Comparison

Bubbles vs Leafy

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

Leafy

Features
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Your plants deserve a home. Give them a tiny pixel one. Leafy turns a photo of your plant into a pixel plant and a photo of your room into a pixel room. Put the plants wherever you like, drag them from room to room, and let Leafy remind you when it's time to water. TAKE A PHOTO, GET A PIXEL PLANT Point the camera at your monstera, your sad little cactus, the fern you keep forgetting. Leafy cuts the plant out of the photo and redraws it as pixel art, right on your device. No upload, no waiting. YOUR OWN ROOM, IN PIXELS Photograph a corner of your home and Leafy redraws it: wall, floor, window, your couch, your shelf, your lamp — in the colours of the photo. Then rearrange everything in the room editor until it feels right. A HOME THAT FOLLOWS THE DAY The window shows the real sky. Morning light, blue afternoon, dusk, and at night the lamps glow while the rest of the room falls asleep. Nothing to set up — it just follows your clock. WATERING, WITHOUT THE GUILT Set an interval per plant. Leafy sends one gentle reminder on the day, tips the watering can, and little hearts float up. Forget for too long and the plant droops — until you make it up to it. QUIET BY DESIGN No account. No cloud. No ads, no tracking, no analytics. Everything — your rooms, your plants, your photos — stays on your device and works offline. Photos are turned into pixels locally and never stored. ONE-TIME PURCHASE Try it with one room and three plants. Unlock everything once, for 5.99 €. No subscription, ever. Available in 14 languages.

Screenshots

Bubbles4 screens
Leafy4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Leafy at Free against Bubbles's $2.99. Bubbles's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1). On ads, 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

Leafy is free to download; Bubbles costs $2.99 up front. Leafy sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Bubbles asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
Bubbles versus Leafy: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBubblesLeafy
Price$2.99Free — better
Rating5.0 (3 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings3 — better—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaid—
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.616.4 — better
Further details — not scored
Size5 MB104 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperRawfish LLCfoodsoption UG (haftungsbeschraenkt)

In-app purchases

None

Bubbles

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Leafy

One-time1
  • Unlock everything$4.99

Questions

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

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