NoteDex Index Cards & Projects vs OrbMail
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
NoteDex Index Cards & Projects
This app offers a unique index card and flashcard experience with handwriting support across iOS, Mac, and Web. Organize ideas, notes, and projects visually, with options to share and collaborate on the web. It's designed for visual thinkers, students, and professionals seeking an organized way to capture and manage information.
- Handwriting support with Apple Pencil
- Index card and flashcard organization
- Cross-platform sync (iOS, Mac, Web)
- Rich text formatting and image insertion
- Study mode with spaced repetition
- Web sharing and collaboration
- Project and note organization with folders and tags
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The only index card, flash card and note taking app with handwriting support that works on iOS, Mac, and Web! Free to use during 7-day trial. After the trial you can still view your cards but can't add any more. One-Time Purchase. Also use on Web! SPECIAL ONE-TIME PAYMENT LIFETIME ACCESS PRICING OPTION - NO SUBSCRIPTION *** PRICING DISCOUNT DURING 7 DAY TRIAL *** NoteDex is a next generation note taking, index card and flashcard app with handwriting, text, images, tables, and cloud sync. Apple Pencil stylus support. Capture notes and ideas on the go, organize projects, and share on the web. With NoteDex all your information is in one place, secure and easy to organize and find. NoteDex fills the need for visual thinkers, note takers, project managers, writers and students like you, using the proven concept of Index Cards. Share AND EDIT note cards with anyone using a web browser! Unlike other apps, NoteDex is truly cross platform. NOTEDEX FEATURES - Rich text formatting, card colors, pictures and digital ink with Apple Pencil - Powerful note taking app on all stylus devices where the size of the screen will allow you to sketch on a card - just like a real card. Full Keyboard Support also. - STUDY MODE for Students to keep score when using NoteDex as flashcards - uses Leitner spaced repetition learning model - Advanced group folders, tags and search capabilities keeping you organized and productive CAPTURE IDEAS, THOUGHTS AND NOTES - Type and draw ideas on index cards. Add pictures and annotate - Organize into stacks. - Share stacks of idea cards with colleagues or friends on the web - Capture daily meeting and project notes, checklists, and to-do lists - Create notes when studying - Outline books and screenplays and organize with groups and tags - Create recipes and share with family - Create class lesson notes and share with colleagues FIND AND STAY ORGANIZED - Create separate stacks to organize your different projects, ideas, lessons, meetings, books, screenplays and more -Organize cards into Group sub-folders, categorize cards by Tags. Archive stacks for later retrieval - Search cards for specific text - Customize your project stacks with custom images - See visual ‘thumbnail’ previews of cards to help see and find your notes CLOUD SYNC AND COLLABORATE ON WEB - Sync your cards and stacks automatically across any phone or tablet using our enterprise grade secure cloud-sync – all changes you make are automatically saved and synced to the cloud and your devices - Share a card quickly as a picture via email - Share your stacks via the web to people on any device - Collaborate on web stacks with full edit capability - Set password and expiration dates on web stacks - Start a stack on one device and continue on another NOTEDEX FOR PROFESSIONALS - Capture meeting notes and collaborate with your team - Create projects and plans, organize with folders and category tags - Create web stacks to share knowledge and training NOTEDEX FOR ADVANCED STUDENTS - Take detailed lecture notes with text, images and ink - Create advanced flashcards for study and keep score with Study Mode - Share your notes with other classmates on web NOTEDEX FOR WRITERS - Capture ideas and keep your thoughts organized - Develop outlines of stories, novels, books - Collaborate with colleagues on web! NOTEDEX FOR INDIVIDUALS - Capture ideas and notes - Share recipes and more with family using web - Capture your goals and thoughts as a journal and planner --- Use on all your devices - no need to buy app for different devices and platforms. --- NOTEDEX: BEYOND INDEX CARDS (TM) End User License Agreement: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
OrbMail
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OrbMail — your email, seen as a system. OrbMail is a fast, private mail client for iPhone that turns your inbox into something you can actually read and act on. It connects directly to Gmail, iCloud, Outlook, Yahoo or your own IMAP server — with no OrbMail servers in between. Type your address and OrbMail detects your provider and its servers for you. WHAT MAKES IT DIFFERENT • What's happening — in the Daily, each cluster gets its own headline and a short, human read of what's moving: who is waiting on whom, what's due and what to do today. Ask Siri “What's happening in OrbMail” and it tells you, without opening the app. • Clusters — group senders into areas (Family, Work, Finance…) and see your mail as a living diagram of who writes to you and about what. OrbMail can suggest the clusters for you. • Awaiting reply — OrbMail surfaces the threads where the ball is in your court, so nothing slips. • Clean reading — messages render beautifully; remote tracking images are blocked by default. • Your way — Automatic, Light or Dark theme, larger text when you need it, and drafts that save themselves. PRIVACY, BY DESIGN OrbMail has no servers of its own. It talks directly to your mail provider and no one else. Your email, password and tokens travel only to your mail provider — never to OrbMail or any third party. Everything OrbMail works out (What's happening, headlines, clusters, awaiting reply) is computed on your iPhone. Credentials live in the iOS Keychain; local data is encrypted with iOS Data Protection. No analytics, no trackers, no OrbMail account. APPLE INTELLIGENCE, ON DEVICE The AI-written text uses Apple Intelligence, runs entirely on device and requires iPhone 15 Pro or later with iOS 26 and Apple Intelligence turned on. On other iPhones, OrbMail still shows What's happening as a plain summary built on the device, suggests clusters by topic and domain, and works as a fast, private mail client. Languages: English, Español, Deutsch, Italiano, Français, Português, 中文, 日本語.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: OrbMail at none against NoteDex Index Cards & Projects's 6. OrbMail also leads on update cadence (every 2 days vs every 3 weeks). NoteDex Index Cards & Projects's advantage is iOS requirement (16.0 vs 18.0). On price, 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
Both are free to download. NoteDex Index Cards & Projects sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. OrbMail asks for nothing beyond the download.
NoteDex Index Cards & Projects ships an update every 3 weeks, OrbMail every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | NoteDex Index Cards & Projects | OrbMail |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.3 (26 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 32.4% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 26 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Paid | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 3 MB | 19 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Sundaram Applied Technologies | Julio Aris Serey |
In-app purchases
NoteDex Index Cards & Projects
- MONTHLY SUBSCRIPTION$2.991 Month
- MONTHLY SUBSCRIPTION$5.991 Month
- YEARLY SUBSCRIPTION$24.991 Year
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- YEARLY SUBSCRIPTION$49.991 Year
- LIFETIME ACCESS - ONE PAYMENT$49.99
- LIFETIME ACCESS - ONE PAYMENT$99.99
OrbMail
No in-app purchases
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