Knife Sharpening Log & Timer vs Knife Collection Log
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side โ with what reviewers say about each.
Knife Sharpening Log & Timer
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A sharpening session is only repeatable if you wrote it down. This app records the stones you pulled, the angle you held, the minutes you spent on each grit, and how the finished edge actually cut โ so the next time that same blade comes off the board, you already know the sequence that worked. BUILD YOUR BLADE LIBRARY Add every blade you maintain: chef's knife, paring, boning, pocket folder, chisel, plane iron. Each one stores its steel type, its bevel angle in degrees, your own working notes, and a color tag so you can spot it at a glance in the list. Sort or search the library, and see at a glance which blades were done recently and which have gone untouched. RUN A TIMED SESSION Pick a blade, hit start, and a running timer takes over. As you move up through the progression, add a grit phase for each stone you use and the minutes you spent on it. The session builds itself into an ordered record of the progression rather than something you try to remember afterward. RATE THE EDGE YOU GOT Finish a session with a one-to-five rating and a note on how it went โ burr came up fast, needed longer on the 1000, the 12000 was overkill. Those ratings are what turn a pile of sessions into a usable pattern. STONE INVENTORY Keep a record of the stones on your bench: grit number, family (Japanese water, diamond, oil, ceramic), and soak time for the ones that need it. A grit-progression strip lays your inventory out coarse to fine so gaps in the jump are obvious. A starter set of common grits is already loaded; add, edit, or remove to match the stones you actually own. PER-BLADE NUMBERS Open any blade to see how many sessions it has had, its average edge rating, total bench minutes, and the average number of days between sharpenings. Library-wide totals and a session streak live in the history tab. MAINTENANCE REMINDERS Set a cadence per blade โ 14 days for the workhorse, 90 for the one that rarely comes out. A local notification nudges you before the edge wanders, and it reschedules itself from your most recent session. EVERYTHING STAYS ON THE DEVICE No account to create, no sign-in, no sync. Your blades, stones, and session history are stored locally on your iPhone. Built for kitchen cooks, hunters, woodworkers, and anyone who would rather keep a real maintenance record than guess. Knife Sharpening Log & Timer requires a Pro unlock to log a sharpening. Pro opens the whole bench record: an unlimited blade library with steel type, bevel angle, notes and color tags, timed sessions with a grit phase for every stone you pull, edge ratings and session notes, the stone inventory with its grit-progression strip, per-blade numbers for sessions, average edge rating, bench minutes and days between sharpenings, the full session history and streak, and per-blade maintenance reminders. Plans: a weekly subscription, a yearly subscription, or a one-time lifetime purchase. Payment is charged to your Apple ID account at confirmation of purchase. The subscription renews automatically unless it is cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period, and your account is charged for renewal within 24 hours prior to the end of the current period. You can manage your subscription and turn off auto-renewal in your Account Settings after purchase. Privacy policy: https://pnkl26.web.app/privacy-policy Terms of use: https://pnkl26.web.app/terms-of-service
Knife Collection Log
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Private knife and EDC collection log with a carry log, maintenance history and a 115-steel reference. Catalogue the knives, flashlights and multitools you already own, plus anything else you carry: a pen, a watch, a sharpener. Free for your first 15 pieces. Pro is one payment, unlimited, no subscription. Tangmark is a record, not a marketplace and not a price guide. Nothing is listed for sale, nothing is valued for you, and nothing leaves your device. THE RECORD Every piece gets a permanent inventory number that is never reused. Maker, model, variant, steel, grind, lock, blade length, weight, country and year. What you paid, in the currency you actually paid, with the exchange rate you actually got. Where it lives, down to the drawer. Its serial. Limited-edition numbering, previous owners, and who you bought it from. Knives, flashlights and multitools each get their own field set. Anything else is a record with the fields you define yourself. SIX FIELDS, TWENTY SECONDS Quick add takes a photo and five facts and gets out of your way. Everything else can be filled in later, or never. Duplicate a knife you own two of: the identification and specs are copied, and you fill in the new serial. Makers and steels you have typed before are offered back to you. CARRY LOG Log what you carried today, save loadouts for work and for the weekend, and look back over the last two weeks. A day you did not log is simply a day with no record. A home-screen widget shows today's carry, never a value or a location. MAINTENANCE LOG A log of what you actually did: sharpened, stropped, oiled, taken apart, serviced. It keeps the angle per side, the grits in the order you worked them and the compound you finished on. There are no predictive due dates anywhere in this app. Reminders run on your rule, off until you set one; the reminder that actually goes off is part of Pro. MODIFICATIONS A ledger of what went on, what came off and what it cost, with the stock parts you kept tracked separately, so what you have spent and what you are holding never double-count. STEEL REFERENCE One hundred and fifteen steels with their composition, working hardness and four properties, built from maker datasheets and published tests, with the evidence behind every band shown. Every property is a range, never a verdict and never a score. The notes read in English, German, Spanish, French, Italian and Japanese. Compare two steels side by side and neither one wins. If you have tested a knife's hardness yourself, your number is the one that shows. DOCUMENTS AND EXPORT A Collection Inventory Schedule as a PDF, with a second copy for sharing that carries no serials and no storage locations. CSV export. A versioned backup archive with every photo. Import a spreadsheet you already keep, with the whole file mapped and previewed before a single row is written; free up to the piece limit. PRIVATE BY CONSTRUCTION No account. No server. No analytics on what you own. A PIN lock, with your face or fingerprint on top, is free. Pro adds the privacy pack: serials masked on screen, a private-fields switch that hides values and locations from a shoulder, and a shield that covers the collection in the app switcher. PAY ONCE One payment unlocks it. There is no subscription and there will not be one. Free covers fifteen pieces of any kind, sold ones included, and three photos each. Pro lifts both limits and adds document attachments, reminders that go off, two steels side by side and the privacy pack. Backup, restore, CSV export, the schedule PDF and your carry history are free at every tier and always will be. NOT A MARKETPLACE Nothing is listed for sale, there is no buyer contact and no price tracking. Tangmark catalogues what is already yours. Terms of Use: https://trueframedigital.app/tangmark/terms/ Privacy Policy: https://trueframedigital.app/tangmark/privacy/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is device support: Knife Collection Log at 3 against Knife Sharpening Log & Timer's 1. On price, ads, in-app purchases and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.
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Both are free to download. Knife Sharpening Log & Timer sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per 7 days and Knife Collection Log sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
| Parameter | Knife Sharpening Log & Timer | Knife Collection Log |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months | โ |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, Mac โ better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 โ better | 18.0 |
| Further details โ not scored | ||
| Size | 4 MB | 53 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Linh Phan Nhat Khanh | Jawahar Natarajan |
In-app purchases
Knife Sharpening Log & Timer
- Grit Progression Planner$2.997 Days
- Bevel Angle Tracker$14.991 Year
- Blade Maintenance Reminders$29.99
Knife Collection Log
- Tangmark Pro: Unlimited Knives$29.99
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