Comparison

woke vs Gravity Notes

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

Head to head
About

woke

Receive custom notifications to remind you to be mindful of how you spend your time. You can personalize the reminder text to suit your motivational needs and set the frequency of these alerts.

Highlights
  • Customizable notification text
  • Set notification intervals
  • Mindful time management reminders
  • Personalized motivational alerts
Features
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This app should help you to stay woke. With a notification you will be reminded that you are in charge how you spend your time. You can even change the text of the notification to accommodate your motivational needs. Who is this app for? This app is for everybody who catches himself grinding through endless feeds of garbage content without realising how you spend your attention. How does it work? You set an interval how often you want you want to be reminded. Then turn notifications on and your notifications will start popping up in the set interval.

About

Gravity Notes

This app organizes your thoughts into a single, chronological list. Easily rescue important notes by swiping them back to the top, or archive and delete less relevant ones. Supports Markdown formatting and custom tags for efficient organization and offline search.

Highlights
  • Single chronological note list
  • Swipe to rescue, archive, or delete
  • Markdown formatting and checklists
  • Customizable tags for categorization
  • Offline search with typo correction
  • Home Screen widget for quick entry
  • Multiple theme and text size options
Features
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Gravity keeps all your notes in one list, with the newest at the top. As you add more, older notes sink down the list. When one of them still matters, swipe it right and it comes back to the top. The idea comes from Andrej Karpathy's append-and-review note: write everything in one place, read back through it now and then, and move up whatever you still care about. Gravity has no folders, so there's nothing to file. Writing The cursor is waiting at the top when you open the app. Type your note and press Return twice, or tap the add button. A half-written draft stays where you left it. Rescuing and tidying Swipe right on a note to rescue it. Swipe left to archive, delete, share or copy. Archived notes have a page of their own, and deleted notes stay in Deleted Notes until you restore them or clear them out. Markdown and checklists Headings, bold, italics, lists, links and quotes show formatted in the list. Start a line with "- [ ]" to make a checklist, then tick items off without opening the note. In the editor the formatting appears as you type, and a small bar above the keyboard adds headings, bold, lists and checklists. Everything is saved as plain Markdown text. Tags Start a note with todo:, idea:, read: or any word followed by a colon, and it gets a colour of its own. Type todo: into search to see only those notes. There's no tag manager to look after. Search Search covers every note on your phone, archived ones too, and works offline. It finds what you mean as well as what you typed: "sofa" finds your note about the couch. Typos, plurals, accents and shorthand like appt still find the note, and dates, phone numbers and amounts match however you write them. Getting notes in The Home Screen widget starts a new note or pastes in whatever you last copied. You can also share text or a link from another app, and it becomes a new note at the top of the list. Privacy Your notes are stored on your iPhone. Gravity has no ads, and you don't need an account. If you want your notes on your other Apple devices, turn on iCloud sync; it also works with Gravity for Mac, which is sold separately. Gravity Sync (Beta) syncs with Android too, free during the beta. You can export everything as JSON or Markdown at any time. Looks Choose light, dark or OLED black, or follow the system, and pick from six text sizes. There's a stats page too, worked out on your phone, of course. Price You pay once. There's no subscription, no in-app purchases and no ads. Privacy policy: https://www.gravitynotes.app/privacy-policy

Screenshots

woke2 screens
Gravity Notes4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: woke at Free against Gravity Notes's $9.99. woke also leads on iOS requirement (11.3 vs 17.0). Gravity Notes's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.0) and update cadence (every 11 days vs every 5 months). On ads, in-app purchases 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

woke is free to download; Gravity Notes costs $9.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Gravity Notes holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 9 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 75% of woke's written reviews are positive against 92% of Gravity Notes's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

woke ships an update every 5 months, Gravity Notes every 11 days. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 9, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
woke versus Gravity Notes: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterwokeGravity Notes
PriceFree — better$9.99
Rating4.0 (3 ratings)5.0 (9 ratings) — better
Positive reviews75.0% of reviews91.7% of reviews — better
Number of ratings39 — better
Update frequencyEvery 5 monthsEvery 11 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree — betterPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS11.3 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size8 MB58 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperManuel LampertTristan Manchester

Customer experience

woke

All ratings3 ratings
Positive66.7%
Neutral33.3%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive75.0%
Neutral25.0%
Negative0.0%

Gravity Notes

All ratings9 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews12 reviews
Positive91.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative8.3%

In-app purchases

None

woke

No in-app purchases

None

Gravity Notes

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is woke free?
woke is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Gravity Notes free?
Gravity Notes costs $9.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, woke or Gravity Notes?
Gravity Notes is rated higher. woke averages 4.0 out of 5 from 3 ratings, while Gravity Notes averages 5.0 from 9 ratings.
Do woke or Gravity Notes have ads?
Neither woke nor Gravity Notes shows ads.
Which is updated more often, woke or Gravity Notes?
woke ships an update every 5 months, and Gravity Notes every 11 days. Most recently, woke was updated on November 6, 2026 and Gravity Notes on November 9, 2026.

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