Comparison

Video Notes vs Takewise

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

Head to head
About

Video Notes

Enhance your YouTube viewing by searching for videos and channels, taking notes, and posting them as comments. This app allows you to watch videos, follow channels, and quickly find important information within your notes.

Highlights
  • Search YouTube videos and channels
  • Watch videos with a full-screen player
  • Subscribe to YouTube channels
  • Write and save notes for videos
  • Search within your saved notes
  • Post notes as YouTube comments
Features
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Use Video Notes in order to enhance your Youtube experience! Via Video Notes you can search for videos or channels, watch videos, follow channels, write notes and post them as comments! Search in Youtube - Videos - Channels - Video Notes provides you the ability to search for both videos and channels. Watch Youtube Videos - Fully fledged YouTube video player with fullscreen playback Youtube Subscriptions - Follow a channel - Channel subscribe in Youtube! (requires Google login) Write Video Notes - Write notes for any video you watch - Search in these notes to find something important for you - Watch a video with the related notes just bellow it - Use these notes to move in the positions you have wrote them - Edit or delete any note Post Notes in Youtube - Post any note in Youtube as a comment for the related video (requires Google login) Video Notes is perfect for everyone who watches videos in Youtube! Use it just to search and watch videos. Use it in order to subscribe in a Youtube channel. Use it to keep notes for a lecture which is available in Youtube. Video Notes is simple, yet efficient and easy to use!

About

Takewise

Transform lengthy YouTube videos into concise summaries, key insights, and actionable takeaways. Engage in conversations about the content with an AI chatbot and save your findings in an organized library for easy access.

Highlights
  • Summarize YouTube videos from links
  • Generate TLDR and key insights
  • Timestamped sections for detail
  • AI chat for follow-up questions
  • Save summaries in a searchable library
  • Share takeaways as clean text
Features
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Takewise turns long YouTube videos into useful takeaways you can read, save, and chat with. Share a public YouTube link or paste one into Takewise. In moments, you get a clean take with the parts that matter: the TLDR, key insights, actionable takeaways, timestamps, and a chat for follow-up questions. Use Takewise when you want to learn from lectures, podcasts, tutorials, interviews, research videos, product reviews, business talks, AI videos, and other long-form YouTube content without sitting through the whole thing. What you can do: * Summarize public YouTube videos from a link * Share from YouTube or paste a URL manually * Read a quick TLDR and structured key insights * Open timestamped sections when you need more detail * Ask follow-up questions about the video * Save summaries in a searchable library * Share takeaways as clean text Every takeaway is designed to be skimmable, specific, and useful later. No messy transcript dump, no generic paragraph recap, and no need to remember where the good part was. Takewise is an independent app and is not affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by YouTube or Google. Some public videos may be unavailable if transcript or metadata access is not available. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Video Notes4 screens
Takewise4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Takewise at none against Video Notes's 2. Video Notes's advantage is update cadence (every 5 days vs every 2 weeks) and iOS requirement (10.2 vs 15.1). On price, ads, monetization model 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. Video Notes sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Takewise asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Video Notes ships an update every 5 days, Takewise every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 6, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Video Notes versus Takewise: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterVideo NotesTakewise
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings—1 — better
Update frequencyEvery 5 days — betterEvery 2 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS10.2 — better15.1
Further details — not scored
Size22 MB54 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperGeorge ChalkiadoudisNehemiah Blackburn

Customer experience

Video Notes

Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Takewise

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

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Video Notes

One-time2
  • Unlimited video notes$0.99
  • Unlimited notes post$0.99
None

Takewise

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Video Notes free?
Video Notes is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Takewise free?
Takewise is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Video Notes or Takewise have ads?
Neither Video Notes nor Takewise shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Video Notes or Takewise?
Video Notes ships an update every 5 days, and Takewise every 2 weeks. Most recently, Video Notes was updated on October 6, 2026 and Takewise on October 7, 2026.

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