Grandpa Notes vs Named entity recognition
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Grandpa Notes
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Grandpa Notes is a simple note-taking app. It is free and open source, with no advertisements, in-app purchases or tracking. Your notes are stored as plain text in a straightforward folder structure. You can create notebooks locally or in iCloud. There is also an optional encryption layer that is compatible with Cryptomator.
Named entity recognition
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Identifying people, places, and organizations by using a linguistic tagger to perform named entity recognition(NER) on a string. ※Named entity recognition(NER)
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Grandpa Notes at none against Named entity recognition's shown. Named entity recognition's advantage is update cadence (fortnightly vs every 20 months) and iOS requirement (15.8.3 vs 17.0). On price, 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Grandpa Notes ships an update every 20 months, Named entity recognition fortnightly. Both last shipped on September 29, 2026.
| Parameter | Grandpa Notes | Named entity recognition |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Every 20 months | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 15.8.3 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 3 MB | 36 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Julien Eyriès | Hideaki Uchikoshi |
In-app purchases
Grandpa Notes
No in-app purchases
Named entity recognition
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is Grandpa Notes free?
Is Named entity recognition free?
Do Grandpa Notes or Named entity recognition have ads?
Which is updated more often, Grandpa Notes or Named entity recognition?
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