Hyphen vs The Bridge
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Hyphen
This minimalist app allows for quick capture of daily thoughts, tasks, and moments. It organizes entries by day and provides a visual timeline of your year, highlighting days with more activity. Notes are automatically timestamped and can be entered via typing or voice.
- Quick entry via typing or voice
- Automatic timestamping
- Visual year-in-a-glance timeline
- Smart grouping of related notes
- Secure cross-device syncing
- Private and inaccessible by developer
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Hyphen is a quiet place for the details you would otherwise lose. Write a sentence, list, quotation, decision, observation, or full page. Every note belongs to its day, so you can move naturally through time and return by date, month, year, Chronicle, or search. WRITE WITHOUT FRICTION Capture a quick thought in place. Expand into the full editor when the thought becomes something larger. MARKDOWN MADE FOR IPHONE Use headings, emphasis, lists, checklists, quotations, links, and code without hunting through the iOS keyboard for punctuation. SEE YOUR DAYS TAKE SHAPE Move naturally between Day, Month, and Year, and view time as a quiet record of activity. Hyphen shows continuity without turning your writing into a streak game. FIND WHAT YOU WROTE Search your writing, browse Chronicle, and move directly back to the day where a thought belongs.
The Bridge
This app helps you organize your day by separating urgent tasks from regular ones. It includes focus timers, scheduled reminders, and a console to review completed work. Customize the look with themes.
- Priority Deck and Standard Queue
- Focus timers
- Scheduled reminders
- Priority Archive
- Custom themes
- Local-first design
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The Bridge helps you separate priorities from standard tasks, arm focus timers, schedule reminders, and review resolved work from one streamlined console. Features: • Priority Deck and Standard Queue • Focus timers for any task • Scheduled reminders with precise timing • Priority Archive • Custom themes and preset controls • Local-first design with no account required
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Hyphen at Free against The Bridge's $4.99. Hyphen also leads on ratings volume (7 vs 1). On rating, 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
Hyphen is free to download; The Bridge costs $4.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Hyphen against 5.0 for The Bridge. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Hyphen has 7 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
| Parameter | Hyphen | The Bridge |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $4.99 |
| Rating | 5.0 (7 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 7 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 days | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 18 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 4 MB | 6 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | CHRISTOPH J WHITELAM | TYLER RAY NAHRSTADT |
Customer experience
Hyphen
The Bridge
In-app purchases
Hyphen
No in-app purchases
The Bridge
No in-app purchases









