Blick for Microsoft 365 vs AnchorGrid
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Blick for Microsoft 365
Consolidate your Microsoft 365 work tools into a single view. See upcoming meetings, unread emails, and new Teams messages. Respond to messages and manage your presence without opening separate applications.
- Unified work dashboard
- View next meeting and calendar
- Check unread Outlook emails
- Monitor Teams chats and presence
- RSVP to invitations
- Manage Teams presence and out-of-office
- Reply to emails and chats
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Blick shows what's next in your Microsoft 365 day on a single screen: your next meeting, the rest of today's calendar, your unread Outlook email, your Teams chats with new activity, and your current Teams presence. Refresh when you open the app or pull to refresh. RSVP to invitations from either the calendar card or the email row itself. Set your Teams presence and out-of-office without opening Teams. Triage unread email with bulk actions tuned for Focused inbox, Other inbox, meeting notices, mailing lists, and external senders. Reply to email or Teams chats without leaving the app. Blick is built for people who use Microsoft 365 for work and want a quick status panel without launching Outlook, Teams, and Calendar separately. It uses the Microsoft Graph API for everything. The only network destinations it touches are Microsoft Graph and Microsoft identity endpoints. There is no analytics SDK, no third-party logger, no telemetry. Your data stays between you, your Apple devices, and Microsoft. Sign in with your work or school Microsoft 365 account and Blick is useful immediately. There is no separate account to create, no email list to join, and nothing Blick knows about you that Microsoft doesn't already know. Blick meets you across your Apple devices. A Home Screen widget shows your next meeting and unread counts at a glance, with one-tap presence buttons. From Control Center you can set your Teams presence or toggle out-of-office without opening the app. On iPad, a split-view layout puts your day beside the message or meeting you're reading. On Apple Watch, a glance and four complication styles bring your next meeting, today's counts, and your presence to your wrist, and you can set your presence or out-of-office from the watch. Siri and Shortcuts answer your next meeting, your unread counts, your current presence, and a quick overview of your work day, and set your status by voice. Blick is an independent app, not affiliated with or endorsed by Microsoft Corporation. Microsoft, Outlook, Teams, and Microsoft 365 are trademarks of Microsoft Corporation.
AnchorGrid
Facilitates remote screen sharing for iPhone users needing IT support. Technicians can view your screen live in a browser by entering a shared code, allowing for guided troubleshooting and setup assistance. Sessions are view-only and designed with strong privacy controls.
- Live screen sharing via browser
- 9-digit code for session access
- View-only screen access
- Encrypted peer-to-peer connection
- Time-limited, single-use codes
- Tenant isolation for IT teams
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AnchorGrid is remote screen sharing for iPhone, built for IT teams. When your IT team needs to see what's on your iPhone screen, to fix a setting, troubleshoot, or guide you through a process, you open AnchorGrid, share a 9-digit code, and they see your screen live in their browser tab. HOW A SESSION WORKS 1. Tap Start Session. The app shows a 9-digit code. 2. Share the code with your technician. 3. They enter it in their workspace's web portal. 4. Your iPhone asks you to start a Screen Broadcast. Tap Start. 5. Your technician sees your screen in real time. 6. Tap the red status bar at the top to end the session anytime. VIEW-ONLY BY DESIGN Your technician can SEE your screen. They cannot tap, type, or control your iPhone in any way. Enforced by the system itself. PRIVACY YOU CAN VERIFY • Codes expire 10 minutes after generation and are single-use. • Screen frames are never stored on AnchorGrid's servers, direct peer-to-peer when possible, and an encrypted relay when not. • AnchorGrid staff cannot view your workspace without a time-limited grant that your admin explicitly creates. FOR IT TEAMS Each workspace runs at a dedicated subdomain with strict tenant isolation, audit logs of every technician join, role-based access, Microsoft 365 single sign-on, and TOTP two-factor authentication. Learn more: anchorgrid.io Privacy: https://anchorgrid.io/privacy Terms: https://anchorgrid.io/terms
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Blick for Microsoft 365 at every 5 days against AnchorGrid's every 3 weeks. Blick for Microsoft 365 also leads on ratings volume (3 vs 1). On price, rating, ads and in-app purchases 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Blick for Microsoft 365 against 5.0 for AnchorGrid. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 1 respectively.
Blick for Microsoft 365 ships an update every 5 days, AnchorGrid every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Blick for Microsoft 365 | AnchorGrid |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (3 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Number of ratings | 3 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 days — better | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 17.6 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 18 MB | 28 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Excelano LLC | Alexander Thompson |
Customer experience
Blick for Microsoft 365
AnchorGrid
In-app purchases
Blick for Microsoft 365
No in-app purchases
AnchorGrid
No in-app purchases
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