Ophaya Pro+ vs Sphere
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Ophaya Pro+
Capture your handwritten notes digitally with instant storage, retrieval, and sharing. This app works with smart pens and notebooks, allowing you to write traditionally while enjoying digital convenience. It supports offline writing and synchronized audio recording for comprehensive review.
- Instant digital storage
- Quick retrieval of notes
- Easy sharing of written content
- Offline writing support
- Synchronized audio recording
- Adjustable font size and color
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Ophaya Pro+ is an app that supports a smart handwriting pen. It is designed to seamlessly integrate with notebooks, handwriting pads, and B5 paper through its dedicated app. This allows users to write in a traditional manner while enjoying the convenience of instant digital storage, quick retrieval, and easy sharing of written content. With the ability to write both online and offline, Ophaya Pro+ preserves the familiarity of traditional writing habits while providing real-time digital capture. During the writing process, users have the flexibility to change font size and color on the fly. Additionally, the pen supports simultaneous audio recording while writing. When played back, the written strokes and audio are synchronized for a comprehensive review.
Sphere
Visualize your schedule and weather in a unique sky-themed interface. Events appear as colored capsules on an arc, with weather phenomena like clouds and storms integrated. Enjoy a visually atmospheric experience for managing your day.
- Sky-themed schedule visualization
- Integrated weather display
- Event capsules with calendar colors
- Altitude-based cloud stacking
- Day/night cycle with celestial bodies
- Home and Lock Screen widgets
- Native calendar integration
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Sphere shows your schedule and weather in the sky. It's designed to have atmosphere. Each of your events is a capsule on the arc, running from start to end in the color of the calendar it came from. Clouds stack by altitude (modeled after cirrus and cumulus clouds), and you'll see rain, storms, lightning, and more. For clear hours, you'll see birds in the day and twinkling stars at night. The arc: - Drag it to move through the day. - Pinch to zoom. - Tap to make an event, open one, or pick a different date. - Tap the left or right edge to go to the previous or next event. - Press and hold to open the menu, or the gesture guide. - Scrub away from the present and the bottom left corner shows how far, like "+4 hours". Tap it to come back to now. - The menu mark in the bottom right corner opens the menu, or the gesture guide. - Events open in Apple's native calendar, so editing, deleting and replying to an invitation work exactly the way you're used to. - All-day events are under the date, where they can be read without taking room on the arc. The menu: - Today's arc with sunrise, midday and sunset. - Tonight's moon and the temperature right now. - Appearance; Natural Sky means the app is light by day and dark at night, and dark makes it dark all the time. - Calendar toggles. Outside the app: - Home Screen: the sky curve with your events on it, in small and medium. - Lock Screen: where the sun is and your next calendar event. Sphere is free. No account, no subscription, no ads, no analytics, no tracking. Privacy: https://smidgecraft.com/sphere/privacy Support: https://smidgecraft.com/sphere/support Questions, ideas, or feedback? mason@smidgecraft.com
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Sphere at 5.0 against Ophaya Pro+'s 2.8. Sphere also leads on update cadence (every 3 days vs every 2 months). Ophaya Pro+'s advantage is ratings volume (21 vs 1) and device support (3 vs 1). 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Sphere holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 2.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Ophaya Pro+ has 21 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Ophaya Pro+ ships an update every 2 months, Sphere every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Ophaya Pro+ | Sphere |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.8 (21 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 33.3% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 21 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 53 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 啟思文化 | Mason Garcera |
Customer experience
Ophaya Pro+
Sphere
In-app purchases
Ophaya Pro+
No in-app purchases
Sphere
No in-app purchases









