NookDex vs Calm Glitter Jar
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
NookDex
Track your Animal Crossing: New Horizons island progress with this unofficial companion app. Browse villagers, fish, bugs, and items, and easily see what you've collected and what's still missing. Manage your residents, wishlists, and create custom profile cards.
- Browse villagers, fish, bugs, and items
- Track collection progress
- Check availability by hemisphere and month
- Manage residents and wishlists
- Create custom profile cards
- Rank favorite villagers
- Supports multiple languages and dark mode
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NookDex is an unofficial companion app for Animal Crossing: New Horizons, built to make island life easier to track and more enjoyable. Browse villagers, fish, bugs, sea creatures, items, and recipes in one place, then quickly see what you have collected and what you still need. Features • Browse compendiums for villagers, critters, items, and recipes • Track collection progress by category • Check availability by hemisphere and month, including uncollected-only views • Manage residents, wishlists, and favorite villagers • Create and save passport-style profile cards • Rank your favorite villagers and build your own personal rankings • Discover your top favorite villager through tournament mode • Supports Korean, English, Japanese, dark mode, and theme customization You can start without signing up, so it is easy to focus on your own records and collection tracking right away. NookDex is an unofficial fan-made app for Animal Crossing: New Horizons and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Nintendo Co., Ltd. or its affiliates.
Calm Glitter Jar
A digital sensory experience designed for relaxation and mindfulness. Shake, stir, and watch the glitter settle to unlock charms and discover a peaceful escape. Enjoy a customizable, ad-free environment for moments of calm.
- Shake and stir digital glitter
- Collect 33 illustrated charms
- Unlock 9 glitter colors
- Customize glitter amount and flake size
- Choose between midnight and daylight themes
- Zen mode for full-screen immersion
- Gentle harp score or ad-free silence
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Glitter Jar is a pocket of quiet: a glass jar full of glitter that you stir, shake, and then simply watch. Trace a finger across the glass to stir. Give your phone a real shake to slosh everything up. Then comes the good part — be still. The flecks drift, sparkle, and settle, and the jar quietly notices your calm. There is no score, no streak, no timer, and nothing to fail. As the glitter settles, charms unlock on their own unhurried schedule. • 33 illustrated jewel-enamel charms to collect, common to ultra rare • 9 glitter colors, granted at milestones along the way • and the collection is said to hold a secret… Set the glitter amount and flake size, add water for a slower, dreamier fall, choose how much it twinkles, and pick your mood: a midnight theme washed in indigo and stars, or a daylight theme in blush and lavender — each with its own matching art. When you want nothing but jar, zen mode fills the screen edge to edge. Underneath it all, a gentle harp score rises and falls with the glitter — or switch it off and let the sparkle keep its own quiet. Calm by construction. • no ads, no accounts, no notifications • charms and colors unlock just by watching the glitter settle • your jar lives on your device — nothing about you is collected or sent anywhere Reach for it as a fidget for restless hands, a wind-down before sleep, or a small ritual between one thing and the next. Every shake ends the same way: slowly, gently, and with a little more unlocked. Complete and quiet by design. Open the lid whenever you need a moment.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Calm Glitter Jar at none against NookDex's shown. Calm Glitter Jar also leads on ratings volume (4 vs 1). NookDex's advantage is update cadence (every 3 days vs weekly) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.0). On price, rating, 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. NookDex sells 4 one-off in-app purchases and Calm Glitter Jar sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for NookDex against 5.0 for Calm Glitter Jar. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 4 respectively.
NookDex ships an update every 3 days, Calm Glitter Jar weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 28, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | NookDex | Calm Glitter Jar |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (4 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 4 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 days — better | Weekly |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 85 MB | 77 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | YUJIN JEUN | Groundmass |
In-app purchases
NookDex
- Buy Me a Coffee$0.99
- Unlock Themes$1.99
- Remove Ads$2.99
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- Premium Bundle$3.99
Calm Glitter Jar
- Small Tip$0.99
- Medium Tip$2.99
- Halloween Charms$2.99
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- Large Tip$4.99
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