Calculator Notes vs Quarterdeck Pro
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Calculator Notes
This app combines a calculator with spreadsheet functionality, allowing users to automatically sum item values. It supports unlimited folders and notes, with features like goal setting and batch operations. Widgets are available for home and lock screens.
- Automatic total value calculation
- Unlimited folders, notes, and items
- CSV output and sharing
- Goal setting and progress tracking
- Batch operations (copy, duplicate, color coding)
- Home & lock screen widgets
- Dark mode
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It is a calculator notepad that automatically calculates the total value. A simple spreadsheet application. Widget compatible. All features are completely free to use. - Unlimited folders/notes/items - Automatically calculate the total value of items - CSV output / save file / share to SNS - Set goals and deadlines and display percentages - Batch operations such as copy/duplicate/color coding - filter and sort - Consumption tax calculation and fixed cost settings - Easy input from history - Home & lock screen widget support - dark mode
Quarterdeck Pro
This app serves as a centralized workspace for professionals to manage tasks, notes, code snippets, finances, and projects. It offers features like priority task management, rich text notes, financial tracking, and project oversight, all synced across devices.
- Task management with priorities and deadlines
- Rich text note-taking
- Finance tracking for income and expenses
- Code snippet storage
- Project management
- iCloud sync across devices
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Quarterdeck is a notes app with Apple Intelligence built in — and it runs on your iPhone, not on someone's server. Summarize a long note. Pull the action items out of a meeting write-up and turn them into real tasks. Ask what your spending is telling you. All of it happens on-device, which means it works on a plane, and nothing you write is uploaded to be processed. WRITE THE WAY YOU ACTUALLY WORK • Rich text with headings, lists and checklists • Drop in photos and PDFs — they sit inline, where you put them • Dictate straight into a page and watch the words land as you speak • Scan a document with the camera and keep it as a real page, not a snapshot • Search finds words inside your images, not just the ones you typed • Lock a note behind Face ID or a PIN CAPTURE IT WHEREVER YOU ARE • Share a page from Safari and it arrives as a note, with a preview card • Home Screen widgets for today's tasks and one-tap capture • "Hey Siri, note this in Quarterdeck" • Everything syncs over iCloud, privately, across iPhone, iPad and Mac MORE THAN NOTES • Tasks — priorities, due dates, checklists, repeats • Agenda — your day and week, with real repeating events • Projects — plan work and track it to done • Finance — income, expenses, bills and budgets, with AI reading the trend • Code — a snippet library that explains any snippet back to you FREE, AND HONESTLY FREE Notes, tasks, agenda and projects are free forever — not a trial, not a countdown. You also get five Apple Intelligence runs a month at no charge, so you can judge it on your own notes. Quarterdeck Pro makes AI unlimited and adds dictation, document scanning, unlimited attachments, and the Finance and Code modules. Try Pro free for a week. PRIVACY Apple Intelligence runs on your device. Your notes sync through your own iCloud account. There is no Quarterdeck server, no account to create, and no analytics following you around. Requires an Apple Intelligence–capable device for the AI features. Everything else works on any iPhone running iOS 17 or later. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Calculator Notes at none against Quarterdeck Pro's 3. Calculator Notes also leads on ratings volume (3 vs 1). Quarterdeck Pro's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 4 days vs every 12 months). On price, rating 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. Quarterdeck Pro sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $7.99 per month. Calculator Notes asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Calculator Notes against 5.0 for Quarterdeck Pro. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 1 respectively.
Calculator Notes ships an update every 12 months, Quarterdeck Pro every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on June 1, 2026 and September 17, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Calculator Notes | Quarterdeck Pro |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (3 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 3 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 12 months | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Ad-supported — better | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 11 MB | 9 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | FugaPiyo Inc. | Dylan Dalmeida |
Customer experience
Calculator Notes
Quarterdeck Pro
In-app purchases
Calculator Notes
No in-app purchases
Quarterdeck Pro
- Monthly$7.991 Month
- Yearly$49.991 Year
- Lifetime$89.99
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