Comparison

NovaNote vs Orbb

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

Orbb

This app helps you organize saved content like articles, videos, and recommendations. It automatically categorizes your saves and allows you to find them quickly with natural language search. You can also create curated collections and visual guides from your saved items.

Highlights
  • Save links, photos, voice notes, and thoughts
  • Automatic organization by title, summary, and tags
  • Natural language search for quick retrieval
  • Create shareable Guides from categorized saves
  • Build themed collections with Picks
  • Map view of saved items
  • Saving habit insights and recaps
Features
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STOP LOSING THE GOOD STUFF You saved it somewhere — a restaurant, an article, a video, a friend's recommendation. Now it's buried in screenshots, browser tabs, notes apps, and DMs. Gone. Orbb fixes this. Share a link, snap a photo, record a voice note, or type a thought. Orbb instantly organizes it — title, summary, category, tags, location, people, places, and topics. No folders. No manual sorting. Just save and forget. FIND ANYTHING IN SECONDS Ask Orbb like you'd ask a friend. "What was that pasta place from last month?" or "Show me the design tutorials I saved." It searches your entire collection and gives you real answers — not a list of links. GUIDES — YOUR SAVES, TURNED INTO SOMETHING USEFUL Save 3+ things in the same category and Orbb offers to turn them into a Guide — a travel itinerary, food guide, learning path, watch list, or date night plan. Share any Guide with a single link. PICKS — CURATE & SHARE Build themed collections from your saves. Add notes, seal them when they're perfect, and share with anyone. EXPLORE YOUR WORLD See your saves on a map. Rediscover forgotten bookmarks. Browse by people, topics, and categories across your entire collection. INSIGHTS Saving streaks, daily activity, top categories, most-mentioned people and places, and weekly recaps — your saving habits, visualized. BUILT FOR SPEED Share Extension — save from any app in 2 taps Terms of Use: https://orbb.app/terms.html Privacy Policy: https://orbb.app/privacy.html

Screenshots

NovaNote4 screens
Orbb4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: NovaNote at 4.0 against Orbb's 1.0. NovaNote also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 3) and review sentiment (33% vs 0%). Orbb's advantage is iOS requirement (18.6 vs 26.0). On price, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Orbb sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per 7 days. NovaNote asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

NovaNote holds the better App Store score, 4.0 against 1.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 1 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 33% of NovaNote's written reviews are positive against 0% of Orbb's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

NovaNote ships an update every 9 days, Orbb fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on July 8, 2026 and September 8, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
NovaNote versus Orbb: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterNovaNoteOrbb
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.0 (3 ratings) — better1.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews33.3% of reviews — better0.0% of reviews
Number of ratings3 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 9 days — betterFortnightly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS26.018.6 — better
Further details — not scored
Size11 MB84 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperFrancesco SalvatiRaj Dangi

Customer experience

NovaNote

All ratings2 ratings
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive33.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative66.7%

Orbb

All ratings1 ratings
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

In-app purchases

None

NovaNote

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

Orbb

Subscriptions3
  • Orbb Pro Weekly$2.997 Days
  • Orbb Pro3 Days trial$6.991 Month
  • Orbb Pro Yearly3 Days trial$59.991 Year

Questions

Is NovaNote free?
NovaNote is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Orbb free?
Orbb is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, NovaNote or Orbb?
NovaNote is rated higher. NovaNote averages 4.0 out of 5 from 3 ratings, while Orbb averages 1.0 from 1 ratings.
Do NovaNote or Orbb have ads?
Neither NovaNote nor Orbb shows ads.
Which is updated more often, NovaNote or Orbb?
NovaNote ships an update every 9 days, and Orbb fortnightly. Most recently, NovaNote was updated on July 8, 2026 and Orbb on September 8, 2026.

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