Shooglebox vs Ikes
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Shooglebox
This app helps individuals and teams collect and analyze content from various sources, transforming it into shareable insights. It's ideal for spotting social media trends, conducting research, and collaborating on projects.
- Gather content from multiple apps
- Explore diverse content types
- Collaborate with teams
- Spot social media trends
- Create shareable outputs
- Organize content into cards
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Shooglebox helps teams and individuals gather and explore content and insights from multiple sources – and create inspiring at-a-glance outputs to share with others. Marketing and PR teams use Shooglebox service to spot, understand and act on fast-moving TikTok trends – and tap into what their customers are seeing, saying and doing across social media. Researchers, writers and creators use the Shooglebox iPhone and iPad app to save content directly from other apps – Safari, Facebook, TikTok, Reddit, Instagram, X, YouTube, Photos, Maps and more – and build on the things they gather. Shooglebox turns everything you gather into cards with an at-a-glance front and full material, embeds and notes on the back. You can use the iOS app to review and edit your cards – or switch to a web browser on a larger-screen device to explore them and see the bigger picture. Shooglebox is an indispensable tool for: • Gathering and building on research material fast • Exploring different types of content in one place • Collaborating across marketing, PR and other teams • Spotting emerging TikTok and social trends • Discovering insights from social conversations • Getting your heads round hot topics and opportunities • Reviewing live social feeds to track hot topics • Creating inspiring outputs to share with others
Ikes
Capture and organize text or image ideas with a dynamic feed. Intelligent search and discovery help you find inspiration and make unexpected connections. Syncs seamlessly across devices and prioritizes your privacy.
- Quick capture for text and images
- Dynamic Idea Feed for discovery
- Tag, source, and color organization
- Intelligent search by meaning
- Automatic idea discovery
- Shuffle for serendipity
- iCloud sync across devices
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Ikes is not your ordinary note app. It's built for capturing ideas and finding them again — fast. Got an idea? Read a great quote? Snapped a page from a book? Just throw it all into Ikes. Text, images, and links drop into a single feed, and you add tags, sources, and sparkles to whatever matters. Later, filters and search bring anything back in seconds. Now with a new unified export: send your whole library — or just the ideas matching your current filter — out as TXT, CSV, TSV, JSON, or YAML. JSON and YAML are designed for AI and RAG workflows, ready to drop straight into your pipeline. - Save text, images, and links instantly, with tags, sources, and sparkles. - Works inside Safari, X/Twitter, book readers, and other apps via the share extension. - Filter bar, tag/source browsers, and full-text search surface what you need. - Shuffle and random idea views bring forgotten ideas back to the top. - iCloud sync across iPhone, iPad, and Mac — included for free. - Place your favorite quotes on your Home Screen with widgets. [ Premium features ] - Intelligent Search — semantic search across your entire idea feed. - Intelligent Discovery — surface related ideas you had forgotten. - Unified Export to TXT / CSV / TSV / JSON / YAML (Export All or Export Filtered). - Text recognition (OCR) on captured images — perfect for reading physical books. - Filter which ideas appear in widgets. - Custom color schemes and app icons. [ Ikes at a glance ] - Free iCloud sync - Text, images, and links with tags, sources, and sparkles - Share extension for 3rd-party apps - Filter bar + tag cloud - Shuffle / random view - Home Screen widgets - Dark mode - Universal: iPhone, iPad, and Mac
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Shooglebox at none against Ikes's 1. Shooglebox also leads on iOS requirement (12.4 vs 17.0). Ikes's advantage is review sentiment (93% vs 75%) and rating (4.7 vs 4.5). On price, ratings volume, update cadence 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
Both are free to download. Ikes sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Shooglebox asks for nothing beyond the download.
Ikes holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 12 and 30 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 75% of Shooglebox's written reviews are positive against 93% of Ikes's.
Shooglebox ships an update every 4 weeks, Ikes every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 14, 2026 and September 8, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Shooglebox | Ikes |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (12 ratings) | 4.7 (30 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 75.0% of reviews | 92.9% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 12 | 30 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 weeks | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Mac |
| Requires iOS | 12.4 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 118 MB | 284 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | IMP Media Ltd | INCREDIBLE FOX, Inc. |
Customer experience
Shooglebox
Ikes
In-app purchases
Shooglebox
No in-app purchases
Ikes
- Ikes PREMIUM$9.99








