Comparison

CROSSNote HLM vs Topo

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

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About

CROSSNote HLM

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CROSSNote: your life, connected. Calendar, tasks, ideas, notes, health and goals in one place. Because your life doesn't happen in separate apps. CROSSNote is a personal operating system for the Apple ecosystem. It helps you organize your day, preserve what matters and understand how you spend your time and energy. YOUR DAY, ALL CONNECTED Plan and see what's ahead without separating your tasks from your activities. - Calendar and tasks in one unified view. - Day, week and month views. - Workouts integrated into your schedule. - Priorities, deadlines and subtasks. - Areas and lists to organize your projects. MORE THAN A TASK A meeting can include notes, a recording and decisions. A project can bring together files, images and ideas. In CROSSNote, everything stays connected to the relevant record. - Add notes, photos, drawings, files and audio. - Record and transcribe conversations. - Organize records with AI assistance. - Capture ideas without having to classify them immediately. - Find what you've saved with text or semantic search. Capture now. Find it later. SEE HOW YOU LIVE Where does your time really go? Which areas of your life take up the most space? Life Model brings your activities together and organizes them by life area, showing how you spend your time across weeks, months and years. A perspective for reflection, not judgment. UNDERSTAND YOUR HEALTH IN CONTEXT Your calendar shows what you do. Your body tells another part of the story. CROSSNote brings information from Apple Health and compatible devices into a more complete picture: - Sleep, sleep stages and efficiency. - Heart rate and heart rate variability (HRV). - Workouts, training load and estimated recovery. - Energy, stress and mental focus indicators. - Charts and trends over time. Health indicators are estimates for informational purposes and are not medical diagnoses. LIVE WITH INTENTION It's not about doing more and more. Set intentions for your day, week or longer periods, record how you feel and keep the things that truly matter to you in sight. FIND WHAT YOU THOUGHT YOU'D FORGOTTEN Ideas, meetings, conversations, notes and projects can remain valuable long after they happened. With semantic search, you can find records by meaning, even when you don't remember the exact words you used. AN ASSISTANT WITH CONTEXT CROSSNote's AI assistant can access selected information from your calendar, tasks and health to answer questions about your day, help you review a task or explain how you slept. It's not here to make decisions for you, but to help you better understand your information. YOUR LIFE. YOUR DATA. Your personal records are stored on your device and in your iCloud, not on CROSSNote's own servers. Some AI features send the necessary context to external providers to process your requests. Privacy, autonomy and user control are built into the design. Start by organizing your day. Discover everything you can connect over time. CROSSNote. Your life, connected. Terms and Conditions: https://www.crossnote.net/termsandconditions Privacy Policy: https://www.crossnote.net/privacy-policy Apple Standard EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

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Topo

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Topo helps you save places you find around town with photos, music, and notes. Discover nearby local posts and find what maps and news don’t show. 【Explore lively neighborhoods】 Every day, new things happen around town that never make it onto a map. Topo brings local cards to life on the map. Just tap through them to discover what’s happening around you. Which neighborhoods are buzzing today? Check the Topo heatmap and find out. 【Leave memos around town】 As you walk, add a memo to a card that catches your attention. Save the music you hear. Leave a photo where you found something interesting. When you return someday, you can look back and see those moments as if they happened yesterday. 【Let the Scouter bring local discoveries to you】 Inside Topo is the Scouter, whose job is to observe changes around town and bring you interesting local discoveries. Answer a quick question left by the Scouter. Share one of your memos with the neighborhood. Each action is small, but to Topo, it becomes a signal of what catches your attention. When you think, “I want to explore this neighborhood today,” or “It’s my first time here—where can I take a break?”, the Scouter uses those signals to observe the area and bring back discoveries that may matter to you. 【More ways to interact with your town】 ■ Create a card in just four taps — no typing required Take a photo, and AI can turn what you see and feel into words. Hear a song? Use Shazam right inside Topo to create a Music Memo in seconds. Keep walking without breaking your rhythm, and leave the things that catch your attention right where you find them. ■ Public for only 72 hours. No followers. No viral sharing. When you make one of your memos public, it is shared only within 500 meters of that location and automatically becomes private again after 72 hours. No follower counts, no pressure to go viral, and no need to worry about leaving a permanent digital footprint. Just leave the small things you notice around town, at your own pace. Even if you usually only read social media, Topo is designed to make sharing feel easy. ■ Local discoveries, delivered by the Scouter In areas where Topo is most active, the Scouter observes the town every day and delivers new local discoveries. Before searching the web, open Topo and see what’s happening around town. ■ Connect across languages Public cards are automatically translated by AI into English and Traditional Chinese. A small discovery from your neighborhood can reach travelers and people interested in the area, regardless of language. ■ Your privacy comes first AI features for writing and translation use Apple Intelligence. You can use them securely with your Apple Account and take part in the town without making your personal information public. Leave what you notice around town without having to reveal who you are.

Screenshots

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Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: CROSSNote HLM at every 6 days against Topo's fortnightly. On price, ads, in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

CROSSNote HLM ships an update every 6 days, Topo fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 5 level
CROSSNote HLM versus Topo: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCROSSNote HLMTopo
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 6 days — betterFortnightly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS18.617.6 — better
Further details — not scored
Size105 MB178 MB
Age rating12+17+
DeveloperOS3e Technologies LLCTOPOS TECH LLC

In-app purchases

None

CROSSNote HLM

No in-app purchases

None

Topo

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is CROSSNote HLM free?
CROSSNote HLM is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Topo free?
Topo is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do CROSSNote HLM or Topo have ads?
Neither CROSSNote HLM nor Topo shows ads.
Which is updated more often, CROSSNote HLM or Topo?
CROSSNote HLM ships an update every 6 days, and Topo fortnightly. Most recently, CROSSNote HLM was updated on October 24, 2026 and Topo on October 25, 2026.

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