Fancy Hands vs Auer Notes
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Fancy Hands
Access a team of human assistants to complete tasks for you. Submit requests, track progress, and communicate with your assistant directly through the app. Leverage a blend of human intelligence, AI, and automation to boost your productivity.
- Submit new requests
- Check up on old requests
- Message your assistant
- View call and email activity
- View attachments
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Fancy Hands is a personal assistant service. We've got a team of assistants ready to work for you today. Just tell us what to do and we'll have an actual human get it done for you. We've blended humans, artificial intelligence, and automation to ensure you're as productive as possible. This app has been rewritten from the ground up. It allows you to submit new requests, check up on old ones, message your assistant, see call and email activity, view attachments.
Auer Notes
This is a straightforward note-taking application focused on speed, ease of use, and privacy. It prioritizes a minimalist interface and local data storage, ensuring offline access and preventing other apps from accessing your notes.
- Fast and easy to use
- Minimalist user interface
- Local data storage
- Offline access
- Plain text notes
- Private and secure
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Auer Notes is a note-taking application designed to be fast, easy to use, and stay out of the way until you need it. Simple and clear, Auer Notes is intentional, focusing on less, instead of more. It does one thing, the simplest possible way. Local Data: Your data is stored locally and it's always available, even when you are offline. The app doesn't use iCloud. There is no cloud or vendor preventing you from accessing your data. Also, no other apps have access to your notes. Minimal: Auer Notes has a modern and minimalist user interface designed to be simple. It is aggressively mute on purpose. The application was built to be lightweight, and to utilize less device resources. Auer Notes: A plain text and private notes app.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Auer Notes at 4.5 against Fancy Hands's 3.3. Auer Notes also leads on update cadence (every 4 days vs every 15 months). Fancy Hands's advantage is review sentiment (19% vs 0%) and iOS requirement (10.0 vs 18.2). On price, ratings volume, 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Auer Notes holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 3.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 16 and 8 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 19% of Fancy Hands's written reviews are positive against 0% of Auer Notes's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Fancy Hands ships an update every 15 months, Auer Notes every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on June 8, 2026 and July 8, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Fancy Hands | Auer Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.3 (16 ratings) | 4.5 (8 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 19.2% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 16 — better | 8 |
| Update frequency | Every 15 months | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 10.0 — better | 18.2 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 84 MB | 0 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Fancy Hands, Inc. | Uri Fridman |
Customer experience
Fancy Hands
Auer Notes
In-app purchases
Fancy Hands
No in-app purchases
Auer Notes
No in-app purchases
