Comparison

Hotstash vs Thanks Bud

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

Head to head
About

Hotstash

Features
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Your clipboard, everywhere. Copy on your Mac, paste from your iPhone keyboard. Pin favorites, transform text instantly, and never lose something you copied again. Hotstash keeps your clipboard history synced across your Mac and iPhone, making everything you’ve copied easy to search, organize, and reuse. THE KEYBOARD THAT PASTES ANYTHING Switch to the Hotstash keyboard in any app to access your clipboard instantly. Tap to paste without switching apps or copying again. Swipe between Recent and Pinned clips, paste your last 2–5 clips in sequence, or transform text before inserting it with UPPERCASE, Trim, Base64, JSON formatting, and more. SYNCED WITH YOUR MAC Copy something on your Mac and it’s ready on your iPhone. Clipboard history, pinned items, and installed transforms sync privately through iCloud. Your data never passes through our servers. CAPTURE ON THE GO •⁠ ⁠Copy text anywhere and it’s automatically saved •⁠ ⁠Save text from any app using the Share Sheet •⁠ ⁠Save with one tap from Control Center •⁠ ⁠Search text inside screenshots using OCR on your Mac TRANSFORM MARKETPLACE Browse community-made text transforms and install them with a single tap. They appear throughout the app and sync automatically to your Mac. Create your own transforms on your Mac and use them on your iPhone. PRIVACY FIRST Your clipboard often contains sensitive information. Hotstash keeps everything on your devices and in your private iCloud account. No analytics. No tracking. No account required. Password manager clipboard entries are never captured on your Mac. HOTSTASH PRO — ONE PURCHASE, EVERY DEVICE A single purchase unlocks Hotstash Pro on iPhone, iPad, and Mac. No subscription. On Mac, Pro includes unlimited clipboard history, Paste Stack (each ⌘V pastes the next item), instant text transforms with global shortcuts, file and rich text support, and a menu bar panel that’s always one keystroke away.

About

Thanks Bud

Easily remember names and key details about people you know. Quickly search for individuals using partial information and access their details before social events. The app prioritizes privacy and stores data locally on your device.

Highlights
  • Save names and one key detail
  • Search with partial names and details
  • Organize people for events
  • View relationships between people
  • Optional phone number and email
  • Share people or groups
  • Local data storage
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Think back to the last wedding, school event, or neighborhood dinner. You knew their face and plenty about them. But when you needed a name, you had to wing it. Thanks Bud keeps names, relationships, and useful details together. Add a person with a name and one useful line. When you are about to see them, search a few letters, a typo, a saved headline, a connection, or a city. Open Thanks Bud before you say hello. Glance at the name, the people around them, and the line you wrote to bring the person back into focus. HOW IT HELPS - A name and one headline are enough to save someone. - Add or edit a person in one consistent form. Update their notes as you learn more about them. - Search works with partial names, typos, saved headlines, connection names and relationships, and saved cities. - Search Contacts, choose one person, then review before saving. Apple gives Thanks Bud only the contact you choose. - See local times for people’s saved cities together on Home or inside a group. Open a part of the day to see who is there. - See the people around someone, so names and relationships make sense together. - Switch Everyone or a group to Network to explore the connections you saved. A group’s network shows only its members and the saved connections between them. - Sort Everyone or a group by most viewed, recently added, city, or name. - Save an optional phone number and email address, then call, message, or email from the person’s card. Thanks Bud keeps no communication history. - Share one person or several people as a file. For one card, you choose the details and direct connections. When you share several cards, their connection rows stay private. QUIET UNTIL YOU NEED IT Thanks Bud sends no reminders, keeps no score, and never tells you that a relationship is overdue. Open it when you need a name, then carry on. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Thanks Bud stores your data on your iPhone. The app has no account, advertising, analytics, or tracking. The developer collects no data. Apple shows the contact picker and gives Thanks Bud only the person you choose. Thanks Bud does not request ongoing access to your contact list or change Apple Contacts. For Home’s weather and daylight, Thanks Bud sends Apple Weather the published coordinates of the city on Your Card. The request does not include a person’s name or your physical location. Thanks Bud never asks for location permission. When Thanks Bud prepares a recognition photo, it makes a smaller copy and removes private metadata. It does not change the original item in Photos. If you share a file or save a backup, you choose the action and the content. A new iPhone set up from a backup of your old one should bring your people across. You can also save a backup file yourself. FREE TO USE Cards, search, built-in groups, sharing, and backups are free. A one-time $7.99 US purchase unlocks custom groups you can name. There is no subscription. Thanks Bud is made for the people just outside your inner circle: relatives, neighbors, school parents, colleagues, and the familiar faces you want to greet by name.

Screenshots

Hotstash4 screens
Thanks Bud4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is device support: Hotstash at 3 against Thanks Bud's 1. Hotstash also leads on iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.5). 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. Hotstash sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Thanks Bud sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Hotstash ships an update fortnightly, Thanks Bud every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 16, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Hotstash versus Thanks Bud: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHotstashThanks Bud
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (3 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—3 — better
Update frequencyFortnightlyEvery 10 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
Monetization—Free with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac — betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.0 — better26.5
Further details — not scored
Size3 MB11 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperZeyad AmerNikhil Daftary

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Hotstash

One-time1
  • Hotstash$4.99
1 purchases

Thanks Bud

One-time1
  • Custom groups$7.99

Questions

Is Hotstash free?
Hotstash is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Thanks Bud free?
Thanks Bud is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Hotstash or Thanks Bud have ads?
Neither Hotstash nor Thanks Bud shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Hotstash or Thanks Bud?
Hotstash ships an update fortnightly, and Thanks Bud every 10 days. Most recently, Hotstash was updated on October 25, 2026 and Thanks Bud on October 16, 2026.

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