7 Apps You Can Replace with a Single Blend
You're paying for seven separate tools that each do one thing. Here are the seven apps a single blend can quietly replace.
Count the apps on your phone's home screen. Not the games or the social ones. The productivity apps. The ones you downloaded because you needed to get organized.
Notes. Tasks. Bookmarks. A project board. Maybe a writing app. A mood board tool. That link-in-bio page you set up and forgot about.
Seven tools, seven logins, probably four or five separate subscriptions. Each one does its job fine. But together, they've created something nobody asked for: a second job just keeping track of where things are.
Here are seven apps you're probably paying for (or wrestling with) that a single blend can replace.
1. Your notes app
The app: Apple Notes, Google Keep, or whatever lives in your notification tray.
The Block: Note Block.
You open your notes app dozens of times a day. Jot down a thought. Save a phone number. Write a packing list. The Note Block does exactly that, but it lives inside your blend, next to everything else about that subject.
The difference is context. A note about your client project sits next to your client's task list and reference links. A note about your grocery run sits in your personal blend. No more scrolling through 200 notes trying to remember which one has your dentist's address.
Notes apps become graveyards because everything ends up in one long list. When each note lives in the blend it belongs to, you actually find it again.
2. Your task manager
The app: Todoist, Things, Microsoft To Do.
The Block: Todo Block.
Task managers are built to hold every task in your life. That sounds helpful until you're staring at a list of 47 items across six projects and your brain shuts down.
The Todo Block takes a different approach. You place a Todo Block in each blend, so each context has its own focused list. Your "Client X" blend has Client X tasks. Your "Semester" blend has class assignments. You see what matters for the thing you're working on right now, not everything at once.
No priority labels, no due-date gymnastics, no tagging systems to maintain. Just a list. Check things off. Add new ones. That's it.
3. Your project board
The app: Trello, Asana, Monday.com.
The Block: Kanban Board.
You signed up for a project management tool to track a simple workflow. Four columns: To Do, In Progress, Review, Done. That's all you needed.
Instead, you got a tool with 30 features, a learning curve measured in weekends, and a pricing page that assumes you have a team of 15.
The Kanban Board in Blend gives you the columns and cards. Drag things from one stage to the next. That's the whole feature. No Gantt charts, no resource allocation views, no features you'll never open. Just the board, inside the blend where it belongs.
4. Your bookmark manager
The app: Raindrop.io, Pocket, browser bookmarks you never revisit.
The Block: Bookmark Block.
Every browser has a bookmark feature. Most people have hundreds of bookmarks organized into folders they created two years ago and haven't touched since. Or they use a third-party tool that adds another tab to the daily rotation.
The Bookmark Block saves links with their favicons, right inside the blend where they're relevant. Research links for a project live in the project blend. Recipe links live in your meal planning blend. Learning resources live in your study blend.
When bookmarks have context, you actually use them. When they're dumped in a generic folder called "Read Later," they stay unread forever.
5. Your writing app
The app: Google Docs, Notion pages, Bear.
The Block: Text Block.
Sometimes you need more than a quick note. Meeting minutes, journal entries, project briefs, or documentation you keep coming back to. That's what the Text Block handles: rich text with headings, images, and formatting.
You don't need a separate writing app for most of this. You need a place to write that lives alongside everything else about the subject. Your project brief belongs in your project blend, not in a Google Drive folder three levels deep.
6. Your mood board or visual collector
The app: Pinterest, Milanote, Are.na.
The Block: Image Block.
Designers, creators, and visual thinkers often keep a separate app for collecting images, screenshots, and inspiration. It works, but it means your visual references live in a different world from your notes, tasks, and links about the same project.
The Image Block lets you drop photos and visuals directly into any blend. A "Home Renovation" blend can have your inspiration images, your contractor's contact info, a task list, and your budget notes all on the same canvas.
No more switching between your mood board app and your notes app when you're trying to make a decision.
7. Your link-in-bio page
The app: Linktree, Beacons, Carrd.
The Block: Bookmark Block + public sharing.
If you're a creator, freelancer, or anyone with an online presence, you probably have a link-in-bio page. It's a simple list of links. You're likely paying $5 to $10 per month for it.
Here's the thing: a blend with Bookmark Blocks is already a collection of organized links. And Blend lets you share any blend as a read-only public page. Add your important links to a blend, generate a public link, and you have a link-in-bio page that you actually use as part of your daily workflow, not a separate thing you forget to update.
Your link-in-bio page stops being a separate chore when it's built from the same blend you already maintain. Update your links once, and your public page reflects the change.
The math nobody does
Let's add it up. Todoist Premium is $5/month. Raindrop Pro is $3/month. Trello's paid tier is $5/month. A link-in-bio tool is $5/month. A writing app subscription is another $5/month. That's $23/month, or about $275 a year, before you count the time you spend switching between them.
The cost isn't just money. It's the 10 minutes every morning assembling context from six places. It's the cognitive load of remembering which app has what. It's the subscriptions you forgot you're still paying for.
A single blend won't replace every power feature in every one of these tools. That's not the point. The point is that for the way most people actually use these apps (the quick notes, the simple lists, the basic boards, the bookmarks), one blend covers it.
Start with what annoys you most
You don't need to cancel seven subscriptions today. Pick the one tool that frustrates you the most. The one where you spend time searching instead of working. The one you keep meaning to organize but never do.
Build a blend for that one area. Add the Blocks you need. Spend three minutes arranging them. See how it feels to have everything about one subject on a single canvas.
Then, when you're ready, build the next one.
Seven apps, one realization
The problem was never that your apps were bad. Each one does its job. The problem is that your life doesn't split neatly into "notes" and "tasks" and "bookmarks." It splits into subjects, projects, and contexts. Once your tools match that reality, the juggling stops.
Seven apps. One blend. Give it a try.
