Comparison

ro vs WizardNote

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

Head to head
About

ro

Transform your iPhone home screen into a calm, minimal, and aesthetically pleasing environment. This app offers expertly designed layouts and a toolkit of 9 widgets to support your focus and reduce distractions.

Highlights
  • Minimalist home screen design
  • Customizable app launchers
  • Text-only widgets
  • Minimal dashboards
  • Weather summaries
  • Quote widgets
  • Privacy-focused data handling
Features
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In Danish, "ro" means calm, peace, and tranquility. Your phone should be a tool that supports your focus. ro transforms your iPhone home screen into a calm, minimal, and beautifully aesthetic environment. EFFORTLESS HARMONY ro does the design work for you. Personalize your apps, tint colors, and custom text, while the foundational layouts remain expertly proportioned. This guarantees that your home screen will always look perfectly balanced and distraction-free. 9 CRAFTED WIDGETS Explore a focused toolkit of 9 widgets, including text-only app launchers, minimal dashboards, weather summaries, and subtle quotes. COMMUNITY DRIVEN ro is an evolving, independent project. Join our Discord community to share feedback, request new widgets, and help shape the app's future. PRIVACY FIRST What happens on your home screen stays on your device. ro collects no personal data, uses no analytics trackers, and reads your calendar strictly on-device.

About

WizardNote

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WizardNote turns your voice into finished notes. Tap once to capture a thought, meeting, or idea — the app transcribes it right on your iPhone and saves it as a markdown note to a folder you choose. A perfect companion for Obsidian. NO REQUIRED SUBSCRIPTION, NO ACCOUNT • Transcription runs entirely on device (Whisper) — works offline • Recordings, transcripts, and notes stay with you; no telemetry • Pro is a one-time purchase; WizardNote Cloud is an optional subscription FREE FEATURES • One-tap recording that keeps going with the screen locked • On-device transcription in many languages (English, German, French, Spanish, Czech and more, even mixed), with a background queue • Summaries via ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini: the app prepares the transcript with instructions, you paste it into the chat and paste the reply back. Your chat subscription is enough, no API key needed • Markdown notes, player, archive, audio sharing • Action Button, Control Center, widget, Siri, Live Activity WIZARDNOTE PRO (one-time) • Automatic AI summaries with action items — Apple Intelligence, your own server (LM Studio/Ollama, incl. Tailscale), OpenAI, Anthropic, or Azure AI Foundry (your own keys, stored in Keychain only) • Tasks: action items from summaries as a checklist, sent to Reminders or Calendar in one tap • More accurate transcription models • On-device speaker recognition — who said what, with speakers you can rename • Save directly to your own folder — e.g. an Obsidian vault on iCloud • Or to Apple Notes — automatically via a shortcut • Summary templates for meetings, lectures, or journaling; share note/transcript/summary • Shortcuts: find a note (searches transcripts, not just titles), pull its transcript, summary, tasks or whole markdown note, stop a recording, hand an audio file over for transcription • Notes label AI content: provider and model in the frontmatter, and a line under the summary stating that a model wrote it WIZARDNOTE CLOUD (optional subscription) • AI summaries without your own keys or servers — monthly or yearly, with a quota of transcript hours and optional top-ups • Transcription still happens on your iPhone; only the transcript text goes to the WizardNote server in the EU (Microsoft Azure) • The subscription renews automatically until you cancel it in your Apple ID settings Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://wizardnote.app/privacy Great for quick notes, meetings, ideas on the go, journaling, and getting tasks out of your head into your system.

Screenshots

ro3 screens
WizardNote4 screens

Verdict

The call

ro and WizardNote 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. ro sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and WizardNote sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

ro ships an update every 11 days, WizardNote every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on November 9, 2026 and November 10, 2026 respectively.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
ro versus WizardNote: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterroWizardNote
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.4 (8 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings8 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 11 daysEvery 10 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS18.618.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size41 MB21 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperFilip Smaleccbrdn

In-app purchases

1 purchases

ro

One-time1
  • Full Collection$2.99
4 purchases

WizardNote

Subscriptions2
  • Cloud – Monthly$3.991 Month
  • Cloud – Yearly$29.991 Year
One-time2
  • +30 h of summaries$1.99
  • WizardNote Pro$14.99

Questions

Is ro free?
ro is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is WizardNote free?
WizardNote is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do ro or WizardNote have ads?
Neither ro nor WizardNote shows ads.
Which is updated more often, ro or WizardNote?
ro ships an update every 11 days, and WizardNote every 10 days. Most recently, ro was updated on November 9, 2026 and WizardNote on November 10, 2026.

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