HashTagNotes vs bearTracks
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!
bearTracks
Access and visualize scouting data for FIRST Robotics competitions. Plan match strategies with team performance graphs, cycle times, and qualitative responses. Quickly review team rankings, game records, and predictions for upcoming matches.
- Access match and pit scouting data
- Visualize team performance with graphs
- Analyze cycle times and qualitative responses
- Plan match strategy with team details
- Quick team summary and event state
- RP based rank and game record display
- Regional points system calculator
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- Access match and pit scouting data created by your scouts from your team and every other bearTracks user. - Graphs help visualize a team's performance over time. - Match data includes cycle times and long form qualitative responses. - Match list tab allows you to easily plan strategy for your upcoming matches, providing easy access to details on each team in a match and a match result prediction. - The team list tab provides a quick summary of the state of your current event. - Team details include RP based rank, game record, and all data about the team. - Calculator to demystify the new regional points system. FIRST® and FIRST® Robotics Competition are registered trademarks of FIRST® (www.firstinspires.org) which is not overseeing, involved with, or responsible for this activity, product, or service.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: bearTracks at none against HashTagNotes's 3. bearTracks also leads on update cadence (weekly vs every 3 weeks) and device support (7 vs 4). On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume 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. bearTracks asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for HashTagNotes against 5.0 for bearTracks. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 7 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
HashTagNotes ships an update every 3 weeks, bearTracks weekly. The most recent releases landed on September 17, 2026 and September 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | HashTagNotes | bearTracks |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (3 ratings) | 5.0 (7 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 3 | 7 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Vision Pro | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac, Apple TV, Apple Watch, Vision Pro — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 3 MB | 5 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Yujian Yao | Jayen Agrawal |
Customer experience
HashTagNotes
bearTracks
In-app purchases
HashTagNotes
- Support editing tag color$2.99
- Unlimited attachments$3.99
- Support iCloud Sync$7.99
bearTracks
No in-app purchases
