Dex vs awarenotes
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Dex
This personal relationship manager helps you stay in touch with your network by providing timely reminders and remembering important details about your contacts. Organize and visualize your relationships, and leverage connections to strengthen your network. Integrates with social networks and email via a browser extension.
- Relationship reminders
- Contact detail memory
- Network visualization
- Contact organization with groups and tags
- Browser extension integration
- Social network consolidation
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Dex is a personal relationship manager and CRM that reminds you to keep in touch with people you would otherwise forget. Visualize, manage, and stay on top of all your relationships. With Dex, be a better friend and leverage your network. Stay in touch better: Configure Dex to send regular reminders: maintain relationships even when life gets busy. Stay warm with your network and see people you haven’t seen in a while. Remember important details: Remember the name of your coworker’s daughter? What about the last time you met your friend from college? Dex makes it easy to remember important details. Be more thoughtful by showing you care. Become a superconnector: Organize all your relationships with groups, custom tags, and views. Search through notes you’ve taken in one place. Make connections that help your friends and strengthen your relationships. Integrate where you need it: Use Dex with the Dex Browser Extension to manage relationships from social networks like Facebook, Messenger, Twitter, Gmail, and more! No data entry or separate website logins needed. Dex is a paid subscription service. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula Privacy Policy: https://getdex.com/privacypolicy
awarenotes
Effortlessly transform photos into editable documents with advanced OCR technology. Capture ideas via photos or voice notes and save them in multiple formats for easy access and sharing.
- Photo to document creation
- Advanced OCR text extraction
- Voice notes support
- Save as PDF, DOCX
- Intuitive user interface
- Gallery import
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- Snap a photo or upload from your gallery to start creating documents. - Advanced Optical Character Recognition (OCR) for accurate text extraction. - Intuitive design for a seamless user experience. - Save documents in various formats such as PDF, DOCX, and more. - Voice notes now available - Produce notes from photos taken or chosen from your photo library.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: awarenotes at 100% against Dex's 38%. awarenotes also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.4) and in-app purchases (none vs 9). Dex's advantage is ratings volume (265 vs 2). On price, update cadence, ads and device support 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. Dex sells 9 in-app purchases, starting at $19.99 per month. awarenotes asks for nothing beyond the download.
awarenotes holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Dex has 265 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 38% of Dex's written reviews are positive against 100% of awarenotes's.
Dex ships an update every 6 days, awarenotes every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Dex | awarenotes |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (265 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 38.2% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 265 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 days — better | Every 10 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Subscription | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 176 MB | 36 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Dana HQ, Inc. | Emanus Simeon |
Customer experience
Dex
awarenotes
Bugs and requests
Dex
Reported bugs
16 issues- Mobile app freezes when using features
- Card scanner crashes iPhone
- LinkedIn sync fails to load contacts
- Contact import checkboxes behave erratically
- Map view won't load or shows incomplete data
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- Deleted groups reappear after deletion
- Tagging feature crashes or doesn't work
- Note-taking functionality fails
- App crashes on startup
- Slow response times for all actions
- Search function frequently fails
- Duplicate contact merging fails
- Contact navigation glitches
- Google sign-up button unresponsive on mobile
- Syncing takes several minutes between devices
- Contacts not saving properly
Requested features
13 requests- More AI-powered automation features
- WhatsApp integration (currently in maintenance)
- Tag management on mobile app
- Dark mode option
- Microsoft account integration
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- Company/organization pages
- Two-way contact syncing
- Better search functionality
- Sort by company feature
- Mac desktop application
- Improved card scanner without crashes
- Better duplicate detection and merging
- Offline data access
awarenotes
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Dex
- Premium - Monthly7 Days trial$19.991 Month
- Dex Professional Monthly7 Days trial$34.991 Month
- Professional - Monthly7 Days trial$39.991 Month
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- Premium - Quarterly7 Days trial$47.993 Months
- Dex Professional Quarterly7 Days trial$79.993 Months
- Professional - Quarterly7 Days trial$79.993 Months
- Premium - Annual7 Days trial$143.991 Year
- Dex Professional Yearly7 Days trial$239.991 Year
- Professional - Annual7 Days trial$239.991 Year
awarenotes
No in-app purchases
