Jot / Notes vs Auer Notes
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Jot / Notes
A minimalist note-taking application designed for quickly capturing thoughts, tasks, and ideas. It offers intelligent categorization using simple in-line commands or automatic organization.
- Minimalist interface
- Quickly jot thoughts and tasks
- In-line categorization with '/' or '#'
- Automatic organization
- List creation
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Jot down your thoughts, tasks, lists, notes and ideas using this minimal notes app. Use "/" or "#" in-line to determine how everything is categorized or just jot and let the app take care of that for you.
Auer Notes
This is a straightforward note-taking application focused on speed, ease of use, and privacy. It prioritizes a minimalist interface and local data storage, ensuring offline access and preventing other apps from accessing your notes.
- Fast and easy to use
- Minimalist user interface
- Local data storage
- Offline access
- Plain text notes
- Private and secure
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Auer Notes is a note-taking application designed to be fast, easy to use, and stay out of the way until you need it. Simple and clear, Auer Notes is intentional, focusing on less, instead of more. It does one thing, the simplest possible way. Local Data: Your data is stored locally and it's always available, even when you are offline. The app doesn't use iCloud. There is no cloud or vendor preventing you from accessing your data. Also, no other apps have access to your notes. Minimal: Auer Notes has a modern and minimalist user interface designed to be simple. It is aggressively mute on purpose. The application was built to be lightweight, and to utilize less device resources. Auer Notes: A plain text and private notes app.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Jot / Notes at 67% against Auer Notes's 0%. Jot / Notes also leads on rating (4.5 vs 4.1) and iOS requirement (14.0 vs 18.2). 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Jot / Notes holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 4.1. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 9 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 67% of Jot / Notes's written reviews are positive against 0% of Auer Notes's.
Jot / Notes ships an update every 2 days, Auer Notes every 4 days. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.
| Parameter | Jot / Notes | Auer Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (4 ratings) — better | 4.1 (9 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 66.7% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 4 | 9 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 days — better | Every 4 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 — better | 18.2 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 1 MB | 0 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Michale Jarrell | Uri Fridman |
Customer experience
Jot / Notes
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In-app purchases
Jot / Notes
No in-app purchases
Auer Notes
No in-app purchases
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