Comparison

JotNotes vs Tempea

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

Tempea

This app consolidates daily planning, workout tracking, and cycle awareness into a single, calming interface. It helps users organize tasks, schedule their day with time-blocking, and monitor fitness progress. The cycle tracking feature offers gentle context for planning without being a medical tool.

Highlights
  • All-in-one planner
  • Task management with time-blocking
  • Workout tracking with 142 exercises
  • Cycle tracking for planning context
  • Customizable themes
  • Calendar heatmap for busy days
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Tempea — planner, calendar and workouts in one app Plan your day, follow your workout program and keep your week under control — without jumping between apps or losing track. Tempea brings the important parts of everyday life together in one thoughtfully designed space: tasks, workouts, a calendar and, if you need it, a cycle tracker. PLANNER — everything you need for your day From quick to-dos to tasks you can't afford to forget. Add time, duration, reminders, repeats and notes to each task, and keep your day organized. - Plan tasks and set aside time for them throughout your day - Set individual reminders for each task - Create repeating tasks for things you do regularly - Add notes so important details are always close at hand - Organize tasks into categories and mark what matters most - A day timeline shows how busy you are at a glance, and a "Now" ring shows how much time is left on your current task WORKOUTS — from your program to the last set Plan your workouts and complete them right inside Tempea — no separate gym app needed. - Choose a ready-made workout program or create your own - Build workouts from a large library of exercises - Log weight, reps and completed sets - The rest timer lives right in the button between sets and stays visible in Dynamic Island and on the Lock Screen — no need to keep the app open - Follow your workout exercise by exercise - Get a quick summary when you finish - Look back at your workout history and see what you did and when CALENDAR — your whole month at a glance Look beyond today's to-do list and see the bigger picture. Tempea helps you quickly understand what your day, week or entire month looks like. - See all your planned tasks by day - Understand how busy your month is at a glance - Keep track of how much of what you planned you actually completed - Spot especially busy days and weeks ahead of time CYCLE — everything you need, nothing you don't A simple, visual way to track your cycle without cluttered screens or dozens of metrics. - Mark the start of your period in the calendar - See your current cycle phase - View the estimated date of your next period - Follow your cycle through a visual representation of the Moon (Tempea is not a medical app and is not intended for diagnosis or medical decision-making) TEMPEA, YOUR WAY Choose from three carefully designed themes — Olive, Terracotta or Sea — and make Tempea feel a little more like yours. One life shouldn't be scattered across a dozen apps. Planner, workouts and calendar — plus your cycle, if you need it — all in one place. Tempea — one app to plan, train and live at a calmer pace.

Screenshots

JotNotes2 screens
Tempea4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Tempea at none against JotNotes's 1. Tempea also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 67%) and rating (5.0 vs 4.7). On price, ratings volume, update cadence 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. Tempea asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

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

UpkeepUpdate frequency

JotNotes ships an update every 3 days, Tempea every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 10, 2026 and October 4, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
JotNotes versus Tempea: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterJotNotesTempea
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (3 ratings)5.0 (3 ratings) — better
Positive reviews66.7% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings33
Update frequencyEvery 3 days — betterEvery 4 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS26.216.4 — better
Further details — not scored
Size6 MB39 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperIgor RusinovAnton Naumov

Customer experience

JotNotes

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

Tempea

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

JotNotes

One-time1
  • Unlock Full App$0.99
None

Tempea

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is JotNotes free?
JotNotes is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Tempea free?
Tempea is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, JotNotes or Tempea?
Tempea is rated higher. JotNotes averages 4.7 out of 5 from 3 ratings, while Tempea averages 5.0 from 3 ratings.
Do JotNotes or Tempea have ads?
Neither JotNotes nor Tempea shows ads.
Which is updated more often, JotNotes or Tempea?
JotNotes ships an update every 3 days, and Tempea every 4 days. Most recently, JotNotes was updated on October 10, 2026 and Tempea on October 4, 2026.

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