Comparison

Standard Notes vs Lolo

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

Head to head
About

Standard Notes

Securely capture and sync your thoughts across all devices with end-to-end encryption. This app offers a simple, lasting place for all your notes, from personal thoughts to sensitive information, with robust privacy features.

Highlights
  • End-to-end encryption
  • Cross-device syncing
  • Offline access
  • Passcode and biometric lock
  • Tagging system
  • Open-source code
  • Optional productivity editors and themes
Features
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Standard Notes is a private and secure end-to-end encrypted notes app. It allows you to write and sync your notes across all your devices, including your iPhone, iPad, Mac, and web browser. Private means your notes are end-to-end encrypted, so only you can read your notes. Even we can't read the contents of your notes. Simple means it does one job and does it well. Standard Notes is a safe and lasting place for your life's work. Our focus is making it easy to write notes wherever you are and syncing them with encryption to all your devices. Our users love us for: • Personal Notes • Tasks & Todos • Passwords & Keys • Code & Technical Procedures • Private Journal • Meeting Notes • Cross-platform Scratchpad • Books, Recipes, & Movies • Health & Fitness Log Standard Notes comes free with: • Seamless sync across all your devices, with easy to use applications on iPhone, iPad, Mac, web browsers, and other platforms. • Offline access, so you can access your downloaded notes even without a connection. • No limit on number of devices. • No limit on number of notes. • Passcode lock protection, along with Touch ID and Face ID protection. • A tagging system to organize your notes (like #work, #ideas, #passwords, #crypto). • The ability to pin, lock, protect, and move notes to trash, which allows you to recover deleted notes until the trash is emptied. Standard Notes is completely open-source, which means when we say your notes are encrypted with industry-leading XChaCha-20 encryption, and that only you can read your notes, you don't have to take our word for it. Our code is open to the world to audit. We made Standard Notes simple because longevity is important to us. We want to make sure we're here, protecting your notes, for the next hundred years. You shouldn't have to find a new notes app every year. To sustain our development, we offer optional paid subscriptions which give you access to powerful tools like: • Productivity editors (like Markdown, Code, Spreadsheets) • Beautiful themes (like Midnight, Focus, Solarized Dark) • Powerful cloud tools including daily backups of your encrypted data delivered to your email inbox every day, or backed up to your cloud provider (like Dropbox and Google Drive). We're always happy to talk, whether it be a question, thought, or issue. Please feel free to email us any time at help@standardnotes.com. When you take the time to send us a message, we'll be sure to do the same. EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Lolo

Features
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Lolo — Sports Tracker for Kids & Families Being a sports parent means juggling schedules, remembering which practice is when, and wondering if your child actually enjoys what they're doing. Lolo puts it all in one place — so you can focus on cheering them on. TRACK EVERY SESSION Log a sports session in seconds. Pick the kid, pick the sport, choose how they felt, and you're done. Every session is saved so you can look back across the whole season at a glance. SEE HOW THEY REALLY FEEL Kids don't always say it out loud. Lolo's mood tracker lets you log how your child feels about each sport after every session — from great to not so great. Spot patterns early and have better conversations about what they love (and what they don't). CELEBRATE EVERY MILESTONE Every session counts. Lolo awards badges as your child hits new session milestones, a small but meaningful way to recognise consistency and effort, not just wins. BUILT FOR BUSY FAMILIES Managing more than one child? No problem. Add multiple kids, each with their own sports, mood history, and badge vault. Your weekly home view keeps everyone's schedule in one calm, organised place. MEET BLAZE Blaze is your family's sports companion, a friendly mascot who cheers your kids on and reminds you both that showing up is what matters most. WHY PARENTS LOVE LOLO - No complicated setup. You're logging sessions in under a minute. - Designed for the sideline — quick to open, quick to use. - A keepsake of your child's sporting journey, season by season. Lolo is free to download and free to use, no hidden costs, no premium tiers. Just a simple, beautiful tool for families who love sport. Download Lolo and start tracking today.

Screenshots

Standard Notes4 screens
Lolo4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Lolo at none against Standard Notes's 1. On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. Standard Notes sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $119.99 per year. Lolo asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Standard Notes versus Lolo: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterStandard NotesLolo
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (3.8K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews63.9% of reviews—
Number of ratings3.8K — better—
Update frequencyEvery 5 weeks—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.115.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size90 MB38 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperStandard Notes Ltd.Identity Solutions For Information Technology

Bugs and requests

Standard Notes

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Notes disappearing or getting deleted unexpectedly
  • Sync issues between devices
  • Keyboard and UI bugs on mobile
  • Compatibility problems with older iOS versions

Requested features

5 requests
  • Add support for images and attachments
  • Implement a more robust search function
  • Introduce a dark mode option
  • Allow for better note organization (folders, nested tags)
  • Add undo/redo functionality

Lolo

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Standard Notes

Subscriptions1
  • Professional Plan7 Days trial$119.991 Year
None

Lolo

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Standard Notes free?
Standard Notes is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Lolo free?
Lolo is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Standard Notes or Lolo have ads?
Neither Standard Notes nor Lolo shows ads.

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