Comparison

notetaking database | mitynote vs ArcaNotes

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

Head to head
About

notetaking database | mitynote

Organize your thoughts and ideas with a flexible note-taking app. Create blurbs, documents, or image sets, and store them in secure, lockable Projects. All data is stored locally for enhanced privacy.

Highlights
  • Create blurbs, docs, and image sets
  • Organize notes into lockable Projects
  • Local data storage for privacy
  • Hide sensitive notes from search
  • Cross-device support (iOS, Mac)
  • Future features in development
Features
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Easily create different kinds of notes, including blurbs, docs, or image sets, in order to best capture what you're thinking. Finally: all of your ideas, all in one app. Mitynote is the conceptual home you've been waiting for. Store notes in Projects, which are each individually sorted according to your preference. If you have a batch of particularly sensitive notes, put them in a Project and lock it, making them unavailable for viewing without authentication, and will also hide them from search results and from your All Notes screen. Mitynote is built for your thoughts and revolutionary ideas. It is the archive to your life experiences. Exclusivity to iOS guarantees privacy and encryption, with all of your data being stored locally on your device. Many features are currently development and will be released in the coming months...please leave a review and share! This is an exciting time to be alive! Thanks for using Mitynote! The Mitynote Privacy Policy and Terms of Use can be located at the following websites, respectively: https://www.mitynote.com/mitynote-privacy-policy https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

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

notetaking database | mitynote4 screens
ArcaNotes4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: ArcaNotes at none against notetaking database | mitynote's 2. notetaking database | mitynote's advantage is ratings volume (14 vs 3). On price, rating, review sentiment 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. notetaking database | mitynote sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. ArcaNotes asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for notetaking database | mitynote against 5.0 for ArcaNotes. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 14 and 3 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
notetaking database | mitynote versus ArcaNotes: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
Parameternotetaking database | mitynoteArcaNotes
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (14 ratings)5.0 (3 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings14 — better3
Update frequencyWeekly—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — betteriPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.015.0
Further details — not scored
Size82 MB3 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer2196, LLCArcaNotes, LLC

Customer experience

notetaking database | mitynote

All ratings14 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews9 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

ArcaNotes

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

In-app purchases

2 purchases

notetaking database | mitynote

Subscriptions2
  • Mitynote+$0.991 Month
  • Mitynote Pro$2.991 Month
None

ArcaNotes

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is notetaking database | mitynote free?
notetaking database | mitynote is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is ArcaNotes free?
ArcaNotes is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, notetaking database | mitynote or ArcaNotes?
notetaking database | mitynote and ArcaNotes are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 14 and 3 ratings respectively.
Do notetaking database | mitynote or ArcaNotes have ads?
Neither notetaking database | mitynote nor ArcaNotes shows ads.

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