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

A digital corkboard for writers to plot novels, screenplays, or short stories. Organize your narrative beats onto digital cards, arrange them freely, and visualize your entire story structure. Supports handwriting and typing, with export options for collaboration.

Highlights
  • Digital corkboard for story plotting
  • Index cards for scenes and beats
  • Handwriting and typing support
  • Customizable card types and colors
  • Zoomable and shufflable board layout
  • iCloud sync across devices
  • Export boards as PDF or CardBeat files
Features
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A digital corkboard for plotting your novel, screenplay or short story. CardBeat keeps all the fun things about index cards – and gets rid of all the rest. Break your story into acts, sequences and scenes. Put each beat on a card, pin it to the board and shuffle until the structure works – without wasting ink or paper. WRITE YOUR WAY - Handwrite with Apple Pencil or just your finger – pens, pencils, markers and brushes in any color. - Prefer typing? Every card takes keyboard input, too. - Choose blank, lined, dotted or grid cards in different colors to track characters, subplots or timelines. SEE THE WHOLE STORY - Place cards anywhere on the board – no rows, columns or table cells. Turn on snap-to-grid when you want things tidy. - Zoom out for the big picture, zoom in to work on a single scene. - Working in a writers' room? Connect a TV, monitor or projector and show a clean view of the board while you plot. SHARE AND SYNC - Your boards stay in sync across iPhone and iPad with iCloud – or turn sync off with a single switch. - Export a board as a PDF for feedback, or as a CardBeat file your co-writer can import and keep working on. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No accounts, no ads, no third-party analytics. CardBeat doesn't collect any data. FREE TO START Plot up to two boards for free. Unlock unlimited boards with a one-time purchase – no subscription.

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 (monthly 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 monthly. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 3, 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 monthsMonthly — 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
  • Unlimited Story Boards$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 monthly. Most recently, SFV NOTES was updated on November 2, 2026 and CardBeat on November 3, 2026.

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