thePlus.so vs Blocs.me
Ten fixed trackers against unlimited widgets you can actually design.
Free plan, no card required.
Side by side
2 of these 9 rows go to Blocs.me. We marked them that way on purpose.
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What it is for
The two products barely overlap
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Timers, trackers, counters
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Images, text, banners
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Price
Cheaper than us, no argument
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$17 once
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$6 a month or $149 once
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Free without signing up
Three widgets, no account needed
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Yes, 3 widgets
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Free plan needs an account
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Catalogue
Theirs is fixed, ours is unlimited instances of three types
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10 fixed widgets
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Unlimited widgets, 3 types
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Fonts and typography
The thing Blocs.me has no product for
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Not offered
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1,500+ Google Fonts
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Brand styling control
Configure against design
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Preset options only
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Full styling control
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Free tier branding
Their free embeds carry their name
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Blocs branding on embeds
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Logo removal on Pro
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Where your data lives
Free Blocs widgets keep state in one browser
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Local storage until Pro
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Server side, any device
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Public uptime and revenue
Their trust case is a user count badge
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Not published
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/open and /uptime
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Pricing on both sides is checked against public sources and kept current. Spotted something out of date? Tell us and we will fix it.
Start Free →Blocs.me is cheaper than us and we are going to say that in the first paragraph rather than bury it. Ten widgets, $17 once, no subscription. If a Pomodoro timer and a habit tracker are what you came for, stop reading and go buy it.
What Blocs.me sells is a closed catalogue of stateful gadgets: Pomodoro, habit tracker, water tracker, countdown, progress bar, clock, calendar, quote of the day, weather. They keep state, they count things, they track streaks. You configure them, you do not design them.
thePlus.so sells the other half of a Notion page. Unlimited Image, Text and Announcement widgets with 1,500+ Google Fonts and full styling control, so a page can look like your brand rather than like a widget vendor. There is very little overlap between the two products.
These are complementary tools, not rivals
The honest version of this comparison is that plenty of people should run both. Use Blocs.me for the Pomodoro timer and the habit tracker at the top of your dashboard, and use thePlus.so for the header image, the section banners and the announcement strip that make the page look like it belongs to you. Neither tool does the other's job. A comparison page that told you to drop one for the other would be selling you something rather than helping you.
Configuring is not designing
Every Blocs.me widget is a finished product with settings. You pick a duration, a goal, a colour from their list. That is the right design for a timer, and it is why their widgets are easy to set up. It also means there is no font control, no typography, and no way to make the widget carry your brand. If your Notion page is client facing, a template you sell, or anything where the look matters, that ceiling is the whole problem, and it is the exact gap thePlus.so exists to fill.
A lifetime deal is worth whatever the operator is worth
Blocs.me asks for $17 once and promises forever. So do we, at $149. In both cases the promise is only as good as the company behind it, and this is a category where companies disappear. Two Notion widget tools shut down within seven months of each other and took every embed with them. The difference we would point at is not the price, it is what each of us will show you: our live revenue is at /open and our uptime is at /uptime. Blocs.me publishes a user count badge. Judge both of us on what you can verify.
Where Blocs.me is the better pick
A comparison page that only flatters its author is not worth reading. Here is the honest side.
- At $17 once, Blocs.me is cheaper than every plan we sell. That is simply true.
- Three of their widgets are free with no sign up at all, which is a lower barrier than our free plan.
- They do live trackers, streaks and timers. We have nothing in that category and no plans to.
- Their per widget pages are genuinely well built, with real FAQs and clear setup steps.
Choose thePlus.so if
Your Notion page needs to look like your brand, not like a widget.
You want specific fonts rather than a preset colour picker.
You are building something client facing or a template you will sell.
You want more than one instance of the same widget type.
What thePlus.so costs
No per-widget upgrades. One plan, everything on.
1,500+ Google Fonts, 5 MB uploads, basic analytics. Forever.
Or $60/yr (~$5/mo). Unlimited widgets, full analytics, logo removal.
Pay once, keep it. Capped at 1,000 seats, with no renewals ever.
Questions
Is Blocs.me cheaper than thePlus.so?
Yes. Blocs.me is $17 once and our lifetime plan is $149. If price is the deciding factor and their ten widgets cover what you need, they are the better buy and we would rather you knew that.
Can I use both Blocs.me and thePlus.so?
Yes, and it is probably the right answer for a lot of dashboards. Their timers and trackers sit happily on the same Notion page as our images, headings and banners. The two do not conflict in any way.
Does thePlus.so have a Pomodoro timer or habit tracker?
No, and we have no plans to build them. We do Image, Text and Announcement widgets. For timers and trackers, Blocs.me is a better tool than anything we would ship.
What can thePlus.so do that Blocs.me cannot?
Typography and brand control. All 1,500+ Google Fonts are available on every plan including free, with full styling control, and you can create unlimited widgets rather than picking from a fixed set of ten.
Try it before you decide
The free plan needs no card and takes about a minute. Build one widget, put it in a page, and see whether it feels right.
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