Peak Browser vs Blue Hour
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side โ with what reviewers say about each.
Peak Browser
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Open a tab. Everything else is already here. Look something up, keep what matters, and pick the thread back up later. Peak is a native browser workspace for focused work, creative projects and local collaboration across iPhone, iPad, and Mac. BROWSE YOUR WAY Fast WebKit tabs, saved sessions and bookmarks, and private profiles keeping work and personal browsing apart. Pin the ones you keep open all day, and find a closed one again. On iPad, put two tabs on screen at once and keep both live โ a video plays in one while you read the other. Incognito sessions stay temporary and never enter your history. THE PAGE BEFORE THE FIRST PAGE Push the start page to the right, as the Today View sits left of a phone's home screen, and Peak shows what is due and what is coming: a month grid, a week grid with real hours, and an agenda narrowing to whichever day you press. It shows both halves of a day: tasks with a due date arrive from your boards, and events you make here sit beside them. Overdue work comes first, because it is the only part that is already a problem. WHEN A LOOKUP BECOMES WORK โข Block-based notes, Kanban task boards and infinite whiteboards โข Calendar events, repeating or not โข Projects that open as their own tab, holding pictures, clips and documents rather than links to them โข A searchable library of everything Peak has made โข A morning brief on the start page, off until you ask for it โข Tools that run on the machine: background removal, text extraction, image compression, colour palettes, SVG tracing and 3D extrusion, article-to- Markdown, transcription, an SEO audit CUT VIDEO ON A REAL TIMELINE Clips sit on rows that overlap, so a title can lie over a shot and a music bed runs under all of them. Trim by dragging a clip's ends, hold a card longer by dragging past it, fade from the corners. Choose the frame first โ widescreen, 4K, square, portrait โ and everything you drop in is fitted to it. Switch the pane above and the same edit becomes a mixing desk, with a fader, mute, solo and a meter per row. Bounce the sound alone, or export the film. MUSIC THAT DOES NOT EXIST YET Waveform is a record shop for a catalogue nobody has made. Describe a song and it arrives as a release โ an invented artist, a record, a cover โ not as a loose file. Keep what is worth keeping, search it, archive rather than delete, and let the radio carry on from the words each song was asked for. Making audio uses your configured provider; what exists already plays with nothing connected. BUILD SITES AND APPS Start from one of eighteen finished templates, each running the real page rather than a picture of it, or from nothing. Write complete multi-page sites, preview as you go, export the result โ PeakUI as a native Xcode project. AI WHEN YOU CHOOSE Optional AI chat can research, write, read your documents and images, make media and build whole sites. It cuts on the timeline with you, reads and fills your calendar, and looks at its own slides before describing them. Run a model on the device itself and nothing leaves it: no account, no key, no bill. Peak suggests one your iPhone or iPad can actually hold rather than the best that exists. Apple Intelligence appears in the same menu wherever the system can run it, and can now use Peak's tools rather than only talk. Or bring your own provider, or a local Ollama model โ credentials stay in the Keychain. CONNECT LOCALLY WITH MESH Nearby Peak devices connect directly over your local network. Share tabs, chats, notes, boards, whiteboards, sites, decks and songs, each behind a toggle. A phone can borrow a model from a Mac in the same room: the Mac holds the weights, your phone asks, the reply streams back. No account, no server. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Your work stays on your device and syncs only through your own iCloud. There is no account to create, no analytics and no tracking. Cloud AI and outside services are used only when you choose them. Open a tab. Pick up where you left off.
Blue Hour
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Blue Hour turns time into light: a sun sinks toward the horizon as your timer runs, so you can feel how much is left without reading a number. Built kindly for ADHD and time-blindness, calm enough for classrooms and kids. No account, no ads, no streaks. Free forever, with a tip jar in Settings. RAISE THE SUN Drag the sun up to set your time, one minute to three hours, with soft detents you can feel. Prefer numbers? Tap the readout for a keypad. Three preset chips keep your rituals one tap away. THE SETTLING DUSK As the last light falls, the sky deepens and the screen dims a few gentle stops. At zero: two slow breaths of glow, a soft haptic, and an optional two-note chime. No alarm slam. Ever. THE LIGHT FOLLOWS YOU A Live Activity keeps the sinking sun on your Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island. An optional nudge can tell you when time is up, even if you have looked away. Off by default. CYCLES, GENTLY Pomodoro in Blue Hour's language: work while the sun sets, then the break is a sunrise. The sky returns to morning, and the next round starts when you do. Rounds are counted in little suns, never quotas. START FROM ANYWHERE A Home Screen widget starts your usual timer in one tap. Siri and Shortcuts can start, pause, and resume without opening the app. FOR CLASSROOMS One tap opens the big display: a wall-sized countdown calm enough for a whole room, with a classroom preset set from one to twenty minutes. A QUIET LINE EACH DAWN Every day the idle sky carries one line from 412 public-domain quotations. Seneca, Thoreau, Lao Tzu, old proverbs. One per day. No feed, no push, no hustle. CALM BY CONSTRUCTION โข Optional halfway and final-minute cues โข Keeps the screen awake while the light falls, if you want โข Wall-clock accurate: background it, come back, the light agrees โข VoiceOver, Reduced Motion, and Dynamic Type are first-class FREE FOREVER Every feature, free. No premium tier, no subscription. If Blue Hour earns a place on your Home Screen, there is a tip jar in Settings. It unlocks nothing. PRIVATE BY ARCHITECTURE No account. No analytics. No tracking. Blue Hour makes zero network calls, and its App Store privacy label is "Data Not Collected," the rare kind that means exactly what it says. The light keeps track for you.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Peak Browser at none against Blue Hour's 3. Peak Browser also leads on iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). On price, ads and device support there is nothing between them.
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Both are free to download. Blue Hour sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Peak Browser asks for nothing beyond the download.
| Parameter | Peak Browser | Blue Hour |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | โ |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No โ better | Yes |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac โ better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 โ better | 26.0 |
| Further details โ not scored | ||
| Size | 92 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Vegar Berentsen | Moses Smith |
In-app purchases
Peak Browser
No in-app purchases
Blue Hour
- Coffee$1.99
- Lunch$4.99
- Legend$9.99







