Oryne vs Tuck
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Oryne
Capture fleeting thoughts effortlessly through voice or text. This app automatically organizes your ideas by theme and relevance, surfacing connections and insights when you need them most. It's designed to help your scattered sparks grow into a connected body of thinking.
- One-tap thought capture (voice/text)
- Automatic titling and theming
- Intelligent thought surfacing
- Idea development into questions/projects
- On-device summarization of links
- Private iCloud syncing
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Your best ideas show up when you can't act on them. Walking, on the bus, mid-conversation, half-asleep. By the time you're back at a desk, the thought is gone. Notes apps were supposed to fix this, but they turn into a flat pile you never reopen, where nothing connects and nothing comes back. Oryne is built for the catch, not the filing. Hold to speak, let go, and it's caught. From there, on-device intelligence does the part you never get around to: it names the thought, finds its themes, gathers it into a current with the thoughts it belongs with, and brings it back to you when it matters. WHAT YOU CAN DO Catch it in one gesture. A capture bar sits at the bottom of Tide and the Library: tap it to type, or hold the disc and talk. Let go and the thought is saved, with ten seconds to undo. Slide up to keep listening through a longer thought. Catch it without opening the app. One press on the Action Button, in Control Center, or on the widget, and Oryne is already listening. Share links, text, and images into Oryne from any app. Catch it from your wrist. Press the Action Button on Apple Watch Ultra, tap the complication, or say "Whisper to Oryne", and speak. Your whisper reaches your iPhone on its own. Let it organize itself. Every thought gets a title and themes on its own, and a long whisper gets a short summary. You never tag, file, or sort. Start the day on Tide. The thought that came back today, what just drifted in, and your currents, in one glance. Nearby shows what sits close to it. Let it rest sends it back under. Ask your ideas anything. One question, one grounded answer, and every answer lists the thoughts it was drawn from. Summarize reads a whole current or a search in one tap. Find anything in the Library. Search, Recent and Related, with every filter in one menu. Grow an idea without losing the original. Branch any thought into a Question, a Concept, a Research direction, or a Project. Catch a link, keep the meaning. Drop in a link and Oryne reads the page on-device and summarizes what matters, so the reference becomes part of your thinking, not a dead bookmark. Think in English or Chinese. Voice is transcribed on-device in both, and every title stays in your thought's own language. Take it with you. Export the whole Ocean as one zip: a Markdown file per current, a full JSON backup, and your images. PRIVATE BY DESIGN The intelligence runs on your device, not in someone else's cloud. Your thoughts sync across your own devices through your private iCloud and stay yours. Nothing is mined, sold, or used to train anyone's model. Oryne is a quiet place to think, and a way to make sure the thinking adds up.
Tuck
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Find your booking before you leave, your receipt when it's time to claim expenses, and your warranty when something needs fixing. Tuck keeps screenshots and documents together, ready for the moment you need them. Share something to Tuck and it's saved right away. Add photos, scan a document, import a file or paste a link or text. Tuck reads it on your device, recognizes bookings, tickets, receipts, orders, warranties and documents, and picks out useful details such as dates, amounts and addresses. Your originals are kept too. Search for a shop name or a few words you remember. Open the original, copy a detail or confirm a reminder for an important date. • Save images, PDFs, links and text; add several photos at once • Search titles, text in images and extracted details, including through iPhone system search • Find items by place, folder, amount, date or booking code; the closest matches come first • Browse Upcoming, Receipts and Warranties • Receipts are grouped by month with a monthly total • Warranties show when they end and remind you a month before • Trip folders list flights, stays and confirmation codes by day, and flag an ID that expires soon • Ask in search, such as "How much did the Hong Kong trip cost?", and see the answer with the items it comes from • Monthly spending by category; export a month's receipts to CSV and PDF for expense claims • Expiry, renewal and return-by dates are found, with a suggested reminder to confirm • Save Apple Wallet passes; add them to Wallet, or add bookings and tickets to Calendar • Shortcuts: Ask Tuck, Next trip, Expiring soon, Export receipts, Save to Tuck, Find items, Open item, Move to folder, Create folder, Remind me, Spending • Optional iCloud sync across your devices • Taiwan e-invoice QR codes fill in the invoice number, date and total • Filter by type; edit an item's name, type, date, amount or warranty length • Saving the same file twice keeps just one copy • Sort items into folders, up to two levels; Tuck suggests folders and you decide. Rename, merge or delete them, and move or delete several items at once • Zoom into originals, view PDFs and copy dates, amounts or addresses • Set a local reminder with a date and message ready to confirm • On iPad and an unfolded iPhone Duo, your library and the open item sit side by side No account or login needed. Tuck shows a banner below your library and an occasional full-screen ad when you leave a folder. A one-time purchase removes them. Advanced reading: one a day is free. Tuck Pro is an optional auto-renewing subscription (monthly or yearly) with 10 advanced readings a day, up to 50 a week, and no ads. Tuck Max, also monthly or yearly, gives 50 a day, up to 250 a week. Payment is charged to your Apple Account; it renews unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the period ends, and you can manage or cancel it in your Apple Account settings. Terms of Use: https://easonwumac.github.io/tuck/terms.html Privacy Policy: https://easonwumac.github.io/tuck/privacy.html
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Oryne at none against Tuck's 6. Oryne also leads on ads (none vs shown). On price, update cadence, device support 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. Tuck sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Oryne asks for nothing beyond the download.
Oryne ships an update every 2 days, Tuck daily. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Oryne | Tuck |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (4 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 4 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 days | Daily — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 9 MB | 12 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | YUE ZHANG | Yi-Chiun Wu |
In-app purchases
Oryne
No in-app purchases
Tuck
- Tuck Pro Monthly$2.991 Month
- Tuck Max Monthly$4.991 Month
- Tuck Pro Yearly$29.991 Year
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- Tuck Max Yearly$49.991 Year
- 10 Advanced Readings$0.99
- Remove ads$9.99








