Comparison

Minimal | Notes vs Zeddy

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

Head to head
About

Minimal | Notes

This app offers a distraction-free writing environment inspired by meditation. It features collaborative writing, note expiration, and the ability to publish notes as websites. Organize tasks with integrated to-do lists and sync across all your Apple devices.

Highlights
  • Note Lifetime reminders
  • Collaborative writing
  • Publish notes as websites
  • Todo lists sync with Calendar
  • Beautiful formatting
  • Sync across Mac, iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch
Features
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Write with focus. Open your mind with Minimal, a meditation-inspired notes and writing app. Minimal combines thoughtful, modern design with powerful features to deliver a spacious, beautiful writing environment. • Note Lifetime • Collaborative writing • Publish notes as websites • Add Todos to the Calendar app • Beautiful formatting • Sync everywhere: Mac, iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch Minimal is a simple yet powerful notes app. Inspired by meditation, nature, and architectural design, Minimal provides a beautiful space to think, write, and organize projects. NOTE LIFETIME The Note Lifetime keeps your notebook fresh and reflective of the present moment. When a note goes unedited for a duration you choose in settings, you’ll be gently notified. This is an opportunity to review the note, act on it, or let it go. COLLABORATIVE WRITING Share notes with friends, family, and teammates. With a gentle design, writing remains focused and tranquil, even as thoughts merge and ideas multiply. Everyone receives changes as notes evolve, and multiple people can make edits at the same time without conflict. FOCUSED + SPACIOUS DESIGN Minimal is designed so only one element is ever in focus. We love the beauty of a blank page – abundant empty space allows for an ease of creative expression. PUBLISH AS WEBSITE Transform notes into beautifully-formatted websites in microseconds. TODO LISTS Todo lists are an effective way to organize projects and complete tasks. Sync with the Calendar app, get things done, and check everything off. BEAUTIFUL FORMATTING Minimal combines Markdown-style formatting with elegant typography. The result is simple, expressive notes that make it easy to think and write. SYNC EVERYWHERE Bring focus to your favorite devices. Minimal is designed for Mac, iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch. Cloud Sync is fast, reliable, and invisible. SHARE, EXPORT, IMPORT You’re in control of your notes. Share directly in iMessage, export as PDF or HTML, and use the system share mechanism to take notes anywhere. Importing links + prose into Minimal is just as easy. CUSTOMIZE EVERYTHING The best notebook is personal. We made everything in Minimal customizable, from fonts + themes to sorting notes + note actions. You can also build custom workflows using the Shortcuts app. A LITTLE GIFT Wow, thanks for reading. As a little gift for tuning in, these are our favorite musicians -> Somi, Snarky Puppy, and London Grammar. They’re jazzy and introspective, just how we like it. Enjoy. —— For help, write us at team@minimal.app or on Twitter at @minimalnotesapp. To learn about our terms + approach to privacy, visit https://minimal.app/terms. We offer a long free trial and make cancellation easy. After that, Minimal costs $4.99 per month or $49.99 per year. These prices are in USD and may vary by region. Cancel in your iTunes account settings at least 24 hours before renewal.

About

Zeddy

Features
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Zeddy is a notes app for people who work away from a desk. Talk, and it writes the note for you — not a raw transcript, but a tidied note with a title, sorted into whatever fields you use. Ramble, backtrack, read a model number off a nameplate. It sorts it out. Photograph a handwritten page and Zeddy reads it into a note. Photograph a sketch and it redraws it cleanly. Any note can be reshaped afterwards. A quick note becomes a meeting note, a field call, or a shopping list without retyping anything — it re-reads what you actually said, so nothing degrades along the way. WHAT'S FREE Unlimited text notes. Tags, search, reminders, pinning, trash, export, and sync across your phone and the web. No ads. WHAT'S IN ZEDDY PRO Voice dictation, note reshaping, reading handwriting, and sketch digitizing. Free for 14 days. ALSO IN ZEDDY • Works offline — notes sync when you're back in range • Place reminders: get a note when you arrive somewhere • Attach photos to any note • Use it in a browser at zeddynotes.com • Export everything, any time, in a format you can read Zeddy is not funded by advertising. Your notes are not sold, rented, or used to train anyone's models. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Minimal | Notes4 screens
Zeddy4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Zeddy at none against Minimal | Notes's 3. Zeddy also leads on update cadence (weekly vs monthly). Minimal | Notes's advantage is device support (4 vs 1). On price, ads 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. Minimal | Notes sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Zeddy asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Minimal | Notes ships an update monthly, Zeddy weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 20, 2026 and October 15, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Minimal | Notes versus Zeddy: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMinimal | NotesZeddy
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (294 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews81.3% of reviews—
Number of ratings294 — better—
Update frequencyMonthlyWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationSubscription—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.016.4 — better
Further details — not scored
Size59 MB55 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperTimelessCKT Group LLC

Bugs and requests

Minimal | Notes

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Crashes when using certain formatting or pasting content
  • Syncing issues between iOS and macOS versions
  • Incompatibility with older macOS versions

Requested features

4 requests
  • Add ability to insert images or attachments
  • Improve iCloud sync reliability
  • Implement a folder-based organization system
  • Add a word/character count feature

Zeddy

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Minimal | Notes

Subscriptions3
  • Minimal Monthly14 Days trial$4.991 Month
  • Minimal Annual14 Days trial$49.991 Year
  • Minimal Family Plan14 Days trial$79.991 Year
None

Zeddy

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Minimal | Notes free?
Minimal | Notes is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Zeddy free?
Zeddy is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Minimal | Notes or Zeddy have ads?
Neither Minimal | Notes nor Zeddy shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Minimal | Notes or Zeddy?
Minimal | Notes ships an update monthly, and Zeddy weekly. Most recently, Minimal | Notes was updated on October 20, 2026 and Zeddy on October 15, 2026.

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