Comparison

Nature Notes vs The Chestnut Hill School App

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

The Chestnut Hill School App

Features
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The Chestnut Hill School App app provides parents, students, and faculty members with all the information they need in one place, conveniently accessed and explicitly formatted for consumption on their mobile devices. The App includes: - Blogs, news and announcements - Pictures and documents - Calendar events - Constituent directory and more Download the app today to ensure you are always aware of the most important news, announcements, and calendar events, and you have access to the most current community directory. Users can: - Browse the latest published photos - Filter content and store those preferences for subsequent use - Catch up on current news - Browse calendars for information about upcoming events. Filter calendars to see the events most relevant to their interests - Quickly find faculty, parent, and student contact information - Email a constituent directly from your device The information in The Chestnut Hill School App app is drawn from the same source as The Chestnut Hill School App website. Privacy controls restrict sensitive information only to authorized users.

Screenshots

Nature Notes4 screens
The Chestnut Hill School App4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: The Chestnut Hill School App at none against Nature Notes's 1. The Chestnut Hill School App also leads on update cadence (every 3 days vs every 4 weeks) and iOS requirement (15.5 vs 18.6). 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. The Chestnut Hill School App asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Nature Notes ships an update every 4 weeks, The Chestnut Hill School App every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 6 level
Nature Notes versus The Chestnut Hill School App: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterNature NotesThe Chestnut Hill School App
PriceFreeFree
Rating1.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 4 weeksEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS18.615.5 — better
Further details — not scored
Size172 MB78 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperKenneth WahlThe Chestnut Hill School App

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Nature Notes

One-time1
  • English$4.99
None

The Chestnut Hill School App

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Nature Notes free?
Nature Notes is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is The Chestnut Hill School App free?
The Chestnut Hill School App is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Nature Notes or The Chestnut Hill School App have ads?
Neither Nature Notes nor The Chestnut Hill School App shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Nature Notes or The Chestnut Hill School App?
Nature Notes ships an update every 4 weeks, and The Chestnut Hill School App every 3 days. Most recently, Nature Notes was updated on November 2, 2026 and The Chestnut Hill School App on October 31, 2026.

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