Comparison

WinkNotes vs Open Working Hours

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

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About

WinkNotes

This app combines note-taking with spaced repetition for effective learning. Organize your thoughts, create flashcards, and review material efficiently using memory curves and customizable study plans. Supports rich text, drawing, and offline voice reading.

Highlights
  • Columnar note-taking with key points
  • Spaced repetition for memory learning
  • Rich text formatting and drawing
  • Ebbinghaus memory curve study plans
  • Marker memory for fill-in-the-blanks
  • Offline voice reading aloud
  • iCloud sync across devices
Features
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WinkNotes is an app for making flashcards and planning reviews. Use it for class notes, vocabulary, and practice questions, or import existing materials from PDF, Anki, or CSV files. Note cards have a front and back for questions and answers. Add text and images, or hide key text and parts of an image to test your recall before revealing the answer. You can also make vocabulary and multiple-choice cards and organize cards into categories. On iPhone and iPad running iOS or iPadOS 26 or later, you can use Shortcuts to turn screenshots or images into flashcards with AI. If your iPhone has an Action button, you can set it up to start card creation. AI card creation has usage limits. On a Mac running macOS 15 or later, you can connect an AI assistant that supports MCP to help create and organize cards. The app schedules new cards and reviews using a review plan. Mark whether you remembered or forgot, and it uses that feedback to schedule later reviews. Choose a category or filter your cards when you want to review just part of a deck. Each deck has statistics showing new, studying, and memorized cards, review streaks, and upcoming reviews. PRO stats also show overdue and often-forgotten cards, retention, and recent review records. WinkNotes has previously appeared in App Store editorial selections for new apps and weekly editor recommendations. It was also included in features explaining what flashcards are and how to use them, and in a collection of study tools for Mac. Apple's official WeChat account has also covered WinkNotes' learning and note-taking features. WinkNotes runs on iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Basic card creation, review, and stats are free, with limits on decks and some features. PRO includes iCloud sync, unlimited decks and cards, custom review plans, quick cloze tools, and advanced stats. See the app for current benefits. Subscriptions renew automatically and can be canceled through your Apple Account's subscription settings. Prices and subscription periods are shown before purchase. One-time purchase options are available as displayed in the app. Support and feedback: https://www.appnice.cn Privacy policy: https://www.appnice.cn/privacy.htm Terms of use: https://www.appnice.cn/useragreement.html

About

Open Working Hours

Features
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Track hours automatically. Improve working conditions. Open Working Hours helps healthcare workers document actual working hours easily — and make structural problems visible. Overwork in healthcare is well known, but rarely documented. Without independent data, there's no foundation for change. Open Working Hours gives you a private record of your hours, and lets you contribute anonymously to aggregated statistics that show what working conditions actually look like across hospitals and specialties. Tracking shouldn't be an additional burden. Automatic clock-in/out via geofencing as you arrive at and leave your workplace, or log shifts manually in seconds with reusable templates. Built for hospital life: fast, reliable, low-friction. Creates transparency Plan your shifts, track what actually happens, see overtime at a glance over 14 days. When you choose to contribute a confirmed week, it joins anonymized, aggregated statistics at the institutional level — turning isolated experience into a shared picture of working conditions. Privacy from the start Daily shift detail, your calendar, and location data stay on your device. Geofencing detection runs locally. Optional workplace search uses Photon (Komoot, Germany). Only aggregated statistics are ever published, and only when at least 5 people contribute to the same group (k-anonymity), with additional statistical noise to protect against re-identification. No employer access. EU-only infrastructure for hosting, email, and geocoding — optional Apple/Google sign-in is the only US touchpoint, under EU adequacy. No analytics SDKs. No advertising. No third-party trackers. GDPR compliant. Delete your data anytime. For healthcare workers Designed with and for doctors, nurses, midwives, and other healthcare workers. Use it solo from day one — your contributions become statistically meaningful as more colleagues join. Free. Non-commercial. Learn more: openworkinghours.org

Screenshots

WinkNotes4 screens
Open Working Hours4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Open Working Hours at none against WinkNotes's 8. On price, update cadence, ads 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. WinkNotes sells 8 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Open Working Hours asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 19, 2026 and October 15, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
WinkNotes versus Open Working Hours: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterWinkNotesOpen Working Hours
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (128 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews78.1% of reviews—
Number of ratings128 — better—
Update frequencyWeeklyWeekly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS16.015.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size66 MB37 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDetailsoft Co., Ltd.Lukas Hondrich

In-app purchases

8 purchases

WinkNotes

Subscriptions3
  • Monthly Subscription (Events)$1.991 Month
  • Annual Full Access(Events)7 Days trial$6.991 Year
  • Annual Full Access7 Days trial$9.991 Year
One-time5
  • 120 Credits$0.99
  • 400 Credits$2.99
  • 2000 Credits$9.99
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  • Special edition$14.99
  • Lifetime Full Access$19.99
None

Open Working Hours

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is WinkNotes free?
WinkNotes is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Open Working Hours free?
Open Working Hours is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do WinkNotes or Open Working Hours have ads?
Neither WinkNotes nor Open Working Hours shows ads.
Which is updated more often, WinkNotes or Open Working Hours?
WinkNotes ships an update weekly, and Open Working Hours weekly. Most recently, WinkNotes was updated on October 19, 2026 and Open Working Hours on October 15, 2026.

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