip on your phone. Volume, brightness, media, mic mute, a clock, and live Battery, CPU, and Memory readouts, colored to match each deck. Widgets on every screen Home Screen widgets put your top buttons one tap from anywhere. The Lock Screen widget shows your active deck without unlocking, and joins iOS 17+ StandBy on a charger. On your wrist, too A dedicated Apple Watch deck with multiple pages and real app icons. Digital Crown for volume and brightness. Complications for one-tap Mute and Play/Pause. Built-in MIDI for any DAW Faders, knobs, XY pads, velocity pads, and transport for Logic Pro, GarageBand, Ableton Live, FL Studio, and anything that speaks MIDI. Also good - Built-in AppleScript editor with ten dark themes - Auto-lock and OLED-safe auto-dim after a short idle - Share .deckpacks, browse community templates, try Demo Mode without pairing - Privacy-first. Commands stay on your Wi-Fi, nothing leaves your network Made for developers, designers, streamers, and musicians who want a faster way to drive their Mac. To unlock the full kit, DeckPilot offers an optional Pro subscription. Pro: $7.99/month or $39/year, auto-renewable. Lifetime: $79 one-time. Pro adds multi-page decks, larger grids, MIDI, macros, AppleScript, app-aware switching, multi-launch buttons, advanced gestures, Apple Watch, per-deck themes, and Shortcuts. Payment is charged to your Apple ID at confirmation. Subscriptions renew automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel anytime in your App Store account settings. Terms: https://deckpilot.co/terms Privacy: https://deckpilot.co/privacy Support: https://deckpilot.co/support

About

Stash

Quickly save and access text snippets, links, photos, GIFs, and files from any app. Organize your saved items with categories and tags, and sync them privately across your Apple devices. Copy items individually or in batches with a single tap.

Highlights
  • Save from any app via share sheet
  • One-tap add from clipboard
  • Drag and drop support
  • Organize with categories and tags
  • Syncs privately via iCloud
  • Copy multiple items at once
Features
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Stash is the fastest place to put the things you'll need again. Save a snippet of text, a link, a photo, a GIF, or any file, from the share sheet, the clipboard, a drag and drop, or a Shortcut, and Stash keeps it one tap from your clipboard on iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple Vision Pro. SAVE FROM ANYWHERE • Share to Stash from any app. Text, links, images, and files are sorted into the right category automatically. • One-tap "Add from Clipboard" button, no "Allow Paste?" prompt. • Drag anything onto the Stash window on Mac or iPad. • Save a photo or GIF from a direct image URL. • Save whatever's on your clipboard straight from Control Center, on the Lock Screen, or with the Action button, and tag it on the way in. COPY IN ONE TAP • Tap any item to copy it. Photos, GIFs, and files copy as the real thing, ready to paste into Messages, Mail, Notes, or anywhere else. • Select several items and copy them together. • Quick Look any file without leaving Stash. STAY ORGANIZED • Five categories, Text Snippets, Links, Photos, GIFs, Documents, plus your own color-coded tags. • Recents gathers new saves until you've reviewed them. Clear it with one tap, or let tagged items age out on their own. • Pin favorites to the top. Drag to reorder. Search everything. • Rename anything. Links pick up their page title automatically. • Choose your own color for every category. PRIVATE iCLOUD SYNC • Your library syncs across iPhone, iPad, and Mac through your personal iCloud. • No account, no sign-up, no analytics, no tracking. Your data stays in your iCloud and on your devices. • A Sync status screen shows exactly when items were last sent and received, with a one-tap repair if you ever need it. BUILT FOR MAC TOO • A native Mac app with a sidebar, drag and drop, and keyboard shortcuts. • Menu bar icon for quick access from any app. • Global hotkeys: open Stash, open a category, or copy the latest item in a category without touching the mouse. CONTROL CENTER, WIDGETS & SHORTCUTS • Three Control Center controls: open Stash, jump to a category, or save the clipboard with a tag. • App Intents for Shortcuts: Save to Stash, Copy from Stash, Get Stash Items, Get Stash Files, and Open Category. FREE TO TRY Stash is free and holds up to 10 items. A single one-time purchase removes the limit on every device. No subscription.

Screenshots

DeckPilot4 screens
Stash4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: DeckPilot at 5.0 against Stash's 4.4. DeckPilot also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 89%) and iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.5). On price, ratings volume, update cadence and ads 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. DeckPilot sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $7.99 per month and Stash sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

DeckPilot holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.4. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 7 and 11 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of DeckPilot's written reviews are positive against 89% of Stash's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

DeckPilot ships an update every 4 days, Stash every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
DeckPilot versus Stash: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDeckPilotStash
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (7 ratings) — better4.4 (11 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews — better88.9% of reviews
Number of ratings711 — better
Update frequencyEvery 4 daysEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple WatchiPhone, iPad, Mac, Vision Pro — better
Requires iOS17.0 — better26.5
Further details — not scored
Size20 MB33 MB
Age rating4++4
DeveloperKeshav KewlaniStephen Robles

Customer experience

DeckPilot

All ratings6 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Stash

All ratings10 ratings
Positive80.0%
Neutral10.0%
Negative10.0%
Written reviews9 reviews
Positive88.9%
Neutral11.1%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

3 purchases

DeckPilot

Subscriptions2
  • DeckPilot Pro$7.991 Month
  • DeckPilot Pro$39.001 Year
One-time1
  • Founding Member$79.00
1 purchases

Stash

One-time1
  • Stash Unlimited$2.99

Questions

Is DeckPilot free?
DeckPilot is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Stash free?
Stash is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, DeckPilot or Stash?
DeckPilot is rated higher. DeckPilot averages 5.0 out of 5 from 7 ratings, while Stash averages 4.4 from 11 ratings.
Do DeckPilot or Stash have ads?
Neither DeckPilot nor Stash shows ads.
Which is updated more often, DeckPilot or Stash?
DeckPilot ships an update every 4 days, and Stash every 3 days. Most recently, DeckPilot was updated on October 24, 2026 and Stash on October 29, 2026.

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