BLOON App vs Ink
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
BLOON App
Access and manage your computer's files remotely from your mobile device. Stream videos, download files, and upload new photos to your PC or Mac, turning it into a private cloud. Stay connected with instant messaging and file collaboration features.
- Remote file download
- Video streaming
- Instant photo upload
- Private cloud server
- Instant messaging
- File collaboration
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** BLOON App is designed to work together with the BLOON desktop (see https://www.bloon.io) ** With BLOON App, you can remotely download files or stream MP4 videos from your Mac or PC right onto your mobile device. BLOON App enables you to instantly "upload" new photos to your home or office machine, turning your computer into your own private cloud server. Building on BLOON’s robust instant messaging capabilities, BLOON App notifies you immediately when your associates send messages or make changes. ** More About BLOON ** BLOON enables you to set up a private cloud for your trusted ones or yourself. Share or remote-access your data at will — all you need is a Mac or PC. BLOON is based on P2P syncing. As long as your computer is logged in to BLOON, you can access the files on it from anywhere via BLOON App or a browser. No more uploading your files to servers owned by strangers, or paying by the gigabyte to rent storage space. Your entire hard drive becomes your personal, access-anywhere data warehouse. BLOON provides for easy syncing between devices, with no cap on how many devices can be synced using the same account. Go ahead and sync two or five or 20 devices under one account, even if they’re physically located in offices all over the globe. BLOON is perfect for collaboration. BLOON delivers full-fledged instant messaging across platforms — desktop app, mobile app, and web browser. Users can tag, annotate, and comment on specific files, interactively and regardless of operating system. Meanwhile, files only sync to devices controlled by the group or its members. BLOON helps groups create private repositories of data and knowledge.
Ink
Transform spoken words into organized notes and lists with AI-powered transcription and editing. Features include collaborative sharing, customizable shelving, and multiple daily planning views. Print beautifully formatted documents and track your productivity habits.
- Voice-to-text transcription
- AI-powered editing
- Collaborative list sharing
- Customizable shelves for organization
- Multiple daily planning views
- Printable notes and lists
- Productivity statistics tracking
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Ink turns your voice into finished notes and lists. No re-typing, no cleanup. Tap the microphone, speak naturally, and watch your words land as a clean list, a note, or a tidy paragraph. Ink shapes the transcript while you watch, so you see the result before it's saved. WHAT'S INCLUDED, WHAT'S PRO Notes, to-dos, reminders, repeats, links, shelves, Markdown export, and iCloud sync are free, no account required. Pro adds dictation with AI formatting, file import, your own templates, version history, a focus timer, ledger mode, the richer copy formats, shared lists, Today layouts you can arrange, font packs, accent colors, and paper tones. Your 14 days of Pro don't begin when you install. They begin the first time you open something Pro, so the two weeks are two weeks you spend. EARLIER VERSIONS OF EVERY PAGE Ink keeps a version of a page as you leave it. Read last week's draft beside today's, lift a paragraph back out, or bring the whole thing back as a new page, which leaves everything you have written since where it is. Stored on your device, the newest 50 per page. THE INDEX AT THE BACK OF THE NOTEBOOK Every unfinished checkbox scattered through your notes, gathered on one page. Every passage you marked, on another. Check something off and it leaves the index on its own. Nothing to file, nothing to keep tidy. TEMPLATES FOR THE THINGS YOU DO AGAIN Turn a list you already keep into one you can run again. Ink clears last time's checkmarks and amounts, then asks for a name and a date, so "book transport seven days before" lands on the right day this time. PULL THE WORDS OUT OF A FILE Send a PDF, a document, or a photo of a page to Ink, or tap + and choose Import, and it reads the words into a note. Ink keeps the words, not the file. Scans and photos are read on your device, so nothing is sent anywhere. ON YOUR WRIST Ink on Apple Watch shows what's due and lets you check it off without reaching for your phone. Put the next thing on your watch face and it's there at a glance. ASK SIRI, WITHOUT OPENING THE APP Say "Add an item to Ink" or "Show my Ink today" and it happens. Every action works in Shortcuts and on the Action Button, and your notes turn up in Spotlight. DATES YOU CAN JUST TYPE Write "Dentist Friday 4pm" or "rent next week" and Ink reads the date and leaves the title clean. A chip shows what it heard, so you can wave it off and keep your exact words. DESIGNED LIKE A BOOK, NOT AN APP Ink draws from print: warm cream paper, ink-dark serif type, the editorial details of well-made books. Four Today layouts to open to, from a newsprint spread to a magazine front page. WRITE IT THE WAY YOU MEAN IT Bold, italic, strikethrough, underline. Section headers. Checklists inside a note, tap a line to check it off. REMINDERS, ONLY IF YOU ASK One quiet notification on the day something is due, at the time you choose. Off by default. Set an item to repeat daily, weekly, monthly, or yearly and it comes back on its own. A TIMER FOR SITTING DOWN TO WORK Set 15, 25, 45, or 60 minutes and Ink keeps a quiet countdown, then sounds a soft chime you choose. SHARE A LIST, KEEP IT IN SYNC Invite another Ink user by email. Check off, add, reorder, even dictate, and both copies stay in sync. A quiet byline shows who added each item. LISTS THAT KEEP A LEDGER Flip a list into Ledger mode and it keeps score. Type signed amounts (+$25, -$10, +200) and Ink totals each section, then the whole list. BRING IT WITH YOU, OR TAKE IT SOMEWHERE ELSE • Import PDFs, HTML, rich text, Markdown, plain text, and photos of a page • Copy any note or list as Markdown, or as plain text, HTML, or rich text with Pro • One-tap JSON backup and one-tap restore • iCloud sync across iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, and Mac • Universal purchase, buy once, use everywhere Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://basicapps.tech/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: BLOON App at none against Ink's 2. BLOON App also leads on iOS requirement (15.6 vs 17.0). Ink's advantage is update cadence (every 5 days vs every 2 months). On price, review sentiment, 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
Both are free to download. Ink sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. BLOON App asks for nothing beyond the download.
BLOON App ships an update every 2 months, Ink every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 13, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | BLOON App | Ink |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | — | 3 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 43 MB | 55 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | LEXIPON CO., LTD. | Sean Trapani |
Customer experience
BLOON App
Ink
In-app purchases
BLOON App
No in-app purchases
Ink
- Ink Monthly$4.991 Month
- Ink Annual$49.991 Year









