Link Harvester vs Motes
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Link Harvester
Capture web links, email addresses, and phone numbers from your camera. Automatically detect and save them for easy access and sharing across your devices.
- Scan links from camera
- Detect email addresses
- Capture phone numbers
- Automatic saving
- Cross-device sharing
- Easy access
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Scan. Save. Share. Quickly scan web links, e-mail addresses and phone numbers from screens or printed materials using your device's camera. The links are automatically detected and saved in the app, allowing easy access and sharing across devices.
Motes
A modern digital notebook for quick note-taking with easy styling and organization. Features include to-do lists, OCR text capture, and import/export options. Synchronize your notes across multiple devices using cloud storage.
- Quick note-taking with styles
- Organize with labels
- To-do lists and task tracking
- OCR text capture
- Import from OneNote/Evernote
- Export to PDF
- Cloud synchronization
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Motes is a modern way of taking notes. Quickly jot down anything and make it look great with easy to use styles. Organize with labels and use highlighter for the important bits. Create to-do lists and keep track of your tasks. Capture text with OCR. Import notes from OneNote and Evernote. Export to PDF. Use your Google Drive, iCloud Drive, Microsoft OneDrive or Dropbox account to synchronize your notebook on multiple devices.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Link Harvester at 5.0 against Motes's 3.0. Motes's advantage is update cadence (monthly vs every 18 months) and review sentiment (67% vs 50%). On price, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases 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. Link Harvester sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Motes sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $0.99 per year. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Link Harvester holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 50% of Link Harvester's written reviews are positive against 67% of Motes's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Link Harvester ships an update every 18 months, Motes monthly. The most recent releases landed on June 11, 2026 and August 16, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Link Harvester | Motes |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | 3.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews | 66.7% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 18 months | Monthly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 1 MB | 33 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Rob Hailey | Tomasz Gucio |
Customer experience
Link Harvester
Motes
In-app purchases
Link Harvester
- Full functionality$0.99
Motes
- Full version$0.991 Year
