Comparison

Thanks Bud vs SessionStack

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

Head to head
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.

About

SessionStack

Features
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Plan your AWS re:Invent 2026 week without the spreadsheet chaos. 2200+ sessions across six venues on the Strip. Ask in one sentence and the AI turns it into filters you can see. Leave an afternoon open and it suggests what is worth your time and actually reachable. And it will never book you two talks twenty minutes apart at opposite ends of the Strip.

Screenshots

Thanks Bud4 screens
SessionStack4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: SessionStack at none against Thanks Bud's 1. SessionStack also leads on update cadence (every 3 days vs every 10 days) and iOS requirement (16.4 vs 26.5). On price, 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. Thanks Bud sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. SessionStack asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Thanks Bud ships an update every 10 days, SessionStack every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on September 30, 2026 and October 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Thanks Bud versus SessionStack: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterThanks BudSessionStack
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (3 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings3 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 10 daysEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS26.516.4 — better
Further details — not scored
Size11 MB70 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperNikhil DaftaryJoannes van Eijk

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Thanks Bud

One-time1
  • Custom groups$7.99
None

SessionStack

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Thanks Bud free?
Thanks Bud is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is SessionStack free?
SessionStack is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Thanks Bud or SessionStack have ads?
Neither Thanks Bud nor SessionStack shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Thanks Bud or SessionStack?
Thanks Bud ships an update every 10 days, and SessionStack every 3 days. Most recently, Thanks Bud was updated on September 30, 2026 and SessionStack on October 3, 2026.

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