Nursery Light vs Blocknotes
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Nursery Light
This app provides a gentle, customizable light source for late-night baby care. It offers 10 soothing color options and stays on indefinitely, eliminating the need to repeatedly wake your device's screen. Enjoy hassle-free, clear, and calming nighttime feedings and changes.
- 10 soothing color options
- Adjustable brightness slider
- Never shuts down automatically
- One-touch color selection
- Loads instantly
- No need to wake screen
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Nursery Light is your FREE app for that late night baby feeding dilemma.. Have you found yourself rightly not wanting to switch on the light when getting up for a night feed/nappy change?! I did, yet found the iPhone's torch to be way to harsh, the phone's general display screen doesn't seem to stay on long enough, so I found myself trying to wake the display with one hand and try not the little one with the other.. I figured there has to be a better way.. and so Nursery Light was born! Choose from 10 soothing colours, using the in-built slider to adjust as required, Nursery Light never goes out, so no need to press again once the app is running. Able to see what you are doing for as long as you like, Nursery Light is the your was of controlling the nightly feeds hassle free, clearly and soothingly. • FREE app, give it a go - I hope it helps • Loads instantly, no lag • One-touch colour selection • Never shuts down until you tell it too • No need to wake the screen • Choose from one of 10 carefully selected colours • Spins back instantly with the touch screen selctor • Original artwork watermark Colours: • Baby boy blue • Glacier blue • Pretty girl pink • Warm red • Sunset orange • Soft Yellow • Lavender • Lipstick • White • Electric Green • Neutral
Blocknotes
This app saves your notes as local HTML files, ensuring complete offline privacy. Your notes sync automatically across devices via iCloud Drive. It requires an iCloud account to function.
- Local HTML file storage
- Completely offline functionality
- No internet connection required
- Automatic iCloud Drive sync
- Cross-device synchronization
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Own your data! This app stores your notes as simple, local HTML files. Blocknotes never connects to the internet. It’s completely offline and private. Files are stored in your iCloud Drive, so it automatically syncs across devices. Requires you to be signed in with iCloud.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Nursery Light at 86% against Blocknotes's 25%. Nursery Light also leads on rating (4.5 vs 4.0) and iOS requirement (7.0 vs 17.0). On price, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Nursery Light holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 2 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 86% of Nursery Light's written reviews are positive against 25% of Blocknotes's.
| Parameter | Nursery Light | Blocknotes |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (2 ratings) — better | 4.0 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 85.7% of reviews — better | 25.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 2 |
| Update frequency | — | Monthly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Mac |
| Requires iOS | 7.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 3 MB | 9 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Mark Westcott | Automattic |
Customer experience
Nursery Light
Blocknotes
In-app purchases
Nursery Light
No in-app purchases
Blocknotes
No in-app purchases
