Messame vs Hyphen
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Messame
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Level up your note taking - save links, PDFs, photos, videos, links, phone numbers and files. All of the notes are categorized by date and are shown in messaging application kind of view. Messame has multiple features to make it quick to create and read notes. You can sort your notes to topics, lock your topics using Face ID or Touch ID, customize the looks to your preferences, take quick notes from lockscreen widgets and much more! Start messaging yourself now with Messame.
Hyphen
This minimalist app allows for quick capture of daily thoughts, tasks, and moments. It organizes entries by day and provides a visual timeline of your year, highlighting days with more activity. Notes are automatically timestamped and can be entered via typing or voice.
- Quick entry via typing or voice
- Automatic timestamping
- Visual year-in-a-glance timeline
- Smart grouping of related notes
- Secure cross-device syncing
- Private and inaccessible by developer
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Hyphen is a quiet place for the details you would otherwise lose. Write a sentence, list, quotation, decision, observation, or full page. Every note belongs to its day, so you can move naturally through time and return by date, month, year, Chronicle, or search. WRITE WITHOUT FRICTION Capture a quick thought in place. Expand into the full editor when the thought becomes something larger. MARKDOWN MADE FOR IPHONE Use headings, emphasis, lists, checklists, quotations, links, and code without hunting through the iOS keyboard for punctuation. SEE YOUR DAYS TAKE SHAPE Move naturally between Day, Month, and Year, and view time as a quiet record of activity. Hyphen shows continuity without turning your writing into a streak game. FIND WHAT YOU WROTE Search your writing, browse Chronicle, and move directly back to the day where a thought belongs.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Hyphen at none against Messame's 1. Hyphen also leads on update cadence (every 2 days vs every 2 months). On price, ads, device support 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
Both are free to download. Messame sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Hyphen asks for nothing beyond the download.
Messame ships an update every 2 months, Hyphen every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 3, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Messame | Hyphen |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (7 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | — | 7 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | — | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, Mac | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 35 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Picture It | CHRISTOPH J WHITELAM |
In-app purchases
Messame
- Unlimited topics$3.99
Hyphen
No in-app purchases









