Comparison

Holonote vs Clack Board

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

Head to head
About

Holonote

This app automatically logs your daily activities, including places visited and routes taken, and integrates your photos and journal entries. It allows you to revisit and share your experiences privately on your device.

Highlights
  • Automatic place and path logging
  • Photo integration
  • Journaling with voice notes
  • On-device data privacy
  • Memory timeline
  • Sharing capabilities
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Holonote is a travel diary that is automatic and private. Automatic. Keep your phone in your pocket. Holonote saves the places you visit and draws your paths, whether you're on foot, in a car, or on a flight. The photos you take show up in the moments you took them. At the end of each day you have a timeline of where you went. Private. Everything is saved on your phone. Photos stay in your library, never copied or uploaded. We have no servers. Only you can see your diary. Email us at aloha@forpedestrians.com for questions or feature requests.

About

Clack Board

This app simulates a split-flap display on your screen, allowing you to send messages that animate with realistic sound and physics. It can also display dynamic information like time, weather, sports scores, and data from various online sources.

Highlights
  • Realistic flap animation and sound
  • Customizable messages with color
  • Dynamic information channels (clock, weather, scores)
  • Integration with Shortcuts and Siri
  • Developer API for custom integrations
  • Mac desktop wallpaper and screen saver
  • Home and Lock Screen widgets
Features
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Clack is a split-flap board for your screen. Every letter is a real flap on a drum. Send a message and 132 of them spin, clack and land, with the sound and the feel of the physical boards you see in airports, hotels and homes. Then the board goes back to whatever you have scheduled: the time in words, the weather, tonight's scores, your calendar, a quote, or anything with a URL. MESSAGES Type anything and watch it cascade onto the board. Add colour chips with {red}, {green} or {blue}, or a heart. Pin a message so it stays. Send from the app, from Shortcuts and Siri, or from any other device on your network. CHANNELS Switch on the ones you want and the board cycles through them: • Clock, in words or digits • Weather, sunrise and sunset, air quality and UV, the moon • Football and sports scores with your team's colours, and the next fixture • Formula 1, Transport for London departures • Calendar and Reminders • Mail: unread count and the latest sender • GitHub commits, YouTube subscribers, crypto, stocks, exchange rates, App Store ratings • Hacker News, On This Day, any RSS feed • Custom API: point it at any JSON URL and write a template • Mirror the physical board on your wall Almost everything works without an account or a key. ON THE MAC Set the board as your live desktop wallpaper, behind your icons, on every Space, animating as messages arrive. Or install it as a screen saver. There's a menu bar composer, and a one-tap way to hide every window and just look at the board. FOR DEVELOPERS AND TINKERERS Clack speaks the same local API as the physical boards, so Home Assistant, Zapier, n8n, a cron job or a curl command can post to it unchanged. Send plain text or an exact grid of character codes. There's a built-in guide, and a prompt you can hand to your AI so it knows how to talk to your board. THE DETAILS • Flagship (6 × 22) and Note (3 × 15) layouts • Real flap physics: gravity on the fall, a damped landing, per-column stereo clacks • Realism mode: hinge pins, flap thickness, motion trails, print offset • Any typeface installed on your device, or import your own • Optional symbol flaps: arrows, weather, a few objects • Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets • Wall mode: the board alone on black, screen kept awake. Lean an iPad on a shelf. • Quiet hours, so the board sleeps when you do Made by OCTOBER.

Screenshots

Holonote4 screens
Clack Board4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Holonote at 4.4 against Clack Board's 2.0. Holonote also leads on ratings volume (11 vs 1). Clack Board's advantage is update cadence (every 3 days vs weekly) and device support (5 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Holonote holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 2.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Holonote has 11 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Holonote ships an update weekly, Clack Board every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 26, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Holonote versus Clack Board: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHolonoteClack Board
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.4 (11 ratings) — better2.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews90.9% of reviews—
Number of ratings11 — better1
Update frequencyWeeklyEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS18.018.0
Further details — not scored
Size27 MB18 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperFor Pedestrians LLC.James Frewin

In-app purchases

None

Holonote

No in-app purchases

None

Clack Board

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Holonote free?
Holonote is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Clack Board free?
Clack Board is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Holonote or Clack Board?
Holonote is rated higher. Holonote averages 4.4 out of 5 from 11 ratings, while Clack Board averages 2.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Holonote or Clack Board have ads?
Neither Holonote nor Clack Board shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Holonote or Clack Board?
Holonote ships an update weekly, and Clack Board every 3 days. Most recently, Holonote was updated on October 25, 2026 and Clack Board on October 26, 2026.

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