Comparison

Trovy vs Pattio

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

Head to head
About

Trovy

Easily catalog your belongings with photos and details. Organize items by room and container, quickly find what you need, and generate insurance-ready reports. Offers a free tier for up to 20 items, with Pro options for unlimited use.

Highlights
  • Photo-based item entry with AI suggestions
  • Organize by rooms and containers
  • Quick item search by name
  • Detailed item information (price, serial number, receipts)
  • One-tap insurance-ready report export
  • Private data storage
  • Cross-device backup and restore
Features
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Know what you own. Trovy is the home inventory that's fast to build, easy to search, and ready the day insurance asks. Snap a photo and your item becomes a sticker that lands in its room. Organize by rooms and containers, find anything by name, and export an insurance-ready report of your whole home in one tap. WHY TROVY • Snap it in 5 seconds — take a photo, AI suggests the name and category, done • Rooms and containers — mirror how your home actually works: room, box, item • Find it in 3 seconds — search by name and see exactly where it lives: Bedroom › Closet › Winter box • Know what you paid — brand, model, serial number, purchase date, price and receipt on every item • Whole-home report — items, categories and value by room, at a glance • One-tap export — a ZIP with a CSV inventory plus your photos and receipts, laid out the way insurers ask for it • Inbox — capture now, organize later • Sign in with Apple — back up your inventory and restore it on any device PRIVATE BY DESIGN Your photos and inventory are stored privately and are never sold or shared with advertisers. Subject extraction happens on your device. FREE AND PRO Trovy is free for up to 20 items — every room, container and photo included. Upgrade to Trovy Pro for unlimited items and report export: • Pro Monthly — US$2.99 per month, auto-renewing subscription • Pro Yearly — US$19.99 per year, auto-renewing subscription • Pro Lifetime — US$39.99, one-time purchase Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel anytime in your App Store account settings. Terms of Use: https://shipswift.app/trovy/terms Privacy Policy: https://shipswift.app/trovy/privacy Questions or ideas? Reach us at wei@signerlabs.com

About

Pattio

Features
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Your digital shoebox. An endless cork board where you toss notes, photos, links and lists, move them with your finger like real paper, and group them however you like. No structure forced on you: save it first, sort it later — if you ever feel like it. EVERYTHING GOES IN, AND IT GOES IN EASILY Stickies, notes, images, links, checklists, folders, polls, countdowns, expenses, habits, albums, files, videos, places, songs, document scans, notebooks, documents, voice notes, drawings, events, calendars, reminders, doors into other boards and today's weather. Twenty-five kinds of card, every one of them pinned down. Share into it from any app, drag things in from Finder or your photo library, or just paste: Pattio works out on its own whether what you brought is a photo, a link or text. IT MOVES LIKE PAPER The canvas pans and zooms with your fingers. Cards drag, rotate with two fingers and snap straight when they get close. Tap a note and it opens for writing, big and centred, with the colour palette beside it; close it and it goes back to its spot on the board. Photos and folders open big from exactly where they sit, the way iOS apps open, and close again by following your finger. ZONES, NOT FOLDERS Paint a coloured area, give it a name, and drop things into it: whatever lands inside is filed automatically, and whatever leaves is unfiled. AND WHEN YOU WANT ORDER A masonry grid of two, four or six columns, filtered by kind, by folder or by zone. Search everywhere. Export the whole board as a PDF. ON IPHONE, IPAD AND MAC A real native menu bar and proper keyboard shortcuts on Mac. Drawing with Apple Pencil on iPad. Home screen widgets. Eight app icons to choose from. Dark mode with a warm night palette, not a grey one. IN YOUR LANGUAGE Thirteen languages: Catalan, Spanish, English, French, German, Italian, Dutch, European and Brazilian Portuguese, Japanese, Korean, and Simplified and Traditional Chinese. IT WORKS WITH NO ACCOUNT Pattio is complete on your device without signing up for anything. An account is optional and only does one thing: sync. Private boards travel end-to-end encrypted, with a key that is yours alone and that we do not hold. No ads and no trackers. The only analytics are pseudonymous — a random per-install identifier, no account and no content — never read what you write, and switch off in Privacy. AND IF YOU WANT, IT’S SHARED Invite people to a board or hand out a link: whoever opens it can look, vote and add notes right in the browser, with nothing to install and nothing to pay. (A shared board has to be readable in your guest’s browser, so that one stops being encrypted. We would rather say so.) THE PLANS The free plan is enough to use Pattio for real: one board, seventeen kinds of card, sync, sharing and 50 MB in the cloud. The paid plans open up the rest: as many boards as you like, all twenty-five kinds of card, and more space. · Free — 1 board · 17 kinds of card · 50 MB · Plus — unlimited boards · every kind · 5 GB · Pro — unlimited boards · every kind · 15 GB Optional auto-renewable subscription. Payment is charged to your Apple Account when you confirm the purchase, and it renews only if you do not cancel it at least 24 h before the end of the period. You can manage or cancel it in your Apple Account settings. And if you ever leave, you take it all with you: one button downloads a ZIP with every board as JSON and every original file, byte for byte. Free, always, on the free plan too, and even after a subscription lapses. — Terms of use: https://pattio.app/en/terms Privacy: https://pattio.app/en/privacy

Screenshots

Trovy4 screens
Pattio4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Pattio at none against Trovy's shown. Pattio also leads on iOS requirement (16.4 vs 18.0). Trovy's advantage is update cadence (every 3 days vs every 2 weeks). On price, in-app purchases 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. Trovy sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month and Pattio sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Trovy ships an update every 3 days, Pattio every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 6 level
Trovy versus Pattio: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTrovyPattio
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (4 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings4 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 days — betterEvery 2 weeks
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS18.016.4 — better
Further details — not scored
Size37 MB81 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperSigner LabsJoan Cama Ribot

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Trovy

Subscriptions2
  • Trovy Pro Monthly$2.991 Month
  • Trovy Pro Yearly$19.991 Year
One-time1
  • Trovy Pro Lifetime$39.99
4 purchases

Pattio

Subscriptions4
  • Plus7 Days trial$2.991 Month
  • Pro7 Days trial$4.991 Month
  • Plus7 Days trial$22.991 Year
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  • Pro7 Days trial$44.991 Year

Questions

Is Trovy free?
Trovy is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Pattio free?
Pattio is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Trovy or Pattio have ads?
Trovy shows ads; Pattio does not.
Which is updated more often, Trovy or Pattio?
Trovy ships an update every 3 days, and Pattio every 2 weeks. Most recently, Trovy was updated on October 31, 2026 and Pattio on October 29, 2026.

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