Comparison

NovaNote vs OnDeviceAI

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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.

About

OnDeviceAI

Features
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Discover OnDeviceAI, the app that turns your iPhone into a powerful personal assistant, without ever compromising your privacy. (IOS 26 and for ìphone with Apple Intelligence) Your offline brain for everything. Summarize text, write emails, code, and create, all without an internet connection.

Screenshots

NovaNote4 screens
OnDeviceAI4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: NovaNote at every 9 days against OnDeviceAI's every 3 months. NovaNote also leads on device support (4 vs 2). On price, ads, in-app purchases and iOS requirement 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

NovaNote ships an update every 9 days, OnDeviceAI every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 4, 2026 and October 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
NovaNote versus OnDeviceAI: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterNovaNoteOnDeviceAI
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.0 (3 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews33.3% of reviews—
Number of ratings3 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 9 days — betterEvery 3 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS26.026.0
Further details — not scored
Size11 MB21 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperFrancesco SalvatiSimon Azoulay

In-app purchases

None

NovaNote

No in-app purchases

None

OnDeviceAI

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is NovaNote free?
NovaNote is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is OnDeviceAI free?
OnDeviceAI is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do NovaNote or OnDeviceAI have ads?
Neither NovaNote nor OnDeviceAI shows ads.
Which is updated more often, NovaNote or OnDeviceAI?
NovaNote ships an update every 9 days, and OnDeviceAI every 3 months. Most recently, NovaNote was updated on October 4, 2026 and OnDeviceAI on October 10, 2026.

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