Comparison

The Cube App Pro vs Skrive

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

Head to head
About

The Cube App Pro

This app provides cubers of all levels with essential tools for timing, tracking, and learning. It features a competition-style timer, customizable sessions, detailed statistics, and a vast library of algorithms with illustrations. Practice and track personal bests offline.

Highlights
  • Customizable competition timer
  • Session tracking and statistics
  • Algorithm library with illustrations
  • Offline functionality
  • Data export and import
  • Visual scramble representation
Features
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The perfect app for cubers. Beginners or professionals, speedcubers or not! Every single tool a cuber would ever need, combined into an app that you can bring wherever you go with your cube. Quick awesome feature list: - Customizable timer to record solves with, that behaves just as an official competition timer. - Create and customize sessions to track your timed solves in. - See statistics and graphs of sessions. - Export and import sessions so you can share or backup your data. - Different scrambles to choose from in timer. - Displays visual representation of a scramble. - Simplistic and smart look, easy to navigate through. - Over a thousand algorithms to learn (each having its own illustration). - Algorithms are customizable. - 'Learn' feature that makes learning algorithm sets easy and fun. - Practice lots of algorithms with another learning feature similar to flash cards - Keep track of all your personal bests, either manually or automatically. - Does not require an internet connection. - Completely ad free.

About

Skrive

A straightforward and secure journaling app focused on daily writing. It offers a clean interface with no distractions, allowing users to easily record thoughts and memories. Entries are encrypted and can be exported as plain text.

Highlights
  • One entry per day
  • Plain text writing
  • Clean interface
  • Searchable history
  • Device encryption
  • Plain text export
  • Cross-device sync (Pro)
Features
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Skrive is a simple, secure journal built for daily writing. One entry per day, plain text, nothing in the way. Keeping a daily journal is one of the most rewarding habits you can build. It sharpens how you think and write, helps you process stress, and gives you a record of your life to look back on. Regular journaling has been shown to improve memory, boost mental clarity, and support mental health. Skrive exists to make that habit as easy as possible to keep. There are no tags, no folders, no formatting options. Just a clean writing surface that opens fast and gets out of the way. The focus is entirely on the words you write. Every entry is dated, and your full journal history is always at your fingertips. Scroll back through past entries or search for a specific memory, moment, or thought you wrote down months ago. Skrive is free to use with no limits on how much you write. Your entries are encrypted and stored securely on your device, and you can export everything as plain text at any time. Your journal belongs to you. Skrive Pro adds sync across all your devices. Write on your iPhone, continue on your iPad or your Mac. Everything is encrypted end to end before it ever leaves your device, and stored on servers in Europe. Only you hold the key. Only you can read what you write. Skrive is made by an independent developer who journals every day. It is a small app, built with care. Website: https://skrive.app Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

The Cube App Pro4 screens
Skrive4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Skrive at Free against The Cube App Pro's $3.99. Skrive also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.6) and review sentiment (100% vs 83%). The Cube App Pro's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2) and update cadence (every 8 days vs every 2 weeks). On ads, device support and iOS requirement 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

Skrive is free to download; The Cube App Pro costs $3.99 up front. Skrive sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. The Cube App Pro asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Skrive holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: The Cube App Pro has 18 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 83% of The Cube App Pro's written reviews are positive against 100% of Skrive's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

The Cube App Pro ships an update every 8 days, Skrive every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 8, 2026 and October 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
The Cube App Pro versus Skrive: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterThe Cube App ProSkrive
Price$3.99Free — better
Rating4.6 (18 ratings)5.0 (3 ratings) — better
Positive reviews83.3% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings18 — better3
Update frequencyEvery 8 days — betterEvery 2 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaidFreemium — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS16.0 — better16.4
Further details — not scored
Size17 MB66 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperLudvig SandhIsak Solheim

Customer experience

The Cube App Pro

All ratings18 ratings
Positive88.9%
Neutral11.1%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews18 reviews
Positive83.3%
Neutral16.7%
Negative0.0%

Skrive

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

The Cube App Pro

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Skrive

Subscriptions2
  • End-to-end encrypted sync$3.991 Month
  • End-to-end encrypted sync$29.991 Year

Questions

Is The Cube App Pro free?
The Cube App Pro costs $3.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Skrive free?
Skrive is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, The Cube App Pro or Skrive?
Skrive is rated higher. The Cube App Pro averages 4.6 out of 5 from 18 ratings, while Skrive averages 5.0 from 3 ratings.
Do The Cube App Pro or Skrive have ads?
Neither The Cube App Pro nor Skrive shows ads.
Which is updated more often, The Cube App Pro or Skrive?
The Cube App Pro ships an update every 8 days, and Skrive every 2 weeks. Most recently, The Cube App Pro was updated on October 8, 2026 and Skrive on October 10, 2026.

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