Comparison

Cubox vs Squares

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

Head to head
About

Cubox

This app helps you save and organize articles, newsletters, and web content for later. It uses AI to summarize, connect topics, and answer questions about your saved materials, transforming them into a personal knowledge base. Access your content across devices and export it in various formats.

Highlights
  • Seamless content collection
  • AI text-to-speech
  • Ad-free reading view
  • Auto-summarization
  • AI topic linking
  • Custom AI Library Insight
  • Cross-device syncing
Features
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Cubox is your AI read-it-later app. Save once, know forever. Cubox helps you recall and make sense of what matters. Every day, we save articles and materials we want to read later — but often never get back to them. Over time, they pile up unread, unorganized, and eventually forgotten. Cubox has been dedicated to building a reading tool designed to stand the test of time: seamless collecting, immersive reading, and AI-powered understanding that continuously transforms your saved content into growing knowledge assets. What can Cubox do for you? Save and Read - Collect content from newsletters, websites, apps, and more — all in one place - One-tap AI text-to-speech with multiple natural voices and reading styles - Clean reading view with ad-free parsing and permanent snapshots - Immersive reading with customizable themes and fonts - Highlight important excerpts and record your thoughts - Review highlights anytime with widgets and reminders AI-Powered Reading - Auto-summarize key points to quickly clear unread items and prioritize important content - Build topic connections across articles with AI-powered linking - Generate personalized knowledge reports and recommendations through Custom AI Library Insight - Ask questions with voice or natural language, and get instant AI-powered answers from your entire library Sharing and Privacy - No social recommendations or algorithmic feeds — your data remains private by default - Share your saved content, highlights, and insights with friends in one click Your Knowledge Asset - Organize your content with nested folders and tags - Access your entire collection seamlessly across devices - Export content in Markdown, HTML, or PDF formats anytime - Sync automatically to Obsidian, Notion, Readwise, and more for multi-platform backups - Import your existing collections from browser bookmarks, Pocket, Instapaper, and continue your reading journey with Cubox Cubox offers both free usage and Pro subscriptions, unlocking expanded storage and full AI capabilities. Subscriptions are available on a monthly or yearly basis. Payments are charged to your Apple ID account and auto-renew unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the billing period. You can manage your subscription anytime in your account settings. Privacy Policy: https://help.cubox.cc/legal/privacy/ Terms of Use (EULA) : https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Squares

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You know the GitHub contribution graph. Those little green squares that show every day you wrote code. Squares is that, but for your entire working life. Most people have no idea where their hours actually go. Squares shows them. HOW IT WORKS Every 30 minutes, Squares asks one question: what did you just do? You answer in a few words. One tap. One slot fills in. That is it. No timers to start. No sessions to forget. No friction. Just a quiet prompt and a green square that grows on your grid. Tag your entries as Deep Work, Coding, Meetings, Design, or anything you create yourself. Link them to projects when it matters. Skip the ones that do not. THE GRID Your annual heatmap shows every day of the year at a glance. The darker the green, the more you worked. Intense weeks, slow weeks, streaks, gaps, every shape of your year, visible in one screen. Open any past day to fill in entries you missed. Filter the entire grid by tag or by project to see exactly where your hours went. WIDGETS Home screen and lock screen widgets in three sizes keep your heatmap visible all day without opening the app. They refresh automatically as you log entries. WHY IT WORKS Your total blocks, current streak, and best streak are always visible. As the grid fills, the streak becomes something worth protecting. The visual record of your work becomes its own motivation. After a year, you have a complete map of every hour worked. The intense days. The slow ones. The patterns you never noticed. DESIGNED FOR iPhone Native SwiftUI app. iCloud sync across your devices. Export your data as CSV anytime. No account required to start. Your data stays yours. Terms of Use: https://squares.day/terms Privacy Policy: https://squares.day/privacy

Screenshots

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Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Cubox at Free against Squares's $2.99. Cubox also leads on device support and iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). Squares's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 8).

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

Cubox is free to download; Squares costs $2.99 up front. Cubox sells 8 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Squares asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Cubox versus Squares: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCuboxSquares
PriceFree — better$2.99
Rating4.4 (237 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews54.9% of reviews—
Number of ratings237 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 11 days—
AdsNo—
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — better—
Requires iOS17.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size158 MB7 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperOdd LabAmaury Gau

Bugs and requests

Cubox

Reported bugs

5 issues
  • Inability to import or view PDF files
  • Inconsistent behavior across platforms
  • Login and account issues for some users
  • Sync and data loss problems
  • Compatibility issues with newer iOS versions

Requested features

5 requests
  • Offline note editing capabilities
  • Support for more file types (e.g., PDFs, EPUBs)
  • Customizable themes and UI options
  • Improved search and filtering functionalities
  • Family/team sharing and collaboration features

Squares

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

8 purchases

Cubox

Subscriptions8
  • Cubox Pro - Monthly$1.991 Month
  • Cubox Pro+AI Subscription$2.991 Month
  • Cubox Pro - Monthly$3.991 Month
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  • Cubox Pro+AI Monthly$4.991 Month
  • Cubox Pro - Annual$14.991 Year
  • Cubox Pro - Annual$29.991 Year
  • Cubox Pro+AI Annual14 Days trial$29.991 Year
  • Cubox Pro+AI Annual14 Days trial$49.991 Year
None

Squares

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Cubox free?
Cubox is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Squares free?
Squares costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.

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