Comparison

Tuck vs Thought Meadow

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

Head to head
About

Tuck

Features
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Tuck keeps the things you love online, for good. Share a post, article, video or profile to Tuck from Safari or any app, and Tuck saves a clean copy to your own private feed. Scroll it like a social feed, read articles in a calm reader, and tap a video to play it. Posts get deleted, accounts go private and links stop working. What you tuck away stays. ONE PRIVATE FEED • Everything you save lands in Home • Make your own feeds, like Cooking, Hiking or Design, and switch between them from the top of the screen • Show any mix of posts, people, videos, articles or your own posts • Sort by when you saved something or when it was posted • Search across everything you've saved • Lock a feed with Face ID, or keep it out of Home MADE FOR EACH KIND OF CONTENT • Posts show the author, text, images and any quoted post, without the noise • Articles open in a clean reader with your choice of font, size and theme, and the original page is saved too so you can read it offline • Videos play right in the feed. Tap one and swipe up to keep watching your saved videos • Save profiles too, and jump straight to them in their own app WHAT TUCK SAVES • X, Bluesky, Threads and Mastodon posts, with photos, quoted posts and counts • Reddit, Tumblr, LinkedIn, Pinterest and Telegram posts, with every image and video • Instagram, Facebook, TikTok and Snapchat captions, photos and covers • YouTube, Vimeo, Twitch, Bilibili and niconico videos, with their details, playing in the official player • Weibo, RedNote, Douyin, VK and Naver Blog posts • Articles from any website and Substack, Apple Podcasts and Spotify episodes, and profiles everywhere • Any other link, as a card with its title and preview SAVE IN A TAP • Share from any app, or copy a link and tap the add button • Import a list of links, and export everything you've saved • Choose per save whether to keep photos and videos, or just the text and a thumbnail YOUR OWN POSTS Write notes with photos, videos and links straight into any feed, and keep them alongside everything you've saved. LOCAL FEEDS Turn a folder of your own videos and photos into a feed that scrolls like the rest: pick one in Files on iPhone and iPad, or any folder or external drive on the Mac. Tuck only reads the folder; nothing is copied or uploaded. PRIVATE BY DESIGN • No account, no sign-up • Everything is stored on your device and synced through your own iCloud, and you choose whether photos and videos sync • No ads, no analytics, no tracking • Pages are fetched directly from your device, never through our servers Tuck works on iPhone, iPad and Mac, and is made for both screens of iPhone Duo.

About

Thought Meadow

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Some ideas just need a quiet place. Thought Meadow is a simple, native notes app for iPhone, in English and Arabic. Capture a thought, plan your day, and keep what matters. Open the app and start writing, with no account or internet connection. A little room to think: • Write notes with automatic local saving. • Organize with folders, tags and pinned notes. • Search titles, content and tags. • Use Markdown preview and interactive checklists. • Archive notes or move them to Trash and restore them later. • Export a note as Markdown or back up your full notebook. • Import text, Markdown and notebook backups through Files. Your thoughts, yours alone: • No account, ads, analytics or tracking in the app. • Notes stay on your device and are not sent to the developer's server. • Add optional password encryption for your notebook and full backups. • Your password is not stored and cannot be recovered if lost. Thought Meadow is free and open source under the MIT license. This release has no subscriptions or in-app purchases. Multi-device sync and shared lists are not available yet. Notes are excluded from automatic iPhone backups. Export copies regularly through Files and keep them outside the device: deleting the app may delete local notes. This first release has not yet had an independent security audit.

Screenshots

Tuck4 screens
Thought Meadow4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is device support: Tuck at 3 against Thought Meadow's 1. Thought Meadow's advantage is iOS requirement (17.0 vs 27.0). On price, update cadence, 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 days. Both last shipped on October 29, 2026.

Scorecard2 real differences · 4 level
Tuck versus Thought Meadow: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTuckThought Meadow
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 2 daysEvery 2 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac — betteriPhone
Requires iOS27.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size11 MB1 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperRogue Superintelligence LLCAlawy Alshakhouri

In-app purchases

None

Tuck

No in-app purchases

None

Thought Meadow

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Tuck free?
Tuck is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Thought Meadow free?
Thought Meadow is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Tuck or Thought Meadow have ads?
Neither Tuck nor Thought Meadow shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Tuck or Thought Meadow?
Tuck ships an update every 2 days, and Thought Meadow every 2 days. Most recently, Tuck was updated on October 29, 2026 and Thought Meadow on October 29, 2026.

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