Filebar vs 为知笔记 X
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Filebar
A versatile multimedia player that handles video and music playback from local files, cloud services, and media servers. It also includes robust file management capabilities for both local and remote storage.
- Plays numerous video formats (MP4, MKV, AVI, etc.)
- Supports local and cloud music playback (MP3, FLAC)
- Manages cloud services (SMB, WebDAV, FTP, SFTP)
- Browse and play from media servers (Plex, Emby)
- Comprehensive file management (move, copy, delete)
- Batch renaming for files and folders
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# Filebar Filebar is a modern multimedia player that offers video player, music player, cloud services and file management features. ## Main features ### Video player Filebar offers a powerful video player that allows you to play more video formats, including standard MP4, M4V and MOV, plus MKV, AVI, WMV, FLV, OMG, OGV, 3GP, RMVB and more. You can browse and play videos from your mac, pc, NAS, FTP, and also support playing videos from media servers (such as Emby/Plex/Jellyfin media server), and you can also play videos from cloud services. ### Music Player Filebar provides a nice local music player for playing local and cloud music, supported audio formats are MP3/M4A/FLAC. ### Cloud Services Cloud services are another core feature of Filebar. With Filebar you can easily manage cloud services, including creating folders/deleting/playing/batch renaming/viewing information. It also provides support for remote protocols. The supported protocols are SMB, WebDAV, Synology, FTP, SFTP. ### File Management Filebar also provides a file manager. You can manage your local and remote files: move, delete, edit, copy, upload, batch rename, etc. ## Customer Support Feel free to contact us if your have any suggestions or ideas. - Website: https://fileball.app - Email: filebox.app@outlook.com
为知笔记 X
This app combines personal note-taking with team collaboration. Save important information, collect web content, and write diaries. It supports real-time multi-person editing and synchronizes data across all your devices for seamless access.
- Real-time multi-person collaboration
- Supports text, images, documents, to-do lists
- Markdown syntax support
- Office file preview and editing
- Insert various content components (flowcharts, maps, media)
- One-click WeChat content collection
- Email forwarding and saving
- Encrypted notes for privacy
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WizNote is the perfect combination of a light document-based personal efficiency tool and a team collaboration service. - With WizNote Notes, you can save important information permanently, collect web content and WizNote logs, write personal diaries and work journals, and record inspirations and ideas. - Support multi-person real-time collaboration. One-click sharing can efficiently complete light task collaboration and tracking with others. - All data can be synchronized on a computer, cell phone, tablet, and web page to keep consistent. The editor that supports multi-person real-time collaboration - Multiple formats: text, images, photos, documents, to-do lists - Markdown syntax: let you focus on the content and render a beautiful document after writing. - Office file preview: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and PDF can preview the body and update directly after editing - Insert multiple content components: flowcharts, brain maps, local audio and video, video websites, design prototypes - One-click collection of WeChat content: follow the WeChat official account, one-click collection of valuable content to WizNote notes. - Email forwarding and saving to personal or group: Each person or group has an exclusive mywiz mailbox, which can be saved by forwarding emails. Secure and private saving - Encrypted notes are encrypted by certificates so that even if others access the notes, the contents of the encrypted notes cannot be viewed. Efficient organization - Multi-level catalog: Flexible to build your own and team's knowledge classification system. - Full-text search: find the information you need quickly by keywords. Convenient and fast synchronization - Support multi-platform cell phone, computer, tablet, and web data keep consistent. Mobile Sharing and Collaboration - Easy sharing of data, easy access to information for teams. - Multi-author collaborative creation, team members collaborative editing, content updates in time to remind. - Collaboration around the content of the discussion to make up for the lack of Email, QQ, and WizNote group discussion. About us WeChat public number: WizNote
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Filebar at 67% against 为知笔记 X's 17%. Filebar also leads on rating (4.3 vs 2.0) and ratings volume (350 vs 6). On price, update cadence, 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. Filebar sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and 为知笔记 X sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Filebar holds the better App Store score, 4.3 against 2.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Filebar has 350 ratings behind it against 6, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 67% of Filebar's written reviews are positive against 17% of 为知笔记 X's.
Filebar ships an update every 2 weeks, 为知笔记 X every 3 weeks. Both last shipped on November 3, 2026.
| Parameter | Filebar | 为知笔记 X |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (350 ratings) — better | 2.0 (6 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 66.8% of reviews — better | 16.7% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 350 — better | 6 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks — better | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple TV — better | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15 | 14.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 142 MB | 54 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 水峰 徐 | Beijing Wozhi Technology Co. Ltd |
Customer experience
Filebar
为知笔记 X
Bugs and requests
Filebar
Reported bugs
4 issues- Playback issues with 4K and high-bitrate videos
- Inconsistent behavior when connecting to SMB/FTP servers
- Subtitle display problems, especially for Chinese characters
- Inability to resume playback from the last position
Requested features
5 requests- Add support for Dolby Vision and Dolby Atmos
- Implement a more intuitive and customizable user interface
- Introduce a background download/upload feature
- Add a built-in subtitle search and download functionality
- Implement a cross-device playback sync feature
为知笔记 X
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Filebar
- Filebar Pro Lifetime$9.99
为知笔记 X
- WizNote X Yearly$8.99








