Comparison

Architectural Digest vs Noonki

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

Head to head
About

Architectural Digest

Explore the world's most stunning homes and get insights into architecture and interior design. Discover top talent and exclusive content from the international authority on design.

Highlights
  • Exclusive access to beautiful homes
  • Architecture and interior design insights
  • Information on art, antiques, and travel
  • AD100 list of top architects and designers
  • Complimentary articles for non-subscribers
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Architectural Digest (AD), the international authority on design and architecture, offers exclusive access to the world’s most beautiful homes and the fascinating people who live in them. Bringing its audience a wealth of information on architecture and interior design, art and antiques, travel destinations, and extraordinary products, its AD100 list of top architects and designers is one of the industry’s most relied-upon indexes of talent. The Architectural Digest digital edition app is free to download. Subscribers receive unlimited access. Non-subscribers may access a selection of complimentary articles each month. AUTOMATIC-RENEWAL: Your payment method will be automatically charged at the frequency and price noted in the subscription offer you select, until you cancel. To cancel, you must update your App Store Subscriptions settings at least 24 hours before the end of the current subscription term. No refunds once payment is made.

About

Noonki

Cultivate a virtual garden and a starry sky by performing acts of kindness. This app offers daily prompts and a unique creature companion to encourage positive actions, fostering personal growth and a sense of calm.

Highlights
  • Perform daily acts of kindness
  • Grow a virtual garden
  • Light stars for quiet kindnesses
  • Nurture a companion creature
  • Receive daily kindness prompts
  • Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets
  • Calm, ad-free design
Features
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Noonki hands you one small way to make someone's day better, then turns that kindness into a world you can watch grow: a garden by day, a sky full of stars by night. SEEDS BY DAY Seeds are kindnesses you do with your hands. A coffee for the person behind you. A shelf fixed for a neighbor. A thank you that was long overdue. Complete a seed and your garden answers: a new flower, fresh petals, a tree reaching higher. SPARKS BY NIGHT Sparks are the quiet kind, felt more than seen. Listening fully. Letting someone go first. A patient breath instead of a sharp word. Each spark lights a star, and stars gather into constellations named for the person you are becoming: The Listener, The Grateful, The Brave. YOUR NOONKI Your Noonki is a small creature that watches over the garden you grow. You name it, and it answers to that name. It has a birthday, a sign, and opinions about kindness. THE DAILY MOMENT If you say yes, a small message arrives each day, woven from the day's own sky and a real kindness to try. You choose how many a day and the hours they arrive. On a day you have already planted something, it simply says so and lets you rest. It never nags, never counts down, and never mentions your streak. CALM BY DESIGN There is no endless feed and no follower count. Friends are a table, not an audience: a free garden seats three, and Noonki Plus opens the table to everyone. A day away only pauses your streak, and your Noonki helps you mend it with two kindnesses. PRIVATE BY DESIGN You can begin without an account. There are no ads, no analytics, no tracking, no third-party SDKs, and no server of our own. Your practice lives on your phone. Its two iCloud copies open only with your own Apple Account or your recovery key, and your notes, journal and photos are never part of either. Friends you add see the first name you choose, your garden code and color, your week's sun, flowers and streak, and the moments you send them. WIDGETS Keep the streak lantern, the day's seed, tonight's star or the garden's sky on your Home Screen and Lock Screen, and follow the day's seeds and sparks in a Live Activity. MADE TO BE READ Noonki is set in its own typeface, made for this app and shaped for legibility: letters that are hard to mistake for one another, generous spacing, and a switch back to familiar lettering for anyone who prefers it. VoiceOver, larger text, reduced motion and higher contrast are supported across the app. WHAT IS FREE Planting, sparks, the streak and its mend, the Daily Moment, widgets, friends, your Noonki and its name are free, and so are three garden beds, three constellations open at a time, the last seven days of the Almanac, and three seats at your table. WHAT NOONKI PLUS ADDS Every garden bed, the whole Almanac, every constellation and the sky editor, the studio, wings, coats and patterns, new weather, pressed flowers, four more widget faces, kindnesses you write yourself, names for your flowers and skies, the seed jar, star readings, weekly reflections, every kindness challenge at once, gentle routines, the Observatory, the dream journal, your month and year written up, and a table with room for everyone. HOW NOONKI PLUS WORKS Noonki Plus is a monthly or yearly plan, or a one-time Lifetime purchase. The price for your country is shown in the app before you buy. When the App Store offers it, a plan begins with a free trial. Plans renew automatically until you cancel in Settings. Some parts of the garden can also be kept on their own, once, for good, from the plans screen or where you meet them. The free garden keeps growing either way. Apple Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Architectural Digest4 screens
Noonki4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ratings volume: Architectural Digest at 460 against Noonki's 2. Architectural Digest also leads on chart position (#164 vs unranked). Noonki's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.7) and update cadence (monthly vs every 4 months). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Architectural Digest sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month and Noonki sells 11 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Noonki holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Architectural Digest has 460 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Architectural Digest ships an update every 4 months, Noonki monthly. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 7 level
Architectural Digest versus Noonki: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterArchitectural DigestNoonki
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (460 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews28.8% of reviews—
Number of ratings460 — better2
Update frequencyEvery 4 monthsMonthly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFreemium
Best chart rank#164 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS16.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size19 MB25 MB
Age rating12+12+
DeveloperAdvance Magazine Publishers Inc.NOONKI LLC

Customer experience

Architectural Digest

All ratings432 ratings
Positive92.1%
Neutral1.9%
Negative6.0%
Written reviews118 reviews
Positive28.8%
Neutral7.6%
Negative63.6%

Noonki

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

Architectural Digest

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Frequent crashes and stability issues
  • Inability to download or access issues
  • Subscription syncing problems across devices

Requested features

5 requests
  • Landscape mode for two-page spreads
  • Improved navigation and content organization
  • Seamless subscription management and linking
  • Enhanced image viewing and zoom capabilities
  • Accessibility features for visually impaired users

Noonki

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

10 purchases

Architectural Digest

Subscriptions3
  • One Month Subscription$3.991 Month
  • Discounted Subscription Holiday 2015$14.991 Year
  • One Year Subscription1 Month trial$29.991 Year
One-time7
  • December 2013$5.99
  • April 2014$5.99
  • June 2014$5.99
Show 4 more
  • July 2014$5.99
  • December 2014$5.99
  • February 2015$5.99
  • March 2016$5.99
11 purchases

Noonki

One-time11
  • Constellation · Steadfast$5.00
  • Constellation · Open$5.00
  • Constellation · Luminous$5.00
Show 8 more
  • Write your own deeds$5.00
  • Choose your wings$5.00
  • Weather over your garden$5.00
  • Every coat and pattern$5.00
  • Pressed flowers, exported$5.00
  • Every widget face$5.00
  • The studio, for good$15.00
  • Noonki Plus, once and for good$150.00

Questions

Is Architectural Digest free?
Architectural Digest is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Noonki free?
Noonki is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Architectural Digest or Noonki?
Noonki is rated higher. Architectural Digest averages 4.7 out of 5 from 460 ratings, while Noonki averages 5.0 from 2 ratings.
Do Architectural Digest or Noonki have ads?
Neither Architectural Digest nor Noonki shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Architectural Digest or Noonki?
Architectural Digest ships an update every 4 months, and Noonki monthly. Most recently, Architectural Digest was updated on November 1, 2026 and Noonki on October 25, 2026.

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