Comparison

Riff Calendar vs Stash

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

Head to head
About

Riff Calendar

This calendar app allows you to zoom in and out of your schedule, viewing a half-year at a glance or a single day hour-by-hour. Events can be edited directly on the calendar, and it integrates with your existing device calendars without requiring an account.

Highlights
  • Zoomable calendar views
  • Direct event editing
  • Integrated weather forecasts
  • Daylight shading
  • Works with existing calendars
  • Home and Lock Screen widgets
Features
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Riff is a calendar that you zoom. Pinch your fingers together and half a year fits on screen. Spread them and a single day opens, hour by hour. There are no month, week and day views to switch between. EVERY STEP OF THE ZOOM IS A WORKING CALENDAR Zoom out to find a free weekend, zoom in to pick the hour. The day you were looking at stays on screen the whole way. EDIT ON THE CALENDAR ITSELF Hold a free slot and type a title. Slide an event to a new hour, or carry it to another week. The days around it stay in view while you edit. WEATHER AND DAYLIGHT Each day shows its forecast, and a faint shade covers the hours between sunset and sunrise where you are. Turn them on in Riff’s settings. YOUR CALENDARS, NO ACCOUNT Riff works on the calendars already on your iPhone: iCloud, Google, Exchange and the rest. There is nothing to import and no account, and no data is collected. Reminders stand beside your events. ALSO Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets, alerts, repeats, search, time zones, Siri and Shortcuts, 30 languages. GOOD TO KNOW Riff is for iPhone and needs iOS 26 or later. You can answer invitations but not send them. PRICE Free for three weeks with everything included. Then choose a monthly or yearly subscription, or a one-time purchase. Every option unlocks all of Riff and works with Family Sharing. The prices for your country are under In-App Purchases. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the period. You manage them in your App Store account settings. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://riffcalendar.com/privacy/ Riff is made by one developer, Magnus Rex, in Sweden. Write to hello@riffcalendar.com.

About

Stash

Save articles and have them read aloud to you offline. Supports 27 languages with natural voices and syncs across devices. No ads, subscriptions, or tracking.

Highlights
  • Save articles from share sheet or links
  • Listen offline with natural on-device voices
  • Supports 27 languages
  • Queue management (reorder, archive)
  • Adjustable playback speed and sleep timer
  • Export articles
  • iCloud sync
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You saved it because it mattered. Then it sat there. Stash gets you through it. Save an article, and Stash reads it aloud on your iPhone while you cook, commute, or walk the dog. The pile gets smaller in the hours you already have. NO METER Other readers sell you minutes. Stash has no server, so there is nothing to meter. Save two articles or two hundred. Listen to all of them. No word counts, no monthly minutes, no upgrade wall. READS IN YOUR LANGUAGE Stash detects the language of every article and reads it in that language. A German essay, a Japanese blog post, and an English newsletter can sit in the same queue. The natural voice speaks 27 languages: Arabic, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, and Vietnamese. Every other language uses the voice built into your iPhone. READY BEFORE YOU ARE Audio is generated in the background the moment you save. Put in your earbuds and it is already waiting. No buffering, no spinner. WORKS WHERE PODCASTS DO NOT The reader, the voice, and the queue all live on your phone. Airplane mode, the subway, a dead zone in the hills. Nothing changes. THE QUEUE EMPTIES ITSELF Finish an article and it moves to the archive on its own. Favorite the ones you want to keep. No tidying, no ritual. NO NONSENSE No account. No onboarding. No ads. No tracking. No subscription. No limits. Download it, share an article from Safari, press play. That is the whole setup. WHAT YOU CAN DO - Stash from the share sheet, a pasted link, or plain text - Listen to a natural on-device voice in 27 languages, or read along with the text - Drag to reorder the queue, or send something to the top - Speed and a sleep timer. Nothing else to configure. - Export any article. It is your data. - Sync across your devices with iCloud. No iCloud? Stash still works. BUILT TO LAST We build every version as if it is the last one we will ever ship. There is no server, so nothing leaves your phone, and the Stash on your phone keeps working without us. One purchase. Every update included, including better voices when better open models land. Made by two people who wanted a read-later app that respects them. SUPPORT / FEEDBACK / CONTACT Questions or feedback? Email xoxo@lucas.love. A human reads every message. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Riff Calendar4 screens
Stash4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Riff Calendar at Free against Stash's $19.99. Stash's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 3). On review sentiment, 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

Riff Calendar is free to download; Stash costs $19.99 up front. Riff Calendar sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Stash asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Riff Calendar ships an update every 5 days, Stash every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Riff Calendar versus Stash: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRiff CalendarStash
PriceFree — better$19.99
Rating4.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 5 daysEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases — betterPaid
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS26.0 — better26.1
Further details — not scored
Size13 MB153 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperKJELL MAGNUS REXLucas Fischer

Customer experience

Riff Calendar

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Stash

Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Riff Calendar

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly$2.991 Month
  • Yearly$24.991 Year
One-time1
  • Lifetime$49.99
None

Stash

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Riff Calendar free?
Riff Calendar is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Stash free?
Stash costs $19.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do Riff Calendar or Stash have ads?
Neither Riff Calendar nor Stash shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Riff Calendar or Stash?
Riff Calendar ships an update every 5 days, and Stash every 3 days. Most recently, Riff Calendar was updated on October 21, 2026 and Stash on October 29, 2026.

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