Comparison

UpNote vs GuideCabin

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

Head to head
About

UpNote

This app provides a clean and beautiful interface for writing and organizing notes, journals, and to-do lists. It offers rich formatting options, an intuitive organization system, and instant syncing across devices, with offline capabilities. Premium features include enhanced security and export options.

Highlights
  • Rich text editor with formatting tools
  • Intuitive organizing system (notebooks, pins, links)
  • Secure note locking with Touch/Face ID
  • Instant cross-device syncing and offline access
  • Markdown support and export
  • Task management and to-do lists
Features
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UpNote is a clean and beautiful app for writing and organizing. It's easy to use with rich features and delightful experience. UpNote is designed to help you take notes easily and stay focused on what matters most. UpNote has beautiful fonts and elegant themes that you can adjust to make your writing experience most comfortable and pleasant. UpNote is an ideal place to keep your diary and journal. It has a powerful lock feature so that you can rest assured that your notes stay private and secure. You can also use Touch ID or Face ID to securely unlock your notes. UpNote’s intuitive organizing system will keep your note space neat and light. There are many ways to organize your notes: putting them into notebooks, pinning your notes to the top of the note list, bookmarking them for quick reference or linking to other notes. You can also close any notebooks to focus on only most important one. UpNote’s rich editor makes it perfect for planning and managing your tasks. Simply write down your to-do list and have them synced to all your devices. UpNote offers highlight, text colors, table, nested list, code and many other important formatting tools so that you could easily format your notes. UpNote syncs notes instantly on all devices. It also works reliably offline, so you could take note anytime, anywhere. If you are a markdown user, UpNote is great for you too. It has intuitive shortcuts based on markdown, which makes it more fun to write notes. You can also export your notes to Markdown or PDF. Try UpNote now and you will fall in love with it! ---- Upgrade to Premium to get full power of UpNote: - Lock your notes and notebooks - Insert table and attachments - Write unlimited number of notes - Elegant themes and notebook covers - Export to text PDF, HTML and Markdown ---- Price may vary by location. Subscriptions will be charged to your credit card through your iTunes account. Your subscription will automatically renew unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. You will not be able to cancel the subscription once activated. Manage your subscriptions in Account Settings after purchase. Any unused portion of a free trial peri​od will be forfeited when the user purchases a subscription. ---- If you have any question or feedback, we would love to hear it. Send an email to support@getupnote.com, and we would love to get in touch with you! ---- Privacy policy: https://getupnote.com/privacy.html Terms of use: https://getupnote.com/terms.html

About

GuideCabin

Features
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Keep all your product manuals organized and easy to search with GuideCabin. GuideCabin lets you store paper manuals, PDFs, and manuals from the web in one place on your iPhone or iPad. Imported manuals can be processed with OCR, allowing you to search not only by product name, but also inside the contents of each manual. Search Inside Your Manuals Looking for how to replace a filter or what an error code means? Search for terms such as “filter replacement” or “E04” and GuideCabin can find matching sections across your saved manuals. Ask Questions Naturally On supported devices, you can search your manuals using natural-language questions such as: “How do I clean the humidifier?” Rather than generating a new answer from scratch, GuideCabin shows relevant passages from the original manual together with the source page, so you can easily check the original information. Chat-based search requires a device and environment that support Apple Intelligence. Standard full-text search remains available on unsupported devices. Import Manuals in Several Ways Add manuals from: ・Your camera ・Your photo library ・PDF files ・Web URLs This makes it easy to bring both paper and digital manuals into one library. Keep Product Information Together GuideCabin can also store useful information for each product, including: ・Product photos ・Purchase date ・Store or retailer ・Warranty expiration date ・Warranty documents and receipts Keep the manual and related product records together instead of searching for them separately. Designed with Privacy in Mind GuideCabin does not require an account and does not include advertising or analytics. Manuals, photos, and search data are stored on your device, and document processing and search are performed on-device. Internet access is used when downloading manuals from URLs and when processing in-app purchases through Apple. Try It for Free You can use all GuideCabin features for free with up to 3 registered manuals. A one-time Premium purchase removes the manual limit. There are no additional feature restrictions in the free version. Keep the information you need close at hand. With GuideCabin, your manuals are easier to organize, search, and find when you need them.

Screenshots

UpNote4 screens
GuideCabin4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is device support: UpNote at 3 against GuideCabin's 1. UpNote also leads on iOS requirement (15.6 vs 26.0). On price, ads and in-app purchases 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. UpNote sells 8 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month and GuideCabin sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
UpNote versus GuideCabin: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterUpNoteGuideCabin
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (1.1K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews85.9% of reviews—
Number of ratings1.1K — better—
Update frequencyWeekly—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.6 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size81 MB145 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperUpNote Company LimitedMT-DESIGN

Bugs and requests

UpNote

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Black screen issues
  • Lost notes and data
  • Incompatibility with newer iOS versions
  • Google sign-in not working

Requested features

8 requests
  • Reminders and calendar integration
  • More customization options (fonts, colors, etc.)
  • Improved drawing/handwriting support
  • PDF annotation and embedding
  • Optical character recognition (OCR)
Show 3 more
  • Ability to reorder bullets and lists
  • Improved table editing and formatting
  • Apple Watch app

GuideCabin

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

8 purchases

UpNote

Subscriptions1
  • Premium monthly subscription$1.991 Month
One-time7
  • Life-time Upgrade$19.99
  • Life-time Upgrade to Premium$19.99
  • Life-time Upgrade$24.99
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  • Life-time Upgrade to Premium$24.99
  • Life-time Upgrade$29.99
  • Life-time upgrade to Premium$34.99
  • Life-time upgrade to Premium$39.99
1 purchases

GuideCabin

One-time1
  • GuideCabin Premium$2.99

Questions

Is UpNote free?
UpNote is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is GuideCabin free?
GuideCabin is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do UpNote or GuideCabin have ads?
Neither UpNote nor GuideCabin shows ads.

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