Comparison

Meeting Notes & Work Planner vs Often

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

Head to head
About

Meeting Notes & Work Planner

Capture your thoughts and ideas with a versatile note-taking app. Easily create handwritten notes, add images, and convert speech to text. Organize your content with folders and sync across devices.

Highlights
  • Handwritten note creation
  • Image integration
  • Speech-to-text conversion
  • Drawing and doodling tools
  • Folder organization
  • Cloud synchronization
Features
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Don’t work hard, work smarter! Document all your classes or meetings with the awesome tools SketchNotes brings to you. CREATE EASY NOTES AND ADD IMAGES • Create customizable notes, and write anything you want in an easy, yet really helpful note that will make almost impossible to forget homeworks and projects QUICK SPEECH TO TEXT TOOL • If your teacher or partners are talking fast, use the Speech to text tool and save all the highlights lessons. You won’t even have to write anything. PERSONALIZE AND SHARE • Set your creativity free. Use our pencils, sharpies and shapes to draw doodles, funnels or anything that comes to your mind. ORGANIZE AND SYNC • Create folders and subfolders to make sure you will find the information you need whenever you want • Sync your notes on the cloud Price of subscription: - 3 day free trial then $9.99 per month Terms of use: https://giantbrainsllc.wordpress.com/terms-of-use/ Privacy Policies: https://giantbrainsllc.wordpress.com/privacy-policy/

About

Often

Easily manage your professional and personal connections by setting reminders to stay in touch. Organize contacts by category, add notes, and utilize template messages for efficient communication. Import contacts directly and track last interactions for personalized outreach.

Highlights
  • Set contact reminders
  • Categorize contacts
  • Add and view notes
  • Create template messages
  • Import contacts
  • Track last interactions
  • iCloud data storage
Features
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People drift. Often is the quiet fix. You meant to call your sister back. You meant to check in with the friend who moved to Berlin. You meant to thank the mentor who took your call last spring. Months pass. The relationships that matter most are the ones that fade quietest, because there's no deadline on them. Also useful for solo consultants, coaches, and small business owners who want a personal CRM without a sales pipeline strapped to their face. Often is a small, calm app that gives every important person in your life a rhythm — every two weeks, every month, every birthday — and one quiet nudge a day for whoever's slipped. That's it. No feed, no followers, no streaks, no other people's posts in your face. PICK A CADENCE. GET A NUDGE. REACH OUT THE WAY YOU ACTUALLY DO. • Add the people who matter — close friends, family, mentors, clients, the contacts you can't afford to lose. • Group them into your own categories. Pick a colour. Drag to reorder. • Tell the app how often you'd like to reach out — every two weeks, every month, on a birthday, on a Tuesday. Change it any time. • One swipe to log that you've reached out. One tap to open WhatsApp, Email, or the phone. Or just log it and move on. • Snooze any single nudge. Mute someone for a season. The app waits. A DASHBOARD THAT RESPECTS YOUR TIME. The Today tab is a clean queue: Overdue, Due today, Due this week. The Home dashboard shows you a single picture of how you're doing — week, month, quarter, or year. Tap a number, see the people behind it. NOTES THAT PAY ATTENTION BACK. (OFTEN PLUS) Free-form notes per contact. Once a note gets long, a Summarise button appears — Apple Intelligence reads it on your phone and gives you a single-paragraph recap. Use it before a coffee, a call, a reunion. Nothing leaves your device. PRIVACY FIRST. WE MEAN IT. • No servers. We don't have one with your data on it because we don't have one. • Sync is iCloud-only — Apple-to-Apple, never to us. • All AI runs on your phone using Apple Intelligence. • No tracking, no analytics, no third-party advertising SDKs. • Export everything to CSV or JSON whenever you like. OFTEN PLUS A single subscription, five ways to buy: monthly, three-month, six-month, yearly (with a 7-day free trial), and a one-time lifetime purchase. Plus unlocks unlimited contacts and categories, AI note summaries, screenshot-to-context OCR, iCloud sync, and widgets that show names and details. Count-only widgets — the small Today widget and the Lock Screen widgets — are free, and the Log Contact Siri Shortcut runs free for everyone. Free always includes logging contacts, writing notes, setting cadences, the daily digest, and full data export. — Built quietly in Toronto. Privacy is not a feature; it's the whole shape of the product. — Privacy Policy: https://www.xpmind.com/snPP.html Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Meeting Notes & Work Planner4 screens
Often4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is monetization model: Often at free with in-app purchases against Meeting Notes & Work Planner's subscription. Often also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 71%). Meeting Notes & Work Planner's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (14.0 vs 26.0). On price, update cadence, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Meeting Notes & Work Planner sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per 7 days and Often sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 17, 2026 and October 2, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Meeting Notes & Work Planner versus Often: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMeeting Notes & Work PlannerOften
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.1 (1.9K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews71.5% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings1.9K — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 3 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationSubscriptionFree with in-app purchases — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS14.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size68 MB25 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperGiant BrainsXpMind

Customer experience

Meeting Notes & Work Planner

All ratings1,928 ratings
Positive75.1%
Neutral7.9%
Negative17.0%
Written reviews557 reviews
Positive71.5%
Neutral8.1%
Negative20.5%

Often

Written reviews8 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

Meeting Notes & Work Planner

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Notes getting deleted unexpectedly
  • Inability to edit or move images
  • Syncing issues across devices
  • Freezing and performance problems

Requested features

4 requests
  • Add more customization options
  • Improve stability and reliability
  • Provide better support and documentation
  • Allow more flexibility in note-taking

Often

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

5 purchases

Meeting Notes & Work Planner

Subscriptions5
  • Weekly Subscription3 Days trial$1.997 Days
  • New Monthly Subscription$9.991 Month
  • Monthly Subscription$9.991 Month
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  • Yearly3 Days trial$29.991 Year
  • Yearly Subscription3 Days trial$49.991 Year
5 purchases

Often

Subscriptions4
  • Month-to-Month Subscription$2.991 Month
  • Quarterly Subscription$7.993 Months
  • Semestral Subscription$12.996 Months
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  • Annual Subscription$19.991 Year
One-time1
  • Lifetime Premium$49.99

Questions

Is Meeting Notes & Work Planner free?
Meeting Notes & Work Planner is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Often free?
Often is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Meeting Notes & Work Planner or Often have ads?
Neither Meeting Notes & Work Planner nor Often shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Meeting Notes & Work Planner or Often?
Meeting Notes & Work Planner ships an update every 3 weeks, and Often every 3 weeks. Most recently, Meeting Notes & Work Planner was updated on October 17, 2026 and Often on October 2, 2026.

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