Comparison

Nooklo vs nook

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

Head to head
About

Nooklo

This app allows you to study or work alongside friends remotely. See who's focused, join their synchronized work sessions, and track your progress together without distractions.

Highlights
  • Live feed of friends working
  • One-tap session joining
  • Synced Pomodoro timer
  • Session recaps
  • 7-day commit grid
Features
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Houseparty for studying. Most study apps are timers. Nooklo is a place where your friends already are. Open the app, see who's locked in right now, and join them with a tap. Same synced timer, same room. No chat, no video, no pressure. HOW IT WORKS The Tonight feed shows which friends are in a session right now. Tap one to slip in beside them. You'll run the same focus blocks and breaks, in sync. Or start your own session, and your friends get a push the moment you lock in. BLOCK THE APPS THAT PULL YOU AWAY Pick your distracting apps once. Nooklo blocks them at the iOS level every time a session starts, lifts the shield at breaks, and re-locks when focus resumes. It survives force-quits and phone locks. You never touch the picker again. You can also set recurring windows (sleep, class hours, deep work) where your picked apps stay blocked automatically. PLAN THE WEEK TOGETHER Schedule Nooks on a 7 day grid and invite up to 4 friends. Your existing calendar (iCloud, Google, Outlook, Exchange) shows through as ghost blocks so you never double-book, and scheduled Nooks mirror back to your calendar. A JOURNAL THAT WRITES ITSELF Every day pulls in what you actually got done: completed Nooks, checked-off tasks, session reflections. Add your own to-dos, check them off mid-session, and get quiet receipts, not a scoreboard. PROOF YOU SHOWED UP A heatmap of when you actually study, hours per subject, weekly rhythm, and share-stats cards. Stats are intimate, not competitive. FOCUS MECHANICS THAT HOLD UP • Pomodoro (25/5 by default, 50/10 or custom) and free study • Lock Screen Live Activity and Dynamic Island countdown • Home screen widgets to start a session without opening the app • Session intentions: capture what you want to get done, check it off mid-session PRIVATE BY DEFAULT Only friends you add can see when you're in a session. No public profiles, no follower counts, no algorithm. Calendar and reflection data stays on your device. Everything is free right now, including app blocking. Plus is free until September.

About

nook

Save articles, recipes, products, places, videos, documents, and ideas from across the web. Organize your scattered links into visual, searchable saves with context, notes, and reminders. Keep your digital life organized in one quiet place.

Highlights
  • Save articles, recipes, products, places, videos, documents, and ideas
  • Visual and searchable saves
  • Add context, notes, and reminders
  • Organize saves by custom categories
  • Consolidate scattered links
Features
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Nook — Your Second Brain for Everything You Discover Ever see a coffee shop on TikTok and never find it again? Screenshot a product on Instagram and lose it in your camera roll? Nook fixes that. Nook is a save-anything app that turns scattered screenshots, DMs, and browser tabs into one organized, searchable space. Save it once, find it forever.

Screenshots

Nooklo4 screens
nook4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: nook at every 3 days against Nooklo's weekly. nook also leads on iOS requirement (15.1 vs 26.0). On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume 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.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Nooklo against 5.0 for nook. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 3 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Nooklo ships an update weekly, nook every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on September 30, 2026 and October 11, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Nooklo versus nook: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterNooklonook
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings)5.0 (3 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings23 — better
Update frequencyWeeklyEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPod — better
Requires iOS26.015.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size18 MB54 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developerriley lauCara Rosengard

Customer experience

Nooklo

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

nook

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Nooklo

No in-app purchases

None

nook

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Nooklo free?
Nooklo is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is nook free?
nook is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Nooklo or nook?
Nooklo and nook are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 2 and 3 ratings respectively.
Do Nooklo or nook have ads?
Neither Nooklo nor nook shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Nooklo or nook?
Nooklo ships an update weekly, and nook every 3 days. Most recently, Nooklo was updated on September 30, 2026 and nook on October 11, 2026.

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