Comparison

PutSpot vs Blue Hour

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

Head to head
About

PutSpot

This app helps you remember where you put your belongings at home using photos, notes, and tags. Quickly find misplaced items like keys, documents, or chargers with search and voice commands. It's designed for easy home organization and can be helpful for those who misplace items frequently.

Highlights
  • Save items with photos, names, tags, and notes
  • Organize items by room, closet, or box
  • Quick search and voice search for items
  • AI-assisted name and tag suggestions
  • Share item details with family or caregivers
  • Privacy-focused with on-device storage
Features
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Never ask "Where did I put that?" again. PutSpot is a private item finder and inventory app for your home, office or storage: save where things are with photos, voice search, notes, QR tags and barcodes, then find them in seconds. Keys, passports, chargers, glasses, documents, seasonal clothes, storage boxes, tools in the garage: give everything a spot on a shelf, in a drawer, a closet, a box or a room, and PutSpot remembers it for you. NEW IN 1.8: KNOW WHAT YOU OWN AND WHERE IT IS • Barcode and receipt scanning: scan a barcode and product details fill in; snap a receipt to capture purchase info and pick the items you want. • Multiple homes and spaces (Pro): keep home, holiday home, office and storage separate and move items between them. • Home value: see the total value of your things by place and category and share a summary. • Expiry dates and reminders: add a best-before date and choose when to be reminded. Upcoming and expired items show on Home. • Export and backup: CSV, a ZIP with all photos and documents, or a PDF report. Restore from a ZIP anytime. • Effortless moving: swipe to move an item, move several at once and see each item's move history. • Smarter filters: by value, warranty, expiry, documents, tags or missing details. • Background removal (Pro): make item photos pop, right on your device. Try it 3 times for free. • Sharing: send items to another PutSpot user or share them as text and photos. • Dates by voice: just say the date. HOW IT WORKS • Take a photo with your camera or pick one from your gallery. • Add a name, notes, tags and where it is: Room > Closet > Box. • Print or scan QR labels for boxes and shelves to see what's inside. • Find anything with search or voice search. • Keep purchase details, warranty papers and documents with each item. FOR MOVING, STORAGE AND ORGANIZING Build a simple digital inventory for moving boxes, storage units, the garage, closets, pantry shelves and office supplies. Know what is inside every box and on every shelf. MEMORY-FRIENDLY AND ADHD-FRIENDLY A visual home inventory helps you remember where things are and keeps often-misplaced items like keys, glasses, pill organizers and remotes easy to find. Families and caregivers can share item locations too. PutSpot is a home organization app, not a medical device, and does not provide medical advice. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account needed. Your items and places stay on your device by default; sync with your own iCloud or Google Drive is optional. App Lock adds extra protection. AI SUGGESTIONS PutSpot suggests names and tags from photos and text so saving is faster. The AI runs on your device and comes built into the app; Pro unlocks unlimited name suggestions. PUTSPOT PRO • Unlimited items and places • Separate inventories for home, holiday home and office • Your records in your own iCloud or Google Drive, on all your devices • Unlimited name suggestions and background removal for photos • One Pro for the iPhone, iPad and Mac apps • No ads Choose monthly, yearly (starts with a 7-day free trial and saves about 44% compared with monthly) or a one-time lifetime purchase. Lifetime Pro can be shared with up to 5 family members through Family Sharing. Prices are shown in the app and may vary by country. Available in 49 languages, with light and dark themes and reduced motion options. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Payment is charged to your Apple ID at confirmation of purchase; renewals are charged within 24 hours before the period ends. Manage or cancel anytime in your App Store account settings. The lifetime purchase is a one-time payment with no renewals. Privacy Policy: https://mayrainsoftware.com/putspotprivacy Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Blue Hour

Features
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Blue Hour turns time into light: a sun sinks toward the horizon as your timer runs, so you can feel how much is left without reading a number. Built kindly for ADHD and time-blindness, calm enough for classrooms and kids. No account, no ads, no streaks. Free forever, with a tip jar in Settings. RAISE THE SUN Drag the sun up to set your time, one minute to three hours, with soft detents you can feel. Prefer numbers? Tap the readout for a keypad. Three preset chips keep your rituals one tap away. THE SETTLING DUSK As the last light falls, the sky deepens and the screen dims a few gentle stops. At zero: two slow breaths of glow, a soft haptic, and an optional two-note chime. No alarm slam. Ever. THE LIGHT FOLLOWS YOU A Live Activity keeps the sinking sun on your Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island. An optional nudge can tell you when time is up, even if you have looked away. Off by default. CYCLES, GENTLY Pomodoro in Blue Hour's language: work while the sun sets, then the break is a sunrise. The sky returns to morning, and the next round starts when you do. Rounds are counted in little suns, never quotas. START FROM ANYWHERE A Home Screen widget starts your usual timer in one tap. Siri and Shortcuts can start, pause, and resume without opening the app. FOR CLASSROOMS One tap opens the big display: a wall-sized countdown calm enough for a whole room, with a classroom preset set from one to twenty minutes. A QUIET LINE EACH DAWN Every day the idle sky carries one line from 412 public-domain quotations. Seneca, Thoreau, Lao Tzu, old proverbs. One per day. No feed, no push, no hustle. CALM BY CONSTRUCTION • Optional halfway and final-minute cues • Keeps the screen awake while the light falls, if you want • Wall-clock accurate: background it, come back, the light agrees • VoiceOver, Reduced Motion, and Dynamic Type are first-class FREE FOREVER Every feature, free. No premium tier, no subscription. If Blue Hour earns a place on your Home Screen, there is a tip jar in Settings. It unlocks nothing. PRIVATE BY ARCHITECTURE No account. No analytics. No tracking. Blue Hour makes zero network calls, and its App Store privacy label is "Data Not Collected," the rare kind that means exactly what it says. The light keeps track for you.

Screenshots

PutSpot4 screens
Blue Hour4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Blue Hour at none against PutSpot's shown. PutSpot's advantage is iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). On price, 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. PutSpot sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per month and Blue Hour sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
PutSpot versus Blue Hour: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPutSpotBlue Hour
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.9 (16 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings16 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 days—
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size213 MB3 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperEfe Can OGURMoses Smith

In-app purchases

4 purchases

PutSpot

Subscriptions3
  • PutSpot Pro Monthly$5.991 Month
  • PutSpot Pro Annual7 Days trial$39.991 Year
  • PutSpot Pro Yearly$39.991 Year
One-time1
  • PutSpot Pro Lifetime$69.99
3 purchases

Blue Hour

One-time3
  • Coffee$1.99
  • Lunch$4.99
  • Legend$9.99

Questions

Is PutSpot free?
PutSpot is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Blue Hour free?
Blue Hour is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do PutSpot or Blue Hour have ads?
PutSpot shows ads; Blue Hour does not.

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