Comparison

Shooglebox vs ArcaNotes

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

Head to head
About

Shooglebox

This app helps individuals and teams collect and analyze content from various sources, transforming it into shareable insights. It's ideal for spotting social media trends, conducting research, and collaborating on projects.

Highlights
  • Gather content from multiple apps
  • Explore diverse content types
  • Collaborate with teams
  • Spot social media trends
  • Create shareable outputs
  • Organize content into cards
Features
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Shooglebox helps teams and individuals gather and explore content and insights from multiple sources – and create inspiring at-a-glance outputs to share with others. Marketing and PR teams use Shooglebox service to spot, understand and act on fast-moving TikTok trends – and tap into what their customers are seeing, saying and doing across social media. Researchers, writers and creators use the Shooglebox iPhone and iPad app to save content directly from other apps – Safari, Facebook, TikTok, Reddit, Instagram, X, YouTube, Photos, Maps and more – and build on the things they gather. Shooglebox turns everything you gather into cards with an at-a-glance front and full material, embeds and notes on the back. You can use the iOS app to review and edit your cards – or switch to a web browser on a larger-screen device to explore them and see the bigger picture. Shooglebox is an indispensable tool for: • Gathering and building on research material fast • Exploring different types of content in one place • Collaborating across marketing, PR and other teams • Spotting emerging TikTok and social trends • Discovering insights from social conversations • Getting your heads round hot topics and opportunities • Reviewing live social feeds to track hot topics • Creating inspiring outputs to share with others

About

ArcaNotes

This app is designed for rapid note-taking with a focus on single ideas per note. It uses an AI-enhanced approach to help organize and retrieve information naturally through a feed-like interface. The app also encourages sharing knowledge by making it easy to follow and contribute to shared feeds.

Highlights
  • Rapid micro-note creation
  • AI-suggested topics
  • Natural feed-based review
  • Question-based note retrieval
  • Effortless knowledge sharing
  • Topic-based note organization
Features
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ArcaNotes is a different kind of note-taking app. It's designed for speed of entry ("micro-notes"), makes reviewing feel natural, streamlines sharing, and uses AI to help you organize and retrieve. ArcaNotes has a small mission and a big mission. The small mission is to make a great note-taking app that is fast, flexible, and aligned with how many of us work today. The bigger mission is for ArcaNotes to become your second brain, the place where you store all of your information. By making it effortless to retrieve, share, and review, your knowledge will be unlocked for you and others. How is ArcaNotes different? 1. It’s designed for rapid note-taking * Rather than taking long notes that cover several disparate topics, try using ArcaNotes to take “micro-notes” - short notes, each about one idea. * As soon as you have something you want to jot down, just enter it, and worry about organizing it (ie, assigning a topic) later. * The intention is for there to be nothing between your thought and the act of storing it - no friction. Capturing information is as simple as texting yourself. 2. Retrieval and review feel natural * Notes are displayed like a feed, similar to messaging apps. For many people, scrolling a feed is a more natural way to review and retrieve than clicking through nested folders. * Notes can be assigned one or more topics, and notes under that topic can be viewed, much like a channel. 3. It encourages you to share your knowledge * So much knowledge is trapped in our heads and apps. Often, we don’t share it because of the extra work required. * ArcaNotes aims to change that by making sharing and following feeds of other users’ notes easy. The intent is for a portion of your notes (the ones you want to share) to be opened up so others can quickly scan and review them. It’s a bit like how people routinely scan various message channels to catch up on other teams’ activities. 4. It leverages AI technology to help you be more productive * ArcaNotes suggests topics that best fit the content of your note, as you type. The goal is to help you work faster by doing some of the thinking about organizing for you. * Rather than searching by keyword, you can ask your notes a question. ArcaNotes will generate an answer based on the knowledge contained in your notes.

Screenshots

Shooglebox4 screens
ArcaNotes4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: ArcaNotes at 5.0 against Shooglebox's 4.5. ArcaNotes also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 75%). Shooglebox's advantage is ratings volume (12 vs 3) and iOS requirement (12.4 vs 15.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

ArcaNotes holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 12 and 3 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 75% of Shooglebox's written reviews are positive against 100% of ArcaNotes's.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Shooglebox versus ArcaNotes: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterShoogleboxArcaNotes
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (12 ratings)5.0 (3 ratings) — better
Positive reviews75.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings12 — better3
Update frequencyEvery 4 weeks—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS12.4 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size118 MB3 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperIMP Media LtdArcaNotes, LLC

Customer experience

Shooglebox

All ratings12 ratings
Positive83.3%
Neutral8.3%
Negative8.3%
Written reviews16 reviews
Positive75.0%
Neutral6.3%
Negative18.8%

ArcaNotes

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Shooglebox

No in-app purchases

None

ArcaNotes

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Shooglebox free?
Shooglebox is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is ArcaNotes free?
ArcaNotes is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Shooglebox or ArcaNotes?
ArcaNotes is rated higher. Shooglebox averages 4.5 out of 5 from 12 ratings, while ArcaNotes averages 5.0 from 3 ratings.
Do Shooglebox or ArcaNotes have ads?
Neither Shooglebox nor ArcaNotes shows ads.

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