FloatNotes vs VisibleHour
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
FloatNotes
This app allows you to create and sync sticky notes across your Apple devices in real time. It offers customizable note colors and prioritizes user privacy with no trackers or analytics, syncing securely via iCloud.
- Spatial sticky notes
- Real-time syncing across devices
- Customizable note colors
- Privacy-focused with no trackers
- iCloud sync integration
- Available on iPhone, iPad, and Apple Vision Pro
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FloatNotes is your spatial sticky note app! Keep your reminders close at hand. 5 different note colors to help separate your ideas. Jot down quick memos on a note, or type out a quick note on your iPhone to have it available on all your other devices (Now including Apple Vision Pro) in real time! FloatNotes puts your privacy first - there is no trackers or analytics, your notes are securely synced to other devices via your iCloud account. FloatNotes is a paid app on iPhone & iPad, and available for free on Apple Vision Pro. Privacy Policy: https://swiftfox.co/floatnotes-privacy/ EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
VisibleHour
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An always-visible view of time on your phone, your wrist, and your spatial workspace. The day, drained as it passes. Your session, draining as you work. A quiet tap on your wrist when you've been at something too long. For when 30 minutes feels like 5. VisibleHour is a single-purpose external time sense — designed for people whose internal clock isn't always reliable. For time blindness. For hyperfocus. For the moments when "just five more minutes" becomes an hour. The dial isn't a clock face you check. It's a clock face you live alongside, on every surface you already glance at. Three rhythms, on every screen. The day. Your waking hours rendered as a draining amber arc — from the moment you start your day until you wind it down. Tells you how much day is in front of you, not just what time it is right now. The session. A focused block — 15, 25/5 Pomodoro, 30, 60, or 90 minutes. The pie at the center drains as time passes — a visual timer at session scale. Tap it to zoom into a visual timer face with minute marks. Pomodoro mode shows two amber tones — work, then a softer break. The body. A quiet tap on the wrist at the interval you set — 60, 90, or 120 minutes. No banner. No streak. No "you've been at this for two hours" guilt. Just a tap that says: notice the time. Optional desk mode — keep your phone or iPad awake during a session so the dial stays visible while you work. Cross-device sync. Start a session on your Vision Pro while working in spatial. Within a second, the Live Activity appears on your iPhone Lock Screen and the dial fills on your Apple Watch. Stop on the Watch — every screen clears together. Powered by iCloud private database, with no telemetry leaving your device. Calendar-aware. Optionally show your day's events on the dial — a quiet ink line for each meeting, sitting alongside your session. Tap the dial to surface the next event's title. Widgets everywhere. Lock Screen and Home Screen widgets on iPhone. Native complications on Apple Watch in four families. A spatial widget on Apple Vision Pro that coexists with your email, your MacBook display, and whatever else is in your spatial workspace. What it isn't. This is not a habit tracker. Not a productivity hammer. Not a notification machine. There are no streaks, no leaderboards, no "you used the app 12 days in a row" celebrations. There's no analytics, no third-party SDKs, no ads. The whole product is one quiet answer to a quiet question — how much time has passed? Privacy. No tracking. No analytics. No third-party services. The only data that ever leaves your device is the small piece of state that syncs through your private iCloud (active session, day boundaries, awareness interval, appearance preference). Calendar events are read locally on each device — they never sync to the cloud. Made quietly by sthreelabs.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: FloatNotes at $0.99 against VisibleHour's $4.99. VisibleHour's advantage is device support (4 vs 2). On update cadence, ads, in-app purchases and iOS requirement 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
FloatNotes costs $0.99 and VisibleHour $4.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
FloatNotes ships an update every 5 days, VisibleHour every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on September 29, 2026 and October 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | FloatNotes | VisibleHour |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 — better | $4.99 |
| Rating | 4.6 (5 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 5 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 5 days | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, Vision Pro — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 0 MB | 8 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Swift Fox Software LLC | sthreelabs LLC |
In-app purchases
FloatNotes
No in-app purchases
VisibleHour
No in-app purchases








