JotNotes vs Anybox
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
JotNotes
Capture thoughts, meeting notes, or lists with a simple notepad. Organize them into custom boards by topic and access them easily via home screen widgets. Sync your notes across devices and share them with others.
- Quick note capture
- Organize notes by topic/boards
- Home screen widgets
- Search functionality
- Share notes
- iCloud sync
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JotNotes is a simple notepad for everyday notes, ideas, and things to remember. Organize your notes by topic and find them with search. WRITE NOTES Capture a thought, a meeting note, or a shopping list. Your edits are saved automatically. ORGANIZE BY TOPIC Group notes into boards for work, study, projects, or personal use. Choose a color and add an optional description for each board. USE HOME SCREEN WIDGETS View recent notes or open a selected board directly from your Home Screen. FIND AND SHARE Search note text, board names, and descriptions. Share a note with other apps. SYNC WITH ICLOUD Keep your notes and boards in sync across iPhone and iPad.
Anybox
Save, organize, and quickly access your links, files, and notes across all your Apple devices. Features include smart lists, nested tags, and system-wide share extensions for seamless saving. Syncs via iCloud with a strong focus on user privacy.
- Cross-device bookmark syncing (iPhone, iPad, Mac)
- Spotlight search for bookmarks
- Categorize with nested tags and folders
- Smart Lists for automatic organization
- Support for images, files, and notes
- System-wide share extensions
- iCloud sync with privacy focus
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# Features 1. Get your bookmarks on iPhone, iPad, and Mac. 2. Search your bookmarks with Spotlight. 3. Use Anybox keyboard to quickly input your frequently used links and notes. 4. Categorize bookmarks with nested tags and folders. 5. Create Smart Lists to automatically organize bookmarks with attributes like URL and added date. 6. Support images, files, and notes. Easily retrieve frequently used images and notes. 7. Track your reading list with Widgets. Or save clipboard to specified collections. 8. Save links with system-wide share extensions. Just native experience. 9. Sync via iCloud. No personal data collected. 10. Import your bookmarks from browsers or other third-party apps. Anybox offers lifetime plan and subscription plans as a universal purchase, which means you only need to purchase once for all the platforms (iOS/macOS/iPadOS) Anybox support. You can choose one of these plans to save unlimited items in the app. Privacy Policy: https://anybox.app/privacy-policy Terms of Service: https://anybox.app/terms-of-service
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: JotNotes at every 3 days against Anybox's every 5 weeks. Anybox's advantage is ratings volume (526 vs 3) and iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.2). On price, rating, review sentiment and ads 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. JotNotes sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Anybox sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.7 for JotNotes against 4.7 for Anybox. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Anybox has 526 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 67% of JotNotes's written reviews are positive against 65% of Anybox's.
JotNotes ships an update every 3 days, Anybox every 5 weeks. Both last shipped on November 7, 2026.
| Parameter | JotNotes | Anybox |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (3 ratings) — better | 4.7 (526 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 66.7% of reviews — better | 64.7% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 3 | 526 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 days — better | Every 5 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 26.2 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 7 MB | 56 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Igor Rusinov | Anybox LTD |
Customer experience
JotNotes
Anybox
Bugs and requests
JotNotes
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Anybox
Reported bugs
2 issues- Inconsistent behavior with reader mode
- Issues with bookmark syncing
Requested features
4 requests- Add ability to manually add links
- Improve duplicate detection
- Allow sorting of tags/folders
- Implement private bookmark folders
In-app purchases
JotNotes
- Unlock Full App$0.99
Anybox
- 1 month$1.991 Month
- 12 months$14.991 Year
- Chips-Sized Tip$3.99
- Coffee-Sized Tip$7.99
- Pizza-Sized Tip$14.99
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- Lifetime2 variants$49.99
