Kurun vs Avlu
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Kurun
Visualize your entire day as a single pie chart to understand where your time is spent. Easily identify time sinks, imbalances, and gaps in your schedule. Organize tasks and log activities directly within the app.
- Full 24-hour pie chart visualization
- Color-coded activity tracking
- Spot untracked time gaps
- Customizable activity categories
- Built-in to-do list
- Stopwatch and timer for direct logging
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Kurun turns your entire day into a single pie chart — so you can see exactly where your time goes, without scrolling through endless lists. Why a pie chart? Most calendar and to-do apps stack your schedule top to bottom. But a vertical list can't show you the full picture. Kurun fits all 24 hours into one circle. The moment you look at it, you just get it: - That "quick" social media check? It's a surprisingly big slice. - Gaps in your day show up as empty space — no hiding from lost time. - More time resting than working? The imbalance is obvious at a glance. Before you analyze the numbers, you feel the shape of your day. That's the power of the circle. Does this sound familiar? - You were busy all day, but nothing feels done - You can't quite remember how you spent the last 24 hours - You have no idea how much time you lose to scrolling or breaks - You want better balance between work, study, and sleep - You know something's off, but don't know where to start What you can do with Kurun - Visualize your full 24 hours in one pie chart - Color-code activities and tasks for instant clarity - Spot untracked gaps in your day at a glance - Create custom categories — study, work, sleep, anything - Review each day and catch time imbalances early - Organize your tasks with the built-in to-do list - Use the built-in stopwatch and timer to log time directly to your timeline Perfect for - Anyone building better time management habits - Students tracking study sessions and focus time - Professionals looking to improve work-life balance - Fans of time tracking, life logging, or habit journaling - Anyone who prefers visual records over written notes Log it simply. See it clearly. Feel how you spend your time — with Kurun. Some features (To-Do, Pomodoro Timer, and more) are available with a Pro plan (in-app purchase). Terms of Service:https://scented-cross-231.notion.site/Kurun-Terms-of-Use-32b71e35e68d80249cc0c7525119a60e?source=copy_link Privacy Policy:https://scented-cross-231.notion.site/Kurun-Privacy-Policy-32b71e35e68d8071a52dd5e2f4886d64?source=copy_link
Avlu
Organize your notes as a navigable 3D palace. Furnish rooms with furniture that holds your markdown notes, creating a visual space to recall information. Links between notes become visible threads, and neglected rooms dim over time.
- 3D memory palace visualization
- Markdown note organization
- Customizable rooms and furniture
- Visual note linking
- Progressive room dimming for neglected notes
- Cross-device iCloud sync
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Memory is a place you build by hand. Avlu puts a palace over your notes. Every note is a plain markdown file in a folder you own; the palace arranges them as rooms you furnish, so that walking the room brings the ideas back with it. No account, no server, and nothing that leaves your iCloud. ROOMS YOU FURNISH A room is one subject. Start from a template — a library, a workshop, a music room, a memory gallery, a living hall — and put things in it: a writing desk, an armchair, an arch. Each piece of furniture holds one note or several, and it is the object you remember, not the file name. More than a hundred pieces wait in the catalog. Pinch to zoom, drag to pan, turn an object to face the other way. Take a piece out and it waits in storage with its notes intact. Removing something never destroys it. MARKDOWN THAT RENDERS AS YOU TYPE No edit mode and no preview pane. Headings, lists, tasks, quotes and code render in place, and the markup shows itself only on the line you are writing. Add a picture from Photos or Files, or paste one, and it stands where you put it; tap it and set it small, medium or big. Any other file drops in as a card that opens on a tap. Type [[ and pick the note to link. Rename a note and every link to it is repointed. Frontmatter you wrote yourself is left exactly as it was. LINKS BECOME THREADS Write [[a link]] between two notes and Avlu lifts it onto the furniture holding them, then draws it as a line across the floor. A connection becomes something you can see from the doorway, and every idea comes back with its neighbour. ROOMS FADE IF YOU NEGLECT THEM Notes you stop opening fall due, and the room they stand in dims. The dashboard counts what is waiting and lists the notes you have left longest. Opening a note is what reviewing means: no ratings, no schedules, nothing else to remember to do. BUILT FOR EACH SCREEN On iPhone, four tabs: Today, Palace, Notes and Commands. A room fills the screen, and a note opens as a page. On iPad, every screen and feature of the Mac app at touch proportions, in both orientations, with a sidebar that folds to a ribbon. The command list holds every action in the palace: make a note, a room or an object, jump to any room, change the theme. Its search reads every note's title and text. YOUR FILES, YOUR ICLOUD • A palace is a folder: plain .md files, plus one small folder beside them that holds the room layouts • Open it in the Files app, back it up, or point any other markdown app at it, Obsidian included • Keep it in iCloud Drive and your iPhone, iPad and Mac open the same palace • No account, no analytics, no advertising, and no network access of any kind • No permission prompts: Avlu never asks for your photo library, camera, contacts or location WHO IT IS FOR Students with a room for each subject. Engineers with runbooks they can walk. Designers, travellers, athletes — anyone whose notes have outgrown a list. Your first palace is built in four steps, and its first notes are already written for you. AVLU FULL Avlu is free: rooms, furniture, notes, threads, storage and review, without limits. Avlu Full is an optional subscription, monthly or yearly, that adds one thing: you choose the tile an object stands on, and you can move what is already placed. On a free palace every object finds its own spot. If a subscription ends, nothing moves. One subscription covers iPhone, iPad and Mac. 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 in your App Store account settings. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://useavlu.com/privacy/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Kurun at 15.1 against Avlu's 17.0. On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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
Both are free to download. Kurun sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and Avlu sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
| Parameter | Kurun | Avlu |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | — | 1 — better |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 56 MB | 31 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | KYOSUKE WATANABE | Selim Ustel |
In-app purchases
Kurun
- Kurun Pro Monthly$4.991 Month
- Pro$19.991 Year
- Kurun Pro Yearly3 Days trial$34.991 Year
- Kurun Pro Lifetime$39.99
- Kurun Pro Lifetime$79.99
Avlu
- Avlu Full - Monthly$4.991 Month
- Avlu Full - Yearly7 Days trial$39.991 Year









