Jot / Notes vs Lines | Beyond 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.
Lines | Beyond Notes
This app offers a comprehensive knowledge management system, allowing users to create rich text notes with media, capture web content, and record voice memos. It provides powerful organization tools like tags, folders, and linking, along with secure biometric authentication for privacy.
- Rich text and media note creation
- Web page capture
- Camera and voice note recording
- Tag and folder organization
- Note linking
- Biometric authentication
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Lines goal is to go beyond traditional note-taking, aspiring to be your one-stop solution for knowledge management. With Lines, you can: - Write expressively using rich text and media attachments - Capture information instantly with your camera - Share web pages from your browser and store them as notes - Retrieve information instantly with search - Organize with tags and folders - Keep what’s important close with pinned notes - Connect your thoughts by linking between notes - Record voice notes - Keep notes private using biometric authentication - And much more.
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Verdict
Jot / Notes and Lines | Beyond Notes both sit at 4.5 stars, but that hides the real split: 67% of Jot / Notes's written reviews are positive against 0% of Lines | Beyond Notes's. Jot / Notes also leads on update cadence (every 2 days vs every 5 weeks) and iOS requirement (14.0 vs 17.0). On price, rating, ratings volume 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 4.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 6 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 67% of Jot / Notes's written reviews are positive against 0% of Lines | Beyond Notes's.
Jot / Notes ships an update every 2 days, Lines | Beyond Notes every 5 weeks. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.
| Parameter | Jot / Notes | Lines | Beyond Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (4 ratings) — better | 4.3 (6 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 66.7% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 4 | 6 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 days — better | Every 5 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 1 MB | 8 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Michale Jarrell | Andres Portillo Chacon |
Customer experience
Jot / Notes
Lines | Beyond Notes
In-app purchases
Jot / Notes
No in-app purchases
Lines | Beyond Notes
No in-app purchases
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