Mentoring Works vs Harbor Notes
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Mentoring Works
This app helps nonprofits manage and enhance mentor-mentee relationships. It simplifies scheduling, tracking, and reflecting on engagements to foster stronger connections and program success.
- Schedule and adjust meetings on the go
- Receive meeting reminders and accountability prompts
- Track engagements, satisfaction, feedback, and goals
- Monitor and improve mentor-mentee relationships
- Seamless engagement tracking for stronger connections
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Mentoring Works is the mobile first tool for impactful mentoring programs. Mentoring Works enables nonprofits to track, monitor, and improve upon the success of mentor-mentee relationships with unprecedented ease. The Mentoring Works mobile app makes it simple and seamless for mentors and mentees to schedule, track and reflect on every engagement for stronger, more impactful relationships over time. ** App Features ** Scheduling- the Mentoring Works app allows mentors and mentees to schedule and adjust meetings on the go and enables users to engage from wherever they are to strengthen and deepen mentoring relationships. Reminders + Accountability- Mentors and mentees will receive meeting reminders in advance of meeting times allowing scheduling adjustments if necessary. Mentors can also enable reminders regarding mentee interests and goals to encourage preparation and meeting success. Relationship Tracking- Record data on engagements with your mentor or mentee and track satisfaction, feedback, and goals.
Harbor Notes
Capture, organize, and securely store all your notes, tasks, files, and scanned documents. This private second brain offers rich text editing, instant search with OCR, and cross-device synchronization. It prioritizes user privacy with no ads or data selling, and offers optional end-to-end encryption.
- Rich notes with checklists, tables, and highlights
- Notebooks, stacks, and tags for organization
- Task management with due dates
- Document scanning and voice memos
- Instant search with OCR
- Offline-first sync across devices
- Optional end-to-end encryption
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Harbor is your private second brain — a fast, native notes app for people who want to remember everything and own it for life. Capture notes, organize them into notebooks, tag anything, attach photos and files, scan paper documents, sketch ideas, and record voice memos. Then find any of it in seconds — Harbor's search even reads the text inside your images and scans. REMEMBER EVERYTHING • Rich notes with checklists, tables, images, links, and highlights • Notebooks and stacks that keep every part of your life organized • Tags that cut across notebooks • Tasks with due dates, right beside your notes • Scan documents with your camera; sketch with your finger or Apple Pencil • Voice memos and file attachments of every kind • Instant search across everything — including the text inside images and scans (OCR) YOURS, EVERYWHERE • Truly native apps for iPhone, iPad, and Mac — no web wrapper • Offline-first: your notes live on your device and sync automatically • The full web app at app.harbor.my from any browser • A web clipper that saves articles and pages straight into your notebooks PRIVATE BY DESIGN • No ads. No selling your data. No training AI on your notes. Ever. • Optional end-to-end encryption locks down your most sensitive notes so that no one — not even us — can read them • Export everything anytime in open formats. You are never locked in. SWITCHING FROM ANOTHER NOTES APP? Import your Evernote notebooks (.enex files) with the Mac or web app — your notebooks, tags, and attachments sync straight to your iPhone and iPad. SIMPLE, HONEST PRICING Harbor is free for up to 50 notes, 3 notebooks, and 20 tags — no credit card required. When you outgrow the free plan, Harbor Unlimited removes every limit: • $9.99/month or $99/year • Unlimited notes, notebooks, tags, tasks, and files • A written price-lock promise in our terms: your price won't go up for at least 3 years Subscriptions are billed to your Apple ID and renew automatically until cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel anytime in your App Store account settings. And even if you stop paying, you can always read and export your notes — Harbor never holds your data hostage. Privacy Policy: https://harbor.my/privacy/ Terms of Use: https://harbor.my/terms/ Questions? A real person answers: help@harbor.my
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Mentoring Works at none against Harbor Notes's 2. Mentoring Works also leads on iOS requirement (12.4 vs 18.0). Harbor Notes's advantage is update cadence (every 2 days vs every 2 months) and ratings volume (7 vs 2). On price, rating, review sentiment 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. Harbor Notes sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. Mentoring Works asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Mentoring Works against 5.0 for Harbor Notes. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 7 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
Mentoring Works ships an update every 2 months, Harbor Notes every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Mentoring Works | Harbor Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) | 5.0 (7 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 7 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 12.4 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 25 MB | 43 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Civic Champs, Inc. | Cloudmanic Labs, LLC |
Customer experience
Mentoring Works
Harbor Notes
In-app purchases
Mentoring Works
No in-app purchases
Harbor Notes
- Unlimited — Monthly$9.991 Month
- Unlimited — Yearly$99.001 Year









