Comparison

Bulletin vs Fold

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

Head to head
About

Bulletin

This app offers an infinite canvas for organizing ideas, plans, and trackers. It allows users to add and customize various blocks like text, images, and lists, with options for collaboration and offline use.

Highlights
  • Infinite canvas for unlimited board size
  • Variety of customizable blocks (text, image, shape, link, drawing)
  • Pro blocks for advanced features (todo lists, progress bars, calendars)
  • Rich styling options for blocks and boards
  • iCloud sync and collaboration
  • Offline functionality
  • Search and Spotlight integration
Features
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Bulletin is an infinite canvas for anything you can imagine — mood boards, mind maps, plans, habit trackers, or a home for everything you keep meaning to get to. Add blocks, arrange them however you like, and make every one of them look exactly the way you want. BLOCKS TO BUILD WITH • Image — photos and animated GIFs, with a built-in cropper • Text — rich text in any font on your device • Shape — rectangles, diamonds and circles, with text inside for diagrams • Line & Arrow — snap to blocks and keep following them as they move, with customizable heads at either end of an arrow • Link — paste a URL for a preview card, or embed the live site right on your board • Drawing — sketch with Apple Pencil on iPad, and view it on every device POWERFUL PRO BLOCKS • Todo List — nest tasks as deep as you like, and drag them between blocks to build your own Kanban • Progress Bar — a simple, satisfying visual indicator • Recurring Tracker — progress or checkmark style, for habits, chores and anything that repeats • Calendar Tracker — a beautiful calendar heatmap • More on the way MADE TO BE YOURS • Style it block by block — board background, fonts, colors, padding, corner radius, borders, shadows, rotation. Nobody should be locked into one design. • A real infinite canvas — built natively for speed, so your board can grow as large as you want • Search — find any block from anywhere in the app, and choose which blocks are searchable. Boards and blocks appear in Spotlight too, and open right where you left them. • Folders — organize boards into folders, nested as deep as you need • Scenes — save named views of a board and jump straight back to them • Light and dark — pick your appearance and design for both; your colors are saved separately for each SYNC AND SHARING • iCloud sync — design on your Mac and pick it up on iPad or iPhone, right where you left off • iCloud sharing — invite people to collaborate on a board • Yours alone — everything lives in your own iCloud. No accounts, no tracking, no data collection. Works offline. Bulletin is free: unlimited boards, unlimited basic blocks, and up to 5 Pro blocks at a time. Unlock Bulletin Pro with a single one-time purchase — no subscriptions, ever — for unlimited Pro blocks. Bulletin Pro supports Family Sharing, so one purchase covers your whole family.

About

Fold

Features
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Give repeated notes a useful shape. Fold is a structured notes app built just for iPhone. Give each folder a flexible structure with reusable fields, such as author, price, date, rating, or links, all while every note keeps space for free writing. • Create folders around the way you think • Start with templates or make your own fields • Write freely alongside the details you need to repeat • Search titles, folders, fields, tags, checklists, and writing • Keep checklists, reminders, and rich-text notes together • Keep your notes local, with backup and export tools when you need them Fold helps you capture ideas quickly, then find the important details later.

Screenshots

Bulletin4 screens
Fold4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Fold at none against Bulletin's 1. Fold also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.7) and iOS requirement (18.0 vs 26.0). Bulletin's advantage is update cadence (every 9 days vs every 2 months) and device support (3 vs 1). On price and ads 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. Bulletin sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Fold asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Fold holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 1 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Bulletin ships an update every 9 days, Fold every 2 months. Both last shipped on November 13, 2026.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Bulletin versus Fold: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBulletinFold
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (3 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings3 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 9 days — betterEvery 2 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac — betteriPhone
Requires iOS26.018.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size13 MB141 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperIn The Middle (SG)Mofura Labs LLC

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Bulletin

One-time1
  • Lifetime Pro$39.99
None

Fold

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Bulletin free?
Bulletin is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Fold free?
Fold is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Bulletin or Fold?
Fold is rated higher. Bulletin averages 4.7 out of 5 from 3 ratings, while Fold averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Bulletin or Fold have ads?
Neither Bulletin nor Fold shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Bulletin or Fold?
Bulletin ships an update every 9 days, and Fold every 2 months. Most recently, Bulletin was updated on November 13, 2026 and Fold on November 13, 2026.

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