Comparison

QuickNotes vs BLISS Glim

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

Head to head
About

QuickNotes

Features
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You're on a call and need to jot something down. Sound familiar? Your default notes app takes ages to open - and lands on the last note you edited. Your reminders app only does reminders. And that powerful notebook app? You'll spend half a minute just deciding where the note should go. QuickNotes removes every step between a thought and a note. ONE SURFACE, ZERO DECISIONS Tasks, notes, ideas and reminders live together on a single board. No folders, no notebooks, no "where should I put this". Open the app, tap one icon, type, done - it takes seconds. BUILT FOR SPEED • Opens instantly, straight to your board • One tap to add a task, note, idea or reminder • Swipe right to complete, swipe left to delete • Tap any item to edit it • Undo & redo for every action - nothing is ever lost by accident TIDIES ITSELF UP Completed items stay greyed out on your board for 24 hours - so you can see what you got done today. Then they file themselves into the archive automatically. Deleted items go to the trash first, so nothing disappears for good until you say so. YOUR STYLE Three looks - Color, Mono and Glass - plus automatic light and dark mode following your system. PRIVATE & OFFLINE BY DESIGN • Works 100% offline - no internet connection needed, ever • All your data is stored only on your iPhone and never leaves it • No account, no sign-up, no cloud • No ads, no tracking, no analytics • Doesn't ask for a single permission AND THE SMALL THINGS THAT MATTER • Opens instantly - no splash screens to sit through • English and Czech, following your system language • Tiny download, minimal footprint QuickNotes is for busy people who just want to capture a thought before it's gone - without thinking about where it belongs. Open. Jot down. Done.

About

BLISS Glim

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A briefing app that gathers what your day needs onto one screen. Air quality, weather, and today's schedule, to-dos and memos — open it once in the morning and the day falls into place. Calm, low-saturation colors instead of harsh alert tones, easy on your eyes. ā–  Today briefing • PM10 / PM2.5 grades with advice for the day outside • Current temperature, feels-like, humidity and wind • Today's timetable — hourly weather and your schedule on one vertical time axis, sunrise and sunset included • Today's schedule, to-dos and recent memos right below ā–  Week briefing • The next 7 days, one card per day — low/high temperature, rain probability, and that day's plans • Add a schedule or to-do for that date straight from its card • See the same week as a timetable — a vertical time axis showing where you are still free ā–  Schedule • A monthly calendar with soft color blocks • Month and week views — pick a date and the calendar narrows to that week • One-day events, multi-day events, and timed events • Repeating events — daily, weekly, monthly, yearly, even lunar-calendar yearly, with custom intervals and end dates • Long-press an event and drag it to another date • Show your device calendar events alongside — you choose which calendars • Save events you create into a device calendar too — per event, send it elsewhere or leave it out ā–  To-dos • A light checklist centered on today • Unfinished to-dos carry over to today the next day • Push one to another date with the calendar icon ā–  Memos • Plans without a date yet go on a sticky note first • Five paper colors, checklist memos, drag to reorder • Turn a memo into a schedule once its date is set • Recent memos preview on the Today tab too ā–  Anniversaries • Register birthdays and anniversaries on the solar or the lunar calendar • Lunar dates are recalculated every year — no more looking up what today's date is • Anniversaries within the next two weeks show up early on the Today briefing, as "D-7 Ā· August 11" • Age and "5th year" appear on the day itself, not before ā–  Region • City presets and worldwide city search • Or use your current location — location permission is asked only for this • Dust grades follow the local standard — Korea MoE, US EPA, elsewhere the European EAQI ā–  Home screen widgets • Today's Air — temperature, weather icon and dust grades (small Ā· medium) • Today's Brief — weather plus today's schedule and to-dos; the large size adds this month's calendar (medium Ā· large) • Weather & Calendar — the current weather beside this month's calendar, a dot on days with plans (medium) • Widgets refresh themselves periodically and follow your chosen city ā–  Notifications • Morning briefing — the day's schedule, to-dos and anniversaries, once, at the hour you set • Anniversary reminders — 1, 3 or 7 days ahead • Event reminders — 10 minutes, 30 minutes, 1 hour or 1 day before, set per event • Air quality alert — one heads-up on days the air turns bad • All off by default, and nothing is sent on a day with nothing on it ā–  Make it yours • Four color themes — Deep Navy Ā· Sage Ā· Dusty Rose Ā· Warm Sand • Dark mode — every theme has a night side; follow the system or choose by hand • Drag to reorder the bottom tabs • Reorder or hide the Today screen blocks — memos, today's plan, anniversaries • ķ•œźµ­ģ–“ Ā· English Ā· ę—„ęœ¬čŖž Ā· 简体中文 Ā· 繁體中文 ā–  Light and undemanding • No sign-up — you only sign in to your own cloud if you turn sync on • Your schedule, to-dos and memos live on your device. Turn on sync with Glim Pro and they travel through your own iCloud or Google Drive — no server of ours in between • Weather and air quality come from Open-Meteo • There is one banner ad along the bottom. Glim Pro removes it — a one-time purchase, not a subscription The calmest way to open your day — start with BLISS Glim.

Screenshots

QuickNotes4 screens
BLISS Glim4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: QuickNotes at none against BLISS Glim's shown. On price, update cadence, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.

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

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

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

QuickNotes ships an update every 3 weeks, BLISS Glim monthly. The most recent releases landed on September 28, 2026 and October 9, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference Ā· 5 level
QuickNotes versus BLISS Glim: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterQuickNotesBLISS Glim
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks — betterMonthly
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS15.015.0
Further details — not scored
Size3 MB43 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMatous MutinaBLISS AI Inc.

In-app purchases

None

QuickNotes

No in-app purchases

None

BLISS Glim

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is QuickNotes free?
QuickNotes is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is BLISS Glim free?
BLISS Glim is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do QuickNotes or BLISS Glim have ads?
BLISS Glim shows ads; QuickNotes does not.
Which is updated more often, QuickNotes or BLISS Glim?
QuickNotes ships an update every 3 weeks, and BLISS Glim monthly. Most recently, QuickNotes was updated on September 28, 2026 and BLISS Glim on October 9, 2026.

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