Optimus Notes vs VarScout
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Optimus Notes
This app allows users to record and analyze product ratings with customizable selections and voice dictation. It supports offline use, image attachments, and automatic cloud uploads for review and analysis. Data can be exported to Excel for further processing.
- Offline mode
- Customizable rating selections
- Voice dictation for comments
- Attach pictures to notes
- Automatic cloud upload
- Excel export
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- Load your Locations, Varieties, and Fieldmaps - Go Off Grid with Offline Mode - Customize your Rating Selection at any time - Use our Slide-and-Score ratings to quickly Score your Products - Use Voice dictation for adding comments - Attach Pictures directly to your Notes - Notes get automatically uploaded to GoodSeedAnalytics.com for Review - Browse, Filter, Analyze on page, or “Export Notebook” to generate an Excel file
VarScout
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VarScout enables farmers, agronomists, extension workers or anyone to record the location of where a particular crop variety is growing. These variety observations help to create a publicly available, searchable database that shows where certain crop varieties are being grown. This data can help farmers, development organisations and policy makers better understand the distribution of certain crop varieties. The ultimate goal of the VarScout is to improve the understanding of farmer’s needs and to protect agro-biodiversity. Crops currently supported: Potato, Sweet Potato Countries currently supported: Kenya, Peru and Mozambique More crops, countries and languages will be added in the future.
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Verdict
Optimus Notes and VarScout are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters — price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.
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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 19, 2026 and September 11, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Optimus Notes | VarScout |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (6 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 6 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 41 MB | 57 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Dymaxion Labs | RESONANZ Group GmbH |
In-app purchases
Optimus Notes
No in-app purchases
VarScout
No in-app purchases
