Comparison

Flows vs Libreto

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

Head to head
About

Flows

Organize your day with intelligent scheduling and task management. Capture notes, set time estimates, and let the app automatically arrange your schedule. Stay focused with a built-in Pomodoro timer and track your progress with daily streaks.

Highlights
  • Auto-scheduling of tasks
  • Rich-text note editor
  • Smart tag suggestions
  • Integrated Pomodoro timer
  • Daily streak tracking
  • Global search and filtering
  • Customizable themes and fonts
Features
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PLAN YOUR DAY IN MINUTES Add tasks, set time estimates and difficulty levels, then let Flows arrange your schedule. Let Auto-Schedule place them intelligently; hard tasks go in the morning, easy ones fill the gaps. View your day, week, or month at a glance. NOTES THAT WORK WITH YOUR TASKS Capture ideas, meeting notes, and to-dos with a rich-text editor organized into folders. Flows can detect tasks hiding in your notes and turn them into real, schedulable items, no copy-pasting required. SMART TAGS & AUTO-TAGGING Create tags with descriptions and keywords, and Flows will suggest them automatically as you add tasks. Organize your work by project, priority, or whatever makes sense for your life. STAY IN THE ZONE Start a Pomodoro timer for any task with customizable work and break intervals (5–90 minutes). Pick from ambient sounds like rain, lo-fi beats, or white noise. When the timer ends, your progress is logged automatically. BUILD A STREAK YOU'RE PROUD OF Complete your daily plan to keep your streak alive. Flows understands that rest days happen; your streak won't break over a weekend. Check your weekly recap to see how your focus time, completion rate, and productivity are trending. SEARCH EVERYTHING Find any task or note instantly with global search. Filter by type, date range, or completion status. Sort by relevance, date, or name. MAKE IT YOURS Choose from 16+ handcrafted color themes, switch between dark and light mode, and pick a display font. Five notification personalities, from gentle encouragement to delightfully unhinged commentary, keep things interesting. FLOWS PRO (30-Day Free Trial) Unlock the full experience: • Auto-Schedule — Intelligently fills your timeline based on difficulty, priority, and your available hours. Hard tasks land in the morning. Dreaded ones go first. • Focus Forecast — See how your focus time trends across days and weeks. Get a Monday morning preview of what's ahead. • Calendar Sync — Pull events from Google Calendar or Apple Calendar so your schedule and your plan live side by side. • Notion Sync — Connect your Notion workspace and keep everything in one place. • Slack Integration — Share your focus status with your team automatically. • Cloud Sync — Your tasks, notes, and streaks stay in sync across all your devices. • Unlimited Tags — Create as many tags as you need. • All Themes — Access every color theme and future additions. Terms & Conditions: https://flowspomo.com/terms.html Privacy Policy: https://flowspomo.com/privacy.html

About

Libreto

This app is a versatile digital notebook, planner, and drawing studio. It offers PDF editing, handwriting recognition, and AI-powered art tools. Designed for intuitive use, it provides a private, on-device experience with a single, fair price.

Highlights
  • Digital notebook with realistic page turning
  • Customizable planners (daily, weekly, monthly)
  • Full drawing studio with layers and brushes
  • PDF editing with annotation and redaction
  • On-device handwriting recognition and OCR
  • AI art generation with Image Playground
  • Support for Apple Pencil and finger input
Features
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Libreto is a digital notebook, planner, PDF editor and full drawing studio for iPad and iPhone Duo, and a streamlined PDF editor and notes app for iPhone. A notebook that opens like one, private by design, with on-device AI included and one fair price. START WHERE YOU LEFT OFF Libreto opens on Start: your latest work up front, and a new Notepad, Planner or Sketchbook one tap away. Everything you make lives in one Library, sorted into notebooks, planners, sketches and PDFs. A NOTEBOOK THAT OPENS LIKE ONE Every notebook opens on its cover, full screen: your own photo, a seasonal design, or one you make. Slide the elastic band to the lock to open it, turn pages that curl like paper, and swipe a closed cover to reach the next notebook. MADE FOR IPHONE DUO Folded, the cover screen shows the notebook you were writing in, band and all. Unfold it and the notebook lies open across both pages, each one whole on the screen, right where you left off. Every control sits in one row at the top. NOTEBOOKS FOR APPLE PENCIL (iPad and iPhone Duo) Lined, dot grid, graph, Cornell and to-do paper, or a photo, in any paper colour. Ink thickens on slow strokes and tapers at the ends, like a real nib. Draw a rough line, box or circle and hold: it snaps clean. Underline, strike out or circle typed words and the mark stays with them. Type around photos, or lay out text frames with columns that run on from page to page. Search your handwriting and convert it to text on-device, in 20+ languages. Add stickers, washi tape, photos and AI art with Image Playground. No Pencil, or another iPhone? Write with a finger. PLANNERS, YOUR WAY (iPad and iPhone Duo) Daily, Weekly, Monthly and Pro planners, plus ready-made planners for school, work, fitness and money. Real dates, a tappable Contents page, and every day linked to its month. Light or Dark theme. DRAW & SKETCH (iPad and iPhone Duo) A full drawing studio: pressure brushes with textured tips, dual brushes, and brushes made from your own pictures. Layers, groups, Layer Sets, blend modes, layer masks and live adjustment layers you can change at any time. Vector shapes and text with gradients, tapered and dashed lines. Heal, clone, dodge, burn and liquify. Warp and rig your art, and draw on isometric planes. History with branches lets you step back to any point. Symmetry: vertical, horizontal, both axes or radial. Choose a Dark or Light look. Open and save PSD files, or export as PNG or PDF. PHOTO TOOLS IN SKETCH STUDIO (iPad and iPhone Duo) Develop RAW photos. Merge shots into panoramas, HDR images, or a crowd-free scene. Mask hair and fur with the Edge Mask Brush, and measure in real units. PDF TOOLS (iPad and iPhone) Highlights, ink, shapes, stickers and signatures, with undo and redo for every mark. Reorder, rotate, split and extract pages. On-device OCR and Scan Enhance for scans. Redact for real: the hidden text is destroyed, not just covered. Export as PDF, image, text, Word (RTF) or Markdown. LIBRETO INTELLIGENCE, ON YOUR DEVICE Ask questions about any PDF or notebook and get answers with tappable page citations. Summarize a document, a page range or a selection. Turn any document into flashcards and quizzes with spaced-repetition review. Record a lecture, then transcribe and summarize it on-device. All of it runs with Apple Intelligence, right on your device: nothing uploaded, nothing metered, no AI credits. Prefer no AI? One switch hides every AI button. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No ads. No tracking. No third-party AI. Your work stays on your devices, with optional private iCloud sync and App Lock with Face ID. MEMBERSHIP Unlock every premium feature for $19.99/year with a 3-day free trial, or $2.99/month. Prefer not to subscribe? Buy Libreto once for $59.99 and keep every feature, including future updates, forever. Terms of Use (Apple standard EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Flows4 screens
Libreto4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ratings volume: Flows at 7 against Libreto's 1. On price, rating, update cadence and ads 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. Flows sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per month and Libreto sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for Flows against 5.0 for Libreto. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Flows has 7 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Flows ships an update weekly, Libreto every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and November 13, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Flows versus Libreto: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFlowsLibreto
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.9 (7 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings7 — better1
Update frequencyWeekly — betterEvery 9 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFreemium
DevicesiPhone, MaciPhone, iPad
Requires iOS16.6 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size49 MB22 MB
Age rating9+4+
DeveloperHUNTER WESTLEY BOLTONJC Mobile App Studio LLC

Customer experience

Flows

All ratings7 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Libreto

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Flows

Subscriptions2
  • Flows Pro — Monthly1 Month trial$5.991 Month
  • Flows Pro — Annual1 Month trial$49.991 Year
3 purchases

Libreto

Subscriptions2
  • Libreto Premium (Monthly)$2.991 Month
  • Libreto Premium (Annual)3 Days trial$19.991 Year
One-time1
  • Libreto Lifetime$59.99

Questions

Is Flows free?
Flows is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Libreto free?
Libreto is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Flows or Libreto?
Libreto is rated higher. Flows averages 4.9 out of 5 from 7 ratings, while Libreto averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Flows or Libreto have ads?
Neither Flows nor Libreto shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Flows or Libreto?
Flows ships an update weekly, and Libreto every 9 days. Most recently, Flows was updated on October 31, 2026 and Libreto on November 13, 2026.

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