Comparison

Stashwise vs Animus

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

Head to head
About

Stashwise

This app helps you organize and leverage your saved content, like articles and videos, by automatically extracting key information. It then allows your AI tools to access and utilize this structured knowledge base, creating a personalized and searchable wiki.

Highlights
  • AI-powered knowledge extraction
  • Connect AI tools to personal data
  • Searchable personal wiki
  • Create structured learning guides
  • Analyze video content
  • Export to Markdown/Obsidian
Features
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Stashwise is the second brain your AI can actually use. You already collect the good stuff: articles, videos, posts, ideas, tutorials, research, tools. But it piles up, disappears into folders, and goes missing the moment you need it. Worse, none of it is available to the AI tools you work in every day. Stashwise fixes both. Save a link, video, or note, and it pulls out the useful parts for you: summaries, key takeaways, topics, connections, and learning paths. Everything you keep becomes a structured, searchable personal wiki. Then it goes further than a notes app ever could. Connect your AI tools, and they can read and search everything you have saved, right inside your own workflow. You choose what goes in, so your assistant is grounded in sources you actually trust instead of whatever the open web returns. You are building the knowledge, and putting your AI to work on it. Collect what matters. Your AI uses it anywhere you want. - What you can do: - Give your AI your knowledge Connect Stashwise to your AI tools so they can draw on your saved library while you work, grounded in what you collected, not random web results. - Search your own collection Ask questions and get answers from the things you saved, not the open web. - Chat with your saves Understand articles, compare ideas, pull out details, and make sense of a messy collection. - Create Learn Guides Turn saved material into structured learning paths built from resources you already found interesting. - Analyze videos Save supported videos and clips so they become searchable, summarized, and easy to revisit. - Build a personal wiki automatically Stashwise extracts topics, summaries, and relationships without making you tag everything by hand. - Catch relevant trends See emerging topics that connect back to your saved knowledge, so new ideas are easier to place. - Own your knowledge Your wiki is never locked in. Export to Markdown or Obsidian, keep a local backup, or bring your saved context into your own workflows. Your notes, your wiki, and your AI should all be able to use the knowledge you already collected. - Who it is for Stashwise is for builders, students, researchers, creators, and curious people who save more than they can process. If your bookmarks, notes, and watch lists are a pile you meant to come back to, Stashwise turns that pile into knowledge you and your AI can actually use. Collect the knowledge. Put your AI to work on it. Grow a brain you own. Terms of Use (EULA): https://stashwise.co/terms Privacy Policy: https://stashwise.co/privacy

About

Animus

Features
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You'll never read it later. Now you don't have to. Animus reads every article, thread, and video you save — every slide in a carousel, every post in a thread, every minute of a video — then hands you the answer when you need it. SAVE FROM ANYWHERE Share to Animus from any app in two taps. X/Twitter threads, Instagram carousels, YouTube videos, TikToks, Reddit posts, LinkedIn articles, blog posts, PDFs, podcasts — one searchable library. IT ACTUALLY READS IT Bookmarking apps store a link and wait for you. Animus reads what's behind it: threads extracted, videos transcribed, carousels OCR'd, articles parsed. Saved means read. ASK YOUR LIBRARY ANYTHING "What were the three pricing strategies from that video I saved?" Ask in plain English, get an answer with citations back to the source. You search what the content says — not what you titled it. SWITCHING FROM POCKET? Mozilla shut Pocket down in July 2025. Export your library as CSV or HTML and import it into Animus in one click. Every old save becomes searchable. YOUR LIBRARY IS YOURS Your saved content is only accessible to you. ANIMUS PLUS One subscription for everything: unlimited saves and collections, 300 AI credits a month, Twitter sync, and bulk import. Yearly plans include a free trial for new subscribers through the App Store. --- Animus offers auto-renewing subscriptions. Payment is charged to your Apple ID account at confirmation of purchase. Subscriptions renew automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel in your App Store account settings. Privacy Policy: https://animus.so/privacy-policy Terms of Service: https://animus.so/tos

Screenshots

Stashwise4 screens
Animus4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Stashwise at every 3 days against Animus's every 6 weeks. On price, ads, in-app purchases 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Stashwise sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $19.99 per month and Animus sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Stashwise ships an update every 3 days, Animus every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and November 7, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 8 level
Stashwise versus Animus: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterStashwiseAnimus
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 days — betterEvery 6 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS15.115.1
Further details — not scored
Size106 MB49 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperScott LaiAnimus Labs

In-app purchases

4 purchases

Stashwise

Subscriptions4
  • Stashwise Plus Monthly$19.991 Month
  • stashwise_pro_monthly$24.991 Month
  • stashwise_plus_yearly$199.991 Year
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  • stashwise_pro_yearly$249.991 Year
2 purchases

Animus

Subscriptions2
  • Animus Plus Weekly$1.997 Days
  • Animus Plus Yearly3 Days trial$39.991 Year

Questions

Is Stashwise free?
Stashwise is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Animus free?
Animus is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Stashwise or Animus have ads?
Neither Stashwise nor Animus shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Stashwise or Animus?
Stashwise ships an update every 3 days, and Animus every 6 weeks. Most recently, Stashwise was updated on October 31, 2026 and Animus on November 7, 2026.

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