Comparison

Horizon vs Flowing Notes

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

Head to head
About

Horizon

Organize your existing calendar events into smart categories like Work, Health, and Family. Get daily and weekly briefings, track goals, and countdown to important events. Integrates with Siri and Shortcuts for seamless access.

Highlights
  • Smart event categorization
  • Daily and weekly briefings
  • Goal tracking
  • Event countdowns
  • Find free time suggestions
  • Siri and Shortcuts integration
  • Widgets for Home and Lock Screen
Features
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Your Apple Calendar, organized by what matters. Horizon is a companion for Apple Calendar. It reads the events you already have, sorts them into categories like Work, Health, Family and Travel, and brings the important ones forward: on a dashboard, in your Daily and Weekly Briefing, on your Lock Screen, in widgets, on Apple Watch and through Siri. There's no new calendar to keep up and no account to create. Allow calendar access and Horizon does the rest, on your device. SMART CATEGORIES Horizon's AI sorts every event into one of 19 categories and learns from each correction you make. Add your own: Horizon suggests words from your calendar and shows which events a category would get before you add it. Quick Categorize deals out the rest as cards. A DASHBOARD THAT STARTS WITH TODAY The Today card shows the weather and what's happening now or next. Birthdays, holidays and trips sit in a strip above each day's events, so what you have to get to comes first. Browse by category, switch to the month, or turn your iPhone sideways for the week. DAILY & WEEKLY BRIEFINGS The Daily Briefing gives you the shape of your day: how much is on, when it starts, when you're done and where your free time is. The Weekly Briefing covers your busiest days, highlights, how your time splits across categories, and every conflict. Life Patterns looks back over months to show where your time really goes. WEEKLY GOALS At least 3 workouts a week, or at most 20 hours of Work. Your progress shows on the category, in your briefings and in Life Patterns. WATCHLIST Count down to what you're looking forward to: a trip, a birthday, a concert. A watched event gets a Live Activity on your Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island, milestone notifications a month, a week and a day out, and its own widget. Watch a recurring event and the countdown moves on to the next one by itself. FIND FREE TIME Need an hour for the gym or coffee with a friend? Horizon looks through your schedule within the hours you choose and suggests the best openings. Tap one to create the event. INVITATIONS & OVERLAPS Every invitation waiting for a reply is in one list, with a note when it overlaps something you're going to. Turn on Keep Until Answered and they wait there, out of your day, until you reply. Open any event to see what it collides with. SIRI, SHORTCUTS & FOCUS Ask "What's on my Horizon today?" or "When am I free this week in Horizon?" Add an event, watch one or change its category by voice. Nine actions are ready in Shortcuts, Controls work in Control Center and on the Action button, and Focus filters show only the categories you choose while a Focus is on. WIDGETS Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets for your next events, your day or your week, and your Watchlist. They stay current without opening the app. REMINDERS THAT FIT THE EVENT Set reminder timing per category: a week ahead for a trip, the morning of for a birthday, 30 minutes before a meeting. Horizon can skip events that already have a Calendar alert, so you're never reminded twice. DUPLICATES HANDLED The same meeting on your work and personal calendars shows up once, and so does a hotel stay booked through a travel app. Open it to see every copy. BUILT ON APPLE CALENDAR Horizon works with every calendar in Apple Calendar: iCloud, Google, Exchange, Outlook and CalDAV. Create events in Horizon, categorized as you type, and edit existing ones in Apple's own editor. IPHONE, IPAD, IPHONE DUO & APPLE WATCH A side-by-side layout on iPad, a planner across both displays of iPhone Duo, and your whole day and your Watchlist on Apple Watch. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Categorization runs entirely on your device. Your events are never sent to a server, and there are no Horizon accounts and no tracking. Your categories and settings follow you to your other devices through your own iCloud account.

About

Flowing Notes

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Float Notes is a minimal, flowing note app designed for busy minds. Write a note once — it scrolls continuously on your screen. No need to open, search, or remember. Just glance and go. Perfect for: - ADHD & attention difficulties — keep important thoughts always visible - Busy professionals — capture that call reminder before you forget - Students — scroll through vocabulary, formulas, or key dates passively - Elderly & memory support — "lock the door", "take your medicine" always on screen - Minimal & aesthetic setups — beautiful on iPhone and iPad FEATURES - Continuous scrolling feed — notes flow endlessly, day and night - Multiple pages — separate spaces for work, home, study, and more - Dark & light mode — warm, paper-like tones in both - Adjustable text size — small, medium, or large - Adjustable scroll speed — slow for reading, fast for scanning - Distraction-free — no clutter, no notifications, just your notes - Widget mode — full screen, no interface, pure flow

Screenshots

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Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is device support: Horizon at 3 against Flowing Notes's —. Flowing Notes's advantage is iOS requirement (15.1 vs 18.6). On price 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Horizon versus Flowing Notes: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHorizonFlowing Notes
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (9 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings9 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 days—
AdsNo—
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better—
Requires iOS18.615.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size35 MB23 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSteve VillardiFunda Sengun

In-app purchases

None

Horizon

No in-app purchases

None

Flowing Notes

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Horizon free?
Horizon is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Flowing Notes free?
Flowing Notes is free to download, with no in-app purchases.

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