Comparison

Moonflower vs Being

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

Head to head
About

Moonflower

Features
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Moonflower gives every website a beautiful dark mode in Safari β€” 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 β€’ Works on every website, automatically β€’ Dynamic colors: a custom dark theme generated per site β€” not a crude filter β€’ Respects sites that already have a dark mode (or override them if you prefer) β€’ Smart image handling: photos stay untouched, bright diagrams and logos are gently adapted β€’ Flash-free page loads β€” pages paint dark from the first moment DESIGN YOUR OWN THEMES β€’ Six hand-tuned themes to start: Black, Dark, Gray, Sepia, Paper, Focus β€’ Create unlimited custom themes β€” pick your exact background and text colors β€’ Fine-tune image brightness, grayscale, and sepia per theme β€’ Edit with a live preview on a real article, so you see every change instantly FINE-TUNE EVERY WEBSITE β€’ Auto, On, or Off β€” globally or per site β€’ Give each website its own theme β€’ Pause a site until tomorrow with one tap β€’ Ignore a site's built-in dark mode when yours looks better β€’ Keyboard shortcuts for toggling, cycling themes, and pausing A READER BUILT IN β€’ One tap turns any article into a clean, beautiful reading view β€’ Apple Books-style themes β€” each with a light and dark variant β€’ Adjustable text size, and your custom reader themes come along EVERYWHERE YOU BROWSE β€’ iPhone, iPad, and Mac β€’ 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 β€” 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.

About

Being

Features
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HTML is a better content container. Exist is a local reader and library built around HTML. It helps you save webpages, documents, notes, and AI-generated content as local HTML files for reading, organizing, and long-term preservation. We chose HTML not because it is complex, but because it is open, stable, and close enough to the real structure of reading. A piece of content is never just text β€” it also includes headings, paragraphs, hierarchy, images, links, quotes, and context. Compared to plain text or Markdown, HTML preserves these details better; compared to platform bookmarks, it is lighter and freer, able to be saved, migrated, and archived as a local file. Here, HTML is no longer just a page in a browser, but personal material that can be archived, migrated, translated, and exported. You can save important webpages as offline snapshots, turn documentation, study notes, and generated content into local files, and build your own library organized by folders. Exist does not try to replace the browser, nor does it turn knowledge management into a complex system. It is more like a quiet reading space: bringing content back to local storage from temporary links, chat windows, and scattered bookmarks, in a lightweight, clear, and long-lasting way. AI features require you to configure your own API Key. The Key is stored in the local system Keychain and is never uploaded to Exist's servers β€” more secure, and more controllable. The Pro version unlocks the translation overlay and PDF export. One-time purchase, yours forever.

Screenshots

Moonflower4 screens
Being4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Moonflower at none against Being's 1. Being's advantage is update cadence (daily vs every 6 weeks) and iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). On price, ads and device support there is nothing between them.

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

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

Both are free to download. Being sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Moonflower asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Moonflower ships an update every 6 weeks, Being daily. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences Β· 3 level
Moonflower versus Being: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMoonflowerBeing
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeksDaily β€” better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo β€” betterYes
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac β€” betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS26.017.0 β€” better
Further details β€” not scored
Size13 MB5 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperRoman Marchenko伟 唐

In-app purchases

None

Moonflower

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Being

One-time1
  • Being Pro$0.99

Questions

Is Moonflower free?
Moonflower is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Being free?
Being is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Moonflower or Being have ads?
Neither Moonflower nor Being shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Moonflower or Being?
Moonflower ships an update every 6 weeks, and Being daily. Most recently, Moonflower was updated on October 31, 2026 and Being on November 5, 2026.

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