Comparison

Simmr vs Thicket

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

Head to head
About

Simmr

Transform saved video reels into actionable content like recipes, structured notes, or concise summaries. This app helps you organize and utilize the valuable information from videos you've saved, preventing them from being forgotten.

Highlights
  • Convert reels to recipes
  • Extract structured notes from reels
  • Generate video summaries
  • Create shopping lists
  • Organize saved content
  • Share reels directly to the app
Features
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You've saved 2,000 reels. You've revisited maybe 3. Simmr is for the rest of them. Share any reel and Simmr turns it into something you'll actually use. A cooking reel becomes a recipe card with real ingredients and steps. An advice reel becomes structured notes with every book, person, and concept called out. A deep-dive becomes a summary you can read in 30 seconds. Your save folder stops being a graveyard. WHAT YOU GET Recipes. Not a blurry screenshot. Real ingredients with amounts, steps you can follow, shopping list in one tap. Wisdom notes. Every book mentioned, every person referenced, every framework explained — pulled out of the reel and structured so you can come back to it later and actually find what you needed. Summaries. The 90-second version of whatever you watched, in text you can skim. HOW IT WORKS 1. Find a reel worth keeping. 2. Tap share. Pick Simmr. 3. Recipe card or note shows up in the app. No feed. No following. No algorithm. Just the reels you personally send, turned into the good parts. WHO THIS IS FOR - You save cooking reels and never cook them - You save book recs and never read them - You screenshot the same productivity reel three times because you can't find it - You have a "watch later" folder that's really a "forget forever" folder PRIVACY We only process reels you share with us. No scraping, no feed access, no watching what you watch. Your saves are yours. Delete anything, or your whole account, anytime from inside the app. Free to try. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.simmrs.com/terms.html Privacy Policy: https://www.simmrs.com/privacy.html Questions or feedback: hello@simmrs.com

About

Thicket

Features
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Plant a tree and leave your phone alone. Lock it, pocket it, put it face down — the tree keeps growing. Open something else and it dies. That is the whole idea, and it works because the stake is real. WHAT GROWS Every finished session becomes a tree in your grove. Days fill up, months fill out, and a year of attention turns into somewhere you can actually look at. Twenty species across six regions, and you cannot buy a single one. Each is earned by focusing — some by total hours, some by finishing long sessions, some found by chance in the ones over ninety minutes. Your trees, your garden, all of it earned. Pinch a grove to look closer. Everything is drawn again as you go, so it stays sharp all the way in, and the shapes you earned are worth looking at. A GARDEN YOU ARRANGE Seeds come from finishing sessions, and they buy things to put in your grove — a bench, a pond, a fire pit, a deer that only visits a forest left alone. Eighteen of them. A thing you place belongs to the day you placed it, so every grove ends up different, and you can buy the same bench again next week for another day. Hold anything to pick it up and move it wherever you like. It stays where you put it. THE APPS THAT ALWAYS WIN Pick the ones you cannot be trusted around. While a tree is growing they do not open, and the moment the session ends — finished or given up on — they open again. No schedules, no standing block, nothing left switched on behind you. You choose them in Apple's own picker, which means Thicket is never told which apps you picked. It only knows how many. Free, like everything else here that matters. DAY AND NIGHT After dark the grove gets a moon, stars and moonlight on the leaves. Not a dark mode — a time of day. It follows your phone, or you can hold it at night all day if you like. LOCKING YOUR PHONE IS FOCUSING Most focus apps cannot tell putting your phone down apart from picking up another app. Thicket can. A locked screen is exactly what it asks of you, so nothing is lost. Wandering into another app is what it is there to stop — and you get a warning with time to come back. QUIETLY BUILT · No account, no sign-up, no server · No analytics, no advertising, no tracking of any kind · Backup to your own iCloud, so losing a phone is not losing a year · Your whole history and every statistic, free forever THE FULL VERSION Free gives you the timer, deep focus, app blocking, the lock screen timer, all your statistics, iCloud backup, and four species to plant. The full version opens the rest of the catalogue: all twenty species, all six regions, the whole garden. You still earn every one of them by focusing — buying opens the catalogue, it never plants a tree for you. Thicket is made by one person. If something is wrong, write in and a real person answers. Privacy Policy: https://urosgruber.github.io/thicket/privacy.html Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Simmr4 screens
Thicket4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Thicket at every 3 days against Simmr's every 11 days. On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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. Simmr sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month and Thicket sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Simmr ships an update every 11 days, Thicket every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 2, 2026 and October 9, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 8 level
Simmr versus Thicket: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSimmrThicket
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 11 daysEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS15.115.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size67 MB19 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperFatik OwaisUros Gruber

In-app purchases

4 purchases

Simmr

Subscriptions2
  • Regular$1.991 Month
  • Power User$4.991 Month
One-time2
  • 50 Saves$1.99
  • 200 Saves$4.99
3 purchases

Thicket

Subscriptions2
  • Thicket Monthly$2.991 Month
  • Thicket Yearly7 Days trial$9.991 Year
One-time1
  • Thicket Forever$34.99

Questions

Is Simmr free?
Simmr is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Thicket free?
Thicket is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Simmr or Thicket have ads?
Neither Simmr nor Thicket shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Simmr or Thicket?
Simmr ships an update every 11 days, and Thicket every 3 days. Most recently, Simmr was updated on October 2, 2026 and Thicket on October 9, 2026.

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