Comparison

Today Notes vs Sebastian Assistant

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

Head to head
About

Today Notes

This app automatically organizes your notes by date, ensuring your current priorities are always visible. It uses time as the organizing system, moving notes from tomorrow to today and archiving old entries to prevent clutter. Focus on what matters now without manual sorting.

Highlights
  • Automatic daily organization
  • Notes move from tomorrow to today
  • Automatic archiving of old notes
  • Pin important notes
  • iCloud syncing across devices
  • Focus on current priorities
Features
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Notes and lists that organize themselves by day. Focus on today, plan for tomorrow, and let old notes archive automatically. Clarity, without constant re-sorting. Most note apps slowly turn into clutter. Today Notes is designed to prevent that. Instead of forcing you to manually organize lists and folders, Today Notes uses time as the organizing system. Notes naturally move forward from Tomorrow to Today, then archive based on their date, keeping your short-term priorities visible while older notes quietly move out of the way. How it works: • Today stays front and center. Everything that matters now is easy to see and act on. • Tomorrow becomes Today automatically. Plan ahead without building a backlog, when the day arrives your notes are already there. • Automatic archiving. Notes from the past roll off on their own, keeping your workspace uncluttered. • Pin what shouldn’t move. Keep important notes visible until you decide otherwise. Your notes stay up to date across all your devices with built-in iCloud syncing, automatically. Today Notes is free to download but requires a purchase to activate. You can choose from a one-time purchase to unlock it forever, or a monthly subscription. Any purchase unlocks Today Notes on iOS, iPadOS, and macOS. – Privacy Policy https://www.todaynotesapp.com/#privacy Terms of Use https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Sebastian Assistant

This app offers a streamlined way to manage reminders, notes, and actions through voice or text input. It features a smart dashboard for daily overviews, customizable widgets, and a privacy-first approach with on-device data storage.

Highlights
  • Voice + Text Actions
  • Smart Dashboard
  • Sticky Notes
  • Widgets & Standby
  • Customizable Sections
  • Privacy-First
Features
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Sebastian — Daily Assistant Sebastian pulls your calendar, reminders, notes, alarms and timers into one place, and keeps them tied to the people they are actually about. THREADS Link a calendar, a reminder list, a note, an alarm or a timer to a person, and Sebastian builds them a thread — one timeline of every appointment, reminder, note and comment involving them. Filter it to one kind of entry, then share it as text or a formatted PDF. It is the fastest way to answer "what has been going on with Mum's care?" without digging through four apps. YOUR DAY • Today: events, due reminders and what needs attention, in a dashboard you arrange yourself. • Reminders: group by list, due date, priority or status. Save Quick Views, act on many at once, and timebox a task straight onto your calendar. • Calendar: day, week and month, with conflict spotting and travel time. • Notes: Markdown, images and attachments, with their own widgets. TIMERS, ALARMS AND FASTING Multiple named timers, full alarm scheduling, and fasting timers that keep running past their target so you can see how long you actually fasted. WIDGETS AND SHORTCUTS Home Screen, Lock Screen and StandBy widgets, launcher cards, Live Activities, Control Center controls, Spotlight search and Siri Shortcuts. DRIVE MODE A large-type, glanceable view of what is next when you are on the road. PRIVACY Your calendar, reminders and contacts stay on your device and in Apple's own apps. Sebastian asks for what it needs and nothing more. There is no account and no sign-up. FREE AND PLUS Free shows every calendar and reminder list you have — nothing is hidden. You can add to and edit any three of each, and tick off or delete a reminder wherever it lives. It includes alarms, timers, severe weather alerts, and the small and medium widgets. Sebastian Plus is a single one-time purchase — no subscription, nothing to renew — and it lifts every limit: editing in all your calendars and lists, unlimited notes, sync across your devices, full thread history and export, hourly and 10-day forecasts, focus timers, shared tags and the large launcher widgets. It is shareable with your Family Sharing group. New installs get 30 days of everything to try first. https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Today Notes4 screens
Sebastian Assistant4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Sebastian Assistant at none against Today Notes's 3. Sebastian Assistant also leads on iOS requirement (18.0 vs 26.0). On price, rating, ratings volume and update cadence 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. Today Notes sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Sebastian Assistant asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Today Notes against 5.0 for Sebastian Assistant. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Today Notes ships an update every 3 days, Sebastian Assistant every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 12, 2026 and October 9, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 6 level
Today Notes versus Sebastian Assistant: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterToday NotesSebastian Assistant
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Number of ratings11
Update frequencyEvery 3 daysEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases — betterPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS26.018.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size21 MB23 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperFrancisco CantuMichael Surratt

Customer experience

Today Notes

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Sebastian Assistant

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Today Notes

Subscriptions1
  • Monthly Subscription7 Days trial$2.991 Month
One-time2
  • Free Trial (30 Days)Free
  • Full Unlock$24.99
None

Sebastian Assistant

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Today Notes free?
Today Notes is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Sebastian Assistant free?
Sebastian Assistant is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Today Notes or Sebastian Assistant?
Today Notes and Sebastian Assistant are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Today Notes or Sebastian Assistant have ads?
Neither Today Notes nor Sebastian Assistant shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Today Notes or Sebastian Assistant?
Today Notes ships an update every 3 days, and Sebastian Assistant every 2 days. Most recently, Today Notes was updated on October 12, 2026 and Sebastian Assistant on October 9, 2026.

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