Comparison

Brickby vs Screen Lock Notes

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

Head to head
About

Brickby

This app transforms your daily accomplishments into a growing virtual world. Commit to three key tasks daily, check them off, and watch as your progress builds unique structures and magical landscapes. It's a visually rewarding way to stay focused and motivated.

Highlights
  • Focused daily planning
  • Building virtual world rewards
  • Progress tracking
  • Daily streaks and achievements
  • Motivating visual rewards
  • Easy-to-use interface
Features
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Your to-do list builds a town. Brickby is a to-do list with something to show for it. Finish a task, earn a brick. Spend your bricks raising cottages, townhouses and manors on a little isometric island that grows all year. ONE BRICK, ONE TASK Every brick in your town is a task you actually finished. Nothing is handed out, nothing is bought, and the app never inflates the number to flatter you. Tap a building and it lists the jobs that paid for it — a week of small work, rendered as something you can look at. BUILD SOMETHING THAT LASTS Three bricks make a cottage. Six make a townhouse. Twelve make a manor. Add trees, hedges, wildflowers and ponds, turn the land, expand onto new plots, and rearrange any of it whenever you like. Nothing you build is ever taken away. REPEATING TASKS THAT DON'T NAG Set a task to repeat daily, on weekdays, weekends, weekly or monthly, and it hands itself forward when you tick it. Miss a day and nothing piles up — there is only ever one of each waiting, never a backlog shouting at you. STREAKS THAT PAY OUT Show up and the streak grows. Hit three days, a week, a fortnight, a month, two months, a hundred days, and each milestone hands you free land to place wherever you want. The rewards are land, never bricks, because a brick is a task you finished and those are only ever earned. QUIETLY DESIGNED The sky changes with the time of day. Trees sway. It works offline, needs no account, has no ads, and never sends you a guilt-trip notification. WHAT'S INSIDE • Simple daily to-do list with swipe to delete and drag to reorder • Repeating tasks — daily, weekdays, weekends, weekly, monthly • Full history of everything you have ever finished • Streaks with six milestones that grant land • An isometric town: three building types, dozens of colour variations • Landscaping, land expansion, and free rearranging • Widgets, no account, no ads, works offline Brickby is free to use. An optional upgrade unlocks the townhouse and manor, every building colour, all landscaping, and every kind of land. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://apptytude.com/BrickByTask/privacy.html

About

Screen Lock Notes

Features
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Write a note. See it on your Lock Screen. That is the whole app. Screen Lock Notes puts what you need to remember where you already look. A shopping list, a door code, tomorrow's plan — there without unlocking, searching, or opening anything. TICK THINGS OFF WITHOUT UNLOCKING Turn any note into a checklist and check items straight from the Lock Screen. No Face ID, no app switching, no waiting. 74 READY-MADE DESIGNS Grid, lined, dotted or blank paper across nine collections — Colorful, Retro, Memo, Girly, Dark, Simple, Calm Blue and Clear glass panels that let your wallpaper show through. Handwriting, marker and rounded typefaces. Adjust size, weight, letter width and ink colour, then save the looks you like and reuse them. MAKE IT YOURS • 31 alternate app icons • Pin photos to a note and place them anywhere on the card • Doodle on your note with your finger • Set a note template so every new note starts the way you want • A gentle daily reminder that shows your latest note • Compact mode for a smaller card EVERYTHING STAYS ON YOUR IPHONE No account. No sign-up. No servers. Your notes, photos and drawings never leave your device, because there is nowhere for them to go. We collect nothing. The Lock Screen note uses a Live Activity and needs iOS 16.2 or later.

Screenshots

Brickby4 screens
Screen Lock Notes4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Screen Lock Notes at none against Brickby's 2. Screen Lock Notes also leads on iOS requirement (16.0 vs 26.0). On price, ads and device support 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. Brickby sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Screen Lock Notes asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
Brickby versus Screen Lock Notes: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBrickbyScreen Lock Notes
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeks—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS26.016.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size45 MB5 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJeff CedillaMr Siddharth

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Brickby

Subscriptions1
  • Monthly Premium$1.991 Month
One-time1
  • Lifetime$4.99
None

Screen Lock Notes

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Brickby free?
Brickby is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Screen Lock Notes free?
Screen Lock Notes is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Brickby or Screen Lock Notes have ads?
Neither Brickby nor Screen Lock Notes shows ads.

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