UpNote vs SelfMastery 30
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
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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 period 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
SelfMastery 30
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SelfMastery gives you one meaningful goal and thirty days to move toward it. Not another habit tracker asking what you want to track. SelfMastery asks what you want to change - then works out what you should do today. CHOOSE ONE GOAL Study more consistently. Become more active. Find a better job. Take control of your money. Spend real time with your family. Read again. Finish the thing you keep restarting. Or describe something in your own words. GET A PLAN THAT FITS YOUR ACTUAL LIFE Answer a few questions - how much time you genuinely have, what usually gets in your way, when you're most likely to act - and SelfMastery builds thirty days of small, specific actions. Week one is deliberately easy. The plan grows only once showing up has stopped being a decision. KNOW WHAT TO DO TODAY Open the app and see today's actions. Nothing else competes for attention. Tick them off as you go. MINIMUM DAY Some days fall apart. Instead of skipping, switch to a Minimum Day: the same commitment at its smallest size. A thirty-minute walk becomes five minutes. Reduce the requirement, not the commitment. REFLECT IN SECONDS One tap to say how the day felt. A note if you want one. Nothing longer. ADJUST EVERY WEEK Every seven days you look back for two minutes. If the week was hard, next week gets lighter - SelfMastery never responds to a difficult week by asking for more. Days you've already completed are never rewritten, and every change to your plan comes with the reason for it. SEE WHAT YOU ACTUALLY DID Your calendar, your consistency, and observations drawn from your own record - never invented. On Day 30, what changed, in your words and in real numbers. BUILT TO BE CALM No streak warnings. No guilt. No badges or confetti. A missed day isn't a failure, and the app never tells you it is. SelfMastery is for anyone with something they've been meaning to change.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: SelfMastery 30 at none against UpNote's 8. UpNote's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.6 vs 18.0). On price, update cadence and ads 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
Both are free to download. UpNote sells 8 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. SelfMastery 30 asks for nothing beyond the download.
UpNote ships an update weekly, SelfMastery 30 every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on October 13, 2026 and September 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | UpNote | SelfMastery 30 |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (1.1K ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 85.9% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1.1K — better | — |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Every 9 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Freemium | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 81 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | UpNote Company Limited | Rayhan Chowdhury |
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)
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- Ability to reorder bullets and lists
- Improved table editing and formatting
- Apple Watch app
SelfMastery 30
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
UpNote
- Premium monthly subscription$1.991 Month
- 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
SelfMastery 30
No in-app purchases









