Comparison

Notarize vs Fund Pipeline

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

Head to head
About

Notarize

Legally and securely notarize any document online in minutes from your mobile device. Connect with a licensed notary via audio/video call for instant verification and signing, available 24/7 worldwide. Supports documents with multiple signers.

Highlights
  • Online document notarization
  • 24/7 availability
  • Audio/video notary calls
  • Identity verification
  • Multi-signer document support
  • Downloadable notarized documents
Features
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Legally and securely notarize any document in minutes from your iPhone or iPad. Notarize serves every American worldwide. Open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week—even during holidays. Average wait time is less than one minute. Traveling abroad and need a document notarized? Can’t find a notary near you? Have a time-sensitive request after business hours? Say hello to Notarize. How it works: Upload or scan your documents. Next, take a picture of your license or passport and answer a few security questions - this is how we verify your identity. Then connect with a licensed electronic notary via an audio/video call to sign and notarize your document. Once your document is notarized, you can download, email, and access the file in the app at any time. Notarize also accepts documents that require more than one signer. Notarize agents are held to the highest standards and have completed training, undergone background checks, and independently hold insurance in accordance with notary industry best practices. Simply download the app to legally notarize any document, anytime, anywhere. Notarize is the leader in online notarization, which is simpler, smarter and safer than notarizing documents on paper. Powered by Proof, the identity verification platform trusted for the most important transactions.

About

Fund Pipeline

This app automates the initial stages of deal qualification and due diligence for private market investors. It intelligently screens opportunities, extracts data from submissions, scores deals against investment criteria, and provides objective recommendations.

Highlights
  • Automated data ingestion from submissions
  • Fund-specific deal scoring
  • AI-assisted deal analysis and summarization
  • Automated recommendation engine
  • Standardized screening process
  • Accelerated diligence cycle
Features
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Fund Pipeline App is a mobile application to interact with the Fund Pipeline web platform. Please note that an existing Fund Pipeline account is required. Fund Pipeline is a cloud-based AI platform designed specifically to automate the front end of deal qualification and early due diligence for private market investors. It acts as an intelligent screening layer between deal intake and partner review. Instead of an analyst manually extracting data from a 30-page presentation, Fund Pipeline does the heavy lifting: Automated Ingestion: It reads and parses unstructured data from founder submissions, pitch decks, and teasers. Fund-Specific Scoring: It evaluates the opportunity against our fund specific investment criteria, scoring deals dynamically based on our profile and historical investment outcomes. AI-Assisted Analysis: It generates structured deal summaries, identifies missing information, and drafts initial investment memorandums. Decision and Recommendation Engine: It provides an immediate, objective recommendation on whether an opportunity should be rejected, monitored, or advanced to the investment committee. Why do investment Funds use it? Better Decisions and Lower Costs In venture capital and private equity, getting to a "no" faster is just as valuable as finding a "yes." Fund Pipeline ensures better rejection quality—allowing us to pass quickly, confidently, and with clear, data-backed reasoning. By filtering out the noise early, we avoid deploying expensive human hours and external resources on dead ends, resulting in a significantly lower diligence cost. Ultimately, because our team is focusing 100% of their energy on the strongest matches, we are seeing better deal conversion at the bottom of the funnel. 2. Eliminating Top-of-Funnel Waste The team spends more time on deep diligence, founder relationships, and portfolio support, not data entry. Fund Pipeline allows for self-service to gather current deal data and gives us a fast "yes or no" on whether a deal fits our mandate, sector focus, and target check size before we commit expensive human hours to reviewing it. 3. Standardizing Our Screening Process Investment decisions can often be subjective, influenced by whoever took the first call. Fund Pipeline forces consistency. It scores every single deal against our fund-specific criteria, ensuring we are evaluating opportunities based on data and alignment, rather than gut feeling. Fund Pipeline has a built-in learning module that leans the characteristics we look for in a deal and adjusts its weightings for questions to reflect our unique fund preferences. 4. Accelerating the Diligence Cycle When an opportunity is a strong fit, Fund Pipeline accelerates our workflow by pre-populating our AI engine with the deal context. Our team can immediately query the platform about specific risks, competitive moats, and financial metrics, allowing us to move faster and with higher conviction on the deals that matter. 5. Referral Network for Deal Origination Fund Pipeline provides a referral network where we can exchange information on deals with the fund's regular co-investors. The fund referral network is a valuable source of quality deal opportunities.

Screenshots

Notarize4 screens
Fund Pipeline4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ratings volume: Notarize at 119K against Fund Pipeline's 1. On price, rating, update cadence and ads 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.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for Notarize against 5.0 for Fund Pipeline. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Notarize has 119K ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Notarize ships an update every 2 weeks, Fund Pipeline fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 20, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Notarize versus Fund Pipeline: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterNotarizeFund Pipeline
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.9 (119K ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews71.7% of reviews—
Number of ratings119K — better1
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksFortnightly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS16.0 — better16.4
Further details — not scored
Size240 MB45 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperNotarize, Inc.Deal Pipeline Inc

Customer experience

Notarize

All ratings119,043 ratings
Positive97.9%
Neutral0.9%
Negative1.2%
Written reviews166 reviews
Positive71.7%
Neutral3.0%
Negative25.3%

Fund Pipeline

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

Notarize

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Document upload and signing issues
  • Connectivity problems during video calls
  • Inability to delete or edit previously entered information

Requested features

4 requests
  • Allow multiple signers on a document
  • Improve document quality and editing capabilities
  • Provide better customer support and troubleshooting
  • Expand availability to more locations and countries

Fund Pipeline

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Notarize

No in-app purchases

None

Fund Pipeline

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Notarize free?
Notarize is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Fund Pipeline free?
Fund Pipeline is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Notarize or Fund Pipeline?
Fund Pipeline is rated higher. Notarize averages 4.9 out of 5 from 119K ratings, while Fund Pipeline averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Notarize or Fund Pipeline have ads?
Neither Notarize nor Fund Pipeline shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Notarize or Fund Pipeline?
Notarize ships an update every 2 weeks, and Fund Pipeline fortnightly. Most recently, Notarize was updated on October 20, 2026 and Fund Pipeline on October 8, 2026.

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