Comparison

NoteMap 2 vs Surely

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

Head to head
About

NoteMap 2

Organize your thoughts visually by creating and clustering notes. Easily change note colors, zoom in and out, and save your progress automatically. This app offers a unique, gesture-based approach to note-taking.

Highlights
  • Create notes with double tap
  • Cluster notes of the same color
  • Pinch to zoom
  • Auto-save functionality
  • Theme customization
  • Gesture-based controls
Features
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Double tap with one finger to create a note of the selected color. Double tap with two fingers to delete a note Use the button in the top left to change your selected color Use the keyboard color picker when typing to change the note's color Drag notes of the same color together to make a cluster. Triple tap with two fingers to delete Pinch to zoom in and out. Your position and zoom will be saved Flip the switch in the top right to change the theme. NoteMap will auto save

About

Surely

This app offers a streamlined approach to task management, focusing on completion rather than complex organization. It provides essential actions like completing, deleting, or deferring tasks, intentionally omitting features that might encourage procrastination.

Highlights
  • Complete tasks
  • Delete tasks
  • Defer tasks
  • Minimalist interface
  • Focus on task completion
Features
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Most todo apps give you lots of features to organize your todos. But you don't want to be spending time organizing your todos: you want to be completing them. Surely is a focused todo app giving you just the features you need to get your todos done. There are only three things you can do with a todo: * Complete it * Delete it * Defer it Here are all the features Surely doesn't have because they encourage you to keep more todos instead of completing them: * Separate defer dates and due dates * Complex ways of searching for todos * Separate lists of todos so you aren't looking at all of them at once * Bulk defer features. It should not be painless to defer many todos to the future; it should be painful to work with multiple todos so that you complete or delete them Surely is available for free on both iOS and the web.

Screenshots

NoteMap 22 screens
Surely4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: NoteMap 2 at every 2 days against Surely's every 6 weeks. NoteMap 2 also leads on ratings volume (6 vs 1) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 15.1). On price, rating, review sentiment and ads 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.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for NoteMap 2 against 5.0 for Surely. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: NoteMap 2 has 6 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

NoteMap 2 ships an update every 2 days, Surely every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
NoteMap 2 versus Surely: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterNoteMap 2Surely
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (6 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings6 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 2 days — betterEvery 6 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS11.0 — better15.1
Further details — not scored
Size12 MB34 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperZach EriksenJosh Justice

Customer experience

NoteMap 2

All ratings6 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Surely

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

NoteMap 2

No in-app purchases

None

Surely

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is NoteMap 2 free?
NoteMap 2 is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Surely free?
Surely is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, NoteMap 2 or Surely?
NoteMap 2 and Surely are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 6 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do NoteMap 2 or Surely have ads?
Neither NoteMap 2 nor Surely shows ads.
Which is updated more often, NoteMap 2 or Surely?
NoteMap 2 ships an update every 2 days, and Surely every 6 weeks. Most recently, NoteMap 2 was updated on November 2, 2026 and Surely on November 3, 2026.

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