Chaos Control™ vs Shortnotes
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Chaos Control™
This app helps you manage goals, to-do lists, and tasks for both personal and professional life. It's based on the GTD methodology to prioritize outcomes and organize projects, tasks, and ideas efficiently. Seamless syncing across devices ensures your plans are always accessible.
- Goal and project management
- GTD-inspired contexts
- Daily planning
- Chaos Box inbox
- Cross-platform sync
- Recurring tasks
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Chaos Control is a personal organizer that will help you manage your goals, to-do lists and tasks in both your business and personal life. People don't usually achieve impressive results simply by being good at task management. It's the ability to set legitimate goals that makes the difference. Just write down your desired outcomes to make them real. This simple technique helps you to prioritize your goals before acting on them. Chaos Control is a task manager based on the best ideas of GTD (Getting Things Done) methodology created by David Allen. Whether you are running a business, launching an app, working on a project or simply planning your holiday trip, Chaos Control is a perfect tool to manage your goals, juggle your priorities, and organize your tasks to get things done. And the best part is, you can handle both heavyweight project planning and simple daily routine like shopping list management in one flexible app. Also, Chaos Control is available across all major mobile and desktop platforms with seamless sync. HERE IS HOW IT WORKS: 1) MANAGE YOUR PROJECTS Project is a goal combined with a set of tasks you need to complete in order to achieve it. Create as many projects as you like to write down all the desired outcomes you have 2) ORGANIZE YOUR GOALS Create unlimited number of projects and group them by category using Folders 3) USE GTD CONTEXTS Organize tasks from different projects using flexible context lists. If you are familiar with GTD you would just love this feature 4) PLAN YOUR DAY Set due dates for tasks and make plans for any particular day 5) USE CHAOS BOX Put all the incoming tasks, notes and ideas into Chaos Box in order to process them later. It works similar to GTD inbox, but you can use it as a simple to-do list 6) SYNC YOUR DATA Chaos Control works on both desktop and mobile devices. Setup an account and sync your projects across all of your devices This app is designed with creative people in mind. Designers, writers, developers, startup founders, entrepreneurs of all kinds and pretty much anyone with ideas and desire to make them happen. We combined the power of GTD with the convenient interface to help you with: • personal goal setting • task management • time management • planning your business and personal activities • building your routine • handling simple to do lists, checklists and shopping lists • catching your ideas and thoughts to process them later KEY FEATURES • Seamless cloud sync across all major mobile and desktop platforms • GTD-inspired Projects and Contexts supplemented with Folders, sub-folders and sub-contexts • Recurring tasks (daily, weekly, monthly and chosen days of the week) • Chaos Box - Inbox for your unstructured tasks, notes, memos, ideas and thoughts. Great tool for staying on track inspired by GTD ideas • Notes for tasks, projects, folders and contexts • Fast and smart search • Recurring tasks for managing activities that happen regularly • Nested folders and contexts for better projects and tasks structuring • PIN code protection: secure your data with a secure passcode • Favorite tasks, projects and contents Terms Of Use: http://chaos-control.mobi/toc.pdf Have a productive day!
Shortnotes
Capture and organize small pieces of information like codes, names, or license plates. Access your quick references across all your Apple devices, with options to add tags, photos, and even import notes from your desktop.
- Simple note adding and deleting
- Attach images to notes
- Speech input for notes
- Organize notes in folders
- Filter notes by tags
- iCloud synchronization
- Today Widget and Apple Watch support
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Shortnotes is perfect for all the little stuff that is not a "real" note. Your colleague's name, license plate, codes, room numbers, medicine names etc. Just put them down in one place and access them on your iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch. Organize your notes in folders, attach tags and photos. View your favorite notes in the Today Widget. For pupils and students: now it's possible to prepare also large notes on your desktop computer and import them later in Shortnotes! Good luck ;-) Features: - Simple adding and deleting notes - Attaching images to the notes - Text formatting options - Create notes using speech input - Export as text file (.rtf) - Organize your short notes in folders - Changing the sort order of the notes - Favorites view - Filter notes by tags - Favorite notes are displayed in the App Widget (Today Extension) - iCloud-synchronisation. All of your notes are automatically synchronised between your devices like iPhone, iPad or Mac using iCLoud. Shortnotes Pro: - Import of the text files (.txt .rtf) - Favorite notes are displayed on your Apple Watch - Your purchase will help support the ongoing development of Shortnotes!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Chaos Control™ at 4.6 against Shortnotes's 4.1. Chaos Control™ also leads on review sentiment (72% vs 46%) and ratings volume (488 vs 12). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Chaos Control™ sells 9 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month and Shortnotes sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Chaos Control™ holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Chaos Control™ has 488 ratings behind it against 12, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 72% of Chaos Control™'s written reviews are positive against 46% of Shortnotes's.
Chaos Control™ ships an update every 3 weeks, Shortnotes every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on September 29, 2026 and September 28, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Chaos Control™ | Shortnotes |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (488 ratings) — better | 4.1 (12 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 72.0% of reviews — better | 45.7% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 488 — better | 12 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 18.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 318 MB | 19 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Tarasov Mobile | Ilya Gorodnyanskiy |
Customer experience
Chaos Control™
Shortnotes
Bugs and requests
Chaos Control™
Reported bugs
4 issues- Tasks disappearing
- Sync failures between devices
- Frequent crashes
- Login problems
Requested features
6 requests- Calendar integration
- Subtasks and nested projects
- Ability to manually sort tasks
- More customization options
- Email task creation
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- Attachment support
Shortnotes
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Chaos Control™
- Premium Subscription: 1 Month$3.991 Month
- Premium for 1 month$6.991 Month
- Premium Subscription: 1 Year$29.001 Year
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- Premium Subscription: 1 Year$29.991 Year
- "Level Up" e-book$2.99
- Premium Universal - Tier B$10.99
- Chaos Control Premium$18.99
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- Premium Universal - Tier C$20.99
- Premium Universal - Tier A$79.99
Shortnotes
- Shortnotes Pro$3.99
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