Comparison

ZenScreen vs Spinnium

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

Head to head
About

ZenScreen

This app uses eye-tracking to guide focus onto a dark screen, promoting mindfulness, creativity, and stress relief. It transforms idle moments into opportunities for personal growth and productivity.

Highlights
  • Eye-tracking technology
  • Guided focus on dark screen
  • Mindfulness and stress relief
  • Boosts creativity
  • Enhances productivity
  • Personal growth tool
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Embrace the power of boredom with our innovative app. Utilizing eye-tracking technology, our app guides your focus onto a dark screen, opening a pathway to mindfulness, creativity, and self-awareness. Transform idle moments into personal growth, stress relief, and a boost to your productivity. Welcome to your journey of harnessing the power of boredom! Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Spinnium

This app offers a unique journaling experience focused on a weekly view. Each day is represented as a petal, filling in as you write. It emphasizes privacy, with all notes stored locally on your device.

Highlights
  • Weekly petal-based journal view
  • Daily writing entries
  • Natural language search for notes
  • Intuitive time travel navigation
  • Mindful breathing exercises
  • Local-only data storage
  • Markdown export
Features
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Each day is a petal. Each week is a flower, and it fills in as the week is lived. Days that have arrived are colored; days still ahead are outlines waiting for you. A finished flower is a week you got through. Open a day and write. That is the whole app: no month grid, no year view, no list of everything you have ever done. One screen, seven days, and whatever you want to say about them. WRITE: Tap a day to open it. Write a line or write a page; it saves as you type. Nothing to file, tag or name. There are no streaks and no reminders, so there is nothing to fall behind on. A week you did not write in is simply a quieter flower. FIND: Search understands time the way you say it: "today", "Monday", "Aug 20", "last week", "3 weeks ago". It also searches inside what you wrote. type a word you remember and the days you wrote it on come back with the sentence it sits in. TRAVEL: The strip along the bottom is where you are in time. Drag it and the weeks move with your thumb; let go and it settles. "This week" is always one tap away. SPIN: The flower turns when you push it, coasts, and chimes softly. It does nothing. It is there for the same reason people click a pen. Breathe: The flower breathes while you watch it. swelling and settling at seven breaths a minute, the same pace as the Breathe session on Apple Watch. It is slow enough to follow without trying, and it is the only thing in the app that asks anything of you: sit with the week for a minute and breathe with it. PRIVATE: Your notes never leave this device. No account, no sign-in, no cloud, no analytics. the app has no networking code at all, so there is nothing to send even by accident. Nothing is collected, so nothing can be sold. Turn on App Lock and Face ID guards the app, and the app-switcher preview too. YOURS TO KEEP - Export writes every note into one Markdown file you can take anywhere. An app that lets you leave is an app that is not holding on to you. Designed and built by one person.

Screenshots

ZenScreen3 screens
Spinnium4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Spinnium at none against ZenScreen's 7. Spinnium also leads on ratings volume (3 vs 1). ZenScreen's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.2 vs 17.0). On price, rating 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. ZenScreen sells 7 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Spinnium asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for ZenScreen against 5.0 for Spinnium. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 3 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 4 level
ZenScreen versus Spinnium: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterZenScreenSpinnium
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (3 ratings)
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings13 — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemiumFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.2 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size6 MB3 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperGennady ArchibasovAtefeh Fereidounpour

Customer experience

ZenScreen

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Spinnium

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

7 purchases

ZenScreen

Subscriptions3
  • Zen Associate$4.991 Month
  • Zen Practitioner$9.991 Month
  • Zen Pioneer$29.991 Month
One-time4
  • A simple thank you$4.99
  • Warm appreciation$19.99
  • Generous Support$44.99
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  • Deep respect$99.99
None

Spinnium

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is ZenScreen free?
ZenScreen is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Spinnium free?
Spinnium is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, ZenScreen or Spinnium?
ZenScreen and Spinnium are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 3 ratings respectively.
Do ZenScreen or Spinnium have ads?
Neither ZenScreen nor Spinnium shows ads.

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