Comparison

Cuts vs STACKIT

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

Head to head
About

Cuts

Features
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Cuts is a feed of short audio episodes. Voices, thoughts, stories and podcasts โ€” all in bite-size "cuts" up to two minutes long. Press play and hear the world; press record and join it. LISTEN โ€ข A personalized feed that learns what you love โ€” follow authors, pick interest hashtags and preferred languages, and your recommendations get sharper with every play. โ€ข Background playback: keep listening while you browse, chat or lock your screen. โ€ข Read-along transcripts synced to the audio โ€” follow the words as they're spoken, or read a cut like an article. โ€ข Autoplay, shuffle and playback speed controls tuned for short-form audio. CREATE โ€ข Record or upload a cut of up to two minutes and publish it in seconds. โ€ข Optional automatic transcription turns your voice into synced, searchable text. โ€ข Add a description, hashtags and artwork โ€” or let your voice do all the talking. โ€ข Honest labeling for AI-generated audio, so listeners always know what they're hearing. STATIONS โ€ข Build stations โ€” living playlists made of hashtags, authors and hand-picked cuts. โ€ข Keep them private, share them with friends, or publish them for everyone. โ€ข Subscribe to stations by other listeners and let them DJ your day. CONNECT โ€ข Follow your favorite voices and never miss a new cut. โ€ข Like, comment, reply and bookmark; share cuts anywhere with a link. โ€ข See what's trending through search and suggestions across cuts, people, stations and hashtags. EVERYWHERE โ€ข Your account, feed and playback position sync across devices โ€” start on your phone, continue in any browser at cutsapp.net. โ€ข Sign in the way you like: email or phone code, Google, Apple or Telegram. โ€ข Listen in the languages you choose โ€” the feed respects your language preferences. Cuts is free. No episode is longer than two minutes โ€” but the best ones stay with you much longer.

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STACKIT

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Squads that fill โ€” and nights that actually happen. The four minutes after a squad fills are where it dies. Everyone has a seat, nobody has a voice, tags get read out one character at a time, somebody is on the wrong platform, and somebody never turns up. Every other app stops at the chat window. STACKIT closes that gap. THE PART NOBODY ELSE BUILT Are you actually in? The moment a room fills it asks everyone once, one tap, and shows 3 of 4 in until it is four. Whoever goes quiet gets one nudge, and a seat nobody claims is handed back to the queue instead of holding four people hostage. Nobody reads out a friend code. The app already knows which ID each game uses and already has everybody's, so the room hands you exactly the one you need and nothing else. A lobby that refuses to start short. A scheduled session that is under-strength at kickoff refills itself from people searching right then. HOW IT WORKS 1. Say what you are on for. The game, the mode, the rank you play at, how many you need. Leave it standing and it keeps looking while you get on with something else. 2. The board fills the seats. You see who is on right now at your rank on your platform, and they see you. No posting into a channel and hoping. 3. The room opens itself. The moment the last seat lands everybody is already talking, in a voice room that exists before anyone asks for one. THE SAME PEOPLE, NEXT WEEK Standing nights. A squad can hold Thursday at nine, every week, with everyone saying whether they are coming โ€” and saying no this week never reads as leaving. Match on when you are free. Every app matches game, rank, region and platform. None of them match the thing that actually decides whether a group survives: which evenings you both have. Bring your people. Connect Discord and find who from your servers is already here. No bot, nothing posted, nothing read, and server names are never stored. A record, not a rating. A player's page opens with nights played, teammates met, rooms that landed and no-shows โ€” what happened, not how people felt. VOICE THAT LEAVES NOTHING BEHIND Squad voice runs directly between the phones in the room. The audio never passes through a server, is never recorded, and nothing is left over once the room empties. EVERY GAME IS FREE The whole catalogue is free to everybody, and so is the whole night โ€” the check-in, the tags, the refill. Pro adds reach: four searches at once, every server, hunting on with the app shut, and the full list of people rather than the first three. Privacy policy: https://stackit-umber.vercel.app/privacy.html Terms of service: https://stackit-umber.vercel.app/terms.html

Screenshots

Cuts4 screens
STACKIT4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Cuts at none against STACKIT's 2. STACKIT's advantage is update cadence (every 2 days vs every 6 weeks). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Both are free to download. STACKIT sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Cuts asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Cuts ships an update every 6 weeks, STACKIT every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 4, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences ยท 4 level
Cuts versus STACKIT: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCutsSTACKIT
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeksEvery 2 days โ€” better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo โ€” betterYes
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac โ€” betteriPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.015.0
Further details โ€” not scored
Size39 MB42 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperDanylo KovalenkoTHOMAS JUNIOR MODESTE

In-app purchases

None

Cuts

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

STACKIT

Subscriptions2
  • STACKIT Pro Monthly$4.991 Month
  • STACKIT Pro Annual$29.991 Year

Questions

Is Cuts free?
Cuts is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is STACKIT free?
STACKIT is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Cuts or STACKIT have ads?
Neither Cuts nor STACKIT shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Cuts or STACKIT?
Cuts ships an update every 6 weeks, and STACKIT every 2 days. Most recently, Cuts was updated on October 4, 2026 and STACKIT on October 24, 2026.

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