Blick for Microsoft 365 vs Thought Meadow
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.
Thought Meadow
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Some ideas just need a quiet place. Thought Meadow is a simple, native notes app for iPhone, in English and Arabic. Capture a thought, plan your day, and keep what matters. Open the app and start writing, with no account or internet connection. A little room to think: • Write notes with automatic local saving. • Organize with folders, tags and pinned notes. • Search titles, content and tags. • Use Markdown preview and interactive checklists. • Archive notes or move them to Trash and restore them later. • Export a note as Markdown or back up your full notebook. • Import text, Markdown and notebook backups through Files. Your thoughts, yours alone: • No account, ads, analytics or tracking in the app. • Notes stay on your device and are not sent to the developer's server. • Add optional password encryption for your notebook and full backups. • Your password is not stored and cannot be recovered if lost. Thought Meadow is free and open source under the MIT license. This release has no subscriptions or in-app purchases. Multi-device sync and shared lists are not available yet. Notes are excluded from automatic iPhone backups. Export copies regularly through Files and keep them outside the device: deleting the app may delete local notes. This first release has not yet had an independent security audit.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Thought Meadow at every 2 days against Blick for Microsoft 365's every 5 days. Blick for Microsoft 365's advantage is device support (3 vs 1). On price, ads, in-app purchases and iOS requirement 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.
Blick for Microsoft 365 ships an update every 5 days, Thought Meadow every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Blick for Microsoft 365 | Thought Meadow |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 3 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 5 days | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 18 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Excelano LLC | Alawy Alshakhouri |
In-app purchases
Blick for Microsoft 365
No in-app purchases
Thought Meadow
No in-app purchases
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