Comparison

SFV NOTES vs CardBeat

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

Head to head
About

SFV NOTES

Organize your Street Fighter V strategy with text, photo, and video notes. Access up-to-date frame data and easily search all your entries. Share your insights with others through social media or messaging.

Highlights
  • Text, photo, and video notes
  • Up-to-date frame data access
  • Searchable notes, photos, and videos
  • Share notes via social media/messaging
  • Organize by players, characters, or frame data
Features
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SFV Notes for iPhone and iPad gets you organized with photo, video, and text notes related to Street Fighter V with up to date frame data. (When available) • Take text, photo, and video notes • View, sort, and search up to date frame data (as it's available) • Share your notes with anyone on social media or messaging • Take notes about players, characters, or individual frame data • Find anything: searchable text in notes, photos, and videos SFV Notes is brought to you by the makers of Tournament Edition. For more info visit www.tournamentedition.com

About

CardBeat

This app provides a digital cork board for writers to plot novels, screenplays, or short stories. It allows users to break down stories into acts, sequences, and scenes, and rearrange them freely. Users can customize cards with colors, lines, or grids, and choose from various drawing tools or keyboard input.

Highlights
  • Digital cork board for story plotting
  • Structure stories into acts, sequences, and scenes
  • Rearrange plot elements freely
  • Customizable cards with colors and backgrounds
  • Multiple drawing tools and keyboard input
  • Export boards as PDF
  • iCloud syncing
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CardBeat is a simple yet powerful tool for plotting your novel, screenplay or short story. It's a digital cork board that keeps all the fun things about working with index cards – and gets rid of all the rest. - Easily break your story into acts, sequences and scenes, structure your plots and shuffle them around as much as you like – all without wasting ink or paper. - Use cards in different colors, with lines or grids printed on them. - Choose between three different kinds of pencils in various sizes and an almost infinite amount of colors. - Don't have an Apple Pencil? CardBeat lets you draw just as easily with you finger. - Don't like your handwriting or prefer a cleaner look? CardBeat takes keyboard input, too! - Move your cards around freely in any dimension, without the limits of grids or table cells. - Need feedback from a colleague? Export your board as a PDF for easy sharing. - Want to use CardBeat in a Writers' Room? Connect any screen or projector to your iPad or iPhone and get a crisp overview of the board you're working on. CardBeat also has world-class privacy, with no third-party analytics or ad trackers and a simple off switch for iCloud synching.

Screenshots

SFV NOTES4 screens
CardBeat4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: CardBeat at 3.5 against SFV NOTES's 3.0. CardBeat also leads on update cadence (every 2 months vs every 43 months) and ratings volume (33 vs 5). SFV NOTES's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 26.0). On price, review sentiment, ads and device support 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. CardBeat sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. SFV NOTES asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

CardBeat holds the better App Store score, 3.5 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: CardBeat has 33 ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 40% of SFV NOTES's written reviews are positive against 46% of CardBeat's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

SFV NOTES ships an update every 43 months, CardBeat every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 4, 2026 and October 16, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
SFV NOTES versus CardBeat: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSFV NOTESCardBeat
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.0 (5 ratings)3.5 (33 ratings) — better
Positive reviews40.0% of reviews45.8% of reviews — better
Number of ratings533 — better
Update frequencyEvery 43 monthsEvery 2 months — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size11 MB7 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperV Group IncStefan Stuckmann

Customer experience

SFV NOTES

Written reviews5 reviews
Positive40.0%
Neutral20.0%
Negative40.0%

CardBeat

All ratings33 ratings
Positive60.6%
Neutral12.1%
Negative27.3%
Written reviews24 reviews
Positive45.8%
Neutral29.2%
Negative25.0%

In-app purchases

None

SFV NOTES

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

CardBeat

One-time1
  • Pro Upgrade$19.99

Questions

Is SFV NOTES free?
SFV NOTES is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is CardBeat free?
CardBeat is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, SFV NOTES or CardBeat?
CardBeat is rated higher. SFV NOTES averages 3.0 out of 5 from 5 ratings, while CardBeat averages 3.5 from 33 ratings.
Do SFV NOTES or CardBeat have ads?
Neither SFV NOTES nor CardBeat shows ads.
Which is updated more often, SFV NOTES or CardBeat?
SFV NOTES ships an update every 43 months, and CardBeat every 2 months. Most recently, SFV NOTES was updated on October 4, 2026 and CardBeat on October 16, 2026.

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