Comparison

Flock vs LifeShelf

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

Head to head
About

Flock

Features
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Flock: Job Application Tracker To help you find what's nest in your career. Job hunting shouldn't mean juggling spreadsheets, sticky notes, and a dozen browser tabs. Flock keeps every application in one clean, friendly place, so you always know where things stand. TRACK EVERY STEP Log companies, roles, and application stages as you go. Tap into any application to update its status, add notes, or make changes, whether you just applied or you're prepping for a final round. AI-POWERED RESUME BUILDER Create a tailored resume for any application in seconds. Flock reviews the job description you've saved and builds resume content from your own experience, choosing the projects and work history that fit best and writing bullet points to match. GET GUIDANCE ALONG THE WAY Receive tips on how to find jobs, stand out more as a candidate, prepare for interviews, and more. STAY MOTIVATED WITH STREAKS Build a daily streak by staying active in your job search. Your goose companion tracks your progress and celebrates every milestone along the way. EASY TO BEGIN No account is needed to track your applications. Everything is stored locally on your device, so you can start organizing your job search right away. Create a free account anytime, with email, Apple, or Google, to keep your applications synced across all your devices. Use paid credits to use the AI resume builder. STAY IN SYNC, OR STAY LOCAL Sign in on any device and your applications stay in sync automatically, no extra steps. Prefer to stay account-free? Back up your applications or move them to a new device anytime with simple CSV export and import. WHY FLOCK? Organized application tracking AI-powered resumes tailored to each job Tips that act as a career coach Daily streaks to keep you motivated No account required for core tracking Sync across devices, or stay fully local, your choice Built for job seeker, by a job seeker Download Flock and bring some calm and some goose to your job search. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

LifeShelf

This app consolidates all your saved content, from links and photos to notes and files, into a single, searchable timeline. It intelligently finds items by meaning, even text within images, and offers features like checklists and reminders. Designed for privacy, your data stays on your device unless you opt for iCloud sync.

Highlights
  • Unified timeline for all saved content
  • Intelligent search by meaning and keywords
  • Extracts text from photos and screenshots
  • Checklists with section titles
  • Reminders for tasks
  • Private by design, no account needed
  • Optional iCloud sync
Features
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Everything you save ends up somewhere different. A link in Safari, a screenshot buried in Photos, an address in a text message, a voice memo you never played again. LifeShelf gives all of it one place. Notes, checklists, links, photos, files, voice notes and saved places land on a single timeline, newest first and grouped by day. There are no folders and no tags — nothing to file when you save, and nothing to remember about where you put it. FINDS IT BY MEANING Search reaches into your notes, file names, your own descriptions, and text read out of your photos. It matches by meaning as well as by keyword, using a model that runs on your device — so you can still find something when the words you remember are not the words you saved. BUILT FOR APPLE INTELLIGENCE On supported devices, Apple's on-device models write the short description that makes a note findable later. As they get better, so does your shelf. SAVE FROM ANYWHERE Share into LifeShelf from any app that can share — a link, a photo, a PDF, an address from Maps, a line of text someone sent you. It lands on the shelf without LifeShelf ever coming to the foreground. ALSO IN IT • Checklists with section titles, so a long list can be grouped • Do This Later — one reminder, on a day and time you choose • Last Time — know when you last did something, with its full history • Recent, what is coming up, and what you saved on this day in past years • Text in photos and screenshots read on device and made searchable • PDFs open inline; calendar invites can be added to your calendar • Light and dark, on iPhone, iPad and Mac PRIVATE BY DESIGN There is no account. No sign-up, no email, no password — download it and start saving. Your shelf is a database and files on your own device, not a copy of something on a server, and it works with no connection at all. Nothing is tracked and nothing is profiled. iCloud sync is optional and off until you switch it on. When you do, it syncs through your own iCloud account, not ours. You can export the whole shelf as a single file whenever you like. PRICING Your first 50 items are free, with every feature included — no trial period, no card required. After that a single one-time purchase removes the limit for good. It is not a subscription, it covers your iPhone, iPad and Mac together, and it works with Family Sharing.

Screenshots

Flock4 screens
LifeShelf4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is device support: Flock at 4 against LifeShelf's 2. Flock also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price, ads and in-app purchases 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. Flock sells 3 one-off in-app purchases and LifeShelf sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Flock versus LifeShelf: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFlockLifeShelf
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—2 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 days—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
Monetization—Free with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size7 MB227 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperANTHONY THOMAS BRODERICKFnu Shabana Sulthana Begum

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Flock

One-time3
  • Small Pack$4.99
  • Medium Pack$7.99
  • Large Pack$14.99
1 purchases

LifeShelf

One-time1
  • Unlimited LifeShelf$9.99

Questions

Is Flock free?
Flock is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is LifeShelf free?
LifeShelf is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Flock or LifeShelf have ads?
Neither Flock nor LifeShelf shows ads.

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