Comparison

Nature Notes vs Notes On Nature

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

Head to head
About

Nature Notes

Record and share notes, photos, and audio from your outdoor adventures. Advanced tools allow for photo merging from other cameras and interactive map integration. Organize trips into multiple hikes and share them via email, web pages, or custom files.

Highlights
  • Record notes, photos, and audio
  • Merge photos from other cameras
  • Interactive Apple Maps integration
  • Organize trips into multiple hikes
  • Share via email, web pages, or files
  • GPS tracking and export (KML/GPX)
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NatureNotes allows you to record and share notes, photos, and audio recordings on any walk, tour, hike, or just a stroll around your neighborhood. If you are a serious photographer, advanced tools allow you to load pictures from another camera into the walk record. There are several options for sharing walks with friends or other NatureNotes users, including email, Web page creation, or sending a NatureNotes file to another user. Easy sharing: Take photos, save notes, and record audio on your Apple iPhone or iPad. The app offers powerful editing features to create a slideshow or Web folder that you can email to your friends or upload to a server. Interactive maps: Apple maps embedded in NatureNotes shows where you are at all times, as well as where you've been on your hike. Satellite view can show you the terrain with a data connection. If you repeat a hike you've taken before, you can use the interactive map to see where you are relative to your last hike. Organization: Divide your trip into multiple hikes, then put them under a single header. Combine the subsumed hikes into a single slideshow, email, or web folder for sharing. Creating multiple databases offers a system for organizing larger groups of walk records. Records can be copied directly to other databases for easy sorting and reorganization. Photo merging: Take photos with another camera and merge them directly into your NatureNotes recordings. A smart system using dates and timestamps places photos into their correct positions within previously-recorded records. Even without a recorded hike, create a new record from a set of location-encoded photographs, and see exactly where you took the photos, using the embedded Apple Maps features. If the photos contain captions from another photo-editing program, the captions will be copied into NatureNotes titles for immediate labelling within NatureNotes. All slideshow features and email or Web sharing features can then be used with the new records. Create a kml file for viewing the track in another tracking application, or a gpx file for loading a track with GPS data into photo editing applications. GPS tracking: NatureNotes provides detailed tracking data for your walks, regardless of whether you are in cellular range or not. Tracks can be exported as KML or GPX files for use in other applications. Duplication and backups: Take a complete set of records and copy them to another device, with a cable and computer, regardless of record sizes. In this way complete records can be shared or backed-up without loss of information or photographic resolution.

About

Notes On Nature

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Notes on Nature, a Habitat XR original app, is a free app bringing the nature featured on banknotes to life as a reminder that the value of our planet’s natural heritage and wildlife transcends the value of money it’s printed on. Fuelled by our planet’s loss of biodiversity and shrinking access to nature, this app places you in the middle of the South African savannah in an intimate, 360-degree moment with each of the famous Big 5 animals, as featured on the new South African banknote designs. Currently supported notes: - New / Old South African Rand notes including R10, R20, R50, R100 and R200 notes. Note: The use of any bank notes, designs or trademarks is for identification and reference purposes only and does not imply any association with the South African Reserve Bank and/or any trademark holder. About Habitat XR Habitat XR is an impact-led immersive experiences studio using technologies like virtual reality, 360 video, augmented reality and holograms to reconnect people to nature and foster empathy.

Screenshots

Nature Notes4 screens
Notes On Nature4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Notes On Nature at none against Nature Notes's 1. Notes On Nature also leads on iOS requirement (11.0 vs 15.5). Nature Notes's advantage is update cadence (fortnightly vs every 6 weeks). On price, 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. Nature Notes sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Notes On Nature asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Nature Notes ships an update fortnightly, Notes On Nature every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on August 8, 2026 and September 7, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 6 level
Nature Notes versus Notes On Nature: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterNature NotesNotes On Nature
PriceFreeFree
Rating1.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyFortnightly — betterEvery 6 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.511.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size172 MB589 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperKenneth WahlHabitat XR (PTY) Ltd

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Nature Notes

One-time1
  • English$4.99
None

Notes On Nature

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Nature Notes free?
Nature Notes is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Notes On Nature free?
Notes On Nature is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Nature Notes or Notes On Nature have ads?
Neither Nature Notes nor Notes On Nature shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Nature Notes or Notes On Nature?
Nature Notes ships an update fortnightly, and Notes On Nature every 6 weeks. Most recently, Nature Notes was updated on August 8, 2026 and Notes On Nature on September 7, 2026.

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