Comparison

InkSpace vs Clockwise

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

Head to head
About

InkSpace

This digital notebook app offers complete creative freedom for note-taking, brainstorming, sketching, and journaling. Customize notebooks with various templates, page styles, and colors. Organize and access notes seamlessly across devices, with offline functionality.

Highlights
  • Unlimited custom notebooks
  • Write, draw, and sketch with stylus support
  • Insert custom shapes, text, and media
  • Searchable tags and bookmarks
  • Sync across all devices
  • Offline functionality
Features
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The all-in-one notebook for handwriting, typing, PDFs, math, diagrams, and more. Built for students who want to learn faster and professionals who want to work smarter. Take handwritten notes, mark up PDFs, solve equations, and record lectures, all in one organized space that keeps your work together and in sync across your devices. Write and draw naturally Capture notes in your own handwriting with smooth, responsive ink. Prefer to type? Switch to the keyboard anytime, with a full font picker and control over size, color, bold, italic, underline, and alignment. Add horizontal and vertical rulers to keep everything precise. Choose the perfect page Start on college ruled, wide ruled, graph, dotted, or blank paper in A4, A5, B5, or custom sizes, portrait or landscape. Personalize everything with custom notebook and page colors, backgrounds, and tints. Templates for every purpose Jump into ready-made template packs for real life: • Planner templates for daily planning and scheduling • Journal templates for reflection and journaling • Fitness templates for workouts and tracking • Teaching templates for lesson planning and classes • Finance and trading templates for money and markets • Handwriting and calendar templates for practice and organization Or build and save your own so your favorite layouts are always one tap away. Study and remember more Turn any subject into a quiz set, a deck of flip cards you can shuffle, grade, and drill yourself with until it sticks. Perfect for exam prep, vocabulary, and quick daily review. Find anything instantly InkSpace reads your handwriting and makes it searchable. Search across every notebook to surface handwritten notes, typed text, sticky notes, code, lists, and tags in seconds. Spotlight finds notes right from the Home Screen, and Siri Shortcuts let you create, open, and search notes hands-free. Work smarter with rich, interactive objects Drop live tools onto your page and move them anywhere: • Math equations with automatic formatting from everyday notation • Calculator with named variables, unit and currency conversion, and financial functions like PMT, FV, and PV • Charts with a built-in data editor and multiple chart types • Function graphs for visualizing equations • Code blocks with syntax highlighting for Swift, Python, JavaScript, Java, C++, and many more • Audio recordings to capture lectures and meetings alongside your notes • Images, maps, and 3D models embedded directly on your pages • Tables and grids with fully editable cells and real formulas • Checklists and lists with bullets, numbers, and checkboxes • Sticky notes and shapes to structure and highlight your thinking Build diagrams and connect ideas Create flowcharts, mind maps, and org-style diagrams by linking shapes, text, and sticky notes with connectors and arrows. Explore without limits using infinite zoom and fractal canvas modes that give you endless room to think. Write papers that are ready to hand in Draft a full essay with proper margins, then let InkSpace build your entire bibliography from your sources in APA, MLA, or Chicago style. Export to PDF or Word, formatted and ready to submit. Organize everything your way Group your notebooks, papers, and quiz sets together into backpacks. Bookmark notebooks and pages, tag pages for fast filtering, connect notes with cross-notebook page links that preview inline, and add hyperlinks to jump anywhere. Import PDFs to reference, attach files, and export pages to share. Sync securely with iCloud Your notebooks stay up to date on every device with iCloud, so your notes are always with you. Perfect for • Students: lecture notes, study guides, math and science homework, searchable revision, recorded classes, quiz sets, and notebooks for every subject • Professionals: meeting notes, project planning, diagrams, referenced PDFs, quick calculations, and reusable templates

About

Clockwise

Features
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Clockwise is a powerful, privacy-first time tracker built for freelancers, consultants, and anyone who wants to understand where their time goes. Start a timer, plan your week, block distractions, and review your hours — all from one app. TRACK YOUR TIME Start and stop timers with a single tap. Enter a quick title, assign a client, and let Clockwise handle the rest. Your timer keeps running even if you close the app, and picks up right where you left off when you relaunch. Pause and resume anytime. Paused time is automatically excluded from your totals so your records stay accurate. PLAN YOUR DAY Create tasks with estimated durations and schedule them throughout your week. Set recurring tasks for daily or weekly routines. Start a timer directly from any planned task — Clockwise links your tracked time back to your plan so you can see what's on track and what's falling behind. FOCUS MODE Block distracting apps while you work. When you start a timer with Focus Mode enabled, Clockwise uses Screen Time to keep you on task. When you stop, your apps come back. Simple. ORGANIZE WITH CLIENTS & TAGS Create clients and tag your entries for easy filtering. Whether you're juggling multiple freelance clients or organizing personal projects, Clockwise keeps everything sorted. REVIEW YOUR ENTRIES Browse all your time entries in one place. Search by title or client, group by date, and tap any entry to edit the details. See daily summaries at a glance. WIDGETS & LIVE ACTIVITIES Glance at your running timer from your Home Screen or Lock Screen. Clockwise widgets show your active session so you always know what you're working on. PRIVACY FIRST All your data lives on your device. Clockwise does not collect, upload, or share any of your information. No analytics. No tracking. Just your data, on your device. DESIGNED FOR IPHONE & IPAD Clockwise adapts to your device with a tab bar on iPhone and a sidebar on iPad, so it feels right at home everywhere. --- Whether you bill by the hour or just want to be more intentional with your time, Clockwise gives you the tools without the complexity. Download Clockwise and take control of your time.

Screenshots

InkSpace4 screens
Clockwise4 screens

Verdict

The call

InkSpace and Clockwise are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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. InkSpace sells 6 one-off in-app purchases and Clockwise sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
InkSpace versus Clockwise: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterInkSpaceClockwise
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (9 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings9 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeks—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationPaid—
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.0 — better17.6
Further details — not scored
Size29 MB3 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperTyler ShermanKarma Farm, LLC

In-app purchases

6 purchases

InkSpace

One-time6
  • Fitness Pack$0.99
  • Finance Pack$0.99
  • Handwriting Pack$0.99
Show 3 more
  • Planner Pack$0.99
  • Teaching Pack$0.99
  • Journal Pack$0.99
1 purchases

Clockwise

One-time1
  • Lifetime Premium$9.99

Questions

Is InkSpace free?
InkSpace is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Clockwise free?
Clockwise is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do InkSpace or Clockwise have ads?
Neither InkSpace nor Clockwise shows ads.

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