Danger Notes vs Athena Eye Control
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Danger Notes
This app is designed to combat writer's block by requiring continuous typing to save your work. If you stop typing, all unsaved progress is permanently deleted, encouraging a consistent writing flow.
- Continuous typing required to save
- Work deleted if typing stops
- Fights writer's block
- Encourages writing flow
- Suitable for essays, books, and lyrics
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Don’t stop typing. If you do, all your work will disappear and be gone forever. Danger Notes is the ultimate writing tool to help fight writer’s block. Whether you are writing a term paper, an essay, a book, your best-man speech, promising rap lyrics or just free writing, Danger Notes will help you fight writer’s block by forcing you to keep writing in order to save your progress from being deleted. The theory behind this wonderful writing tool, is that by pressuring you to keep writing, you will be forced to formulate an actual flow of written work instead of just staring at a blank document for 2 hours with no progress to show for. The more words you type the easier it will be to break past your writer's block and keep typing. Break writer's block with Danger Notes.
Athena Eye Control
This app uses eye tracking and AI to automatically scroll content as you read, adapting to your speed and focus. It offers eye gestures for navigation and reading aids like rulers to improve comprehension and accessibility.
- Eye-controlled smart scrolling
- Simple eye gesture swiping
- Cursor control via eye tracking
- Multiple reading modes
- Clutter-free reader view
- Content sharing from other apps
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Athena Reader is a smarter, easier, more accessible way to read. Using eye tracking and artificial intelligence, Athena’s patented technology detects when, where, and how fast you are reading and automatically scrolls the display accordingly. If you can’t touch your screen or you prefer not to, you can use simple eye gestures to swipe up and down. If you have trouble focusing or remembering what you read, Athena’s reading rulers paired with Eye Control, will help keep you on track. Key Features: -Reading Detection with Smart Scroll tracks when, where, and how fast you are reading and automatically scrolls the content for you. If you skip a few lines or read past a picture, Athena scrolls that much more. -Simple Eye Gestures allow you to swipe up and down with the blink of an eye. -Use eye tracking to move the cursor and test gaze estimation. -Choose from three different reading modes to accommodate your reading needs, Fullscreen, Focus, and Highlight. -Reader view automatically strips out the clutter, like ads, pop ups, and other distracting elements so you can focus on what’s important. -Share content from any web browser or iOS application directly to Athena. If you have questions, feedback, or requests, please email us at: contact@athenahci.com
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Athena Eye Control at none against Danger Notes's 5. Athena Eye Control also leads on ads (none vs shown) and review sentiment (100% vs 84%). Danger Notes's advantage is update cadence (every 10 days vs every 2 months) and ratings volume (2.3K vs 12). On price and device support 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. Danger Notes sells 5 one-off in-app purchases. Athena Eye Control asks for nothing beyond the download.
Danger Notes holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Danger Notes has 2.3K ratings behind it against 12, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 84% of Danger Notes's written reviews are positive against 100% of Athena Eye Control's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Danger Notes ships an update every 10 days, Athena Eye Control every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 13, 2026 and September 26, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Danger Notes | Athena Eye Control |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (2.3K ratings) — better | 4.6 (12 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 83.7% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 2.3K — better | 12 |
| Update frequency | Every 10 days — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 13 MB | 128 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Villegas Ventures LLC | Athena Accessible Technology, Inc. |
Customer experience
Danger Notes
Athena Eye Control
Bugs and requests
Danger Notes
Reported bugs
3 issues- Accidental deletion of work
- Overlapping text when reaching page limit
- Glitches after updating to iOS 16
Requested features
7 requests- Add writing prompts
- Implement a pause/resume function
- Provide formatting options
- Allow setting word count goals
- Add a way to export or share written work
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- Offer a desktop version
- Implement a daily writing reminder
Athena Eye Control
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Danger Notes
- Support Danger Notes via a Tip$0.99
- Support Danger Notes via a Tip$1.99
- Support Danger Notes via a Tip$2.99
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- Support Danger Notes via a Tip$3.99
- Buy Me Coffee$4.99
Athena Eye Control
No in-app purchases









