Comparison

Taby vs FlowBlock

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

Head to head
About

Taby

Capture ideas, tasks, and media in a simple, message-like format. Organize thoughts with customizable tabs and add photos, videos, or links to your notes. Create checklists and set reminders for important items.

Highlights
  • Message-like note-taking
  • Organize with customizable tabs
  • Add text, photos, videos, and links
  • Create checklists and to-dos
  • Set reminders
  • Home screen widgets
Features
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Taby is a simple notes app for capturing ideas, tasks, reminders, thoughts and media in one calm place. Each note feels like a message to yourself: open a tab, write what is on your mind and continue with your day. Keep notes, lists, journal entries, links, photos and videos without building a complicated productivity system. The free version lets you create and organize up to 5 tabs and 10 tasks. Super Taby is an optional paid subscription required to unlock unlimited tabs and tasks, reminders, and color themes. Capture a thought before it disappears Some things need a full entry; others only need one line. Use Taby as an everyday notepad for a new idea, something you want to remember, a passing thought or a small detail from your day. Open the app, choose a tab and write naturally. There is no elaborate setup standing between you and the note you want to keep. Organize everything with tabs Create as many tabs as you need and give different parts of your life their own place. Keep projects separate from personal thoughts, save recommendations in a reading or watching tab, collect links for later, or make a space for recipes, travel ideas and memories. Tabs provide enough structure to find your way back without turning note-taking into another task. Add more than text A note can hold the context that makes it useful. Add photos and videos when words are not enough, keep links you do not want to lose, and combine text with the media connected to an idea or memory. Use Taby for visual journals, reference collections, inspiration, personal records or anything else that belongs beside your words. Make lists and remember what matters Turn everyday plans into practical checklists. Keep a to-do list, a shopping list, a set of steps for a project, books you want to read or movies you want to watch. Add reminders when a note needs your attention later. Check off completed items and keep the rest close to the notes and context that inspired them. See your notes from the Home Screen Widgets let you glance at important notes without first looking through the app. Keep a current list, a reminder or a thought where it is easy to notice during the day. Your notes remain part of your routine without asking you to maintain a complicated dashboard. Use Taby for: • quick ideas and random thoughts • personal notes and journaling • to-dos, checklists and reminders • reading and watching lists • photos, videos and memories • useful links and reference collections • notes you want to see in a widget A quieter way to stay organized Taby is for people who want a clear place to write things down, not a “second brain” they have to manage. There are no productivity rituals to follow and no pressure to organize every thought perfectly. Make the tabs that feel useful, add what matters and return when you need it. Simple notes, gentle structure and one calm place for everyday life. Requires iOS 26.0 or later. Terms of Use (EULA): https://nevatas.github.io/taby-legal/TERMS_OF_USE Privacy Policy: https://nevatas.github.io/taby-legal/PRIVACY_POLICY

About

FlowBlock

Features
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Most planners give you a list and leave the hard part to you: deciding what to do, and when. FlowBlock builds the day for you. Tell it what needs doing and roughly how long it takes. It finds the hours, works around the things you can't move, and re-plans when the day changes. Open it and there is one block on screen: the one to do now. WHAT IT DOES • Auto-scheduling. Your tasks get real times in the hours you actually work, with breathing room built in. • One block at a time. The Up Now card picks the block that fits the hour, so there is no list to sort through. • Routines that bend. "Every day", "3× a week", "2 weeks after I last did it". Fixed at an hour, or just first thing or last thing. • Flow sessions. A timer that knows which block it belongs to, on your Lock Screen and your Apple Watch. • Not now, without guilt. Push a block to later, the evening or tomorrow. It comes back on its own. • Widgets. See your day on the Home and Lock Screen, and tick a block done from the Home Screen. • Made for iPad. Your pages in a sidebar, a block's details beside the list, and a week where you can draw new blocks and move them. BUILT FOR BRAINS THAT DON'T DO LISTS A streak that survives a rest day. No red overdue badges. Miss a day and FlowBlock simply re-plans, because that is what a plan is for. ON EVERY SCREEN YOU USE iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, and the web app at app.flow-block.com for planning at your desk. One account, always in sync. SUBSCRIPTION FlowBlock is free for 14 days, no card needed. After that, one Flow Pass subscription covers iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch and the web app. Flow Pass Monthly: US$11.99 per month. Flow Pass Yearly: US$89.99 per year. Local pricing is shown in the app before you subscribe. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. The subscription renews automatically unless it is cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel it any time in your Apple Account settings. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://flow-block.com/privacy Terms of Service: https://flow-block.com/terms

Screenshots

Taby4 screens
FlowBlock4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: FlowBlock at none against Taby's shown. FlowBlock also leads on device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). On price, update cadence 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. Taby sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.90 per month and FlowBlock sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $11.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and October 28, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 6 level
Taby versus FlowBlock: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTabyFlowBlock
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 5 daysEvery 5 days
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS26.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size27 MB45 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperTHE COOL COMPANYAlikhan Bulatov

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Taby

Subscriptions2
  • Super Taby Monthly3 Days trial$4.901 Month
  • Super Taby Yearly7 Days trial$29.991 Year
2 purchases

FlowBlock

Subscriptions2
  • Flow Pass$11.991 Month
  • Flow Pass1 Year trial$89.991 Year

Questions

Is Taby free?
Taby is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is FlowBlock free?
FlowBlock is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Taby or FlowBlock have ads?
Taby shows ads; FlowBlock does not.
Which is updated more often, Taby or FlowBlock?
Taby ships an update every 5 days, and FlowBlock every 5 days. Most recently, Taby was updated on October 31, 2026 and FlowBlock on October 28, 2026.

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