Comparison

GrainBook vs FloCards

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

Head to head
About

GrainBook

Features
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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

About

FloCards

Features
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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.

Screenshots

GrainBook4 screens
FloCards4 screens

Verdict

The call

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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

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.

Scorecard2 real differences · 4 level
GrainBook versus FloCards: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGrainBookFloCards
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS16.4 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size155 MB60 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperYuan Long骏 刘

In-app purchases

2 purchases

GrainBook

Subscriptions2
  • Grainbook Go (1-Month)14 Days trial$4.991 Month
  • Grainbook Go (12-Months)14 Days trial$44.991 Year
1 purchases

FloCards

One-time1
  • FloCards Pro Lifetime$9.99

Questions

Is GrainBook free?
GrainBook is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is FloCards free?
FloCards is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do GrainBook or FloCards have ads?
Neither GrainBook nor FloCards shows ads.
Which is updated more often, GrainBook or FloCards?
GrainBook ships an update every 2 weeks, and FloCards every 2 days. Most recently, GrainBook was updated on November 5, 2026 and FloCards on November 6, 2026.

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