Nested Folder Notes vs Lumen FocusTick
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Nested Folder Notes
Organize your thoughts and ideas with unlimited folders and subfolders. Create text notes, checklists, or add images. This ad-free app offers flexible date management and a powerful search function for easy retrieval.
- Unlimited subfolders
- Text notes
- Checklists
- Image attachments
- Customizable folder icons and colors
- Full-text search
- Offline access
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Folino brings order to your notes: folders and subfolders as deep as you like, plus checklists and voice notes. No ads, no account, made in Germany. Notebook, journal, to-do list or shopping list: in Folino, every topic gets its own folder and every folder as many subfolders as you need. So you can find everything again, even years later. UNLIMITED FOLDERS • As many folders and subfolders as you like, nested as deep as you like • Pinning, favorites and “Recent notes” for quick access • Sort each folder by title, date modified, date created or by hand • List or tile view • Copy, move and duplicate, including entire folders with their contents NOTES, CHECKLISTS, VOICE NOTES • Formatting: bold, italic, headings, bullet lists, quotes, colors • Checklists to tick off, turn a note into a checklist and back • Record voice notes • Section overview for long notes • Reading view, so nothing gets changed by accident • Insert date and time with one tap, handy for journaling FIND IT FAST • Full-text search across titles and content, best matches first • Recycle bin: restore what you deleted PRIVATE AND SECURE • Lock the whole app or individual notes and folders, with PIN, Face ID or Touch ID • No account needed, no ads • Your notes stay on your device and work offline • Backup as a file, export as text, print and share SWITCHING MADE EASY • Import from Google Keep, including checklists, images, colors and voice notes. Labels become folders • Import TXT, Markdown and CSV files MADE FOR YOU • Themes: Light, Dark, Black and more • 7 text sizes, red-green color blindness mode, VoiceOver • For iPhone and iPad, in 28 languages FOLINO PREMIUM Buy once, no subscription. Try it free for 7 days. • Sync via your Google Drive between iPhone, iPad and Android • Images in notes, placed freely and resizable • Voice recordings with no time limit • Links between notes and folders, like a personal wiki • Shortcuts: one note in several folders • Icons and colors for folders, colors for notes • Export as PDF Questions or ideas for Folino? I’d love to hear from you by email.
Lumen FocusTick
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Focus better with an offline-first timer. Lumen FocusTick helps you stay in flow with ambient sounds, clean statistics, and Live Activity. Key features • One-tap focus timer (Pomodoro / custom durations) • Ambient sounds to reduce distractions • Streaks, heatmap, and trend charts • Live Activity / Dynamic Island progress • iCloud sync (CloudKit private database) • Privacy Policy: https://page.lumenlabs.top/focustick/privacy • Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
Nested Folder Notes and Lumen FocusTick are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.
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. Nested Folder Notes sells 7 one-off in-app purchases and Lumen FocusTick sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
| Parameter | Nested Folder Notes | Lumen FocusTick |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (13 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 90.9% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 13 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 57 MB | 12 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Tobias Schiek | 欣怡 邓 |
In-app purchases
Nested Folder Notes
- Style AddOn$0.99
- Donation$0.99
- Images AddOn$1.99
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- Donation$1.99
- Donation$2.99
- Donation$3.99
- Premium$6.99
Lumen FocusTick
- FocusTick Pro (Monthly)$2.991 Month
- FocusTick Pro (Yearly)$19.991 Year
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