Comparison

HotNotes vs Clients

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

Head to head
About

HotNotes

Organize your daily tasks and appointments with a stylish and intuitive note-taking app. Create to-do lists, break down tasks into smaller steps, and set reminders for important events. No sign-in is required to start planning your life.

Highlights
  • Daily to-do lists
  • Task breakdown
  • Shapes tool for drawing
  • Elegant design
  • Appointment planning
  • Daily diary creation
  • Event reminders
Features
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• Write daily to-do lists and mark tasks as completed Your basic building block is the almighty To-Do—each a small step toward a great accomplishment. You can add notes, schedule it, and break it down into smaller steps. Features - Draw perfect shapes and lines with shapes tool - enjoy an elegant and eye-pleasing design - plan appointments and set up a stylish agenda - write daily to-do lists and mark tasks as completed - take notes for every day and create a diary - reminders for important events, tasks or notes - no sign-in or registration necessary

About

Clients

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Stop opening three apps every time a client calls. Clients is a native iPhone, iPad, and Mac app that connects your contacts, your notes, and your projects in one app. Your client history, your active projects, and your follow-ups all live together, so you always know where things stand before you pick up the phone, go into a meeting, or send that email. It's not trying to replace your project management or your contacts app or your notes app. It's all three, in one app. CLIENTS, NOTES, AND PROJECTS, CONNECTED Most apps keep your clients in one place and your work in another. Clients links them. Every client has their own projects, conversation history, notes, and follow-ups, so the context you need is always one tap away. A DASHBOARD THAT TELLS YOU WHAT NEEDS YOU Open the app to a short written summary of your day, then Today, Upcoming, and Recent Issues. See what's overdue, who you're waiting on, and which follow-ups you owe, and tap any of it to go straight there. CLIENT HISTORY Log every call, meeting, and email as it happens. Each client has a running timeline and a relationship status, so you always know what was said and whose move it is. WORKS WITH APPLE CONTACTS, CALENDAR, AND REMINDERS Choose the people you want to track from Apple Contacts. Their details stay in one place and stay up to date. Meetings go into Apple Calendar and follow-ups into Apple Reminders, so they show up on every device you own. PROJECTS, MILESTONES, AND ISSUES Track every project from start to finish with milestones, issues, and sub-issues. Organize work with teams, tags, statuses, and priorities, without the complexity of tools built for large teams. LISTS AND BOARDS View projects, issues, and clients as a list or as a board, grouped and sorted the way you work. Drag a card to change its status, and add an issue straight into a column. SIRI AND SHORTCUTS Log a call, add an issue, set a follow-up, or ask what's due today, without opening the app. FAST, HOWEVER MUCH YOU TRACK Clients 2 was rebuilt for speed. It opens instantly whether you have a handful of issues or thousands. AND MORE • Favorites in the sidebar for your most active clients and projects • Search across projects, issues, and people • Export issues as PDF, Text, CSV, or JSON • Four themes, including a near-monochrome Noir • On Mac, share a list from an email and turn each line into an issue • iCloud sync across iPhone, iPad, and Mac Built for people who manage their own clients and do the work themselves. No enterprise features you'll never use. Just the context you need, without the complexity you don't.

Screenshots

HotNotes4 screens
Clients4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: HotNotes at Free against Clients's $9.99. HotNotes also leads on iOS requirement (17.0 vs 27.0). Clients's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs every 28 months). On ads, in-app purchases and device support 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

HotNotes is free to download; Clients costs $9.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

HotNotes ships an update every 28 months, Clients weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 8, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
HotNotes versus Clients: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHotNotesClients
PriceFree — better$9.99
Rating3.5 (6 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings6 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 28 monthsWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, Mac — better
Requires iOS17.0 — better27.0
Further details — not scored
Size5 MB19 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSamsuddin Ahmed SohagDavid Wilder

In-app purchases

None

HotNotes

No in-app purchases

None

Clients

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is HotNotes free?
HotNotes is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Clients free?
Clients costs $9.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do HotNotes or Clients have ads?
Neither HotNotes nor Clients shows ads.
Which is updated more often, HotNotes or Clients?
HotNotes ships an update every 28 months, and Clients weekly. Most recently, HotNotes was updated on November 3, 2026 and Clients on November 8, 2026.

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