Comparison

Pebble vs Folios

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

Head to head
About

Pebble

Features
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Shared Notes Capture life’s little moments together. Ideas, inspirations, and remindersβ€”all synced instantly between two people. To-Do Lists Packing lists for trips, weekend shopping, or things you want to do togetherβ€”check them off one by one. Save Together Found a great restaurant, a place to visit, or an interesting post? Share directly from Instagram or YouTube to Pebble with one tap, and enjoy it together. Completely Private No social feeds, no timelinesβ€”just you and your partner. A safe space to keep everything that matters to you both. Easy Pairing Sign in with your Google or Apple account, share an invite code, and get paired in just 30 seconds. Privacy Policy: https://pebble.pe4nut.com/privacy Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Folios

Features
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Some things are just for you. Most diary apps look like a notes app with a padlock on it. Folios opens like a journal you would actually want to write in. A dark, candle-lit page at night. Cream ruled paper. Kraft. A blueprint grid. Cherry blossom. Seventeen handcrafted paper themes, each with its own ink colour and ruling, and nine handwriting fonts to write them in. Pick the paper that matches your mood and the words come easier. ONE PAGE A DAY Folios opens on tonight, not on a feed. One page, one prompt if you want it, and what you wrote a year ago today waiting quietly underneath. Nothing to scroll. No streak to defend. CHOOSE YOUR PAPER Seventeen themes, from warm lined cream to dark moleskine, kraft, blueprint, cherry blossom, sage, espresso and midnight. Nine handwriting fonts including Caveat, Kalam, Indie Flower and Satisfy. Change them whenever you like β€” per entry, or for the whole journal. A YEAR AGO TODAY Folios quietly resurfaces what you wrote on this date in earlier years. Nothing to set up, nothing to remember. Just a gentle reminder of who you were last summer, waiting at the top of the page when you open the app. YOUR MOOD, WITHOUT THE QUESTIONNAIRE No tapping a smiley face every night. Folios reads your writing on your device and picks up the feeling behind it β€” joy, calm, anxiety, gratitude, sadness, anger. Over time the Reflections tab shows your month's mood, your writing rhythm, your streak, your busiest hours and your word counts. You just write. The insights arrive on their own. 230+ PROMPTS FOR THE BLANK PAGE Some days the page stares back. Folios offers a fresh prompt each day, and a full prompt picker inside the editor when you want a different one β€” reflective when things are good, gentler when they are not. Write freely, brain dump, list what you are grateful for, or work on a poem. PRIVATE, AND OFFLINE FOR GOOD Your entries live on your phone, in a private database. No account. No sign-up. No cloud sync. Nothing to upload and nothing for us to read. Lock the journal with a PIN or Face ID β€” and turn the prompt off if you would rather just type. If you ever need to hand your phone to someone, a decoy PIN opens a separate, ordinary-looking journal instead of yours. BACK UP ON YOUR TERMS Export your entire journal as a file, or protect it with a password using AES-256 encryption, and import it again on any device. Turn on auto-backup to a folder you choose and forget about it. SHARE A PAGE, NOT YOUR JOURNAL Turn a single entry into a card β€” styled with your paper theme or stripped back to clean minimal β€” and send it wherever you like. Long entries scale to fit. No watermark, no branding. No subscription. No sign-up. No ads. Just you, a good page and a pen. Made with care in India.

Screenshots

Pebble4 screens
Folios4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Folios at none against Pebble's 1. Pebble's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs every 4 months). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price Β· Rating Β· Positive reviews Β· Number of ratings Β· Update frequency Β· Ads Β· In-app purchases Β· Monetization Β· Best chart rank Β· Devices Β· Requires iOS

CostPrice Β· In-app purchases Β· Ads Β· Monetization

Both are free to download. Pebble sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $1.99 per month. Folios asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Pebble ships an update weekly, Folios every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on October 18, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences Β· 4 level
Pebble versus Folios: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPebbleFolios
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyWeekly β€” betterEvery 4 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo β€” better
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS16.016.0
Further details β€” not scored
Size37 MB58 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPo-Yen ChenShubham Kumar Gupta

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Pebble

Subscriptions1
  • Pebble Premium$1.991 Month
None

Folios

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Pebble free?
Pebble is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Folios free?
Folios is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Pebble or Folios have ads?
Neither Pebble nor Folios shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Pebble or Folios?
Pebble ships an update weekly, and Folios every 4 months. Most recently, Pebble was updated on October 18, 2026 and Folios on October 8, 2026.

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