Comparison

Tree Notebook vs WebShelf

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

Head to head
About

Tree Notebook

Organize personal information with a hierarchical notes manager. Structure data into a tree-like hierarchy of folders and notes, with options for public and encrypted private sections. Features include powerful search, customizable item appearance, and event reminders.

Highlights
  • Tree-like hierarchical organization
  • Public and encrypted private data sections
  • Attachments (images, files)
  • Multiple data views (tree, list, favorites, history)
  • Powerful search capabilities
  • Customizable item appearance
  • Event reminders and calendar
Features
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Tree Notebook is a hierarchical notes manager designed for keeping personal information. Tree Notebook runs on an iOS device (iPhone or iPad). Besides, there is a counterpart for OS Windows which can be synchronized with up to three iOS devices via a local Wi-Fi network. No access to Internet is needed for synchronizing. The data in Tree Notebook is divided in two parts: the public part accessible without password and the encrypted private part which requires password for opening. The data in every part is arranged as a tree-like multilevel hierarchy of folders and notes. Any folder can include notes and other folders, and so fourth. Any item (a note or a folder) can include text of any size. The items can keep attachments like images or other files. The app can represent data in several ways: as a tree, as a list of items (folders and notes) on the current level, as a list of manually selected items ("Favorites"), or the items visited recently ("History"). The contents of an individual item can be viewed or edited. Tree Notebook includes powerful search facilities: simplified or conditional global search, local search inside an item text. The items can be sorted by several criteria: alphabetically, by creation or modification time, and in manually defined order. The item titles can be attributed using a variety of font types, colored flags, graphic icons. Any item can have an Event attribute and serve as an alarm clock or reminder. A calendar feature is available to help managing events. The app is free to use both on iOS devices and desktop PC.

About

WebShelf

Organize your digital life by creating custom libraries, shelves, and books to store online or offline pages. Easily arrange content and secure your collections with a password.

Highlights
  • Customizable libraries, shelves, and books
  • Store online and offline pages
  • Drag-and-drop arrangement of content
  • Password protection for collections
  • Organize research and personal interests
Features
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WebShelf allows you to organize your online experience in a way that works best for you. You can create libraries, with a bookcase containing one or more shelves. Each of these bookshelves contains books, which in turn contain pages (either online or offline*). You can fully customize libraries, shelves, books and pages with the names and descriptions you like. For example, you might create a book called recipes, which contains your favorite desserts, main dishes and so forth. WebShelf is also there if you want to research topics, such as how to start a small business. You can quickly build books about how to apply for a license, obtain certifications, connect utilities and so forth. WebShelf also allows you to customize the order of items in your libraries with shelves, books and pages easy to arrange as you please. So, you can organize your collection however you'd like, at any time. And speaking of which, each user can have their own library to collect information and it can be locked with a password, if you prefer, to avoid the possibility of someone modifying your collection of pages. * Please note that offline pages may not always appear exactly as the online version due to dynamic content used by some web pages.

Screenshots

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Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Tree Notebook at Free against WebShelf's $0.99. Tree Notebook also leads on device support (3 vs 1). WebShelf's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.4) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.6). On ratings volume, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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

Tree Notebook is free to download; WebShelf costs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

WebShelf holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.4. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 5 and 2 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Tree Notebook ships an update every 25 months, WebShelf every 29 months. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Tree Notebook versus WebShelf: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTree NotebookWebShelf
PriceFree — better$0.99
Rating4.4 (5 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings5 — better2
Update frequencyEvery 25 months — betterEvery 29 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree — betterPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPad
Requires iOS15.612.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size12 MB9 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperLena PankratovaSteven Sipe

Customer experience

Tree Notebook

All ratings5 ratings
Positive80.0%
Neutral20.0%
Negative0.0%

WebShelf

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Tree Notebook

No in-app purchases

None

WebShelf

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Tree Notebook free?
Tree Notebook is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is WebShelf free?
WebShelf costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Tree Notebook or WebShelf?
WebShelf is rated higher. Tree Notebook averages 4.4 out of 5 from 5 ratings, while WebShelf averages 5.0 from 2 ratings.
Do Tree Notebook or WebShelf have ads?
Neither Tree Notebook nor WebShelf shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Tree Notebook or WebShelf?
Tree Notebook ships an update every 25 months, and WebShelf every 29 months. Most recently, Tree Notebook was updated on November 2, 2026 and WebShelf on November 3, 2026.

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