Comparison

Start.me vs Quiet Hours

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

Head to head
About

Start.me

Organize your online life by saving and accessing bookmarks, news feeds, notes, and to-do lists. Customize your homepage with widgets and share it with others. This tool helps you save time and create a personalized hub for everything you need online.

Highlights
  • Bookmark saving and access
  • Customizable homepage widgets
  • RSS news feeds
  • Note-taking
  • To-do lists
  • Broken link checker
Features
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With start.me you can quickly save and access bookmarks to everything you love online. And with many other widgets or features to choose from, you can make your homepage a hub you’ll want to share with your friends, colleagues, or students. start.me goes beyond bookmarking, with features like: - News (RSS) feeds - Notes - To-do lists - Google Analytics & Charts - Broken link checker - Beautiful backgrounds and colors to choose from. start.me is easily the most versatile, complete, and reliable bookmark manager on the market. Creating a free account takes less than a minute. Saving time online has never been easier.

About

Quiet Hours

Features
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Quiet Hours helps you stay focused by automatically silencing distractions based on time or location. Create simple, powerful rules that activate exactly when you need them — during work, at the gym, while studying, or at prayer, whenever you want uninterrupted time. With Quiet Hours, you stay in control of your focus. Set it once, and let your iPhone handle the rest. Everything happens right on your iPhone using Apple’s own secure database technology, your rules and data never leave your device, ensuring complete privacy and security. Features:  • Create time‑based focus rules • Create location‑based focus rules • Smart scheduling with start and end times • Custom active days • Priority notifications • Beautiful, clean interface • One‑time upgrade for unlimited rules Quiet Hours is designed for people who value clarity, productivity, peace and security. Whether you’re working, studying, or taking time for yourself for prayer, Quiet Hours keeps your world quiet when it matters most.

Screenshots

Start.me3 screens
Quiet Hours3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Start.me at none against Quiet Hours's 1. Start.me also leads on device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 17.6). Quiet Hours's advantage is update cadence (every 3 days vs fortnightly). On price and ads 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. Quiet Hours sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Start.me asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Start.me ships an update fortnightly, Quiet Hours every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 16, 2026 and October 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Start.me versus Quiet Hours: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterStart.meQuiet Hours
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.0 (9 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews51.6% of reviews—
Number of ratings9 — better—
Update frequencyFortnightlyEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS11.0 — better17.6
Further details — not scored
Size11 MB5 MB
Age rating17+9+
Developerstart.meKyereme Kennedy

In-app purchases

None

Start.me

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Quiet Hours

One-time1
  • Quiet Hours+$3.99

Questions

Is Start.me free?
Start.me is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Quiet Hours free?
Quiet Hours is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Start.me or Quiet Hours have ads?
Neither Start.me nor Quiet Hours shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Start.me or Quiet Hours?
Start.me ships an update fortnightly, and Quiet Hours every 3 days. Most recently, Start.me was updated on October 16, 2026 and Quiet Hours on October 5, 2026.

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