Comparison

Zain vs Flows

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

Head to head
About

Zain

This app helps you cultivate positive habits, track fitness, and journal your thoughts. It offers a curated social experience and includes tools for meditation, budgeting, and prayer times. An optional Pro version unlocks advanced features.

Highlights
  • Habit tracking
  • Journaling with themed canvases
  • Apple Health sync for fitness
  • Built-in podcast player with note-taking
  • Slow social feed with friends
  • Meditation timer
  • Expense tracker
Features
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Zain turns a goal into a plan you can keep, one week at a time, and changes the plan when real life changes your week. Start with one sentence in your own words, such as "Help me run my first marathon" or "Help me get ready for my exams in January". Zain asks a few questions about where you are starting and how much time you have, then drafts a plan that sets out what each week asks of you. Weeks rarely go to plan, and Zain is built for that. At the start of each week, the weekly check-in shows how the last one went, with missed days marked in gray rather than red. If a week slipped, Zain rearranges the next one so the goal still holds, and you can move or skip anything with a tap or a sentence. Nothing changes until you agree, and the weekly check-in is free. Beside the plan Habits: each habit has one ring and takes one tap, and seven beads show how its week is going. Explore habits suggests new ones and says why each one fits. Prayer: Zain works out the five prayer times on your phone for your city, and your location stays on the phone. One tap marks each prayer, a reminder can come at the adhan or a few minutes before, and you can mark the prayer straight from the reminder. The month's record shows what you marked, a missed prayer can be marked as made up, and a prayer buddy, if you choose one, sees only the prayers you marked. Reading: your shelf keeps the page you are on and the lines you want to remember. You can read one book with a friend and see each other's page, while their notes stay sealed until you reach the page where they left them. Each morning the Bookshop sets out new books, including a blind date with a book that you unwrap by its first lines. Notes: journal, idea, reflection, gratitude and list each have their own page, and a series gathers notes on one subject so you can read them from the beginning. You can also say a note instead of typing it. Meditation: Zain times a quiet sit under a sunset sky and rings a bell at the end, even when the phone is locked. Together: keep a habit side by side with a friend, invite someone along with one card, or share a goal and see both your weeks on one dial. Workouts: connect Apple Health and your workouts appear in Zain, where a running plan can draw on the training you have already done. Free and Zain Pro Zain is free to start. The free version includes the weekly check-in, up to four habits, one note a day, one book at a time, prayer times and the prayer record, meditation, and one plan draft a month, which shows the shape of a plan and its first week. Zain Pro adds full plans, kept on your calendar and redrafted from the week you actually had, and with them shared goals, because a shared goal links two plans. Pro also lifts the limits on habits, notes and books, lets you ask Zain more questions each day, and adds insights on your notes, checklist habits and book collections. Zain Pro is an auto-renewing subscription, billed monthly or yearly. Payment is charged to your Apple Account when you confirm the purchase. The subscription renews automatically unless renewal is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period, and the renewal is charged within the 24 hours before that period ends. You can manage the subscription or turn off renewal in your Apple Account settings. If a free trial is offered, any unused part of it ends when you buy a subscription. Good to know Zain needs an account, so your plans, habits and notes stay with you on every device. Prayer times are worked out on the phone and notes are saved there first, so both work without a connection. Plans and Zain's answers are written with the help of an AI model, and the privacy policy explains what is sent and where. Zain speaks English, Arabic and Turkish. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://thezainapp.com/privacy.html

About

Flows

Organize your day with intelligent scheduling and task management. Capture notes, set time estimates, and let the app automatically arrange your schedule. Stay focused with a built-in Pomodoro timer and track your progress with daily streaks.

Highlights
  • Auto-scheduling of tasks
  • Rich-text note editor
  • Smart tag suggestions
  • Integrated Pomodoro timer
  • Daily streak tracking
  • Global search and filtering
  • Customizable themes and fonts
Features
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PLAN YOUR DAY IN MINUTES Add tasks, set time estimates and difficulty levels, then let Flows arrange your schedule. Let Auto-Schedule place them intelligently; hard tasks go in the morning, easy ones fill the gaps. View your day, week, or month at a glance. NOTES THAT WORK WITH YOUR TASKS Capture ideas, meeting notes, and to-dos with a rich-text editor organized into folders. Flows can detect tasks hiding in your notes and turn them into real, schedulable items, no copy-pasting required. SMART TAGS & AUTO-TAGGING Create tags with descriptions and keywords, and Flows will suggest them automatically as you add tasks. Organize your work by project, priority, or whatever makes sense for your life. STAY IN THE ZONE Start a Pomodoro timer for any task with customizable work and break intervals (5–90 minutes). Pick from ambient sounds like rain, lo-fi beats, or white noise. When the timer ends, your progress is logged automatically. BUILD A STREAK YOU'RE PROUD OF Complete your daily plan to keep your streak alive. Flows understands that rest days happen; your streak won't break over a weekend. Check your weekly recap to see how your focus time, completion rate, and productivity are trending. SEARCH EVERYTHING Find any task or note instantly with global search. Filter by type, date range, or completion status. Sort by relevance, date, or name. MAKE IT YOURS Choose from 16+ handcrafted color themes, switch between dark and light mode, and pick a display font. Five notification personalities, from gentle encouragement to delightfully unhinged commentary, keep things interesting. FLOWS PRO (30-Day Free Trial) Unlock the full experience: • Auto-Schedule — Intelligently fills your timeline based on difficulty, priority, and your available hours. Hard tasks land in the morning. Dreaded ones go first. • Focus Forecast — See how your focus time trends across days and weeks. Get a Monday morning preview of what's ahead. • Calendar Sync — Pull events from Google Calendar or Apple Calendar so your schedule and your plan live side by side. • Notion Sync — Connect your Notion workspace and keep everything in one place. • Slack Integration — Share your focus status with your team automatically. • Cloud Sync — Your tasks, notes, and streaks stay in sync across all your devices. • Unlimited Tags — Create as many tags as you need. • All Themes — Access every color theme and future additions. Terms & Conditions: https://flowspomo.com/terms.html Privacy Policy: https://flowspomo.com/privacy.html

Screenshots

Zain4 screens
Flows4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Flows at weekly against Zain's every 5 weeks. Flows also leads on ratings volume (7 vs 2). On price, rating, review sentiment and ads 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. Zain sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month and Flows sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Zain against 4.9 for Flows. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 7 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Zain ships an update every 5 weeks, Flows weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Zain versus Flows: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterZainFlows
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better4.9 (7 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings27 — better
Update frequencyEvery 5 weeksWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, Mac
Requires iOS15.1 — better16.6
Further details — not scored
Size98 MB49 MB
Age rating12+9+
DeveloperMohamed MobarakHUNTER WESTLEY BOLTON

Customer experience

Zain

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Flows

All ratings7 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Zain

Subscriptions2
  • Zain Pro7 Days trial$3.991 Month
  • Zain Pro7 Days trial$39.991 Year
2 purchases

Flows

Subscriptions2
  • Flows Pro — Monthly1 Month trial$5.991 Month
  • Flows Pro — Annual1 Month trial$49.991 Year

Questions

Is Zain free?
Zain is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Flows free?
Flows is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Zain or Flows?
Zain is rated higher. Zain averages 5.0 out of 5 from 2 ratings, while Flows averages 4.9 from 7 ratings.
Do Zain or Flows have ads?
Neither Zain nor Flows shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Zain or Flows?
Zain ships an update every 5 weeks, and Flows weekly. Most recently, Zain was updated on November 5, 2026 and Flows on October 31, 2026.

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