Comparison

Memo Clock vs FlowRead

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

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About

Memo Clock

This app helps you remember information through notes, flashcards, and focus timers. It allows you to create digital cards from handwritten notes, files, or photos, and track your learning progress and focus time on a customizable home page.

Highlights
  • Handwritten notes and typing
  • File import (PDF, Word, Web)
  • Flashcard creation and spaced repetition
  • Pomodoro and focus timers
  • Customizable home page widgets
  • Progress and focus time tracking
  • Built-in word books
Features
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Write it down. Keep it in mind. Memo Clock keeps everything you need to remember in one place. Notes, files, word books, flashcards and the Logbook are the Memo; the Pomodoro, focus time and your daily numbers are the Clock. Frame what to learn into a card and it comes back on the memory curve; your focus and progress sit on a home page you build yourself. Pay once: no in-app purchases, no subscription, no ads, no account. ONE LOOP: WRITE, LEARN, FOCUS, SEE YOUR PROGRESS • Write: handwritten notes, files, photos, typing or the Logbook. • Learn: frame it into a card, learn words one by one, review when it is due. • Focus: the Pomodoro and the focus timer keep your time by category. • See: what you learned, how long you focused and your streak, on your home page. NOTES: FRAME IT, AND IT IS A CARD • Write with Apple Pencil on iPad on grid, lined, dotted, blank, Cornell or graph paper. • Only Apple Pencil writes: a hand resting on the screen draws nothing and breaks no stroke. • Tap Make Card and frame what to learn. The card remembers the page it came from. • Text in handwriting and photos is recognized on your device and found by search. FILES OPEN TO READ • PDF, Word, PowerPoint and web pages: scroll, or turn page by page; slides stop one by one or run on as one strip. • Make cards while you read, the file on the left and the card on the right. Tap Edit to write on a page. LOGBOOK: ONE CELL AT A TIME • Large cells, an aside on the left and the content on the right, in Body, Example, Aside and Red, with photos. • Hold and drag to reorder; swipe to turn pages, and on past the last for a new one. PHOTO TO CARDS AND COVERED CARDS • Select text right on a photo of a textbook for the question or the answer; frame a formula. • Cover part of an answer and it is a card: tap to uncover. WORD BOOKS • CET-4, CET-6, IELTS and Academic English come with the app, with meanings, examples and translations; make your own too. • A word you forget comes back a few words later until you know it; Know passes one you know; Undo any answer. Test asks only Know or Don't Know. FLASHCARDS • Turn the card and grade it Forgot, Fuzzy, Got it or Easy; each grade tells you when it comes back, further apart as you know it better. • Write It Out, Self-Test, or review one deck. Formulas are typeset as math, even as you type. THE CLOCK • Pomodoro and focus timer, by category and in full screen; white noise on a radio, record player, cassette or music box. • More than twenty kinds of statistics: heat map, check-in calendar, accuracy, focus time and more. TODAY AND THE DESK • Build your study home page from dozens of widgets: drag to move, drag a corner to resize, change the paper. Pin decks, notebooks, word books and logbooks to it. • On the Desk, Line Up sets everything in a grid you arrange by holding and dragging; on iPad, Free lets you put things anywhere. HOME SCREEN WIDGETS • Next Card asks the card due first; A Line keeps a line you wrote in sight; Photo to cards, Today's Reviews, Focus and more. IPAD AND IPHONE • Write and read on iPad, review on iPhone; everything syncs through your own iCloud. • Import Anki decks (.apkg) with your review history; share cards with classmates as a file. PRIVACY No account, no server, no analytics, no ads. Your content stays on your devices and in your own iCloud. Simplified Chinese and English. Requires iPadOS 17 / iOS 17 or later; handwriting needs Apple Pencil on iPad.

About

FlowRead

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FlowRead —— 专为英语进阶学习者打造的沉浸式原版短文精读应用。 想要通过阅读原汁原味的文章提升英语,却总是因为生词太多、长难句复杂、频繁查词断流而半途而废? FlowRead 彻底重构你的英文阅读体验:保持阅读界面极简专注,将查词、语法拆解、原声发音与复习辅导无缝融入上下文,每天 3~5 分钟,轻松建立地道语感与词汇量! ---------------------------------------- 核心功能亮点 ---------------------------------------- 【点词即查 · 零跳转沉浸阅读】 - 遇到生词无需跳转到第三方词典,轻点任意单词,0.1秒浮现权威双语释义与音标 - 美式/英式标准原声发音,随时跟读磨耳朵 - 一键将生词收藏至生词本,自动记录原句上下文,背单词更高效 【双击拆解 · 攻克长难句与语法】 - 遇到复合从句、复杂倒装不再头疼!双击句子即可获得地道中英对照翻译 - 独家语法结构可视化拆解(主谓宾、从句、短语搭配),一眼看懂句式逻辑 - 整句纯正原声朗读伴读,培养母语级语感 【AI 智能助读 · 难度自适应】 - 内置 AI 助读引擎,根据你的水平智能降难改写,原版读物也能轻松读懂 - 自动提炼文章核心考点词表与高频搭配 - 段落主旨与核心要点深度剖析,提升阅读理解速度 【每日精选 · 碎片化原版读物】 - 精选全球科技、商业、前沿趋势、人文生活等优质短文 - 篇幅控制在 3~5 分钟,告别大篇幅长文压力,碎片时间随时读 - 智能记录阅读进度与阅读天数,见证每一天的积累与成长 【智能生词本 · 语境复习】 - 告别脱离语境的死记硬背!生词本完整保留出处例句 - 随时复习掌握程度,科学巩固记忆 ---------------------------------------- 适合人群 ---------------------------------------- - 备考雅思 (IELTS)、托福 (TOEFL)、GRE、四六级、考研英语的考生 - 希望阅读外媒、英文科技资讯与原版原著的职场人士 - 词汇量遇到瓶颈、想要在真实语境中扩充词汇量的英语学习者 - 喜欢极简无广告、专注阅读体验的学习爱好者 立即下载 FlowRead,开启每天 5 分钟的高效英文精读之旅!

Screenshots

Memo Clock4 screens
FlowRead4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: FlowRead at Free against Memo Clock's $6.99. FlowRead also leads on iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.0). Memo Clock's advantage is ads (none vs shown). On in-app purchases and device support 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

FlowRead is free to download; Memo Clock costs $6.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard3 real differences · 5 level
Memo Clock versus FlowRead: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMemo ClockFlowRead
Price$6.99Free — better
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Update frequencyMonthly—
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaid—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.015.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size32 MB45 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer原赫 张RGB FANS TECHNOLOGY PTY LTD

In-app purchases

None

Memo Clock

No in-app purchases

None

FlowRead

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Memo Clock free?
Memo Clock costs $6.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is FlowRead free?
FlowRead is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Memo Clock or FlowRead have ads?
FlowRead shows ads; Memo Clock does not.

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