Comparison

notes with folder vs Nostora

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

Head to head
About

notes with folder

Organize your thoughts and notes with a customizable notebook system. Features automatic and manual backups to iCloud for easy data access and retrieval. Create your personal notebooks and enjoy a streamlined note-taking experience.

Highlights
  • Customizable notebooks
  • Automatic backups
  • Manual backups
  • iCloud data sync
  • Note organization
Features
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This app can make back up by auto and manual. and you can see to check the data in iCloud. Please make your own notebook and have fun.

About

Nostora

Features
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You remember the ten o'clock meeting. Lunch. The call that ran long. But the two hours in between? At the end of the month you estimate. And because you are a decent person, you estimate against yourself. Nostora brings those hours home. One tap on play and the timer runs — no project to create, no client to pick, no form to fill. Time tracking never fails in week one. It fails in week three, when the tracking itself becomes the work. TWO DIRECTIONS, ONE PATH The way back records what happened — to the minute, no guessing. The way forward is the Day Planner. It drafts your day from what your real weeks have revealed about you. Not a wish-list calendar that collapses at five. SIX LIVES, ONE APP Tobias, student. Twenty hours of assistant work, a master's thesis, a hackathon team. On Fridays, a PDF to his boss in under a minute. The follow-up questions have stopped. The Sommer family. Three profiles on one device, each with its own colour and its own statistics. After two weeks David corrected his “club business” from one hour a day to two and a half. It was a peaceful evening — the numbers had taken over the arguing. Marie, UX consultant. For years she gave away ten to fifteen percent of her hours. Today her rates live on the categories, the timer starts from her Apple Watch, and Fridays are for invoices. Markus, engineer. Timer off, and the worklog is on the Jira issue — to the minute, with his note. No server in between. Friday at 4:30 pm has lost its terror. Carla, therapist. What convinced her was not a feature but a sentence: there is no server anything is sent to. Jan, project manager. He imports his 400-line project plan and gets a planned-versus-actual comparison that carries the next quote. WHAT IS INSIDE - Unlimited timers, categories, activities, notes - Day Planner with templates for every weekday - Statistics, weekly review, PDF and CSV reports - Hourly rates, flat fees, weekly budgets - Places with automatic detection - Apple Watch, widgets, Siri, Shortcuts, calendar - Profiles with their own colour and logo - Jira integration, import of MS Project plans YOUR HOURS BELONG TO YOU No account. No sign-in. No cloud. No ads. No tracking. There is no server anything is sent to — there is simply no server. Where Nostora uses artificial intelligence, in the weekly review and the Day Planner, it runs on your iPhone with Apple's on-device models. WHAT IT COSTS, HONESTLY Free: up to six active tasks and two profiles. Nothing else is held back — timers, statistics, the weekly review, PDF and CSV reports, Apple Watch, widgets, calendar and places are all included. The limit counts active tasks only; finished ones free the slot and stay in your reports. Plus, one-time: unlimited tasks and profiles, backup across all profiles, Day Planner with suggestions and an AI draft. Pro, subscription: everything in Plus, plus the Jira integration. If you don't use Jira, you don't need Pro. Project Import, one-time: MS Project and ProjectLibre plans, planned-versus-actual reports. Independent of the rest. Anyone who bought Premium before version 5.0 keeps Plus and the Jira integration for life. Nostora — from nóstos, the homecoming, and hora, the hour. The hours are not gone. They are just not home yet. Built by devForPeople, a one-person workshop in Oelde, Germany. IN-APP PURCHASES - Nostora Plus — one-time purchase, lifetime, €9.99 - Project Import — one-time purchase, lifetime, €4.99 - Nostora Pro — auto-renewable subscription: €1.99/week, €6.99/month or €49.99/year, with 7 days free Prices may vary by region. Pro renews automatically until you cancel. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase; renewal is charged within 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel anytime in your Apple Account settings. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://www.devforpeople.de/privacy.html

Screenshots

notes with folder4 screens
Nostora4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: notes with folder at none against Nostora's 6. notes with folder also leads on iOS requirement (16.0 vs 18.6). Nostora's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (weekly vs fortnightly). On price 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Nostora sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per 7 days. notes with folder asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

notes with folder ships an update fortnightly, Nostora weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 12, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 5 level
notes with folder versus Nostora: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
Parameternotes with folderNostora
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.4 (10 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings10 — better—
Update frequencyFortnightlyWeekly — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationAd-supported—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS16.0 — better18.6
Further details — not scored
Size21 MB11 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSOCIAL NOTE CO., LTD.Andreas Maser

In-app purchases

None

notes with folder

No in-app purchases

6 purchases

Nostora

Subscriptions3
  • Pro · Weekly$1.997 Days
  • Pro · Monthly$5.991 Month
  • Pro · Yearly$44.991 Year
One-time3
  • Project Import$3.99
  • Trackers Premium$3.99
  • Trackers Plus$8.99

Questions

Is notes with folder free?
notes with folder is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Nostora free?
Nostora is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do notes with folder or Nostora have ads?
notes with folder shows ads; Nostora does not.
Which is updated more often, notes with folder or Nostora?
notes with folder ships an update fortnightly, and Nostora weekly. Most recently, notes with folder was updated on October 12, 2026 and Nostora on October 7, 2026.

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