Sumbi vs Jeejee
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Sumbi
This app encourages users to spend less time on their phones by gamifying digital detox. Users engage in timed "dives" away from their devices, earning virtual sea creatures based on their focus duration. It offers a peaceful, non-punitive approach to building healthier digital habits.
- Timed phone-free dives
- Unlock virtual sea creatures
- Personalized ocean environment
- Buddy dive feature
- Night sea creatures
- Diary-like dive log
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The longer you put your phone down, the deeper your life gets. Start the timer, set your phone down, and sea creatures come to your ocean. From exam prep to digital detox, dive with Sumbi. Sumbi is a study focus timer and digital detox app named after the "sumbisori," the whistling breath of Jeju haenyeo, Korea's legendary free-diving women. Start a dive when you want time away from your phone. While your phone rests, your ocean deepens, and sea creatures come to live in it. Who dives with Sumbi - Students who need a study timer for exams and deep focus - Anyone fighting phone addiction or doomscrolling - People who want to cut screen time and rebuild concentration - ADHD brains that need a gentle, visual reason to stay off the phone - Anyone who just wants to watch a calm ocean and breathe What makes Sumbi different 1. One dive = one focus session. Keep your phone down while the timer runs, and the dive succeeds. If you fail, nobody scolds you. 2. Your focus time becomes an ocean. Successful dives bring creatures from shallow water, deep water, even the abyss. 3. Collect and raise your sea creatures. The more you dive, the wider and deeper your ocean grows. 4. Gift creatures to your dive buddies. Focus is deeper together. 5. No ads, no noise. Sumbi never drags you back with notifications. Coming back is your choice. Study timer, pomodoro, or deep work Pick any length with the dial: a short pomodoro-style session or hours of exam prep. Every dive adds to your daily focus record. When haenyeo divers surface, they release a long whistling breath: "hooo-ee." Your day deserves a breath that deep. Have a good dive. Hoo-ee! Contact: sumbi@niceday.io
Jeejee
This app combines Markdown, LaTeX, and handwriting for note-taking and document creation. It supports structured notes, mathematical typesetting, and annotation on PDFs with Apple Pencil. Documents can be exported in various formats and stored locally or in the cloud.
- Markdown editor with live preview
- LaTeX typesetting engine
- Handwriting with Apple Pencil
- PDF annotation
- Multiple export formats
- Cloud and local file storage
- Sticker store
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Jeejee is a note-taking and document editor that combines Markdown, LaTeX and handwriting in a single app: Markdown for structured notes, LaTeX for mathematical typesetting and formal reports, and handwriting with Apple Pencil, including annotation directly on lecture PDFs. Documents are stored in the location the user selects. Markdown, LaTeX, HTML, CSV, plain text and PDF remain compatible with other tools that support these formats; handwritten notes are saved as editable .jeejee files. Designed for students, researchers and professionals in science and engineering: class notes, lab reports, theses, derivations and exam preparation. Markdown • Side-by-side editor and preview, synchronized while typing and scrolling • Headings, lists, to-do items, tables, code, quotes and images • Inline and display math • Syntax coloring for code blocks, with optional line wrapping • Function plots that mark zeros, extrema and intersections • Mind maps built from indented lists, viewable in full screen • Heading outline in View mode for long documents • Format bar with common formatting and templates for code, plots and mind maps • Export to PDF or Markdown LaTeX • Built-in typesetting engine that compiles to PDF in the app, offline, with no separate TeX installation • XeLaTeX typesetting with full support for Chinese and Unicode • Automatic recompilation, with error lines clearly indicated • Source and PDF side by side • Export to PDF or LaTeX source Handwriting • Apple Pencil on iPad: pen, pencil, highlighter, eraser, lasso and shape recognition • Three colors and three stroke widths in the toolbar • Blank, ruled, grid and dotted paper in white or black, with multipage notes and page thumbnails • Strokes that continue across page boundaries • Text boxes, images with cropping, and function graphs • Copy, cut and paste for text, images and strokes; up to 100 undo steps • Annotation copies of PDFs, leaving the original unchanged • Export as .jeejee files, PDF or page images; save page images to Photos on iPhone and iPad Stickers • Sticker store with four free packs of 100 stickers each and five paid packs • Insertion from the sticker panel in the handwriting toolbar • Packs linked to the Jeejee account and available on other signed-in devices • Pack updates applied at the user's discretion • The sticker store requires a Jeejee account (Apple or Google sign-in); all other features work without an account Files • Markdown, LaTeX, HTML, CSV, plain text and handwritten notes; HTML with live preview, CSS and JavaScript • Code files such as .js, .css, .py and .json with syntax coloring • Local, iCloud and System Folder storage, including external folders supported by the system and file providers • List, card and icon views; icons display document content • Recents, Favorites, drag and drop, and Recently Deleted • Configurable file types for the New menu Designed for iPhone, iPad and Mac • Resizable, docked sidebar on iPad, with a full-screen editor for open documents • Multiple windows, a native sidebar and keyboard shortcuts on Mac • Seven editor themes with Dark Mode • Built-in illustrated user guide Pricing Core features are free, with no advertising. Paid sticker packs are offered as in-app purchases. Optional tips in Settings > Support Jeejee do not unlock features and support ongoing development. Privacy • Jeejee does not track users. • Document contents and file names stay in the selected storage location and are not sent to the developer. • Crash reports and usage statistics are collected to improve the app. They exclude document contents, file names and account information, and are not linked to the user's identity. • A Jeejee account is used only for the sticker store. When signed in, Jeejee stores the account name, email address, user ID, acquired sticker packs and purchase records to provide and restore sticker content. • Payments are processed by Apple; Jeejee does not receive payment information.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is monetization model: Sumbi at free against Jeejee's free with in-app purchases. Jeejee's advantage is device support (3 vs 1). On price, rating, ratings volume and update cadence 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
Both are free to download. Sumbi sells 3 one-off in-app purchases and Jeejee sells 6 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Sumbi against 5.0 for Jeejee. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.
Sumbi ships an update weekly, Jeejee every 4 days. Both last shipped on October 29, 2026.
| Parameter | Sumbi | Jeejee |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 1 |
| Update frequency | Weekly | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 94 MB | 91 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 나이스데이 | Youci Huang |
Customer experience
Sumbi
Jeejee
In-app purchases
Sumbi
- Shallow Sea Creature$0.99
- Deep Sea Creature$1.99
- Abyssal Creature$2.99
Jeejee
- Small Tip$0.29
- Sticker pack (tier NT$30)$0.99
- Sticker pack (tier NT$60)$1.99
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- Medium Tip$2.99
- Sticker pack (tier NT$90)$2.99
- Large Tip$11.99









