NoteScreen vs Vellure
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
NoteScreen
This app displays your notes directly on your Lock Screen and Dynamic Island, ensuring you never miss important reminders. It offers simple scheduling and widget support for constant visibility, all while maintaining complete privacy.
- Lock Screen Live Activities
- Dynamic Island integration
- Scheduled note rotation
- Always-on note mode
- Home and Lock Screen widgets
- Up to 10 notes, 80 characters each
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Write a note. It lives on your Lock Screen. That's it. NoteScreen is the simplest reminder app you'll ever use. The thing you need to remember sits on your Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island — front and center every time you pick up your phone. Impossible to miss. SCHEDULE YOUR DAY • Notes rotate on your schedule — "Take out the trash" 7–8 AM, "Wind down" at 9 PM. NoteScreen swaps them automatically with a silent nudge at each change. • Recurring days — set "Trash night" for every Tuesday, "Water plants" for Sundays. • Always mode pins one note up all day. GLANCEABLE EVERYWHERE • Lock Screen Live Activity, Dynamic Island, and Home & Lock Screen widgets — your current note is wherever you look. • Interactive widgets — check off a note right from your Home Screen without opening the app. • Up to 10 notes, 80 characters each. Short enough to read at a glance. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account, no login, no cloud. NoteScreen never touches the network — your notes live on your iPhone and nowhere else. Good to know: iOS limits Live Activities to 8 hours, so the Lock Screen banner refreshes whenever you open the app. Add the Lock Screen widget for a note that never expires.
Vellure
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Your Lock Screen becomes your notes. Vellure shows your notes on the Lock Screen and Dynamic Island as iOS Live Activities. Without opening the app, today's tasks, the days left until a date, and your progress are always in view. ■ Made for you if - You keep forgetting notes because opening an app is a hassle - You want a D-day or deadline front and center - You'd like to tick off tasks right from the Lock Screen ■ 5 note types - Plain: a short note on your Lock Screen - Checklist: check items right from the Lock Screen - D-day: automatic count of days left until a date - Countdown: live countdown to a target time - Progress: adjust a progress bar from the Lock Screen ■ Notes that tidy themselves Keep them pinned, or have them disappear automatically when the target time arrives, a set time passes, everything is checked, or you hit 100%. ■ Siri & Shortcuts Say something like "Vellure note, buy milk" and it's saved and posted without opening the app. It also works with location and time automations. ■ Privacy first No sign-up. Every note is stored only on this device. Nothing is sent to a server, and deleting the app deletes your data. Completely free. Put your first note on the Lock Screen now. * Due to iOS, a Live Activity is shown for up to 12 hours after posting, then ends automatically.
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Verdict
NoteScreen and Vellure are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
| Parameter | NoteScreen | Vellure |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 days | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 1 MB | 6 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Sameer Bhutani | seunguk shin |
In-app purchases
NoteScreen
No in-app purchases
Vellure
No in-app purchases









