Comparison

Make Time for Yourself vs Stream Note

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

Head to head
About

Make Time for Yourself

This app offers a peaceful fishing-themed focus timer to help you concentrate. Set your session duration, choose from calming waterside scenes and ambient sounds, and collect interactive fish after each completed focus. Your progress is saved locally, and optional features like app blocking are available.

Highlights
  • Fishing-themed focus timer
  • Ambient waterside scenes and sounds
  • Interactive fish collection
  • Focus session presets and custom steps
  • Lock Screen and Dynamic Island integration
  • Optional app and category blocking
  • Focus history and daily totals
Features
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A little focus. A little wonder. Open a book, choose one task and cast your line at a quiet waterside. Spend the next few minutes on what matters. When your session ends, discover a fish to add to your collection. Make Time for Yourself brings a cozy fishing ritual to your focus timer, with gently moving scenery, nature sounds and small discoveries worth returning for. FIND YOUR OWN PACE โ€ข Set a session from 10 to 120 minutes: a 25-minute study block, a chapter of a book or time for deeper work. โ€ข Choose a river or sea, daylight or sunset, and the sounds that suit your mood. โ€ข Return to your last settings or prepare a waterside from a past session. โ€ข Optionally block apps and categories during focus. You choose the permission and what to restrict. MAKE FOCUSED TIME TANGIBLE โ€ข Discover 48 real-world fish and 16 fantasy fish in the base catalog. โ€ข Revisit the waterside, companion and focused time behind your discoveries. โ€ข See today's focused minutes and completed sessions, and keep your session history. TAKE YOUR FOCUS SOMEWHERE NEW Optional region packs bring four destinations to your waterside: Korea, Japan, Finland and Italy. โ€ข Each region has eight scenes: spring, summer, autumn and winter, in daylight and at sunset. โ€ข Seasonal outfits, changing scenery and regional ambience make each visit feel different. โ€ข Discover four fish in each region: 16 regional species to collect. โ€ข Choose a destination straight from Home, or find your next place in the Places tab. A LITTLE COMPANY The optional Waterside Guardians pack includes Noeul, Olive and Mongdol, time spent with your companions, Focus Sets, weekly and monthly reports, private share cards and Strict Lock. CHOOSE WHAT MAKES IT YOURS The timer, base watersides and nature sounds, base catalog, today's summary, session history and standard focus blocking are included without additional purchases. Region packs and Waterside Guardians are available as separate one-time purchases. All Waterside Pass includes every current feature and all future features and content released in this app, including new regions and Guardians. โ€ข Monthly or annual subscription: full access while your subscription is active. โ€ข Lifetime purchase: permanent access to all current and future features and content with one purchase. Your existing individual purchases remain yours. Discovered fish and session records stay with you even after a subscription ends. Prices and billing periods are shown before purchase. Subscriptions renew automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the current period ends. Manage or cancel through your Apple account. Restore Purchases and Manage Subscriptions are available in the app. Available in Korean and English on iPhone and iPad. Check remaining time with widgets and Live Activities. Some system features depend on your device and OS. Support: https://timer.snapworkslab.com/support Privacy Policy: https://timer.snapworkslab.com/privacy/ Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Stream Note

Features
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The simplest notes, focused on today. Stream keeps your notes not in folders, but in a stream of days. Write today, then flick back through the days that have flowed by. โ€ข Needle scrubber โ€” one bar, one day. A single drag skims through your past days and jumps straight to any date. โ€ข Checklists & markdown โ€” bold, bullets, and checkboxes saved as plain text. โ€ข Show on Lock Screen โ€” pin notes and to-dos as a Live Activity and check them off right there. โ€ข Lock Screen control โ€” open Stream instantly from a Lock Screen button. โ€ข Tags & filters โ€” follow a single stream with one #tag. โ€ข Markdown export / import โ€” your data is always yours, in plain text. All notes are stored on your device only.

Screenshots

Make Time for Yourself4 screens
Stream Note4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Stream Note at none against Make Time for Yourself's 8. Stream Note also leads on update cadence (every 5 days vs every 11 days). On price, ads, 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. Make Time for Yourself sells 8 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Stream Note asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Make Time for Yourself ships an update every 11 days, Stream Note every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences ยท 6 level
Make Time for Yourself versus Stream Note: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMake Time for YourselfStream Note
PriceFreeFree
Positive reviews100.0% of reviewsโ€”
Update frequencyEvery 11 daysEvery 5 days โ€” better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo โ€” better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesโ€”
DevicesiPhone, iPad โ€” betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.0 โ€” better18.0
Further details โ€” not scored
Size522 MB11 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSnapWorks LabMuhyun Park

In-app purchases

8 purchases

Make Time for Yourself

Subscriptions2
  • All Waterside Pass Monthly$0.991 Month
  • All Waterside Pass Annual$5.991 Year
One-time6
  • Finnish Waterside$1.99
  • Korean Waterside$1.99
  • Italian Waterside$1.99
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  • Japanese Waterside$1.99
  • Waterside Guardians$1.99
  • All Waterside Pass Lifetime$19.99
None

Stream Note

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Make Time for Yourself free?
Make Time for Yourself is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Stream Note free?
Stream Note is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Make Time for Yourself or Stream Note have ads?
Neither Make Time for Yourself nor Stream Note shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Make Time for Yourself or Stream Note?
Make Time for Yourself ships an update every 11 days, and Stream Note every 5 days. Most recently, Make Time for Yourself was updated on October 25, 2026 and Stream Note on October 29, 2026.

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