Comparison

Yoink vs Pipnote

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

Head to head
About

Yoink

This app helps friends reduce screen time together through shared minutes, app blocking, and real-world challenges. Create a squad, pick apps to cut back on, and share screen time. Earn minutes back by completing activities and motivate each other to spend less time on phones.

Highlights
  • Shared screen time balance
  • App blocking
  • Real-world activity challenges
  • Squad creation and management
  • Progress tracking
  • Motivation and accountability
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Make screen time a team sport. Yoink helps friends reduce screen time together through shared minutes, app blocking, and real-world challenges. Create a squad, pick the apps you want to cut back on, and share your screen time. Use some minutes, and there’s less for the squad. Earn them back, and everyone gets more. BUILT FOR SQUADS Yoink is made for: • Friends who want to stay accountable • Students reducing social media distractions • Anyone who finds goals easier with support SHARE YOUR MINUTES Your squad works with one shared screen-time balance. Use less and leave more minutes for everyone. Use more and the squad can see it in the activity feed. BLOCK DISTRACTING APPS Choose the apps you want to cut back on. Selected apps stay blocked until you Yoink time from the shared pool. If the pool is empty, your squad can earn minutes back. YOINK WHEN YOU NEED IT Need a few minutes? Yoink the time you need, use the app, and move on. Your squad can see the activity, so your screen time stays visible without making things overly strict. EARN MINUTES BACK Step away from your phone and help your squad recover time. Complete activities like steps, workouts, push-ups, check-ins, and other challenges to earn minutes back. Earn coins along the way and use them to unlock rewards. KEEP EACH OTHER MOTIVATED See squad activity, track progress, celebrate wins, and make screen-time goals feel less lonely. HOW YOINK WORKS 1. Create or join a squad. 2. Choose the apps you want to cut back on. 3. Share a screen-time balance. 4. Yoink time when you need it. 5. Earn minutes back through real-world activities. 6. Support your squad and keep making progress. Yoink turns reducing screen time into something shared, visible, and rewarding. Spend less time on your phone, together. Yoink is free to use. An optional auto-renewable Squad Pass is available in weekly and annual billing periods. Squad Pass unlocks unlimited selected apps, squads of up to six members, advanced earning challenges, Explore check-ins, full squad stats, and Strict Mode for the purchaser and their current squad. Prices vary by region and are displayed before purchase. Terms of Use: https://www.yoinktime.com/terms Privacy Policy: https://www.yoinktime.com/privacy

About

Pipnote

Features
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You can set a reminder for yourself. You cannot set one for your partner. Pipnote fixes that. Write a short note, pick a creature, pick a moment. It lands on their phone at exactly that moment, carried into the Dynamic Island by a small animal that is very serious about its job. Think carrier pigeon, except it is a hedgehog, and it turns up at eight on a Tuesday to say the bins need to go out. WHY A CREATURE Reminding someone you love is socially awkward. Ask twice and you are nagging. Ask nicely and you are still the person who has to remember everything. A hedgehog turning up to mention the dentist is not nagging. It is a small kindness with a face. That is the entire point of this app. HOW IT WORKS 1. Write it. 60 characters. "Bins go out tonight." "You've got this." 2. Choose who carries it and when it arrives. 3. Keep it for yourself, or send it. Sent notes travel as a link through your own Messages, so nobody signs up for anything. When a note is sent, it stays sealed. They see that something is coming and when, never what. The creature does the reveal. WHAT PEOPLE USE IT FOR Vitamins at eight. Bins on Tuesday. "Leave now or you'll miss the train." "Ring your mum, it's been three weeks." "Good luck today, I mean it." Small things, on time, from someone who was thinking about you. FREE Pip, the hedgehog. One note waiting at a time. Three sends a week. Replies are always free, so a conversation never hits a wall. A little bit of ads for other indie apps. PIPNOTE PRO All four couriers: Pip, Skye, Ember and Moss. Twenty-five notes queued at once. Snooze anything. Daily and weekly repeats for the notes you keep for yourself. Your full archive of everything anyone ever sent you. And no ad cards for other apps. THE HONEST BIT Pipnote works with the Dynamic Island on iPhone 14 Pro and later. On every other iPhone your creature arrives on the Lock Screen instead, which is the same note and almost the same magic. No account. No password. Nothing leaves your phone except the notes you choose to send, and those go through Messages, not through us. Terms of Use: https://pipnote.app/terms Apple End User License Agreement: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Yoink4 screens
Pipnote4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Yoink at none against Pipnote's shown. Yoink also leads on iOS requirement (17.6 vs 26.0). On price, update cadence, 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

Both are free to download. Yoink sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per 7 days and Pipnote sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Yoink ships an update weekly, Pipnote every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 16, 2026 and October 9, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Yoink versus Pipnote: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterYoinkPipnote
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyWeeklyEvery 5 days — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS17.6 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size86 MB97 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperDEVESH DUPTALARadomir Drndarski

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Yoink

Subscriptions2
  • Weekly Squad Pass$4.997 Days
  • Annual Squad Pass$99.991 Year
3 purchases

Pipnote

Subscriptions2
  • Pipnote Pro - Monthly7 Days trial$4.991 Month
  • Pipnote Pro - Annual7 Days trial$24.991 Year
One-time1
  • Pipnote Pro - Lifetime$14.99

Questions

Is Yoink free?
Yoink is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Pipnote free?
Pipnote is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Yoink or Pipnote have ads?
Pipnote shows ads; Yoink does not.
Which is updated more often, Yoink or Pipnote?
Yoink ships an update weekly, and Pipnote every 5 days. Most recently, Yoink was updated on October 16, 2026 and Pipnote on October 9, 2026.

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