Comparison

Nearr vs Patternizer

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

Head to head
About

Nearr

Easily save restaurants and real-world locations discovered on social media and the web. Turn online place ideas into a usable map, ensuring you can find and visit them later.

Highlights
  • Save places from Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, and web links
  • Turns online place ideas into a usable map
  • Confirms the correct place before saving
  • Find saved places near you
  • Get nearby reminders for saved places
  • Open directions to saved locations
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See a place in a video you want to remember? Send it to Nearr. Nearr helps identify the real-world places you discover on social media and saves them to your personal map, so you can actually find them again when it’s time to go. Whether it’s a restaurant, hiking trail, cliff-jumping spot, beach, landmark, viewpoint, or somewhere you want to visit on your next trip, Nearr keeps everything in one place. What you can do with Nearr: • Save places you discover on social media • Identify the real-world location behind a post • Review likely matches when a place needs confirmation • Keep restaurants, hikes, landmarks, beaches, and travel spots on one map • Get reminded about saved places when you’re nearby • Open directions when you’re ready to go • Keep the original post connected to the place you saved • Share Nearr places with friends using a Nearr link • Save places your friends share directly to your own map Stop losing places in screenshots, bookmarks, DMs, and saved-post folders. See it. Save it. Go there.

About

Patternizer

Features
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Your whole pattern stash, organized, and finally easy to search. Patternizer is a home for every sewing pattern you own or want. Stop digging through folders of PDFs, bookmarks, and paper envelopes. Add a pattern once, and you can find it again in seconds. And stop buying patterns you already have. Before you check out at a pattern shop, search your stash to see if you already own it, or one that's an awful lot like it. Patternizer also gives you a heads-up when a pattern you're adding looks like one already in your collection. ADD PATTERNS THE EASY WAY • Upload a pattern PDF and Patternizer reads it for you: title, designer, garment type, fabric, sizes, skill level, and more • Paste a link to a pattern shop page and the details fill themselves in • Share a pattern page from Safari or a shop's app straight into Patternizer • Snap or upload a screenshot of a pattern • Import a spreadsheet of patterns you already track • Or type it in yourself. Your collection, your way FIND THE RIGHT PATTERN • The Pattern Picker walks you through who it's for, what you want to make, and what fabric you have, showing matches as you go • Search by title, designer, fabric, or your own notes • Star your favorites and keep a wishlist of patterns you want to buy FABRIC STASH AND SEAMLESS DESIGNS • Photograph the fabric you have on hand and track how much is left, whether it's prewashed and where it came from • Keep the seamless design files you've bought, at full resolution, with the designer, shop and price • Filter your fabric and designs by color • Link fabric or a design to the pattern you plan to make with it KEEP IT ALL TOGETHER • Store the pattern files themselves alongside each pattern • Save photos of everything you've made from a pattern • Keep notes on your favorite fabric shops, printers and pattern designers, plus your own machine settings and techniques • Track sewing to-dos with deadlines and photos • Keep measurement profiles for yourself and everyone you sew for • Customize the tags and categories to match how you sew EASY TO READ Patternizer follows your iPhone's Text Size setting, has its own larger text option, and has a Dark Mode. FREE TO START Save up to 5 patterns, 5 wishlist items, 2 measurement profiles, 5 pieces of fabric and 5 seamless designs for free, with 10 AI imports a month. Patternizer Plus gives you unlimited patterns, wishlist items, measurement profiles, fabric and designs, plus 100 AI imports a month (or 500 a year on the yearly plan). Adding patterns by hand is always unlimited. Plus is available at patternizer.app. Your patterns are private to you. No ads, no tracking, and we never sell your data. Questions or ideas? Email hello@patternizer.app. We read every message.

Screenshots

Nearr4 screens
Patternizer4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Nearr at 13.4 against Patternizer's 15.0. 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Nearr ships an update every 9 days, Patternizer every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 28, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Nearr versus Patternizer: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterNearrPatternizer
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (8 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings8 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 9 daysEvery 5 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS13.4 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size47 MB3 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAndrew MahranJohnathan Hale

In-app purchases

None

Nearr

No in-app purchases

None

Patternizer

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Nearr free?
Nearr is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Patternizer free?
Patternizer is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Nearr or Patternizer have ads?
Neither Nearr nor Patternizer shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Nearr or Patternizer?
Nearr ships an update every 9 days, and Patternizer every 5 days. Most recently, Nearr was updated on October 28, 2026 and Patternizer on October 31, 2026.

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