HashTagNotes vs Lines | Beyond Notes
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
HashTagNotes
Organize quick notes, links, and files with tags for easy retrieval. This note-taking app syncs seamlessly across all your Apple devices.
- Message yourself notes, links, and files
- Organize with tags
- Easy retrieval of notes
- Syncs across Apple devices
- Proper note-taking interface
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Message yourself notes, links and files but in a proper note-taking app! Better organize quick snippets of notes with tags to find relevant ones easily. Best of all, it works and syncs across all of your Apple devices!
Lines | Beyond Notes
This app offers a comprehensive knowledge management system, allowing users to create rich text notes with media, capture web content, and record voice memos. It provides powerful organization tools like tags, folders, and linking, along with secure biometric authentication for privacy.
- Rich text and media note creation
- Web page capture
- Camera and voice note recording
- Tag and folder organization
- Note linking
- Biometric authentication
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Lines goal is to go beyond traditional note-taking, aspiring to be your one-stop solution for knowledge management. With Lines, you can: - Write expressively using rich text and media attachments - Capture information instantly with your camera - Share web pages from your browser and store them as notes - Retrieve information instantly with search - Organize with tags and folders - Keep what’s important close with pinned notes - Connect your thoughts by linking between notes - Record voice notes - Keep notes private using biometric authentication - And much more.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: HashTagNotes at 100% against Lines | Beyond Notes's 0%. HashTagNotes also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.2). Lines | Beyond Notes's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 3). 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. HashTagNotes sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Lines | Beyond Notes asks for nothing beyond the download.
HashTagNotes holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.2. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 5 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of HashTagNotes's written reviews are positive against 0% of Lines | Beyond Notes's.
HashTagNotes ships an update every 3 weeks, Lines | Beyond Notes every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 17, 2026 and September 29, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | HashTagNotes | Lines | Beyond Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better | 4.2 (5 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 3 | 5 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 5 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Vision Pro — better | iPhone, iPad, Mac |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 3 MB | 8 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Yujian Yao | Andres Portillo Chacon |
Customer experience
HashTagNotes
Lines | Beyond Notes
In-app purchases
HashTagNotes
- Support editing tag color$2.99
- Unlimited attachments$3.99
- Support iCloud Sync$7.99
Lines | Beyond Notes
No in-app purchases
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