Comparison

Earwake vs Moonflower

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

Head to head
About

Earwake

Features
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Save reusable wake setups and challenge the actual name-and-phrase matcher against calls and near misses before choosing a profile. HOW IT WORKS 1. Open Profiles and capture your current Set Up or load the clearly labeled phrase example. 2. Add recognized-text trials with your expected trigger result. Run text rehearsal and compare results across sensitivity levels. 3. Save the rehearsed profile, export its report, or restore its complete setup. Restoring always leaves Earwake disarmed; review Set Up and arm it yourself. Name and phrase listening, sound triggers, wake styles, dismiss challenges and event history remain available. Profiles preserve their settings and add controlled disarmed restoration. WHAT TO KNOW Text rehearsal tests the matcher only. It does not test microphone input, speech recognition, ambient sound detection, volume, alarm delivery or waking reliability. Earwake needs to stay in the foreground to listen. Use a separate reliable alarm for critical wake times. Profiles do not schedule background operation. iPhone and iPad.

About

Moonflower

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Moonflower gives every website a beautiful dark mode in Safari — designed to feel like it was always meant to be there. Create your own themes with exactly the colors you want, and fine-tune every website individually: its own theme, its own on/off rule, its own exceptions. Most sites still don't offer a dark theme. Moonflower fixes that: its engine reads each page's actual colors and generates a tailor-made dark theme on the fly, so text stays crisp, images stay natural, and nothing looks washed out or inverted. DARK MODE, DONE PROPERLY • Works on every website, automatically • Dynamic colors: a custom dark theme generated per site — not a crude filter • Respects sites that already have a dark mode (or override them if you prefer) • Smart image handling: photos stay untouched, bright diagrams and logos are gently adapted • Flash-free page loads — pages paint dark from the first moment DESIGN YOUR OWN THEMES • Six hand-tuned themes to start: Black, Dark, Gray, Sepia, Paper, Focus • Create unlimited custom themes — pick your exact background and text colors • Fine-tune image brightness, grayscale, and sepia per theme • Edit with a live preview on a real article, so you see every change instantly FINE-TUNE EVERY WEBSITE • Auto, On, or Off — globally or per site • Give each website its own theme • Pause a site until tomorrow with one tap • Ignore a site's built-in dark mode when yours looks better • Keyboard shortcuts for toggling, cycling themes, and pausing A READER BUILT IN • One tap turns any article into a clean, beautiful reading view • Apple Books-style themes — each with a light and dark variant • Adjustable text size, and your custom reader themes come along EVERYWHERE YOU BROWSE • iPhone, iPad, and Mac • iCloud sync keeps your themes and site settings identical on all your devices PRIVATE BY DESIGN Moonflower collects no data. Which sites you visit never leaves your device — all darkening happens locally, with no accounts, no analytics, and no tracking of any kind. FAIR PRICING Free for 3 days, full-featured. Then a single one-time purchase unlocks Moonflower forever, on all your devices. No subscription.

Screenshots

Earwake3 screens
Moonflower4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Moonflower at Free against Earwake's $1.99. Earwake's advantage is update cadence (every 4 days vs every 6 weeks) and iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). On ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price Ā· Rating Ā· Positive reviews Ā· Number of ratings Ā· Update frequency Ā· Ads Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Monetization Ā· Best chart rank Ā· Devices Ā· Requires iOS

CostPrice Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Ads Ā· Monetization

Moonflower is free to download; Earwake costs $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Earwake ships an update every 4 days, Moonflower every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences Ā· 3 level
Earwake versus Moonflower: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterEarwakeMoonflower
Price$1.99Free — better
Update frequencyEvery 4 days — betterEvery 6 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, Mac — better
Requires iOS17.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size2 MB13 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperRobert CorbinRoman Marchenko

In-app purchases

None

Earwake

No in-app purchases

None

Moonflower

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Earwake free?
Earwake costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Moonflower free?
Moonflower is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Earwake or Moonflower have ads?
Neither Earwake nor Moonflower shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Earwake or Moonflower?
Earwake ships an update every 4 days, and Moonflower every 6 weeks. Most recently, Earwake was updated on October 14, 2026 and Moonflower on October 7, 2026.

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