Comparison

Trees Count vs Grug Notes

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

Head to head
About

Trees Count

This app allows users to map individual trees and record detailed information like species, size, and health. It offers filtering capabilities and tools to transfer inventories between devices, with data export compatible with i-Tree for report generation.

Highlights
  • Map individual trees
  • Record species, DBH, condition
  • Store maintenance recommendations
  • Filter tree data
  • Transfer inventories across devices
  • Export data compatible with i-Tree
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Trees Count is a tree inventory app which maps individual trees and stores data such as species, DBH, condition and recommended maintenance. Users can filter trees as well as transfer inventories across devices through the import and export tools. Export data is compatible with i-Tree and can generate reports.

About

Grug Notes

This app allows users to capture, edit, and organize notes using voice commands. It offers real-time voice interaction for finding, modifying, and asking questions about your notes, as well as a voice-powered calculator and meeting transcription. It's designed for hands-free use, syncing across devices.

Highlights
  • Live voice mode for real-time interaction
  • Hands-free note editing and retrieval
  • Voice-powered calculator
  • Meeting recording and transcription
  • AI-powered summarization
  • Personal wiki creation
  • Cloud syncing across devices
Features
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A daily notes app for people who work on their feet. Its live voice mode doesn't just take dictation: it finds your notes, edits them, answers questions, and even does the math, all while you talk. Get what's in your head onto the page, minus the clutter. LIVE MODE: TALK, AND IT ACTS This isn't dictation. Live mode understands what you mean and does it, in real time: • Find anything: ask "what did I note about the trip budget?" and the note surfaces. • Edit hands-free: add to, rewrite, or clean up a note by talking. • Ask anything: get answers from your notes, or quick answers to anything else. • Do the math: say "what's 15% of 2,400?" and get the answer on the spot. CAPTURE BY VOICE Just want it written down? Tap record and talk — your words become clean, transcribed notes instantly. MEETINGS, HANDLED Record and transcribe entire meetings, then get clean, searchable notes. Pair with your own notes and use AI to summarize. YOUR PERSONAL WIKI Mention a person, company, or date and Grug Notes tags it for you, then builds a page that pulls together every note where it comes up. A second brain, minus the busywork. PLAN IT WITH GRUG CHAT Organize each day with prompts you choose — Goals, Tasks, Training, whatever fits. Then tell Grug Chat what you're working toward and it drafts the plan straight into your days: training for a race, next week's jobs, a simple travel itinerary. You review everything it proposes before it lands. CHATGPT, GEMINI, AND CLAUDE. ONE APP. Grug Chat runs on the models you already know — ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Grok, and more — with one subscription. Pick a favorite, or ask several at once and compare their answers. WORKOUTS FROM APPLE HEALTH Plan the training, then let the results log themselves. Connect Apple Health and every workout becomes a note on the day it happened — distance, duration, pace, heart rate, and calories, right next to what you planned. Read-only, opt-in, and only from the workout apps you approve. PICK UP ANYWHERE Notes sync automatically between your phone and the web. Start anywhere, pick up right where you left off. BUILT BY A CANOE SHOP We build canoes for a living, on our feet all day with our hands full. Every notes app we tried was made for someone sitting at a desk. So we built the one we actually needed: talk to it, and it works. No keyboard required. Download and start talking. — Terms of Use: https://grugnotes.com/tos/ Privacy Policy: https://grugnotes.com/privacy/

Screenshots

Trees Count4 screens
Grug Notes4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Grug Notes at 100% against Trees Count's 44%. Grug Notes also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.0) and update cadence (every 3 days vs every 7 months). Trees Count's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2). On price, ratings volume, 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. Grug Notes sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $12.99 per month. Trees Count asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Grug Notes holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 8 and 23 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 44% of Trees Count's written reviews are positive against 100% of Grug Notes's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Trees Count ships an update every 7 months, Grug Notes every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on August 7, 2026 and September 21, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Trees Count versus Grug Notes: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTrees CountGrug Notes
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.0 (8 ratings)5.0 (23 ratings) — better
Positive reviews44.4% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings823 — better
Update frequencyEvery 7 monthsEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS16.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size138 MB28 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperTexas A&M Forest ServiceKamanu Composites, LLC

Customer experience

Trees Count

All ratings8 ratings
Positive75.0%
Neutral12.5%
Negative12.5%
Written reviews9 reviews
Positive44.4%
Neutral11.1%
Negative44.4%

Grug Notes

All ratings23 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews15 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Trees Count

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Grug Notes

Subscriptions2
  • Grug Core$12.991 Month
  • Grug Plus$17.991 Month

Questions

Is Trees Count free?
Trees Count is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Grug Notes free?
Grug Notes is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Trees Count or Grug Notes?
Grug Notes is rated higher. Trees Count averages 4.0 out of 5 from 8 ratings, while Grug Notes averages 5.0 from 23 ratings.
Do Trees Count or Grug Notes have ads?
Neither Trees Count nor Grug Notes shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Trees Count or Grug Notes?
Trees Count ships an update every 7 months, and Grug Notes every 3 days. Most recently, Trees Count was updated on August 7, 2026 and Grug Notes on September 21, 2026.

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