Comparison

JotNotes vs beckett

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Quick note capture
  • Organize notes by topic/boards
  • Home screen widgets
  • Search functionality
  • Share notes
  • iCloud sync
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

beckett

This app helps you remember, plan, and organize your life. Capture notes, tasks, meals, and more, then easily retrieve information or ask questions about your saved data. It syncs across devices and prioritizes your privacy.

Highlights
  • Capture notes, tasks, and lists by typing, speaking, or scanning
  • Organize projects, meal plans, and shopping lists
  • Save and retrieve books, movies, recipes, and links
  • Ask questions about your saved information
  • Syncs data across iPhone, iPad, and web
  • Export or delete your data anytime
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beckett is a calmer place for your notes, projects, people, tasks, calendar, media, recipes, lists, and more, with nothing to set up or maintain. • today: a morning briefing, then your schedule, tasks, trackers, and meals for the day. • notes: sorted by what they're about and linked to the people and places they mention. Nothing to file or tag yourself. • people: mention someone and beckett starts a page for them, with their birthday, what they've told you, and the plans they're part of. • tasks: due dates, reminders, priorities, and steps. Pick a few to focus on today. • projects: plan and manage anything with notes, checklists, tables, and files. • calendar: your events next to everything else, synced both ways with Apple Calendar on iPhone. • recipes: save one from a link, rate what you've made, and cook along one step at a time. • meal plans and shopping: plan the week from your recipes, then get a list sorted by aisle with the amounts worked out. • trackers: log a habit, a rating, time spent, or a measurement with a tap or in chat. • library: books, movies, and shows, with who recommended them and your own notes. • journal: write freely or start from a prompt. Any tasks, notes, or events in an entry are saved too. Ask across all of it. Because everything lives together, beckett can answer with all of it at once. Ask what you need for Saturday's dinner and get the time, what your guests can't eat, and what's still on the shopping list. beckett can also search the web, read files and photos, and create images. Ready to share. Plan a project together, open your recipes and meal plans to the people you cook with, or send a friend a book or film from your library. Ready wherever you are. One beckett on iPhone, iPad, and the web, kept in sync. Check something off on one and it's done on all of them. Connect your AI agents (beta). Connect ChatGPT, Claude, or Muse to the same beckett. Each one can read what you've kept and save new things back where you can see, change, or delete them. You approve every connection and can switch any of them off anytime. Agents are optional, and beckett works fully on its own. Private by design. There are no ads, and we don't sell your data. Export everything or delete your account anytime. beckett requires a subscription, available monthly or yearly. The app shows each plan's price, any trial, and renewal terms before you subscribe. Manage or cancel anytime in your Apple Account settings. Terms of Use: https://yourbeckett.com/terms Privacy Policy: https://yourbeckett.com/privacy

Screenshots

JotNotes2 screens
beckett4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is monetization model: JotNotes at free with in-app purchases against beckett's subscription. JotNotes also leads on update cadence (every 3 days vs weekly). beckett's advantage is review sentiment (100% vs 67%) and rating (5.0 vs 4.7). On price, ratings volume, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. JotNotes sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and beckett sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $8.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

beckett holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 5 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 67% of JotNotes's written reviews are positive against 100% of beckett's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

JotNotes ships an update every 3 days, beckett weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 7, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
JotNotes versus beckett: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterJotNotesbeckett
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (3 ratings)5.0 (5 ratings) — better
Positive reviews66.7% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings35 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 days — betterWeekly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases — betterSubscription
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS26.217.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size7 MB91 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperIgor RusinovBeckett AI Ltd

Customer experience

JotNotes

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

beckett

All ratings4 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

JotNotes

One-time1
  • Unlock Full App$0.99
5 purchases

beckett

Subscriptions5
  • Weekly7 Days trial$8.997 Days
  • Monthly7 Days trial$10.991 Month
  • Monthly$10.991 Month
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  • Annual7 Days trial$99.001 Year
  • Annual$99.001 Year

Questions

Is JotNotes free?
JotNotes is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is beckett free?
beckett is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, JotNotes or beckett?
beckett is rated higher. JotNotes averages 4.7 out of 5 from 3 ratings, while beckett averages 5.0 from 5 ratings.
Do JotNotes or beckett have ads?
Neither JotNotes nor beckett shows ads.
Which is updated more often, JotNotes or beckett?
JotNotes ships an update every 3 days, and beckett weekly. Most recently, JotNotes was updated on November 7, 2026 and beckett on November 5, 2026.

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