Ancher vs noglow
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Ancher
Capture and organize various types of content, from links and screenshots to voice notes and files. Effortlessly recall information using meaning-based search and transform your raw captures into polished notes, summaries, or creative drafts. Connect ideas and share your creations with others.
- Save links, screenshots, files, and voice notes
- Meaning-based recall, not just keywords
- Transform captures into notes and summaries
- Connect related ideas across formats
- Create posts, outlines, and decks
- Organize in collections and share via link
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- Save links, screenshots, files, voice notes, media, and ideas you choose to keep - Find any of it again with meaning-based recall, not just keywords - Turn raw captures into notes, summaries, briefs, and drafts - Connect related ideas across different formats and moments - Create posts, recaps, outlines, decks, and images from your own material - Organize in collections and share what you create with a link - Visit ancher.ai for more Terms of Use: https://ancher.ai/terms Privacy Policy: https://ancher.ai/privacy License Agreement (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
noglow
This app offers a minimalist scratchpad experience for quick note-taking on iPhone and Mac. It features eight distinct color-coded slots that clear after use, with finished notes archived and searchable. Optional cloud sync is available for free.
- Titleless scratchpad
- Eight color slots
- Searchable archive
- Cross-device sync
- Plain text notes
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noglow is a titleless scratchpad for iPhone, iPad and Mac. No titles to invent, no folders, no tags, no markdown. Just a blank line and eight slots that never move. Whatever you left in slot 2 is still in slot 2. When a note is done, peel it away. It goes into a searchable archive that never fills up, and the slot is clear for what you are working on now. - Eight slots, one tap or one keystroke apart - Peel finished notes into a permanent, searchable archive - On iPad: a full-screen layout, the archive side by side, keyboard shortcuts - Works across your devices - Optional cloud sync. Free, no account needed to start. - Plain text only. No formatting to fuss with. Free, and that includes sync.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: noglow at none against Ancher's 7. noglow also leads on update cadence (every 5 days vs fortnightly). Ancher's advantage is iOS requirement (15.1 vs 18.0). On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume 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. Ancher sells 7 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per month. noglow asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Ancher against 5.0 for noglow. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 1 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
Ancher ships an update fortnightly, noglow every 5 days. Both last shipped on November 5, 2026.
| Parameter | Ancher | noglow |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 84 MB | 23 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Streamify Tech, Inc. | GRABA |
Customer experience
Ancher
noglow
In-app purchases
Ancher
- Digest Monthly$5.991 Month
- Pro Monthly$19.991 Month
- Digest Annual$59.991 Year
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- Pro Annual$179.991 Year
- 2,500 Credit Pack$4.99
- 6,000 Credit Pack$9.99
- 15,000 Credit Pack$19.99
noglow
No in-app purchases









