Glimpse 2 vs Bebop
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Glimpse 2
Display your favorite webpages directly on your homescreen with customizable widgets. Monitor news, product availability, or data usage by selecting specific areas of a page. Open pages instantly in Safari from the widget.
- Add webpages as homescreen widgets
- Select specific areas of webpages for widgets
- Customizable refresh intervals
- Open webpages directly from widgets
- Add pages from Safari
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With Glimpse 2 you can always add all your favourite webpages as Widgets to your Homescreen You want to see if there are news, if there is something new on your favourite webpage, if your long awaited product is available to order or check your used mobile data? You can do all of this with the right webpage inside Glimpse. Just add a page to Glimpse. Choose the right area of the page and then this page is inside the Glimpse Widget on your Homescreen. If you want to open a page quickly, you can do it from by pressing on the Widget and your page will be opened in Safari You can add multiple widgets for different webpages to your Homescreen. Press firmly on the widget choose edit widget to select your webpage and desired refresh interval. Features of Glimpse 2: - Add a page to a Homescreen widget - When adding you can scroll to a certain area of the page. The widget keeps this position, so that you are always in the right place (Note: Glimpse works best with mobile optimised webpages) - Individual refresh intervals for your widgets - You can open webpages from the widget - Add any page directly from Safari
Bebop
This app prioritizes speed and simplicity for capturing ideas as plain text. It offers seamless cloud syncing and integration with other apps, allowing for a clutter-free, capture-first mobile editing experience. Advanced features and customization are available through a one-time upgrade.
- Lightning-fast plain text capture
- Clutter-free interface
- iCloud Drive/Dropbox sync
- Open plain-text formats (.txt, .md)
- Customizable headers, footers, filenames
- Flashback recent notes
- Share extension for saving content
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Bebop helps you get down your ideas, fast. It assumes that review and organization are better done on larger screens—that a mobile text editor should be lightning-fast, clutter-free, and capture-first. • No ads, no logins, no tracking: Files are synced natively to your chosen iCloud Drive or Dropbox folder • BYOMA (Bring Your Own MacOS App): Open plain-text formats like .txt and .md/markdown plug neatly into Obsidian • Custom headers, footers, and filename formats: To work with your workflow • Flashback notes: Cycle through recent notes with a single tap • Share extension: Quickly save links and text from other iOS apps • Widgets and shortcut: Launch Bebop in any number of ways • Unlimited notes (even for free users) For a one-time Pro upgrade (no subscriptions!) you’ll also get color themes, custom templating, power-user settings, and help support future development. --- Bebop is made by Jack Cheng, an author and solo developer in Detroit, Michigan. More info and privacy policy: https://www.jackcheng.com/bebop/ * Dropbox sync requires you to have the Dropbox iOS app installed.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Bebop at 95% against Glimpse 2's 41%. Bebop also leads on rating (4.9 vs 4.2). Glimpse 2's advantage is device support (4 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). 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. Glimpse 2 sells 7 one-off in-app purchases and Bebop sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Bebop holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.2. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 45 and 46 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 41% of Glimpse 2's written reviews are positive against 95% of Bebop's.
Glimpse 2 ships an update every 2 weeks, Bebop every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 20, 2026 and October 23, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Glimpse 2 | Bebop |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.2 (45 ratings) | 4.9 (46 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 41.2% of reviews | 95.5% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 45 | 46 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks — better | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 4 MB | 25 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Arno Appenzeller | Jack Cheng LLC |
Customer experience
Glimpse 2
Bebop
In-app purchases
Glimpse 2
- Pay what you want 0,99$0.99
- Pay what you want 1,99$1.99
- Pay what you want 2,99$2.99
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- Pay what you want 3,99$3.99
- Pay what you want 4,99$4.99
- Pay what you want 5,99$5.99
- Pay what you want 6,99$6.99
Bebop
- Pro Upgrade$4.99









