Notebooks vs Kinnavo

Own your notes — forever. Notebooks is a writing and organization app with no subscription, no lock-in, and no worries. Your documents are stored as standard files you can always access, export, or move freely. Pay once. Use for life. Use Notebooks as a personal wiki, Zettelkasten, document archive, task manager, or long-term writing space. Capture quick notes, turn them into actionable tasks, combine text fragments into chapters, organize research, or keep business documents separate from personal journals — without ever switching apps. Designed to help you stay focused and work at your own pace, Notebooks grows with your needs and is always ready to support you. WRITE AND CREATE Create beautifully formatted documents with styles, attachments, tables, checklists, and optional tables of contents. Choose from ready-made styles or design your own. Write in different ways: Formatted text (WYSIWYG) Plain text, with smart handling of lists, automatic character pairing, and a focused writing view Markdown, supporting MultiMarkdown and Discount, with syntax highlighting, dedicated keyboard keys, wiki-style links, and interactive checklists Sketch ideas or annotate images and PDFs using Apple Pencil. STORE AND ORGANIZE Notebooks stores all documents as regular files in standard formats. You always remain in control — no lock-in, no export worries, fully compatible across devices and over time. Organize your work in books and nested hierarchies without limits. Import PDFs, emails, web pages, MS Office and iWork documents, images, audio, video, and more. Use full-text search to find even the most deeply nested document. PLAN AND ACT Turn books into project lists and documents into tasks. Assign due dates and alerts, create nested projects, and track progress naturally — right where your work lives. Use simple checklists in formatted documents or Markdown for lightweight task tracking. STAY FOCUSED Link documents together to build knowledge over time. Use wiki-style links, backlinks, contexts, and smart books to keep everything connected and within reach. When you rename or move documents, links stay intact. A PLACE YOU CAN RELY ON Sync your documents between iPhone, iPad, Mac, and PC. Work on documents stored in other apps, compile selections into PDFs or eBooks, scan documents and extract text using OCR, and trust that your data stays accessible — now and in the future. With time, Notebooks often becomes the one place users rely on to keep everything that matters close at hand. WHAT USERS SAY “Notebooks is a wonderful app — sophisticated in an unassuming way. I feel more productive without spending time managing the app itself.” “You are GTD in every way that makes it efficient — and makes me efficient.”

Kinnavo helps you keep the contacts of the people you rely on in order: tradespeople, tutors, doctors and other specialists. For working with clients — “My Business” Put what you know about your clients to work for your business. Give the sticky note colors your own meanings — “Client”, “Urgent”, “Paid” — and see at a glance who needs your attention, what’s done and what’s still waiting. Pin the work list you need to its own tab and send the list’s contacts with a single tap. “My Favorites” The people you need are already in your address book. Kinnavo works with it: add the contacts you need to your own favorites lists and keep everything important right next to each person — prices, work done, notes and impressions. Everything is in one place, and the right person is easy to find. Contacts you create with Kinnavo gather in the #Kinnavo list, and once a month the app reminds you about them — so you can add them to the right lists or delete the ones you don’t need. Your address book stays up to date and clean. The “My Business” and “My Favorites” modes stay separate; you switch between them in Settings. “Active” Both modes are free. “Active” unlocks the extra features. Send an estimate, a report or any other document as a ready PDF straight from a sticky note — from your phone, even on site. “My Day” reminds you of your important sticky notes, the calculator works right on the sticky note, and the business card mark gathers every business card into the “Business Cards” filter. In “My Business” mode you also get a Business Card on “My Card”, “My Ads” with posters and ad PDFs, and email campaigns — they tell your clients about you. In “My Favorites” mode you can send a list’s contacts as one file. It’s a one-time purchase, not a subscription, and you can restore it on your other devices. Try “Active” free for 14 days. No ads, tracking or analytics. Your data syncs through your iCloud, which Kinnavo cannot access.