OWrite Pro vs Latch
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
OWrite Pro
This app consolidates notes, plans, habits, focus timers, outdoor workouts, reminders, and important dates into a single, organized space. It helps users capture ideas, track progress on goals, and stay mindful of key events.
- Rich-text notes with photos and search
- Habit tracking with streaks and targets
- Task management with subtasks and deadlines
- Outdoor workout recording with GPS tracking
- Focus timer with statistics and Live Activities
- Important date countdowns with widgets
- Customizable reminders
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OWrite Pro brings notes, plans, habits, focus, outdoor workouts, reminders, and important dates into one calm personal space. Write down what matters, take the next small step, and make room to move. Now adapted for iPhone Duo, with Screen Time controls for focus and workout statistics that include data from other apps. WRITE DOWN IDEAS WORTH KEEPING Use rich-text notes for journals, plans, excerpts, drafts, or unnamed thoughts. Add photos, style your text, search your content, restore deleted items from Trash, and turn a note into an image to save or share. BUILD HABITS AT YOUR OWN PACE Choose daily streaks or cumulative targets for reading, stretching, exercise, and more. Set dates, colors, icons, and reminders. Check in with one tap and review progress on the calendar. BREAK GOALS INTO SMALL STEPS Create tasks for long-term plans or everyday work. Set deadlines, reminders, tags, and colors. Divide a goal into scheduled subtasks with checklists and notes, then review progress in week, month, and timeline views. GO OUTSIDE AND MOVE Record outdoor runs, walks, hikes, and rides. Follow your route and live duration, distance, pace or speed, and calories. Pause or resume, mark splits, revisit workout details, and explore distance trends. Supported devices can show an active workout with Live Activities on the Lock Screen and Dynamic Island. Routes need Location permission; Health data requires authorization, and heart-rate readings depend on a compatible device such as Apple Watch. FOCUS WITH INTENTION Create a focus goal and record sessions with an immersive timer. Review daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly statistics. Follow a running timer through Live Activities on supported devices. As a goal nears completion, the timer becomes a countdown and your effort blooms into a mathematical flower. KEEP IMPORTANT DATES IN SIGHT Save birthdays, trips, anniversaries, launches, and other days worth anticipating. See countdowns and elapsed days, choose reminders and recurrence, add a photo or Live Photo, and display a selected date in the Home Screen widget. REMINDERS THAT FIT YOUR DAY Create one-time reminders or repeat them on selected weekdays, monthly, or yearly. Add notes and images, then manage reminders in one dedicated center. ONE HOME FOR YOUR LIFE See habits, tasks, recent notes, focus goals, workouts, and important dates together. Search titles, content, and tags or filter by color. Completing habit, task, and focus goals unlocks distinctive Maurer Rose achievements. DESIGNED FOR YOU OWrite supports VoiceOver, Voice Control, accessible actions and widgets, Reduced Motion, enhanced contrast, appearance choices, and 12- or 24-hour time. Data stays on your device by default, with optional iCloud sync. Protect app content with Face ID or the device passcode. OWrite Pro offers an optional lifetime purchase and auto-renewable monthly or annual subscriptions. Upgrading unlocks all Pro features. Actual prices appear on the in-app purchase screen and App Store confirmation sheet. Manage or cancel subscriptions in Apple Account settings. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula Privacy Policy: https://github.com/HuangRobin/OWrite/blob/master/OWrite%20Terms%20of%20Service%20and%20Privacy%20Policy
Latch
This app helps you regain focus by blocking time-wasting apps and websites. It requires a physical action, like scanning an NFC sticker or QR code, to unlock them, encouraging mindful usage. Features include customizable profiles, schedules, and location-based locking.
- Physical key scan to unlock apps
- NFC sticker and QR code support
- Customizable app and website blocking
- Location-based locking
- Scheduled locking profiles
- Commitment mode for extended focus
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Latch blocks the apps that steal your time — and puts the unlock button somewhere you have to walk to. Pick the apps, categories and websites that pull you in, then slide the latch to lock them. To unlock, scan your key: a few-cent NFC sticker or a QR code you print at home. Keep it on the fridge, in the car or at your desk at work, and the few steps it takes to go get it are usually enough to change your mind. Latch uses Apple's Screen Time (Family Controls) to block apps on your own iPhone. Your choices stay on your iPhone. YOUR KEY, NO GADGET • Use any NTAG213, NTAG215 or NTAG216 NFC sticker — a few cents each — or a QR code you print at home (the camera scans it) • Tap the sticker with Latch closed, or scan it in the app • Stickers are locked with a password after writing, so no one can write over them. Save the password in Apple's Passwords app • Share one key with family or roommates — one sticker on the fridge for the whole house • Tell Latch where each key lives, and the lock screen tells you where to walk • One key works with all your iPhones • A steps key (Pro): walk 500 to 20,000 steps to unlock, counted with Motion & Fitness • On iPad, use a QR key. NFC stickers, the steps key and lock while driving need an iPhone LOCKS BEFORE YOU THINK TO • Built-in profiles — Work, Social and Bedtime — ready with the usual suspects • Schedules (Pro): every weekday morning, or at bedtime until you scan your key • Places: lock when you arrive at the office or the gym, and unlock when you leave (uses your location) • Lock while driving (Pro): Latch notices a drive with your location and Motion & Fitness, locks the profile you choose, and unlocks after you park • A Control Center toggle (iOS 18): tap to lock, tap again to open the scanner • Siri: "Latch my phone", or "Latch my phone with Work". Also in Shortcuts and on the Action button BUILT FOR THE DAYS YOU'D RATHER NOT • Daily limits (Pro): give an app or category a few minutes a day while you're unlocked • Commitment mode (Pro): stay locked for at least 30 minutes, or up to 8 hours • Hard lock: choose to block deleting apps, installing apps and in-app purchases while you're locked • Break glass: three times a month, open your apps for 5–15 minutes without your key; they lock again on their own • Block explicit websites with Apple's filter, per profile • Your own words on the block screen, like "Finish your work first" SEE THE TIME YOU GOT BACK • A daily locked-time goal and a streak to keep • Your last 7 days, how they compare with the week before, and a Sunday recap • How often you reached for a blocked app, and what broke your focus • Month and all-time views (Pro) • Lock Screen widgets and a Dynamic Island timer • iCloud sync between your iPhones PRIVATE BY DESIGN Latch has no accounts, no ads and no analytics. Apple's Screen Time keeps your app choices and usage on your iPhone, so we never see them. LATCH PRO — ONE-TIME PURCHASE Free includes one key, three profiles, two places and seven days of stats. Pro unlocks unlimited keys, profiles and places, schedules, daily limits, commitment mode, lock while driving, key hours, a steps key and full history. No subscription.
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Verdict
OWrite Pro and Latch are too close to call on the numbers: across 10 compared parameters — price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.
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. OWrite Pro sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month and Latch sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for OWrite Pro against 5.0 for Latch. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 5 and 9 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
OWrite Pro ships an update every 5 days, Latch every 6 days. Both last shipped on November 10, 2026.
| Parameter | OWrite Pro | Latch |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (5 ratings) | 5.0 (9 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 5 | 9 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 5 days — better | Every 6 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, Apple Watch | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 23 MB | 11 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 琳钧 黄 | Lukla Logic LLC |
Customer experience
OWrite Pro
Latch
In-app purchases
OWrite Pro
- OWrite Pro Monthly1 Month trial$0.991 Month
- OWrite Pro Monthly1 Month trial$1.991 Month
- OWrite Pro Annual1 Month trial$9.991 Year
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- OWrite Pro Annual1 Month trial$19.991 Year
- OWrite Pro Lifetime$12.99
Latch
- Latch Pro$9.99








