Comparison

Bubbles vs et nunc.

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

Head to head
About

Bubbles

Capture fleeting thoughts, ideas, and memories with a simple, elegant interface. Automatically timestamped entries create a scrollable timeline for easy reflection and recall. Filter your thoughts by tags, emotions, or time to understand your personal journey.

Highlights
  • Timestamped thought capture
  • Text, emoji, and hashtag entries
  • Scrollable timeline view
  • Filter by tags and time
  • Optional context addition
  • Customizable color options
Features
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Bubbles is a beautifully minimal space to record your thoughts — big or small — as they drift through your day. Whether it's a passing idea, a tiny memory, or a flash of inspiration, Bubbles helps you easily capture it so you can revisit it later. How it works: 1. Tap to record a thought — text, emoji, or hashtag 2. Each entry is automatically timestamped in a clean, scrollable timeline 3. Add additional context to provide some optional background info. 4. Filter by emotion, tags, or time to reflect on your journey. Why Bubbles? Bubbles was "vibe coded” out of frustration. I wanted something super simple to record random thoughts throughout the day. Yes the notes app exists, but I grew tired of creating a new note for every little thing + the organization / recall nightmare makes it impossible to go through whats been captured. With Bubbles, you need not worry about that as everything is just a logged on a single timeline (just like life). Plus I've added support for filtering, a super fast search and a bit of customization with color options (with more to come). If you’ve read this far, go ahead and give it a try. It’s simple, fast and elegant… you won’t regret it.

About

et nunc.

Features
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et nunc. There is a color to this moment. Not the color of a notification, or a map, or a chart — the color of right now, where you are, as the sun moves through its arc and the light shifts in ways no clock can measure. et nunc. is a contemplative space. Seven cities, each with its own chromatic atmosphere: the burnt sienna and deep shadow of Rome, the electric tension of New York at night, the saffron and violet of New Delhi at dawn, the pale silver of London in the afternoon, the cadmium yellow of Tokyo breaking open at sunrise, the ultramarine depth of Buenos Aires after dark, the quiet grey of Cape Town under its particular sky. Each city breathes differently. Each hour has a different weight. et nunc. is a generative visual artwork. On Apple Watch, the piece transforms continuously over 24 hours — two bands of color, day rising from below and night receding above, expanding and contracting with the passage of the sun. There are no numbers, no notifications, no complications. Only the slow, imperceptible movement of light. Watch for a few seconds and you see one thing. Watch longer and something else begins to emerge: a tension between the two bands, a moment just before dawn when everything collapses into darkness before the color returns. Designed for those who experience time visually rather than numerically. Somewhere on the other side of the world, someone is living a different color. Amber where you have indigo, sienna where you have mist — the same sun, the same rotation, the same unrepeatable instant. et nunc. lets you choose to be there. Select a city and you step into its light — not as a traveler, but as a presence. A way of saying: right now, I am with you, in your color, in your hour. This is not an app you use. It is an app you inhabit.

Screenshots

Bubbles4 screens
et nunc.4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: et nunc. at Free against Bubbles's $2.99. On ads, in-app purchases, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

et nunc. is free to download; Bubbles costs $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Bubbles versus et nunc.: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBubbleset nunc.
Price$2.99Free — better
Rating5.0 (3 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings3 — better—
Update frequency—Weekly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaid—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS17.617.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size5 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperRawfish LLCFilippo Parroni

In-app purchases

None

Bubbles

No in-app purchases

None

et nunc.

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Bubbles free?
Bubbles costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is et nunc. free?
et nunc. is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Bubbles or et nunc. have ads?
Neither Bubbles nor et nunc. shows ads.

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