Comparison

GlanceMemo vs hydo

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

Head to head
About

GlanceMemo

Features
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GlanceMemo is the simplest way to keep quick notes visible โ€” right on your lock screen. Most note apps require you to open them. GlanceMemo doesn't. Every time you wake your phone, your important reminders and pinned notes are already there. โ–  Key Features โ€ข Pin up to 3 memos on your lock screen widget โ€ข Reminders widget โ€” scheduled notes automatically float to the top when due โ€ข The first line becomes the widget title (write naturally, no formatting fuss) โ€ข Gentle reminders that surface exactly when you need them โ€ข Beautiful in both light and dark mode โ€ข Available in English, Korean, and Japanese โ–  Perfect For โ€ข "Meeting notes for tomorrow" โ€” instantly visible on your morning phone check โ€ข "Grocery list" โ€” no need to open an app at the store โ€ข "Take medication, drink water" โ€” daily nudges that just work โ€ข Quick thoughts, meeting agendas, things you don't want to forget โ–  Why GlanceMemo? Other note apps disappear once you close them. GlanceMemo stays visible where you look most โ€” your lock screen. Every phone check becomes a chance to remember what matters. Focused on the essentials: 3 pinned slots, 3 reminder slots โ€” enough for what's important, no more. โ–  How to Use 1. Open the app and write your first memo 2. Tap the pin icon in the memo list to pin it to the widget 3. Long-press your lock screen โ†’ Customize โ†’ Add Widget โ†’ GlanceMemo 4. Now see it every time you wake your phone โ–  Requirements โ€ข iOS 16.0 or later (Lock screen widgets are an iOS 16+ feature) Write simply. Always visible. Never open the app again.

About

hydo

View your monthly calendar directly on your lock screen without unlocking your phone or opening an app. Organize events by group with distinct colors and easily share calendars with others using invite codes. Customize the calendar's size and position over your photos.

Highlights
  • Monthly calendar on lock screen
  • Group-specific color coding
  • Invite code sharing
  • Customizable calendar placement
  • Today's remaining schedule widget
  • Home screen widgets
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์ž ๊ธˆํ™”๋ฉด์„ ์ผœ๋ฉด ์ด๋ฒˆ ๋‹ฌ ์ผ์ •์ด ๊ทธ๋Œ€๋กœ ๋ณด์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ฐ€์กฑยทํšŒ์‚ฌยท์นœ๊ตฌ๋ฅผ ๊ทธ๋ฃน์œผ๋กœ ๋‚˜๋ˆ  ์ƒ‰์œผ๋กœ ๊ตฌ๋ถ„ํ•˜๊ณ , ์ดˆ๋Œ€ ์ฝ”๋“œ ํ•˜๋‚˜๋กœ ๊ฐ™์€ ๋‹ฌ๋ ฅ์„ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ์”๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ยท ์›”๊ฐ„ ๋‹ฌ๋ ฅ์„ ์ž ๊ธˆํ™”๋ฉด์— โ€” ์ž ๊ธˆ ํ•ด์ œ๋„, ์•ฑ ์‹คํ–‰๋„ ํ•„์š” ์—†์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค ยท ๊ทธ๋ฃน๋ณ„ ์ƒ‰ ๊ตฌ๋ถ„. ๋ณด๊ณ  ์‹ถ์ง€ ์•Š์€ ๊ทธ๋ฃน์€ ์ž ์‹œ ๊บผ ๋‘ก๋‹ˆ๋‹ค ยท ์ดˆ๋Œ€ ์ฝ”๋“œ๋ฅผ ๋ถ™์—ฌ๋„ฃ์œผ๋ฉด ์ฐธ์—ฌ ๋. ๋งํฌ๋„ ์นœ๊ตฌ ์ถ”๊ฐ€๋„ ์—†์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค ยท ๋‚ด ์‚ฌ์ง„ ์œ„์— ๋‹ฌ๋ ฅ ํฌ๊ธฐ์™€ ์œ„์น˜๋ฅผ ์†๊ฐ€๋ฝ์œผ๋กœ ๋งž์ถ”๊ธฐ ยท ์˜ค๋Š˜ ๋‚จ์€ ์ผ์ •์„ ๋ณด์—ฌ์ฃผ๋Š” ์ž ๊ธˆํ™”๋ฉด ์œ„์ ฏ ยท ํ™ˆ ํ™”๋ฉด ์œ„์ ฏ 3์ข… โ€” ์˜ค๋Š˜ ์ผ์ •, ๋ฏธ๋‹ˆ ์›”๊ฐ„, ์›”๊ฐ„ ๋‹ฌ๋ ฅ ์ค‘์— ๊ณ ๋ฆ…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค ์ž ๊ธˆํ™”๋ฉด ๊ฐฑ์‹ ์—๋Š” Apple ๋‹จ์ถ•์–ด ์ž๋™ํ™”๊ฐ€ ํ•„์š”ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. iOS๊ฐ€ ์•ฑ์˜ ๋ฐฐ๊ฒฝํ™”๋ฉด ๋ณ€๊ฒฝ์„ ํ—ˆ์šฉํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์ด๋ฉฐ, ์ฒซ ์‹คํ–‰ ๋•Œ ํ•œ ๋ฒˆ์— ์„ค์น˜ํ•˜๋Š” ์•ˆ๋‚ด๊ฐ€ ๋‚˜์˜ต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ด‘๊ณ ์™€ ์ธ์•ฑ ๊ตฌ์ž…์ด ์—†์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. Apple๋กœ ๋กœ๊ทธ์ธ๋งŒ ์ง€์›ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Screenshots

GlanceMemo4 screens
hydo4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: hydo at none against GlanceMemo's shown. On price, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.

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

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

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

Scorecard1 real difference ยท 7 level
GlanceMemo versus hydo: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGlanceMemohydo
PriceFreeFree
Positive reviewsโ€”100.0% of reviews
Update frequencyโ€”Fortnightly
AdsYesNo โ€” better
In-app purchasesNoNo
Monetizationโ€”Free
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS16.4 โ€” better17.0
Further details โ€” not scored
Size39 MB5 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developerdooho jinHyson Works

In-app purchases

None

GlanceMemo

No in-app purchases

None

hydo

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is GlanceMemo free?
GlanceMemo is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is hydo free?
hydo is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do GlanceMemo or hydo have ads?
GlanceMemo shows ads; hydo does not.

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