Comparison

Agenda vs Clockbook

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

Head to head
About

Agenda

This app organizes notes by placing them on a timeline alongside your calendar. Capture decisions, prepare for meetings, and review past events in a single view. It offers a robust text editor and allows attaching files and photos to notes.

Highlights
  • Notes on a timeline
  • Calendar event integration
  • Real text editor with formatting
  • File and photo attachments
  • Project and category organization
  • Cross-device sync
  • Real-time collaboration
Features
Read full description

Most notes apps lose track of time. You write something, it disappears into a folder, and a week later you can't remember why you made that decision or what you prepared for that meeting. Agenda fixes this. Every note lives on a timeline alongside your calendar. Prepare for next week's client meeting, capture decisions as they happen, and look back at exactly what led you here — all in one view. "It's my favorite new app in years." — John Gruber, daringfireball.net "Every notes app should work like Agenda." — Khoi Vinh, subtraction.com "One of the most interesting note-taking apps I've used." — John Voorhees, MacStories YOUR NOTES, CONNECTED TO YOUR CALENDAR Attach any note to a date or link it directly to a calendar event. Mark notes as "On the Agenda" to surface them in a dedicated overview — your shortlist of what matters right now. A REAL TEXT EDITOR Headings, lists, tables, checklists, indented blocks, and preformatted text — with the simplicity of plain text input. Focus on what you're writing; Agenda handles how it looks. FILES, PHOTOS, AND LINKS Attach files and images to any note. Everything syncs across your devices and can be previewed inline. PROJECTS AND CATEGORIES Group notes into projects, group projects into categories. Drag to reorder, collapse to focus, or let the timeline do the organizing for you. MAC, IPAD, AND IPHONE Agenda syncs across all your devices via iCloud or Dropbox. Share individual notes for real-time collaboration — useful for team meetings or shared lists. FREE TO USE, FOREVER Agenda is free with no time limits. Premium features are available through a yearly subscription — and you keep every feature you unlock, even if you cancel. A one-time lifetime purchase is also available.

About

Clockbook

This app allows managers to monitor and analyze the work progress and productivity of their remote workforce. It offers real-time timesheet management, project breakdown, and GPS location tracking for enhanced transparency and accuracy.

Highlights
  • Remote time tracking
  • Real-time timesheet management
  • Work progress monitoring
  • Breakdown by project, task, client
  • GPS location tracking
  • Cross-device syncing
Features
Read full description

Clockbook is a simple and powerful remote time tracking app that helps managers monitor and analyzes the work progress and productivity of their remote workforce. With this time tracking app, employers can track their remote workers’ working hours and manage their timesheets in real-time with just one click - filling timesheets has never been this easy. Clockbooks stands out from the other similar time trackers because of its user-friendly interface, exclusive features, and highly competitive pricing, which makes it ideal remote hours and productivity tracking solution even for small businesses. With a simple tap, you can track the hours and see where your remote employees are spending their time and use this data to go through their time reports and break down their hours by projects, tasks, and clients. Clockbook’s time tracking capability lets you know what is making you money, and what’s holding you back. The app covers all devices! All of your tracked timesheets and reports are safely synced between desktop, phone, web & browser extension. Integrated with the latest GPS technology, Clockbooks lets employers track where their employees’ workday starts and ends – leading to a more comprehensive and automatic time tracking experience of a remote workforce. Adding Location tracking feature is not at all an invasion of the privacy of employees; rather it helps both the manager and the employees show accuracy that eventually pays off when needing to determine hours worked, time spent with tasks, pay owed, and what kind of time is needed to complete projects. Adding Location tracking via GPS improves the overall efficiency of the business by ensuring transparency, productivity, and accuracy in the work hours reported.

Screenshots

Agenda4 screens
Clockbook4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Clockbook at none against Agenda's 5. Clockbook also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.6). Agenda's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs every 12 months) and ratings volume (3.7K vs 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. Agenda sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $39.99 per year. Clockbook asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Clockbook holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Agenda has 3.7K ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Agenda ships an update weekly, Clockbook every 12 months. The most recent releases landed on November 10, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Agenda versus Clockbook: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAgendaClockbook
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (3.7K ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews63.8% of reviews—
Number of ratings3.7K — better1
Update frequencyWeekly — betterEvery 12 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemiumFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.0 — better15.1
Further details — not scored
Size123 MB44 MB
Age rating9+4+
DeveloperMomenta B.V.CDMBase LLC

Customer experience

Agenda

All ratings3,684 ratings
Positive91.5%
Neutral3.4%
Negative5.1%
Written reviews878 reviews
Positive63.8%
Neutral14.5%
Negative21.8%

Clockbook

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

Agenda

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Sync issues between devices
  • Text formatting inconsistencies
  • Unresponsive UI in certain cases

Requested features

5 requests
  • Handwriting and drawing support
  • Ability to insert images and files
  • Project templates and subfolders
  • Google Calendar integration
  • Improved note formatting options

Clockbook

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

5 purchases

Agenda

Subscriptions2
  • Premium Subscription macOS+iOS7 Days trial$39.991 Year
  • Premium Features iPadOS+iOS$44.991 Year
One-time3
  • Premium Features iOS & iPadOS$14.99
  • Premium macOS, iOS & iPadOS$34.99
  • Lifetime Premium Features$179.00
None

Clockbook

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Agenda free?
Agenda is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Clockbook free?
Clockbook is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Agenda or Clockbook?
Clockbook is rated higher. Agenda averages 4.6 out of 5 from 3.7K ratings, while Clockbook averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Agenda or Clockbook have ads?
Neither Agenda nor Clockbook shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Agenda or Clockbook?
Agenda ships an update weekly, and Clockbook every 12 months. Most recently, Agenda was updated on November 10, 2026 and Clockbook on November 3, 2026.

Other comparisons