Static Blog Generator vs Zirbe
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Static Blog Generator
This app allows you to write and publish blog posts directly to your own website. It automatically generates web files and uploads them via SFTP, supporting various content formats from microblogging to long-form articles. A web host is required to utilize its full functionality.
- Write and edit blog posts
- Automatic web file generation
- SFTP file uploads
- Supports microblogging and long-form content
- Create content on iPhone
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Static blog generator app is the best way to write and publish your blog to your own website. Great for: - sharing photos - short content (microblogging) - typical long form blog posts. Free to install! Create and edit posts on the iPhone as long as you want. Purchase or subscribe to activate uploading to your website. As you add or edit blog posts, app automatically generates web files on the iPhone and uploads them to your web-host. No server side application necessary, all you need is a typical webserver. Note: You need to have your own web-host to use the app to its full potential. App uses SFTP protocol to upload files to your server. Set up and test SFTP connection before you purchase subscription. Terms of use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy policy: https://21loopings.com/privacy/
Zirbe
This email client reimagines your inbox as a familiar chat interface, organizing threads by subject and messages as bubbles. It offers full email functionality, including attachments, drafts, and organization, while prioritizing privacy and offline access. The app connects directly to your IMAP/SMTP servers without any Zirbe servers.
- Chat-style email interface
- Organized threads by subject
- Offline access and instant inbox
- Attachment support (photos, files, voice)
- Full email client functionality
- Privacy-focused, no Zirbe servers
- Open-source code
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Zirbe is an email app that looks and feels like a texting app while keeping real email underneath. A conversation in Zirbe is a mail thread, not a person: the subject is the title, the people on it are the members, and every message is a bubble in time order. The same person writing you about five different things becomes five conversations, which is how email actually works. Starting a new conversation means naming it, and that name is the subject. Underneath the chat is a full email client. Read and reply with bubbles, attach photos, files, or a recorded voice message, and open what you receive in a full preview to save or share it. Reach every folder, not just the inbox: archive, move, and organize, save and resume drafts, and send blind copies that stay blind. React to a message with a tapback that rides your own mail as a real reply, so another Zirbe user sees the badge and every other mail app sees a readable line. Search within a conversation, pin the threads that matter to the top, and block a sender to sweep their mail to Junk and keep it there. New mail arrives with a local notification and a badge, and a reply that fails to send waits as a tap-to-retry bubble instead of vanishing. Sender photos come from your own contacts, and typing a recipient suggests people from your address book. A meeting invitation shows up as a meeting: a card with the time, the title, who's organizing, and where, with a Join button when there's a Teams, Meet, Zoom, or Webex link, and Add to Calendar puts it in your calendar with Apple's own event editor. The invitation, its updates, a cancellation, and everyone's replies land in one conversation. Zirbe is private by construction, not by promise. It connects only to your own IMAP and SMTP servers over an encrypted connection. There is no Zirbe server, no account to create with us, no analytics, no telemetry, and no third-party SDK. Your mail is cached on your device so the inbox opens instantly and works offline; your password lives in the device Keychain and is never synced off the device. Remote images in HTML mail are blocked until you choose to load them, so opening a message never phones home. Because the whole app is open source, every one of these claims is something you can check for yourself. Zirbe works with any email provider that supports standard IMAP and SMTP with an app-specific password. Sign in with your address and an app password, and if your provider is a common one the server settings fill in for you. Zirbe is free and MIT-licensed. It is an independent app and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Apple. iMessage and Messages are trademarks of Apple Inc.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Zirbe at none against Static Blog Generator's 3. Zirbe also leads on update cadence (every 6 weeks vs every 4 months). Static Blog Generator's advantage is iOS requirement (18.0 vs 26.0). On price, rating, ratings volume and ads 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. Static Blog Generator sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Zirbe asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Static Blog Generator against 5.0 for Zirbe. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.
Static Blog Generator ships an update every 4 months, Zirbe every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 11, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Static Blog Generator | Zirbe |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Every 6 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 22 MB | 17 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 21 Loopings GmbH | Excelano LLC |
In-app purchases
Static Blog Generator
- Static Plus Monthly$4.991 Month
- Static Plus Yearly3 Days trial$24.991 Year
- Static Plus Lifetime$99.99
Zirbe
No in-app purchases









