Comparison

Flower vs Skiii Note

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

Head to head
About

Flower

Features
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Flower is a calm focus timer that turns every completed session into visible progress. Choose a duration, plant a flower, and put your attention back into the real world. When you complete a session, your flower grows. Keep focusing and you can collect rare flower fragments to unlock new species over time. Features: - Focus timer from 1 to 180 minutes - Lock-screen friendly sessions so you can put the phone away - Live Activity showing your remaining time on the Lock Screen and Dynamic Island - Tags to label what each session was for - A growing garden that reflects completed focus sessions - Rare flower fragments after early successful sessions - Seasonal gifts tied to the 24 solar terms of the traditional Chinese calendar - A solar term almanac showing the whole year at a glance - Daily, weekly, and monthly history - An achievement wall that tracks your long-term progress - Coins and a flower shop for long-term collection - Light, dark, and system appearance - Flower Plus: unlock premium flowers, advanced stats, iCloud sync, and future seasonal content with one lifetime purchase Flower is designed to be quiet, lightweight, and encouraging. It gives you a small ritual before focus and a visible reward after you finish.

About

Skiii Note

Capture fleeting thoughts, rough drafts, and inspirations as text, photos, links, or recordings. Organize these fragments into flexible cards, refine them with tags, and build your ideas step by step in a private, local-first workspace.

Highlights
  • Capture thoughts as text, photos, links, or recordings
  • Organize fragments into flexible cards
  • Add tags and refine content
  • Local-first data storage
  • No account required
  • One-time purchase
Features
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【The best time to capture an idea is now】 Ideas often appear for only a moment. A sudden thought, an unfinished sentence, an image you want to keep, a voice note, or a highlighted passage from something you are reading may feel incomplete at first, but any of them can become the starting point for something bigger. Ideas need to be captured, but they also need time to settle, develop, and change. In an increasingly noisy world, Skiii Note gives unfinished thoughts a little more room to grow. 【Capture first. Organize later.】 Skiii Note is built around a simple workflow: capture first, organize later. Drop fragmented thoughts into the home screen without stopping to categorize, name, or structure them. When an idea becomes worth developing, turn it into a card and shape it through splitting, combining, reordering, and editing. You can also bring in highlights from Readwise, or share selected text directly from other apps into Skiii Note, so references, excerpts, and your own thoughts can live in the same creative workflow. Skiii Note is a quiet, focused, local-first workspace for ideas and writing. 【Now on iPhone, iPad, and Mac】 Skiii Note is now available across iPhone, iPad, and Mac. With iCloud sync enabled, your ideas, cards, and writing can stay in sync across devices. Capture a thought on your iPhone, organize it on iPad, then continue writing on your Mac. Your ideas no longer have to stay on one device. 【Capture quickly without breaking your flow】 - Idea Bubbles Save text, images, links, and everyday fragments as bubbles on the home screen. Bubbles can be edited, pinned, highlighted, turned into to-dos, or organized into cards whenever you are ready. - Voice Recording & Transcription Press and hold the input field to start recording, then turn your voice into text when typing is too slow. - Quick Clipboard Import Hold and swipe up beside the input field to quickly bring in text or images from your clipboard. - Share from Other Apps Select text in another app and share it directly to Skiii Note to instantly create a new idea bubble. 【Let fragments grow into finished work】 - Bubbles Become Building Blocks Each card is made of independent content blocks. Split, combine, reorder, edit, and add images freely, or switch to full-screen mode when you want to focus. - Sketch Mode Tap the number of any block to enter Sketch Mode. Drag, merge, and rearrange blocks to quickly reshape a card and turn scattered fragments into a clearer structure. - Import Reading Highlights Import reading highlights from Readwise. Bring saved passages, highlights, and notes back into your own workspace, then continue developing them alongside your everyday ideas. - Organize Visual Inspiration Use a dedicated image-tagging system to organize visual references. Quickly find, revisit, and rediscover images and inspiration you saved in the past. 【Privacy & Data】 No account required No ads One-time purchase, no subscription Data is stored locally on your devices by default Full backup and restore supported iCloud sync across iPhone, iPad, and Mac 【Data & Backup Reminder】 Skiii Note stores data locally on your device by default. When iCloud sync is enabled, synced content can continue to be used across your other devices. Deleting the app removes local data from that device, but does not automatically remove content already synced to iCloud. For important content, we still recommend creating regular full backups inside Skiii Note.

Screenshots

Flower4 screens
Skiii Note4 screens

Verdict

The call

Flower and Skiii Note are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters — price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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. Flower sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Skiii Note sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Flower ships an update every 5 days, Skiii Note every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 13, 2026 respectively.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Flower versus Skiii Note: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFlowerSkiii Note
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Number of ratings—1 — better
Update frequencyEvery 5 daysEvery 4 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
Monetization—Paid
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, Mac — better
Requires iOS18.018.0
Further details — not scored
Size9 MB40 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer山杰 韩锦池 柯

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Flower

One-time1
  • Flower Plus Lifetime$1.99
1 purchases

Skiii Note

One-time1
  • SkiII Full Version$9.99

Questions

Is Flower free?
Flower is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Skiii Note free?
Skiii Note is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Flower or Skiii Note have ads?
Neither Flower nor Skiii Note shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Flower or Skiii Note?
Flower ships an update every 5 days, and Skiii Note every 4 days. Most recently, Flower was updated on October 14, 2026 and Skiii Note on October 13, 2026.

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