BB vs Blekk | Notes
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
BB
This app helps users break free from social media addiction and reduce screen time. It offers advanced blocking mechanisms to regain control over digital habits and improve mental well-being.
- Fight social media addiction
- Reduce screen time
- Multiple blocking mechanisms
- Schedule-based blocking
- Usage-based blocking
- Strict Mode
- Customizable blocking
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Apps like social media use powerful psychological tricks to make you unable to stay away from them for too long. Burnout Buddy blocks these apps when you don't want to use them to help you break free and heal their impact on your mental health. * Fight social media addiction * Reduce screen time and improve your focus * Multiple blocking mechanisms * Completely free for most use cases * No account creation or shady VPNs Burnout Buddy is stronger than your iPhone's native Screen Time controls. Designed specifically with social media addiction and unhealthy work habits in mind, it offers a wider variety of blocking mechanisms and allows you to be extremely specific regarding how access to a specific group of apps and websites should be restricted. If you already use Burnout Buddy, keep an eye out for updates that add even more blocking mechanisms and customization points! MAIN FEATURES * Block indefinitely * Schedule-based blocking * Usage-based blocking * Location-based blocking (via Siri) * Focus Mode-based blocking (via Siri) * Siri-based Blocking: Build your own custom blocking conditions by integrating BB with Siri and the Shortcuts app! * Multiple Conditions: Configure multiple blocking conditions for a single group of content for maximum control of your habits. * Multiple Configurations: Want to block a certain group of apps under certain conditions but also another group under other conditions? No problem! * Strict Mode: Have the bad habit of "cheating" app blockers by snoozing them? Strict Mode bans you from updating/deleting schemas when they're active. * Starter Schemas: Plug-and-play configurations that cover the most common reasons people use Burnout Buddy for. * Widgets • Custom App Icons * Block Uninstall * Block Screen Customization • Push Notifications • • • Try Burnout Buddy for free and start taking control of your digital habits today. Want to know more and see what's coming next? Check out BB at https://burnoutbuddy.io! Questions or feedback? You can reach out to us on Twitter at @BurnoutBuddy.
Blekk | Notes
This app offers a simple, elegant notebook, task tracker, and journal. It provides a fresh page for each day on a single scroll, with easy search and offline functionality. Multiple notebooks, PIN locking, and sharing options are available.
- Daily fresh pages on a single scroll
- Task tracking with checkboxes
- Searchable notes and tags
- Multiple notebooks with custom pens
- PIN-locked notebooks
- Offline functionality
- Shareable notebooks
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Blekk is your notebook, task tracker, journal, and scratchpad - simple, elegant, and focused. One fresh page for each day, all on a single scroll. Not every note needs a formal notetaking app. Blekk is for the things you jot down but don't always know where to stash. There is nothing to set up and nothing to organise. Open it and today is waiting for you. Write, and it saves as you type. Late nights stay on one page: the day turns over at 5 AM, not midnight. Type a task and it becomes one, with a checkbox. Yesterday fades behind today, every past day stays in the scroll, and anything you've ever written is a search away - your words, your tags, the themes rising in your writing. The past stays reachable, without pulling focus from today. Blekk is a quiet place to write anything and everything. Welcome. Also: • Keep more than one notebook, each with its own pen and ink - one for work, one for the garden, one for the book you keep meaning to write • Lock any notebook with a PIN • Choose warm cream or stone paper; night ink comes on after dark • Share a notebook with your team, then return to a personal space that stays separate • Works fully offline; sign in and your words follow you everywhere, encrypted at rest • Export everything as plain markdown, any time - your notes are yours, and reading them is never paywalled • No AI. No feeds. No streaks. No distractions. Free for 30 days with everything on. After that, the basic plan keeps one writing device, with reads and export everywhere, forever. Blekk Plus adds unlimited notebooks and writing from every device. Teams bring shared notebooks with per-seat billing. Blekk Plus and Teams are auto-renewable subscriptions, billed through your Apple ID. Payment is charged at confirmation of purchase; the subscription renews automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period, and can be managed or cancelled in your Apple ID account settings. Privacy policy: https://blekk.app/privacy Terms of use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Blekk | Notes at none against BB's 5. Blekk | Notes also leads on update cadence (every 5 days vs every 3 weeks). BB's advantage is ratings volume (391 vs 1). On price, rating, ads 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
Both are free to download. BB sells 5 one-off in-app purchases. Blekk | Notes asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for BB against 5.0 for Blekk | Notes. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: BB has 391 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
BB ships an update every 3 weeks, Blekk | Notes every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and October 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | BB | Blekk | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (391 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 90.3% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 391 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPod, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 5 MB | 14 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Bruno da Rocha e Silva | Jamie Druitt |
Customer experience
BB
Blekk | Notes
Bugs and requests
BB
Reported bugs
3 issues- Schemas not working as expected
- Inconsistent app/website blocking behavior
- Crashes and function-limiting bugs
Requested features
5 requests- Add option to pause schemas for a set time
- Implement screen time tracking and analytics
- Provide ability to block Safari and other browsers
- Add warning before app/website gets blocked
- Sync schemas across devices
Blekk | Notes
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
BB
- Kind Tip$0.99
- Generous Tip$4.99
- Burnout Buddy Pro$9.99
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- Super Tip$9.99
- Supreme Tip$19.99
Blekk | Notes
No in-app purchases









