NotePlan vs Scribe AI
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
NotePlan
Organize your tasks, notes, and calendar in one unified app. Quickly plan your day with Markdown, link notes bi-directionally, and stay on top of your to-dos with powerful review and search features. Seamlessly integrates with your existing calendars and syncs across all your Apple devices.
- Unified task, note, and calendar view
- Markdown for quick task and note creation
- Bi-directional note linking
- Calendar integration (iCloud, Google, Exchange)
- Flexible recurring tasks
- Global Command Bar for fast navigation
- Plaintext note storage
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Having trouble planning your day, managing your to-do list, and organizing your notes? Always jumping between apps and losing track of what to do and where you put things? Say hello to NotePlan! NotePlan lets you manage everything in one place: your tasks, notes, and calendar. Perfect for project managers, designers, researchers, writers, students, or anyone who wants to be organized and efficient. QUICKLY PLAN YOUR DAY WITH MARKDOWN • Plan your day by seeing your calendar, notes, and tasks in a single view • Create tasks and notes quickly with Markdown • Add #tags to organize tasks and notes • Use @mentions to find people • Reschedule to-do items easily • Create flexible recurring tasks • Work faster with autocomplete BUILD YOUR NETWORK OF NOTES • Create your own network of notes • Organize any way you want to: from simple folders over P.A.R.A. to a Zettelkasten system • Bi-directional notes: link your calendar and your notes in any direction, automatically • Cross-reference and link notes easily STAY ON TOP OF THINGS WITH REVIEW • Search all tasks and notes, instantly • See all open tasks with the click of a button • Get a list of overdue to-do items • See upcoming tasks at a glance • Create custom filters with your own queries using status, #tags, @mentions, or even text SEAMLESS INTEGRATION WITH YOUR CALENDAR • Create events and reminders right in NotePlan • Support for iCloud, Google, and Exchange calendars • Time-block tasks on your calendar simply by typing AVAILABLE ON MAC, IPHONE & IPAD • Sync everything between your Apple devices • Use any sync method you like: CloudKit or iCloud Drive • A single subscription for all your devices OPEN, PRIVATE & FAST • All your notes are stored in plaintext so you're never locked in • Your information is private and cannot be accessed • Enjoy lightning speed thanks to local files and native apps ANY THEME YOU WANT • Choose from a variety of built-in themes • Work with light or dark versions • Create your own custom theme SHORTCUTS FOR MAXIMUM SPEED • Extended Markdown syntax support with customization options • Move around without ever leaving the keyboard • Find everything with the Global Command Bar NotePlan is developed independently and prioritizes user features and requests. We have long-term roadmaps and listen to customers to improve the apps. - - - - - Price may vary by location. Subscriptions will be charged to your credit card through your iTunes account. Your subscription will automatically renew unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. After purchase, manage your subscriptions in App Store Account Settings. - - - - - Email: hello@noteplan.co Web: noteplan.co Discord: https://discord.gg/D4268MT Twitter: NotePlanApp Reddit: reddit.com/r/NotePlanApp Learn NotePlan course: https://noteplan.eo.page/newsletter Terms of use: http://noteplan.co/tos/ Privacy policy: https://noteplan.co/privacy/
Scribe AI
This intelligent writing assistant uses GPT technology to help users generate various forms of creative content, including essays, emails, stories, and poems. It offers an intuitive interface for writing, editing, and sharing your work.
- GPT-powered creative writing
- Generate essays, emails, stories, poems
- Ask for questions and suggestions
- Save, edit, and share files
- Intuitive user interface
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Scribe AI turns a sentence into finished writing. Describe what you need, pick a tone, and get an email, essay, story, poem or speech in seconds. Then make it better with one tap. WRITE ANYTHING • Describe what you want in your own words, or start from a prompt example • Choose a format: essay, email, story, poem or bullet points • Set the tone: formal, friendly, persuasive or playful • Pick a length: short, medium or long REFINE WITH ONE TAP • Continue: keep writing from where the text ends • Make it shorter, longer, more formal, friendlier or simpler • Translate it into 13 languages, including Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Japanese and Chinese • Ask for changes in your own words, like "add a catchy title" • Undo any change REWRITE YOUR OWN TEXT • Paste an email, essay or message you wrote • Improve it, fix grammar and spelling, simplify, shorten or expand it • Keep your meaning, lose the mistakes KEEP EVERYTHING • Save your texts and find them again with search • Edit anything you've written • Share to Mail, Messages, Notes or any other app BUILT FOR iOS 26 • A clean new design for iPhone, iPad and iPhone Duo • No account and no subscription GOOD TO KNOW • Scribe AI needs an internet connection to write. • You can make up to 50 writes and refinements per day. The limit resets daily. • Requests that break the content policy are declined, and the app tells you why. • Saved texts stay on your device. Text you send to be written or rewritten is processed by our AI service to create the result.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: NotePlan at Free against Scribe AI's $3.99. NotePlan also leads on review sentiment (85% vs 43%) and ratings volume (1.5K vs 39). Scribe AI's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 10) and update cadence (fortnightly vs monthly). On rating, 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
NotePlan is free to download; Scribe AI costs $3.99 up front. NotePlan sells 8 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per 7 days. Scribe AI asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.8 for NotePlan against 4.8 for Scribe AI. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: NotePlan has 1.5K ratings behind it against 39, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 85% of NotePlan's written reviews are positive against 43% of Scribe AI's.
NotePlan ships an update monthly, Scribe AI fortnightly. Both last shipped on November 3, 2026.
| Parameter | NotePlan | Scribe AI |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $3.99 |
| Rating | 4.8 (1.5K ratings) — better | 4.8 (39 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 85.1% of reviews — better | 42.9% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1.5K — better | 39 |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Subscription | Paid — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 204 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 9+ |
| Developer | NotePlan LLC | Ziga Porenta |
Customer experience
NotePlan
Scribe AI
Bugs and requests
NotePlan
Reported bugs
2 issues- Inconsistent sync between devices
- Crashes when opening certain files
Requested features
4 requests- Improved iPad and mobile app experience
- Better integration with other productivity apps
- More automation and scripting capabilities
- Weekly or monthly calendar view
Scribe AI
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
NotePlan
- Personal Weekly$4.997 Days
- Personal Monthly$6.991 Month
- Personal Monthly1 Month trial$11.991 Month
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- Personal Monthly2 variants$12.001 Month
- Personal Annual7 Days trial$59.991 Year
- Personal Annual7 Days trial2 variants$99.991 Year
- Personal Annual1 Month trial$119.991 Year
- Business Class1 Month trial$199.991 Year
Scribe AI
No in-app purchases









