Comparison

middle place vs CrochetGenie

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

Head to head
About

middle place

A private digital journal that remembers your thoughts and helps you understand yourself better. It offers a continuous conversation, secure storage, and optional iCloud sync for cross-device access. Share selectively with friends to feel less alone.

Highlights
  • AI-powered journaling
  • Continuous conversation memory
  • Private sharing with friends
  • Secure with Face ID/passcode
  • iCloud sync and backups
  • Journaling Suggestions integration
  • Life Report reflection
Features
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There's a kind of clarity that only comes from writing something down and sitting with it. middle place is a private space to do exactly that – to reflect, notice the patterns, and come away understanding yourself a little better. It's one ongoing conversation that remembers what you tell it. Open it days later and you don't have to start over; it already knows where you left off, so each time builds on the last instead of starting from scratch. And it stays with you. Your words live on your device, and in your own iCloud if you choose. No account, no profile, no ads, and nothing about you is ever sold. Reflect, and get somewhere A single thread carries your thoughts forward, helping you turn a tangled feeling into something you can actually look at. Find your common ground Compare notes with a friend, privately. You each build a profile, and only the things you share come back – your raw notes never leave your device, and neither of you sees the other's. A quiet way to feel less alone in what you're carrying. Insight that's yours to keep The app remembers what you're working through, what matters to you, and what helps. The picture of your life gets clearer over time instead of scrolling away. Private by the door Lock it behind Face ID or a passcode, and a privacy cover hides everything the moment you switch apps. A journal, kept close Write entries with photos and places, including ideas from Apple's Journaling Suggestions. They never leave your device. A look at right now Life Report offers a warm reflection on where you are today, written only when you ask and saved only to you. Yours across devices Optional iCloud sync keeps everything in step and encrypted. Automatic backups to your own iCloud Drive mean you can always restore. middle place is a tool for personal reflection. It is not therapy, not a substitute for professional care, and not a crisis service. If you're in crisis or in danger, please contact a local helpline or emergency services. In the US, call or text 988, or text HOME to 741741. No account, no sign-up.

About

CrochetGenie

Features
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CrochetGenie turns your ideas into crochet patterns — and teaches you the stitches to make them real. Point your camera at an amigurumi you love, or just describe what you want ("a small sleepy fox, chunky yarn"), and CrochetGenie writes a full round-by-round pattern: stitch counts, colour changes, assembly notes, and a yardage estimate. No more squinting at a blurry photo trying to reverse-engineer someone else's plushie. LEARN TO CROCHET, PROPERLY Twelve structured lessons take you from slip knot to finished object. Magic ring, single crochet, increases and decreases, invisible decrease, colour changes, and finishing. Each lesson has a slow-motion demo, a practice swatch, and a check-in before you move on. Left-handed instructions throughout — not mirrored video, actual left-handed guidance. TRACK EVERY PROJECT Your work lives in a proper project list with the states makers actually use: - In Progress — with a live row counter and stitch counter - Hibernating — set aside, not abandoned - Frogged — ripped back, no judgement - Finished — your FO shelf, with photos The counter keeps your place across rounds, remembers where you stopped mid-row, and works offline on the sofa with no signal. 100 PATTERNS YOU CAN TRUST Every one of the 100 patterns in the library is either commissioned original work, properly licensed from its designer, or a faithful transcription of a public-domain historical pattern with the source credited. We do not scrape. We do not ingest designers' free patterns without permission. Where a pattern lives on a designer's own site, we link you there and send them the traffic. BRING YOUR OWN PATTERNS You already own patterns. Get them all in one place: - PDF — the ones sitting in your downloads folder - Photo — snap a page from a book or a magazine you own - Link — paste the URL of a pattern page and we'll pull the written instructions into a clean, readable format Imported patterns are parsed on your device. They're yours, they stay private, they're never shared with other users, never added to our library, and never used to train anything. Row counters, US/UK conversion, and project tracking all work on your imports exactly as they do on ours. BUILT FOR REAL YARN CRAFT - US and UK terminology — switch anytime, every pattern converts - Yarn weight and hook size guidance on every pattern - Gauge helper that tells you what to change when your swatch is off - Dark-on-light high-contrast typography that stays readable under a lamp at 11pm

Screenshots

middle place4 screens
CrochetGenie4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is device support: middle place at 3 against CrochetGenie's 1. CrochetGenie's advantage is iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.5). On price, 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
middle place versus CrochetGenie: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
Parametermiddle placeCrochetGenie
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (3 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings3 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 9 days—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac — betteriPhone
Requires iOS26.517.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size57 MB8 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperAmbrose VannierMockey Private Limited

In-app purchases

None

middle place

No in-app purchases

None

CrochetGenie

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is middle place free?
middle place is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is CrochetGenie free?
CrochetGenie is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do middle place or CrochetGenie have ads?
Neither middle place nor CrochetGenie shows ads.

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