Comparison

Tandel vs Crafly

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

Head to head
About

Tandel

An offline digital scrapbook and journal for crafters. Organize supplies, save finished projects, and store drafts. All data is kept locally on your device without requiring an account or cloud storage.

Highlights
  • Offline archive for crafters
  • Log craft supplies
  • Archive finished pages
  • Keep drafts
  • Store offline guides
  • Local device storage
Features
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Tandel is a calm, offline archive for scrapbookers, journalers, travel-album makers and card crafters. Log supplies, archive finished pages, keep drafts and offline guides. Everything stays on your device—no account or cloud.

About

Crafly

Plan, execute, and improve handmade craft projects. Track time, add notes, capture progress, and manage materials. Preserve your creations in a gallery for future reference and replication.

Highlights
  • Project planning with inspiration and goals
  • Material and tool management
  • Stage-based task tracking
  • Time tracking per stage
  • Progress photo and voice note capture
  • Craft project gallery and replay
Features
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Crafly is a studio for handmade work. It turns an idea into a craft project you can plan, follow through, finish, and improve. Start with the reason you are making something: name, inspiration, reference photos, difficulty, and a date you are aiming for. Then build the rest of the bench around it—fabric and supplies, tools, measurements, stages, and the small steps inside each stage. While you make, Crafly stays with the work: • Time a stage and see where the hours actually went • Check off steps, add notes, and keep measurements next to the stage they belong to • Capture progress photos and short voice notes at the bench • Mark what you used, so the next make does not start from memory When a piece is finished, it does not disappear into a camera roll. Gallery keeps a fingerprint of the make, a replay of how it came together, and a clear way to start the next edition with the same materials, tools, and lessons. Crafly is for sewing, knitting, crochet, embroidery, leather, pottery, quilting, and other slow handmade work—anyone who wants a project, not just a pile of notes.

Screenshots

Tandel4 screens
Crafly4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Crafly at none against Tandel's 10. Crafly also leads on update cadence (daily vs fortnightly) and ratings volume (17 vs 3). On price, rating, ads and monetization model 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. Tandel sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. Crafly asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.7 for Tandel against 4.8 for Crafly. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Crafly has 17 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Tandel ships an update fortnightly, Crafly daily. The most recent releases landed on September 26, 2026 and September 30, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Tandel versus Crafly: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTandelCrafly
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (3 ratings)4.8 (17 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings317 — better
Update frequencyFortnightlyDaily — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS15.615.6
Further details — not scored
Size10 MB25 MB
Age rating17+17+
DeveloperACKER LIAMRABZIOPALIN QAZUDAMJUNAS

Customer experience

Tandel

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Crafly

All ratings17 ratings
Positive94.1%
Neutral5.9%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews5 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

10 purchases

Tandel

One-time10
  • Tandel Cut Fee 01$1.99
  • Tandel Cut Fee 02$4.99
  • Tandel Cut Fee 03$7.99
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  • Tandel Cut Fee 04$11.95
  • Tandel Unit Fee 06$15.99
  • Tandel Cut Fee 05$35.99
  • Tandel Unit Fee 08$49.99
  • Tandel Unit Fee 09$59.99
  • Tandel Cut Fee 06$79.99
  • Tandel Unit Fee 10$99.99
None

Crafly

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Tandel free?
Tandel is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Crafly free?
Crafly is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Tandel or Crafly?
Crafly is rated higher. Tandel averages 4.7 out of 5 from 3 ratings, while Crafly averages 4.8 from 17 ratings.
Do Tandel or Crafly have ads?
Neither Tandel nor Crafly shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Tandel or Crafly?
Tandel ships an update fortnightly, and Crafly daily. Most recently, Tandel was updated on September 26, 2026 and Crafly on September 30, 2026.

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