NovaNote vs Dataspoon
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
NovaNote
This app merges your digital life and ideas with advanced rich text formatting, image and PDF attachments, and voice recording. Seamlessly integrate maps and calendars into your notes for effortless organization and task management.
- Rich text formatting
- Map integration
- Calendar integration
- Image and PDF attachments
- Voice recording
- Color-coded categories
- iCloud sync
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NovaNote is your space to write, organize, and create without interrupting the flow of your ideas. Take notes, create notebooks, add images, scans, drawings, PDFs, audio recordings, tasks, events, and locations: everything stays together in one simple, complete app designed to support your everyday work and creativity. With notebooks, you can organize pages and notes more naturally, keeping projects, study, work, and personal ideas separate and easy to find. Rich text tools let you format text, create lists, adjust alignment, and structure every note with clarity. NovaNote also helps you preserve context. Add locations to notes, connect calendar events, record multiple audio clips in a single note, import attachments, and turn images, scans, and drawings into resources that are always within reach. Attachments are a core part of the experience: add photos, PDFs, images, scans, and drawings, then edit, annotate, crop, and export them whenever you need. Color-coded categories make it easier to quickly find what matters. iCloud sync keeps your content updated across your Apple devices, while improvements to performance, zoom, gallery, scanner, and overall stability make the experience smoother and more reliable. NovaNote is built for anyone who wants functionality and creativity in one place: notes, ideas, documents, and memories, always with you.
Dataspoon
This app consolidates sales and labor data from various systems into a single, easy-to-understand dashboard for restaurant operators. It provides near real-time insights into store performance, allowing for quick comparison of sales and labor metrics.
- Near real-time sales metrics
- Labor hour and cost tracking
- Combined sales and labor dashboard
- Secure employee sign-in
- Administrator-controlled user access
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Dataspoon gives restaurant operators a clear view of their business by bringing sales and labor data into one simple app. Whether your team is tracking sales through your POS system or labor through your time & attendance platform, Dataspoon shows it all in near real time — side by side. Features: - Sales Data – See near real time sales metrics for your store. - Labor Insights – Track labor hours, costs, and percentages in near real time. - Combined View – Compare sales and labor data in one dashboard to understand performance at a glance. - Secure Access – Employees sign in with organization-issued invites for verified access. - Simple Setup – A restaurant administrator controls user access.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Dataspoon at 100% against NovaNote's 33%. Dataspoon also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.0) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 26.0). NovaNote's advantage is monetization model (free vs ad-supported). On price, ratings volume, update cadence 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.
Dataspoon holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 4 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 33% of NovaNote's written reviews are positive against 100% of Dataspoon's.
NovaNote ships an update every 9 days, Dataspoon every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on July 8, 2026 and September 21, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | NovaNote | Dataspoon |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (3 ratings) | 5.0 (4 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 33.3% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 3 | 4 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 9 days — better | Every 2 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Ad-supported |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 11 MB | 42 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Francesco Salvati | BobbyCox Companies |
Customer experience
NovaNote
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In-app purchases
NovaNote
No in-app purchases
Dataspoon
No in-app purchases









