Needle. vs Cilune
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Needle.
This app provides AI-powered guidance for leathercraft projects. Get personalized advice from virtual craftspeople for making items like card sleeves, belts, and totes. Save important project details and reference past conversations.
- AI leather worker guidance
- Project-specific advice
- Save and reference conversations
- Create detailed work cards
- Voice memo for project notes
- Guidance for various leather goods
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Needle brings a practical leathercraft bench to your iPhone. Ask questions, work through difficult steps, and keep useful guidance close while you make card sleeves, belts, totes, key fobs, and hand-finished edges from vegetable-tanned leather. Choose from ten AI leather workers, each shaped by a different specialty and personality. Mara Quinn helps refine slim card sleeves, while Ellis Crowe focuses on smooth folds and thoughtful linings. Jonah Pike brings measured precision to dress belts, and Rhea Vale offers direct advice for durable work belts. Bruna Holt understands reinforced tote straps, while Cedric Ash explores structured tote construction. Nia Bramble helps with brass snaps and secure hardware seating, and Otto Finch makes the most of flexible offcuts for key loops. Soren Wick guides patient burnishing routines, while Paloma Reed focuses on sanding and edge-paint order. Start a conversation with the craftsperson who fits your project, ask follow-up questions, and return to the same thread whenever you need it. Pin especially useful replies for quick reference. Create work cards with a leather photo, stitch-tension notes, edge-finishing steps, hardware details, and a short voice memo so important decisions stay connected to the piece you are making. Whether you are learning your first saddle stitch or refining a familiar process, Needle helps turn workshop questions into clear next steps and a lasting record of your craft.
Cilune
This app helps users track and compare their eyelash extension styles. It allows you to log each set with density and length, visualize your preferences on an atlas, and save your favorite looks to easily communicate them to your lash technician.
- Log lash extension sets
- Visualize styles on an atlas
- Track density and length
- Save favorite lash looks
- Import photos of lash sets
- Communicate desired looks to technicians
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Cilune is a lash atlas for people who get eyelash extensions and can never quite say which set suited them best. It holds the sets you have actually worn and lays them out so the choice becomes obvious. Capture each set right after your appointment, while the lashes are still crisp, or import a selfie you already have. Give each one two quick dials — density and length — and watch it settle onto a two-axis mat. Weeks of blurry memory turn into one readable field: you can see at a glance where you keep landing, which set was the outlier, and which cluster actually suits your eyes. Capture or import each lash set into your own collection Set density and length and place each set on the atlas Dissolve one take into another, aligned by the eyes, to read the drift Pin one set as the keeper you carry to the chair next time The keeper atlas is the heart of Cilune. Pin the set you want again and settle it as a keeper anchor — a small card with its density, length, and your note — so next time you sit down you can point to exactly the look you want instead of describing it from memory.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Cilune at none against Needle.'s 10. Cilune also leads on update cadence (every 4 days vs every 2 weeks). Needle.'s advantage is ratings volume (4 vs 1). 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
Both are free to download. Needle. sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. Cilune asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Needle. against 5.0 for Cilune. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 1 respectively.
Needle. ships an update every 2 weeks, Cilune every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Needle. | Cilune |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (4 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Number of ratings | 4 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 15.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 14 MB | 23 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 17+ |
| Developer | GAKU FUKUHARA | Amber Whyatt |
Customer experience
Needle.
Cilune
In-app purchases
Needle.
- Needle Bargain Rate 02$1.99
- Needle Bargain Rate 03$4.95
- Needle Bargain Rate 04$7.99
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- Needle Bargain Rate 05$11.95
- Needle Label Rate 07$19.99
- Needle Label Rate 08$29.99
- Needle Bargain Rate 06$35.99
- Needle Label Rate 09$49.99
- Needle Bargain Rate 07$79.99
- Needle Bargain Rate 01$99.99
Cilune
No in-app purchases





