Comparison

Modo vs Stellata

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

Head to head
About

Modo

A fast, aesthetic notepad and calendar planner designed for instant thought capture without clutter or ads. Offers a clean interface with customizable notes, a smart camera scanner, and on-device voice recording. Syncs with Google Drive for seamless data backup and migration.

Highlights
  • Instant quick capture and offline speed
  • Aesthetic sticky notes with customization
  • Dual home views: Feed vs. Quick View Grid
  • On-device camera scanner for documents
  • Crystal-clear voice memos with on-device cleaning
  • Google Drive cloud sync
  • Hardware AES-256 vault and biometric lock
  • Markdown support and bi-directional WikiLinks
Features
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Tired of bloated note apps with complex menus and ads? Modo is a fast, aesthetic notepad, calendar planner, and widget companion built to capture thoughts with zero delay. No sign-ups, no tracking, zero clutter. Pure, intuitive productivity for daily elegance. === WHY YOU'LL LOVE MODO === 1. Instant Quick Capture & Offline Speed Open and write immediately. Powered by an instant offline-first engine with zero lag, Modo ensures you never lose sudden inspiration. 2. Aesthetic Sticky Notes & Memo Studio - Beautiful sticky card views with versatile typography and customizable card frames. - Versatile formats: Post-it notes, square memo cards, structured lists, and aesthetic styles. - Customize background tones, opacity, borders, and font scale (70%-200%) in Memo Studio. 3. Dual Home Views: Feed vs. Quick View Grid - Standard Feed: Clean masonry feed with greeting headers, search, and pin. - Quick View Grid: 2-column card layout with floating Speed Dial and quick filters. - Batch Actions: Long-press to color, pin, lock, share, or delete multiple notes. 4. Smart Camera Scanner for Books & Receipts (On-Device) - Complete Privacy: Runs locally on-device with zero data sent to external servers. - All-in-One Viewfinder: Capture books, documents, receipts, and book ISBN barcodes. - Smart Formatting: Reconnects broken line wraps into smooth paragraphs. - Scan-to-Note: Formats receipts and expenses into clean Markdown tables. 5. Crystal-Clear Voice Memos & Voice Clean - On-Device Voice Clean: Cuts background rumble & boosts vocals for crisp speech. - Live Equalizer Wings: Dynamic audio wave visualization dancing to your voice. - 2-Row Wide Waveform Player: Dedicated scrubbing controls and separate timing. - Multi-Audio Sync: Attach multiple recordings with lossless cloud streaming. 6. Google Drive Cloud Sync & Media Streaming - Zero Lock-in: Sync directly to your private Google Drive app storage. - Lossless Audio & Image Sync: Complete bidirectional sync for notes & media. - Background Session Recovery: Smooth, automatic session reconnects after restarts. - 1-Tap Device Migration: Seamlessly transfer your entire notebook to a new phone. 7. Hardware AES-256 Vault & Biometric Lock - On-device AES-256 encryption backed by hardware KeyStore / Keychain. - Biometric Security: Lock private notes with Fingerprint, Face ID, or PIN. - 100% Offline: Full security with zero internet connection required. 8. Markdown Power, Caret Popover & WikiLinks - Caret Popover (/): Type "/" to insert headings, checklists, quotes, or timestamps. - Bi-directional WikiLinks ([[ ]]): Interlink notes to build your knowledge web. - Smart Paste: Turns copied links into rich cards and table data into Markdown. 9. Integrated Calendar, Checklist & D-Day Milestones - Unified Calendar: Browse notes and tasks organized neatly by date. - Interactive Checklists: Strike through completed to-dos with a tap. - D-Day Countdowns: Track exams, birthdays, and deadlines with widget badges. 10. Daily Inspiration & Mindful Wellness Cards - Daily Inspiring Quote: Fresh curated wisdom delivered midnight with 1-tap save. - Health & Mind Advice: Practical lifestyle tips to bring calm to your day. 11. 8 Curated Background Tones & True Dark Mode - Paper White, Warm Kraft, Calming Sage, Deep Indigo, E-Ink Monochrome, etc. - Eye-friendly True Dark Mode crafted for comfortable night reading. === IDEAL FOR === - Thinkers & writers wanting a clean, distraction-free markdown scratchpad. - Professionals organizing meetings, daily agendas, and receipts. - Students needing voice memos, camera scanning, and exam countdowns. - Aesthetic enthusiasts who appreciate clean, beautifully styled minimalist apps. - Privacy-conscious users valuing 100% offline data ownership. Download Modo today and experience the purest, fastest way to organize your world!

About

Stellata

This app helps you save and organize visual content from any source, automatically grouping similar items. Explore your saved items in various visual formats like grids, boards, or even a 3D galaxy. Collaborate with friends by sharing links directly between devices.

Highlights
  • Automatic visual grouping of saves
  • Multiple visual display modes (Grid, Board, Wall, Galaxy, Sphere, Earth, Timeline, Projects)
  • Direct device-to-device sharing
  • Import from Instagram, Pinterest, Are.na, Obsidian
  • Visual and text-based search
  • Collaborative moodboards for projects
Features
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Some things stay with you. The image you stop for. The idea you come back to. Stellata is where they go. Tap Share in any app — Instagram, TikTok, X, YouTube, Pinterest, a blog, anything — and the picture, the words and the video come across with the link. Screenshots, photos, videos and PDFs come in too, no link needed. Then it starts to sort itself. ALIKE SAVES DRIFT TOGETHER Every link is read on your phone: its words, and what its picture shows. Nothing is sent anywhere. Tags appear on their own, and saves that belong together drift into groups in the galaxy, so even from far off you can see what your saving is really about. The same links gather into themes you can filter by — branding, motion, space, whatever you turn out to be into. EIGHT WAYS TO LOOK Grid — everything you saved, at a glance, image first. Board — your saves spread over one plane, like a wall. Wall — your pictures in columns that go on forever, whichever way you go. Galaxy — your library as a world in space, alike saves floating together in groups. Tap a link and a light travels out through everything it connects to, by picture, by meaning, by tag, through its own group and across to the others. Sort it by color, by time, by site or by style, or place words of your own, and the links they're about gather around them. Sphere — step inside the galaxy, your saves all around you, above and below. Drag to look around. Earth — your saves light up where in the world they are, on a globe or on a map. Timeline — every save on one line, newest first, opening out as you scroll back through the days. Projects — a space for a trip, a piece of work, or whatever you're into this week, each with a moodboard to lay out by hand: move, pinch and twist the pictures, then draw, write and join them with arrows. Send one out as a lookbook, a PDF of every save. Hold a finger still and draw a loop in the galaxy or on a board, and everything inside is picked, ready to move, share or delete together. SIT DOWN WITH A FRIEND Put two phones side by side and the ties between your saves and theirs run from one screen to the other. See where your tastes meet, throw a link across, and leave with a little of theirs. The phones talk to each other directly — nothing goes through a server, and only what you choose to bring ever leaves your phone. BRING WHAT YOU ALREADY SAVED Your Instagram saves come across, and your Pinterest boards, Are.na channels and Obsidian vault too, so you start with your real collection instead of an empty page. FIND YOUR WAY BACK Type or say what you're looking for, or tap + to pick a color, a style or a photo, and the saves that fit fly in close. Or describe what a picture shows, like “cracked ice,” and Search finds it, even when no title or tag says so. It reads the words in your pictures too, so a screenshot turns up by what it says. Point the camera at a poster or a wall to see the saves that look most like it. Filter by site, by type, by color. SCAN WHAT YOU SAVED Smart Scan reads a save for what it holds: a recipe to cook from, its timers ringing even on a locked phone, a workout's sets, a trip's places on a map, an event's date, a product's specs, an app's type and colors. Play a video, and Stellata names its song. ON YOUR MAC TOO Stellata is on the Mac as well, your library kept in step by iCloud, and Stellata Unlimited comes along. IT STAYS YOURS Everything syncs through your own iCloud, and previews are kept on the phone, so your library is there with no signal. Share a project and a few people can save into it together, on one moodboard. No account to make, no feed, no one else's algorithm. STELLATA UNLIMITED The free plan holds 30 links. Unlimited holds any number, as a monthly subscription or a one-time purchase. If Unlimited ends, nothing is deleted: your newest 30 stay open and the rest wait for you. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://stellata.app/privacy.html

Screenshots

Modo4 screens
Stellata4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Stellata at none against Modo's shown. On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume 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. Modo sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Stellata sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Modo against 5.0 for Stellata. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 5 and 7 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Modo ships an update every 2 days, Stellata every 3 days. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Modo versus Stellata: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterModoStellata
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (5 ratings)5.0 (7 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings57 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 days — betterEvery 3 days
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, Mac — better
Requires iOS17.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size89 MB25 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperEUNGJIN KIMAbdullah Alkhatib

Customer experience

Modo

All ratings5 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Stellata

All ratings7 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews6 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Modo

One-time1
  • Modo Pro Lifetime$3.99
2 purchases

Stellata

Subscriptions1
  • Stellata Unlimited$1.991 Month
One-time1
  • Stellata Unlimited Lifetime$14.99

Questions

Is Modo free?
Modo is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Stellata free?
Stellata is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Modo or Stellata?
Modo and Stellata are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 5 and 7 ratings respectively.
Do Modo or Stellata have ads?
Modo shows ads; Stellata does not.
Which is updated more often, Modo or Stellata?
Modo ships an update every 2 days, and Stellata every 3 days. Most recently, Modo was updated on October 31, 2026 and Stellata on October 31, 2026.

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