Comparison

Lock Screen Notes vs LinkWell

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

Head to head
About

Lock Screen Notes

This app transforms your iPhone lock screen into a dynamic reminder board. It displays notes, goals, and reminders every time you unlock your phone, ensuring you see your priorities without extra steps.

Highlights
  • Lock screen reminders
  • Goal and habit tracking
  • Quick note display
  • No widgets or notifications
  • Daily affirmations
  • To-do list visibility
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You forget things for one simple reason: you don’t see them. NoteWall fixes that. Every time you pick up your iPhone, you get a tiny chance to refocus. The average person checks their phone 498 times per day—that’s 498 chances to remember your goals, stop scrolling, and do what actually matters. NoteWall turns your lock screen into a personal reminder board. Add notes, reminders, goals, habits, or quotes, and they appear right on your lock screen. No widgets. No notifications. No extra steps. Just clear, simple notes you see every single time you wake your screen. Perfect for: Quick notes & reminders Daily goals and affirmations Habit tracking Motivation & focus To-do lists you won’t forget Pin your priorities where you’ll actually see them—on your lock screen. NoteWall unlocks full access with a subscription — no free trial, cancel anytime.

About

LinkWell

Features
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Every link you mean to read later disappears. Into a tab you close, a chat you scroll past, a bookmarks folder you never open again. LinkWell is where they stop disappearing. Save from any app in one tap. LinkWell pulls down the title, the image and the article itself, files it into a folder, tags it, and keeps a full offline copy with the ads and trackers stripped out. On a plane, on the underground, in a network dead zone: it opens instantly, because it was never on someone else's server to begin with. START WITHOUT AN ACCOUNT Open it and save. No email, no password, no sign-up wall. Make an account later if you want your vault on more than one device — everything you already saved comes with you. LOCAL FIRST, BY DESIGN Your vault lives on your device in a real database. It works with no signal and no account. Nothing you save leaves the phone unless you switch sync on yourself. READ IT PROPERLY A built-in reader with real pages you turn instead of one endless scroll. Pinch to change the text size and it stays that way. Read aloud in any voice your phone has. Find any word in a book. Your place is remembered, and follows you to your other devices if you sync. FIND IT AGAIN Search runs over the full text of every article you have saved, not just the titles. Folders, folders inside folders, tags, and one folder you can lock behind Face ID. BRING EVERYTHING WITH YOU Import an HTML bookmarks file from any browser. Back the whole vault up to a file on your device whenever you like, on any plan, and restore it on your next phone — because a vault you cannot walk out of is not yours. Highlights come out as Markdown. MORE THAN LINKS Add PDFs and EPUB books straight from your files and read them in the same place. SAVE FROM YOUR LAPTOP A browser extension for Chrome, Edge and Firefox saves the page you are on straight into your vault. Pair it by typing a short code or scanning a QR from the app — the extension has no login of its own. HOUSEKEEPING THAT DOES ITSELF A broken-link checker, a duplicate finder, reading-time estimates, and a weekly catch-up nudge for the things you never got to. PLANS • Free — up to 250 saved links, forever, with ads. • Lifetime — one payment, no subscription. Unlimited links, no ads, folder lock, PDFs and books, and export. Everything runs on this device. • Monthly or Yearly — everything in Lifetime, plus sync across all your devices (links, folders, tags, highlights and your reading position), and the browser extension for Chrome, Edge and Firefox. Monthly and Yearly are auto-renewing subscriptions. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. It renews automatically unless turned off at least 24 hours before the period ends. Manage or cancel in your Apple Account settings. Privacy policy: https://linkwell.aroralabs.org/privacy Terms of use: https://linkwell.aroralabs.org/terms

Screenshots

Lock Screen Notes4 screens
LinkWell4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Lock Screen Notes at none against LinkWell's shown. LinkWell's advantage is update cadence (every 3 days vs every 10 days) and device support (3 vs 1). On price and in-app purchases 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. Lock Screen Notes sells 19 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month and LinkWell sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Lock Screen Notes ships an update every 10 days, LinkWell every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 16, 2026 and October 18, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Lock Screen Notes versus LinkWell: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLock Screen NotesLinkWell
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.4 (109 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews30.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings109 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 10 daysEvery 3 days — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size69 MB106 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperKarol BillikShubham Kumar

In-app purchases

19 purchases

Lock Screen Notes

Subscriptions18
  • Monthly$0.991 Month
  • Monthly2 variants$1.991 Month
  • Weekly3 Days trial$2.997 Days
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  • Monthly$2.991 Month
  • Weekly3 Days trial$3.997 Days
  • Weekly$4.997 Days
  • Yearly$4.991 Year
  • Yearly discount$4.991 Year
  • Yearly$5.991 Year
  • Yearly$6.991 Year
  • Yearly$7.991 Year
  • NoteWall+ Yearly Offer$8.991 Year
  • Yearly$9.991 Year
  • NoteWall+ Yearly$14.991 Year
  • NoteWall+ Yearly3 Days trial$14.991 Year
  • NoteWall+ Yearly3 Days trial$17.991 Year
  • NoteWall+ Yearly$24.991 Year
  • NoteWall+ Yearly3 Days trial$29.991 Year
One-time1
  • Lifetime$5.99
4 purchases

LinkWell

Subscriptions2
  • LinkWell Pro — Monthly3 Days trial$1.991 Month
  • LinkWell Pro — Yearly7 Days trial$9.991 Year
One-time2
  • LinkWell Lifetime$29.99
  • LinkWell Lifetime$39.99

Questions

Is Lock Screen Notes free?
Lock Screen Notes is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is LinkWell free?
LinkWell is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Lock Screen Notes or LinkWell have ads?
LinkWell shows ads; Lock Screen Notes does not.
Which is updated more often, Lock Screen Notes or LinkWell?
Lock Screen Notes ships an update every 10 days, and LinkWell every 3 days. Most recently, Lock Screen Notes was updated on October 16, 2026 and LinkWell on October 18, 2026.

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