Comparison

Notito vs Orbit

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

Head to head
About

Notito

Create a shared social space on your iPhone Home screen to connect with loved ones. Post photos, doodles, and text messages to a group widget that updates in real-time for all participants. Invite up to four people to share and interact with your content.

Highlights
  • Shared group widget for iPhone Home screen
  • Post photos, doodles, and text
  • Real-time updates for all participants
  • Invite up to 4 other users
  • Respond to posts with text, doodles, and stickers
  • Connect with friends and family
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Notito allows you and your friends, family & loved ones to post photos, doodles, and texts to a shared group widget through iCloud. Create a fun little social space on your iPhone Home screen to connect with people you love. Share your group widget with up to 4 other participants. Post photos from your camera, share a memory from your photo library or send a doodle that will make others smile when they open their device throughout the day. You can also post and respond to what others have posted with text, doodles, and stickers. Everything you or others post on the shared widget will appear on the notito widget on everyone’s home screen. The Participants you invite can post anything on the Widget. Everything you or others post in that widget will be visible to all the participants of the widget. IMPORTANT NOTE Please note that Notito only runs on iPhone and with the latest iOS version. WE WOULD LOVE TO HEAR YOUR FEEDBACK We are a small team of two people. Notito is our third app in the AppStore. If you have any questions, suggestions, or problems, you can always reach us at notito-hi@taptics.co. Terms of Use: https://taptics.co/notito/notito_terms.html Privacy Policy: https://taptics.co/notito/notito_privacy.html

About

Orbit

Connect with your partner or best friend through live widgets on your Home Screen. Share photos, doodles, notes, and moods instantly. Play games and track activities together without leaving the widget.

Highlights
  • Live widgets for instant sharing
  • Photos, doodles, notes, and moods
  • Widget-based games (Tic-Tac-Toe, Connect Four)
  • Activity and step races
  • Live distance and weather sharing
  • Customizable widget designs
Features
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Your favorite person, one glance away. Orbit connects you with your partner or best friend through live widgets. Whatever they send — a photo, a doodle, a note, a mood — appears right on your Home Screen, moments after they send it. No feed, no followers, no noise. Just the two of you. HOW IT WORKS 1. Pair with one person using a private invite code 2. Add the Orbit widget to your Home or Lock Screen 3. Send something — it lands on their screen in seconds SEND MOMENTS, NOT MESSAGES • Photos that show up right on their Home Screen • Hand-drawn doodles (bad drawings strongly encouraged) • Sticky notes, big-text notes, tiny love notes • Emoji moods with hundreds of style combinations • Voice mails they can play — and react to — from the widget • Songs from Apple Music, with the cover, title and artist • A remote shutter that snaps and prints straight onto their screen PLAY ON YOUR WIDGETS • Tic-Tac-Toe and Connect Four — take your turn without opening the app • Step races and Activity Ring battles, powered by Apple Health • Cheer each other on mid-workout, in real time • Playground: a table of photo cutouts you both move around STAY CLOSE, EVEN FAR APART • Count down to the days you share — trips, anniversaries, birthdays • My Day: today's events and reminders, one glance away • See the live distance between you two • Peek at each other's weather • Share your heartbeat • Keep a shared list you can both check off from the widget • Schedule surprises to appear on their day, right on time MAKE IT YOURS 20+ widget types and hundreds of designs to mix. Browse the gallery, bookmark the looks you love, publish your own — and pick shared themes together, because their widget is half yours. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Orbit is one connection, on purpose. Your shared space belongs to the two of you alone — when you disconnect, it's deleted, and if you ever delete your account, everything you shared goes with it. Permanently. FREE TO START Sending emoji widgets is free, forever. Orbit Plus unlocks every widget type and experience; subscriptions auto-renew until canceled and can be managed in your App Store settings. MADE BY ONE PERSON Orbit is an indie app, built with a lot of love and an unreasonable number of late nights. Something wrong? Email me from the app — I'll fix it. Your person is closer than you think. Pull them into Orbit. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Notito4 screens
Orbit4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Notito at none against Orbit's 2. Notito also leads on ratings volume (10 vs 1) and iOS requirement (18.0 vs 26.0). Orbit's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.6) and update cadence (every 3 days vs weekly). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Orbit sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Notito asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Orbit holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Notito has 10 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Notito ships an update weekly, Orbit every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 20, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Notito versus Orbit: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterNotitoOrbit
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (10 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings10 — better1
Update frequencyWeeklyEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS18.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size94 MB235 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperTaptics Ltd.Mayak Labs LLC

Customer experience

Notito

All ratings10 ratings
Positive90.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative10.0%
Written reviews5 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Orbit

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Notito

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Orbit

Subscriptions2
  • View Access$2.991 Month
  • Plus$6.991 Month

Questions

Is Notito free?
Notito is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Orbit free?
Orbit is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Notito or Orbit?
Orbit is rated higher. Notito averages 4.6 out of 5 from 10 ratings, while Orbit averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Notito or Orbit have ads?
Neither Notito nor Orbit shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Notito or Orbit?
Notito ships an update weekly, and Orbit every 3 days. Most recently, Notito was updated on October 24, 2026 and Orbit on October 20, 2026.

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