Comparison

Pink Tile vs Folio

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

Head to head
About

Pink Tile

Features
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Pink Tile is a private time-blocking journal. Plan your day in colored blocks, log what actually happened, and see where your hours went this week and this year. WHAT IT DOES - Today tab: a 24-hour timeline. Tap an hour, or +, to add a block - Each block has a category, a start and end time, planned or logged, and an optional note - Categories tab: your own categories with a color and an icon, and the hours logged this week in each - Year tab: this year's logged hours by category, and your last 12 weeks side by side - Lock Screen and Home Screen widget that opens Pink Tile - No accounts, no cloud, no analytics tracking PRIVACY - Everything stays on your device - No third-party SDKs, no servers WITHOUT PRO Everything is unlocked for your first 3 days. After that, up to 3 categories in total. Blocks are never limited. PRO - Unlimited categories Subscription Details - Pro Monthly: $3 / month - Pro Annual: $13 / year - Lifetime: $29 one-time Subscriptions auto-renew until cancelled in Settings at least 24 hours before the renewal date. Payment is charged to your Apple ID at confirmation of purchase. Terms of Use (EULA): https://danielius.studio/pink-tile/terms Privacy Policy: https://danielius.studio/pink-tile/privacy

About

Folio

Features
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Folio brings your calendar and your meeting notes together in one app. Open Folio and you see your day: your meetings, synced from your calendar, each one ready for notes. Tap a meeting, start writing. No folders to organise, no hunting for that thing you wrote three Tuesdays ago โ€” every note lives with the meeting it came from. TYPE OR DRAW โ€ข Type your notes, or draw and handwrite them โ€” beautifully at home with Apple Pencil on iPad โ€ข Choose paper styles that suit the way you take notes โ€ข Organise notes into notebooks when you want structure LET AI DO THE BORING PART Powered by Apple Intelligence, entirely on your device: โ€ข Summaries โ€” the TL;DR of any meeting in seconds โ€ข Meeting minutes โ€” decisions and actions, properly formatted โ€ข Follow-up emails โ€” a ready-to-send recap drafted from your notes โ€ข Action items โ€” captured automatically the moment you stop writing YOUR NOTES FOLLOW YOU โ€ข iCloud sync keeps iPhone and iPad in step โ€” through your own private iCloud, never our servers โ€ข Export action items to Apple Reminders โ€ข Search everything, instantly PRIVATE BY DESIGN Your notes never leave your devices. AI runs on-device with Apple Intelligence โ€” nothing is sent to the cloud for processing, and we collect no data at all. ONE PRICE, NO SUBSCRIPTION Try everything free for 14 days, then a single one-time purchase of $5.99 unlocks Folio forever. No subscription, ever. AI features require Apple Intelligence (iPhone 15 Pro or later, or iPad with M1 or later). Note-taking works on any supported device.

Screenshots

Pink Tile4 screens
Folio4 screens

Verdict

The call

Pink Tile and Folio are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters โ€” price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases among them โ€” neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Both are free to download. Pink Tile sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $3.00 per month and Folio sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Pink Tile ships an update every 2 days, Folio daily. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Pink Tile versus Folio: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPink TileFolio
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 2 daysDaily โ€” better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS26.0 โ€” better26.2
Further details โ€” not scored
Size4 MB4 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDanielius ChalikovasARUBAI ARAIN

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Pink Tile

Subscriptions2
  • Pro Monthly$3.001 Month
  • Pro Annual$13.001 Year
One-time1
  • Lifetime$29.00
1 purchases

Folio

One-time1
  • Folio Full Access$5.99

Questions

Is Pink Tile free?
Pink Tile is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Folio free?
Folio is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Pink Tile or Folio have ads?
Neither Pink Tile nor Folio shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Pink Tile or Folio?
Pink Tile ships an update every 2 days, and Folio daily. Most recently, Pink Tile was updated on October 24, 2026 and Folio on October 24, 2026.

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