Comparison

Cabled vs Tassel

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

Head to head
About

Cabled

This app helps you track your crafting time and progress. Log sessions, count rows, manage projects, and view your stats. Earn achievements and share your milestones with your community.

Highlights
  • Session tracking with timers
  • Multiple craft support
  • Color-coded row counters
  • Project lifecycle management
  • Crafting statistics
  • Achievement system
  • Social sharing of milestones
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A calm craft tracker. Start a timer when you pick up your needles, or log a session after you finish. Watch your hours, streaks and finished objects add up - with no ads, no interruptions, no pressure. Cabled is built for makers who want to remember the time they spend on their crafts and enjoy detailed insights into their hobbies. TRACK EVERY SESSION Start a timer when you sit down knit, crochet, or stitch. Pause mid-row, pick up later, or log time after the fact. Cabled reminds you if a session is still running so nothing disappears. YOUR PATTERN, RIGHT IN YOUR SESSION Open your PDF pattern while you work. Mark your charts with movable guides, zoom in on details, and keep your Row Counters floating on top. No AI parsing, no copyright violations - just simpler tracking, all in one place. ROW COUNTERS THAT KEEP UP Add up to 5 colour-coded row counters per project, with optional targets. Reorder or rename them during a session. Edit them later if you counted ahead. See and count rows from your lock screen. TIME BY SECTION Tag your sessions by section, like yoke, sleeves, or seaming, and see how long you really spend on sleeve island. EVERY CRAFT, ONE APP Knitting, crochet, Tunisian crochet, embroidery, cross stitch, sewing, quilting, English paper piecing, sashiko, spinning, weaving and needle felting. Choose your craft at the start of a project and the app uses the right language. PROJECTS FROM CAST ON TO FO Keep works in progress in one place. Move a project through its life: active, hibernating, finished object, or frogged. Add photos, notes and row counters so the next session starts where you left off. RAVELRY BUILT IN Search Ravelry's pattern library when you start a Project and the details will fill themselves in. When you finish, send your Project, photos and Notes to Ravelry in one tap. TRACK YOUR STASH Keep all your supplies in one place, with quantities, colourways and photos. Import your Stash from Ravelry, link materials to Projects as you use them, and adjust remaining quantities when you finish a Project. SEE THE YEAR YOU MADE Daily, monthly and lifetime stats that evolve with you. Track personal bests, craft streaks, and share your progress with Cabled Cards. Unlock achievements along the way. FREE & PRO ACCESS Cabled is free for up to 3 active projects. Upgrade to Pro to unlock unlimited projects, PDF patterns in your sessions, stash tracking with Ravelry import, and private community access (coming soon). FREE 7-day trial for new subscribers. Made by a knitter (me!), for makers. Cabled Pro is available as a monthly or annual auto-renewing subscription. Payment is charged to your Apple ID at confirmation of purchase. Subscriptions renew automatically unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period; your account will be charged for renewal within 24 hours prior to that. Manage or cancel anytime in your Apple ID account settings. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://cabled.app/privacy

About

Tassel

Features
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Tassel is the backstage toolkit built for burlesque and cabaret performers. Build your costume closet from real pieces, plan complete looks, shop what you need, and map out your sets — song, timing, reveal cues and running order — all in one place. IT LEARNS YOUR STYLE Answer a few playful questions about who you are on stage — your archetype, your tempo, the era you love, the feeling you want to leave behind — and Tassel tunes itself to you. Song ideas re-rank to match your style and tell you why each one fits; your costume feed reorders around your look. Every question is optional and you can come back anytime. Answer nothing and the app still works beautifully — it just gets sharper the more you tell it. THE CLOSET Browse a feed of real burlesque pieces by category — corsets, headpieces, feather fans, boas, opera gloves, pasties, stockings, heels and more. Add the ones you love to your closet, snap a photo of pieces you already own, and keep care and quick-rig notes for every item. Tap any piece to shop it, and export your whole closet as a shopping list in a tap. LOOK BOOK Assemble full looks from your closet pieces, add reference photos, and keep hair and makeup notes together — so every entrance is exactly as planned. THE SET Build acts with the song, duration, timed reveal cues and a prop checklist you can tick off as you pack. Preview classic tease numbers, line acts up into a show, and see the total running time at a glance. Share a set list or an act with your MC or stage manager in a tap. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account. No sign-up. Your closet, looks and sets are stored privately on your device, and you can back up and restore your whole library anytime as a single file you control. (The shop, song previews and album art use the internet; everything you create stays on your device.) Free. Made by performer and artist Jonathan Scribbles. jonathanscribbles.com

Screenshots

Cabled4 screens
Tassel4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Tassel at none against Cabled's 2. On price, update cadence, ads 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. Cabled sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Tassel asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Cabled ships an update weekly, Tassel every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and October 28, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Cabled versus Tassel: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCabledTassel
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (4 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings4 — better—
Update frequencyWeekly — betterEvery 10 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS15.115.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size52 MB4 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperLiane AbramsJONATHAN BILES

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Cabled

Subscriptions2
  • Cabled Pro - Monthly7 Days trial$4.991 Month
  • Cabled Pro - Annual$44.991 Year
None

Tassel

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Cabled free?
Cabled is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Tassel free?
Tassel is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Cabled or Tassel have ads?
Neither Cabled nor Tassel shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Cabled or Tassel?
Cabled ships an update weekly, and Tassel every 10 days. Most recently, Cabled was updated on October 31, 2026 and Tassel on October 28, 2026.

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