Comparison

JotNotes vs Anybox

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

Head to head
About

JotNotes

Capture notes, ideas, and goals effortlessly with this streamlined application. Organize your thoughts using color-coded boards for easy retrieval in any aspect of your life.

Highlights
  • Clutter-free interface
  • Organized notes
  • Color-coded boards
  • Easy to find notes
  • Capture ideas and goals
Features
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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.

About

Anybox

Save, organize, and quickly access your links, notes, and files across all your Apple devices. Features include nested tags, smart lists, and system-wide share extensions for seamless saving. Syncs via iCloud and respects user privacy.

Highlights
  • Cross-device bookmark sync (iPhone, iPad, Mac)
  • Spotlight search for bookmarks
  • Nested tags and folders for organization
  • Smart Lists for automatic organization
  • Support for images, files, and notes
  • System-wide share extensions
  • iCloud sync
Features
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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

Screenshots

JotNotes2 screens
Anybox4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: JotNotes at every 3 days against Anybox's every 5 weeks. Anybox's advantage is ratings volume (525 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. JotNotes sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Anybox sells 7 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

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 525 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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

JotNotes ships an update every 3 days, Anybox every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
JotNotes versus Anybox: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterJotNotesAnybox
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (3 ratings)4.7 (525 ratings) — better
Positive reviews66.7% of reviews — better64.7% of reviews
Number of ratings3525 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 days — betterEvery 5 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, Mac — better
Requires iOS26.217.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size6 MB56 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperIgor RusinovAnybox LTD

Customer experience

JotNotes

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive66.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative33.3%

Anybox

All ratings525 ratings
Positive92.4%
Neutral2.9%
Negative4.8%
Written reviews133 reviews
Positive64.7%
Neutral11.3%
Negative24.1%

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

1 purchases

JotNotes

One-time1
  • Unlock Full App$0.99
7 purchases

Anybox

Subscriptions2
  • 1 month$1.991 Month
  • 12 months$14.991 Year
One-time5
  • Chips-Sized Tip$1.99
  • Coffee-Sized Tip$4.99
  • Pizza-Sized Tip$9.99
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  • Lifetime$39.99
  • Lifetime$59.99

Questions

Is JotNotes free?
JotNotes is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Anybox free?
Anybox is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, JotNotes or Anybox?
Anybox is rated higher. JotNotes averages 4.7 out of 5 from 3 ratings, while Anybox averages 4.7 from 525 ratings.
Do JotNotes or Anybox have ads?
Neither JotNotes nor Anybox shows ads.
Which is updated more often, JotNotes or Anybox?
JotNotes ships an update every 3 days, and Anybox every 5 weeks. Most recently, JotNotes was updated on October 24, 2026 and Anybox on October 30, 2026.

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