GrainBook vs FloCards
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
GrainBook
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Turn every video, podcast, newsletter, and article you follow into a searchable AI knowledge feed. GrainBook brings your subscriptions together, summarizes new content, and lets you ask questions grounded in the sources you trust. Spend less time scrolling and keep more of what matters. Join 3,000+ active readers who use GrainBook to learn from the internet without drowning in it. ONE FEED FOR EVERYTHING YOU FOLLOW • Follow or save content from YouTube, podcasts, Bilibili, X/Twitter, Reddit, RSS, newsletters, ebooks, and web pages • See new releases in one calm, personalized feed • Discover creators worth following across topics you care about AI SUMMARIES THAT SAVE TIME • Turn long videos, podcast episodes, and articles into clear summaries • Choose the depth you need—from a quick take to a deeper read or transcript • Start your day with a digest of unread updates from yesterday ASK YOUR KNOWLEDGE • Ask questions across your subscriptions, notes, collections, and saved content • Use @ to focus GrainBook AI on a creator, source, collection, note, or individual item • Get answers grounded in your content, with citations that open the original source • Ask AI while reading, then continue the conversation in Chat SAVE WHAT MATTERS • Save important insights and organize them with collections and tags • Search your library and revisit your reading history • Keep every original source one tap away HOW IT WORKS 1. Subscribe to a source or save a link 2. GrainBook fetches, transcribes, and summarizes new content 3. Read the essentials, ask follow-up questions, and save what matters Start free and turn information overload into a knowledge habit. GrainBook offers optional auto-renewing subscriptions. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation. Subscriptions renew automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel anytime in your App Store account settings. Terms: https://grainbook.app/terms Privacy: https://grainbook.app/privacy
FloCards
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FloCards Cards in place. Progress in motion. Bring plans, ideas, notes and supporting materials together, one card at a time. FloCards is a lightweight native kanban app for iPhone and iPad, built for personal tasks, work projects, travel plans, reading notes and everyday ideas. Give every goal a place Use a project for a goal and boards for stages or topics. Choose project covers, customize board names and colors, and drag cards to reorder them or move them between boards in the same project. Keep the content and stage history as work progresses. Keep notes and materials together Write naturally in a native editor with text formatting, checklists and inline images. Changes save automatically as you edit. Add files, videos and audio as attachments, preview supported formats, share individual files, or export a card together with its content and attachments. Find what you need Add multiple project tags to each card, filter by tag, and search titles and content. Assign one or more project members to a card to connect people with the work. Make important deadlines easier to notice Set a date or an exact deadline time. Choose a preset early reminder or customize the lead time in minutes, hours, days, weeks or months. On supported devices, mark a card as Urgent to sound a system alarm when it is due. Urgent alarms require iOS or iPadOS 26 or later and alarm permission. Early notifications require notification permission. Keep a record of your progress Archive or delete projects when you no longer need them. Archive cards, restore archived or recently deleted cards, and review their stage history when you want to look back. Learn with illustrated examples An editable welcome project in Chinese or English introduces boards, writing, tags, reminders, attachments and collaboration. Explore the sample cards, make them your own, then create a project of your own. Work across different screens Switch boards on iPhone or view several side by side on iPad. Organize local content offline. With Pro, sync projects, covers, cards and attachments through iCloud, and invite people to a project with editing or view-only permission. Free and Pro Use personal projects, boards and cards for free, with up to 3 custom tags per project. A one-time FloCards Pro purchase unlocks personal iCloud sync, unlimited project tags and the ability to start project collaboration. Invited participants can join shared projects with their assigned permissions without buying Pro. Start with one card and give your next step a clear place to begin.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: FloCards at every 2 days against GrainBook's every 2 weeks. GrainBook's advantage is iOS requirement (16.4 vs 18.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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. GrainBook sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and FloCards sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
GrainBook ships an update every 2 weeks, FloCards every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | GrainBook | FloCards |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 155 MB | 60 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Yuan Long | 骏 刘 |
In-app purchases
GrainBook
- Grainbook Go (1-Month)14 Days trial$4.991 Month
- Grainbook Go (12-Months)14 Days trial$44.991 Year
FloCards
- FloCards Pro Lifetime$9.99









