Cork Board Notes vs Houm
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Cork Board Notes
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BoardOn is a visual corkboard for organizing notes, photos, links, checklists, and reminders in one place. Create personal spaces for ideas, plans, and everyday projects. Add pins, move them freely, connect related items with strings, and keep everything visible at a glance. What you can do with BoardOn: - Add notes, photos, links, locations, checklists, and reminders - Drag and drop pins anywhere - Connect ideas visually with strings - Open your favorite space faster from the Home Screen widget - Keep everything private on your device Great for brainstorming, planning, study prep, travel ideas, and personal organization. Fast, visual, and easy to use. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Houm
This app unifies control of your self-hosted services, including smart home devices and media servers. Monitor and manage your homelab infrastructure, from media requests to server status, all from one place.
- Unified smart home control
- Media request and tracking
- Real-time playback monitoring
- Download queue management
- Server and container status overview
- Direct server integration
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Houm is one dark, modular home for everything you self-host — the smart home your phone already talks to, and the media, servers and containers your homelab already runs. Every service is its own switch. Turn on only the ones you actually use, sign each into your own server, and Houm gets out of the way. SMART HOME See and control every accessory from Apple Home or Google Home — lights, locks, thermostats and cameras — without opening a separate app. WATCH SOMETHING Browse what's trending and request new films and shows through Requests, then follow it through Radarr and Sonarr's queues until it's ready. WHAT'S PLAYING The dashboard leads with what's on: streams, transcodes and bandwidth from Plex or Tautulli, updated as they happen. DOWNLOADS Keep an eye on NZBGet's queue and speed without switching to a browser tab. THE RACK Proxmox, Unraid and Portainer put every node, VM, disk and container in your pocket — what's running, what's full, and what needs attention. Sign in once with Plex to connect Requests and the Now Playing card, or skip it and set everything up later from Settings. Houm talks directly to the servers you already run — no new accounts, no subscriptions, no cloud in between. Houm is for people who already run a homelab. Bring your own Plex, Seerr, Radarr, Sonarr, NZBGet, Tautulli, Proxmox, Unraid or Portainer — Houm is the one app to watch them all from
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Houm at none against Cork Board Notes's 3. Houm also leads on update cadence (every 6 days vs every 2 months). On price, 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
Both are free to download. Cork Board Notes sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. Houm asks for nothing beyond the download.
Cork Board Notes ships an update every 2 months, Houm every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on October 5, 2026 and October 17, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Cork Board Notes | Houm |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Number of ratings | — | 1 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 6 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | — | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 | 16.4 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 50 MB | 70 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | MANUEL MATAS GALEOTE | Tehseen Hussain |
In-app purchases
Cork Board Notes
- BoardOn Premium Monthly$9.991 Month
- BoardOn Premium Annual7 Days trial$34.991 Year
- BoardOn Premium Lifetime$44.99
Houm
No in-app purchases
