Comparison

Qnotes3 vs Hey Reachy

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

Head to head
About

Qnotes3

Capture ideas on your iOS device with this note-taking tool. Organize notes into notebooks, sections, and individual notes. Share and collaborate on your notes with others, syncing seamlessly with your QNAP NAS.

Highlights
  • Note-taking on iOS devices
  • Sync with QNAP NAS
  • 3-tier note structure
  • Share notes
  • Collaborative work
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Qnotes 3 is designed to work with Notes Station 3 in a QNAP NAS with QTS 4.3 and above. It is a convenient note-taking tool for collecting ideas on your iOS device. Add a note by writing, recording audio, taking photos, and attaching files. Key features: - Take notes and sync with your QNAP NAS. - 3 tier structure: Notebook, Section, and notes. - Share with your notes. - Collaborative work with your friends

About

Hey Reachy

Features
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Hey Reachy is an unofficial app for the Reachy Mini desktop robots, native on iPhone, iPad and Mac. It is not Pollen Robotics' own app, and it is not affiliated with, endorsed by or supported by Pollen Robotics or Hugging Face. It talks to a robot on your own network directly, with no account to create. A Hugging Face sign-in is optional — for installing robot apps, and for reaching your robots from outside their network through its relay. TRY IT WITHOUT A ROBOT Under Developer on the Connect screen, "Start the simulator" opens a session with a robot the app carries itself — no robot, no network, no account. It is drawn from the robot's own description and moved by the same kinematics the app sends to real hardware. It has no camera, no app catalogue and no Wi-Fi setup, because those belong to a machine that does not exist. A Reachy Mini Wireless on your network is what the whole app is for. A Lite model — or a daemon run in simulation on a computer — connects the same way, minus the routes only the wireless daemon serves. WHAT IT DOES • Connect — Nearby finds robots on your network with a sweep and Bonjour or at an address you type, and on a Mac the daemon on that computer. Remote reaches the robots linked to your Hugging Face account, wherever they are. • Live control — joystick or game controller teleop of the 6-DoF head, the antennas and body rotation, with the robot's camera and two-way audio, so you can talk through its speaker. Let the head follow a face, at a strength you pick between a glance and a lock. • 3D viewer — a RealityKit model built from the robot's own URDF and meshes, mirroring it in real time. • Moves — browse and play the recorded moves the robot ships with, from the app or by asking Siri for one by name. Record your own takes with the joystick and play them back. • Sounds — a soundboard for the robot's speaker: add audio files from your device and play them with a tap. • Apps — install, update and remove robot apps from Hugging Face Spaces, following each job as it runs. Filter and sort the catalogue, pin the apps you use most, report an app or hide its author. • State and logs — the control loop's frequency, worst interval and error count charted live, beside the robot's processor, memory, temperature and uptime. The daemon's log streams in as it is written. • Files — an SFTP browser for the robot's filesystem. • Setup and recovery — put a brand-new robot onto Wi-Fi over an encrypted Bluetooth channel, guide its first wake-up, or bring back one that fell off the network. AT HOME ON YOUR DEVICES Widgets for the Home Screen, the Lock Screen, StandBy and the Mac's Notification Centre. The Mac also keeps the robot in the menu bar: awake or asleep, one button to change it, and the installed apps underneath. Control Center controls for power, for a move or an app you choose yourself, for a sound, and for stopping whatever is running — each one on the Lock Screen and the Action button too. Siri and Shortcuts for waking, sleeping, powering off, launching an app, playing a move, or asking whether the robot is awake and what is running on it, each able to name which robot it means. Sixteen animated Reachy stickers for Messages, the Stickers app and FaceTime. Six accent themes, each with a matching app icon and a colour for the 3D robot. English, German, Spanish, French and Russian. PRIVACY Nothing is collected. The app talks to your robot and, if you sign in, to Hugging Face with your own account. There is no server on our side. A NOTE ON YOUR NETWORK The robot's daemon provides no authentication and no encryption of its own. Use Hey Reachy on a trusted private network or on the robot's own access point — never through a port forward or a public address. Hey Reachy is an independent client for the robot daemon's documented HTTP and WebSocket API. "Reachy Mini" is a product name of Pollen Robotics, used here solely to describe what this app is compatible with. Requires iOS 18 or macOS 15.

Screenshots

Qnotes34 screens
Hey Reachy4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Hey Reachy at every 4 days against Qnotes3's every 3 months. Qnotes3's advantage is iOS requirement (15.0 vs 18.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Qnotes3 ships an update every 3 months, Hey Reachy every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and October 16, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Qnotes3 versus Hey Reachy: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterQnotes3Hey Reachy
PriceFreeFree
Rating1.7 (15 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews9.5% of reviews—
Number of ratings15 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsEvery 4 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, Mac
Requires iOS15.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size79 MB56 MB
Age rating4+9+
DeveloperQNAP Systems, Inc.Aleksey Kakoulin

In-app purchases

None

Qnotes3

No in-app purchases

None

Hey Reachy

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Qnotes3 free?
Qnotes3 is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Hey Reachy free?
Hey Reachy is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Qnotes3 or Hey Reachy have ads?
Neither Qnotes3 nor Hey Reachy shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Qnotes3 or Hey Reachy?
Qnotes3 ships an update every 3 months, and Hey Reachy every 4 days. Most recently, Qnotes3 was updated on October 7, 2026 and Hey Reachy on October 16, 2026.

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