Link vs Metanote
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Link
Organize your knowledge by creating interconnected cards and building a personal knowledge graph. Establish relationships between ideas, add tags for easy retrieval, and link to external resources to deepen your understanding.
- Create interconnected knowledge cards
- Build personal knowledge graphs
- Establish pre- and post-relationships
- Tag management for easy search
- Link to external notes and websites
- Organize scattered knowledge points
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# Link is NOT a Note Taking App In many note-taking Apps, we have detailed records of various aspects of the content, which are scattered knowledge points, but in fact there is a certain relationship between the content, such as the registration process to recommend the attention of the content, so the registration process and the recommended users are two knowledge points, resulting in a relationship between the registration process, we need to take into account the impact of the registration process when we make any strategic changes to recommend the attention of the time to do any strategic changes. More often than not, this relationship can only exist in our minds, and when we need to use these relationships, we can only look for them in our minds, thinking, and inevitably missing. Link hopefully can help you organize your knowledge map, organize your knowledge points, establish relationships, and do what you need to do to make your knowledge more tightly knit and get things organized. # Relationships Between Things In our complex system, there are relationships between many things. Before we do something, we need to think about what we need to do in advance to prepare for it, and after we do something, what we need to add and improve. These little things exist in our daily work, and when we really need to use them, we need to think carefully, and there may be some omissions and mistakes, so Link hopes that by linking things before the connection, when we need to see a thing, we can find the corresponding related things. # A Bad Pen is Better than a Good Memory We can build our knowledge graph as we organize our content. Create a new card that describes a point, which can be any piece of content, select cards that already exist, create pre- and subsequent relationships, and associate related content to form a knowledge network. This way, when we do subsequent projects, we can find related content through tags and search to see what needs to be prepared and added to improve. # Tag Management Add corresponding tags to each card, when related cards or need to view the knowledge, through the tags and quick search, to find the corresponding knowledge card, view the predecessor and successor relationship, sort out the content we need to do. # Detailed Content Links More detailed content in the knowledge point may exist in various notes or websites, you can add these knowledge points as attached links to our knowledge points, so that you can view more detailed content at any time. We hope that Link can help you to do a better job of managing your knowledge graph. Term of Use: https://productpoke.notion.site/Link-550678d70566441bbf9f1eae8127839c Privacy Agreement: https://productpoke.notion.site/Link-ccaeef2388c544b88197db3aedf63144 You can contact us with any questions in the following way. : ) Telegram:https://t.me/PokeDesign Twitter:@PokeDesignTool
Metanote
A privacy-focused offline editor that supports Org mode for writing, task management, and knowledge wikis. It offers real-time editing of rich content and seamless synchronization across devices.
- Privacy-first offline editor
- Full Org mode support
- Real-time rich content editing
- Seamless synchronization
- Integrated task management
- Full-text search
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Metanote is a privacy-first offline editor that supports org mode. In Metanote, everything is text, everything is editable. Supports real-time editing and rendering of images, hyperlinks, tables, Latex mathematical formulas, source code blocks, attachments and other rich content with the text markup language 'org mode'. Literary creation, academic papers, literary programming, task management, knowledge wiki and other usage scenarios can be easily handled. *** Freedom & Private 100% work offline, no account required, no network required, no private document formats, no data collection, your data and privacy are completely under your control. *** Writing every where Whether on the go or in your bedroom, you can create, view and edit your documents anytime, anywhere, and with built-in synchronization, everything will be there when you return to your desk. *** A silky-smooth editing experience Pure native development, lightweight and smooth, rejecting any lag, even for large files! *** Thinking better Through the structured editing function, ideas come to life on screen. It is not only a beautiful outline, but also efficient thinking. *** Never miss a thing There is no more free task management system than this. Notes are to-dos, and to-dos are notes. Everything is plain-text and everything can be edited. Capture inspiration on the go with 'capture' and keep everything in sight with 'agenda view's. *** Org mode Metanote fully supports org mode 9.3.6 syntax, including features like Capture and Agenda View, allowing for a perfect and even enhanced org mode experience on smartphones. - An incredibly smooth editing experience. - Sync using WebDAV(Apache WebDAV Server, ownCloud, Yandex.disk, etc.), Dropbox, OneDrive, Git, iCloud. - Support for adding Obsidian and Logseq working directories, integrating and managing them in a unified manner - Supports full-text search. - Support images, tables and LaTeX. - Support hyperlinks and attachments. 1. Supports internal links and external links. 2. Click on the attachment link to preview and edit, the following types are supported: 1. iWork and Microsoft Office documents 2. Images 3. Live Photos 4. Text files 5. PDFs 6. Audio and video files - Supports multi-window editing. - Customizable startup page - Supports mini buffer. - Compatible with org mode version 9.3.6 - Todo notifications support - View agenda views by year, month, and day - Customizable workflows - Support for custom capture, custom agenda view, refile, log note, and other features. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Metanote at 4.3 against Link's 3.0. Metanote also leads on review sentiment (73% vs 50%) and ratings volume (15 vs 1). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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. Link sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per year and Metanote sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Metanote holds the better App Store score, 4.3 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Metanote has 15 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 50% of Link's written reviews are positive against 73% of Metanote's.
Link ships an update weekly, Metanote every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Link | Metanote |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.0 (1 ratings) | 4.3 (15 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews | 72.7% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 15 — better |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Every 2 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 14.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 47 MB | 16 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Poke Design | 雪双 陈 |
Customer experience
Link
Metanote
In-app purchases
Link
- Link Annual Membership(Half)$2.991 Year
- Link Annual Membership$3.991 Year
- Link Pro Lifetime(Half)$4.99
- Link Pro Lifetime$9.99
- Link Support$14.99
Metanote
- Metanote Premium$1.991 Month
- Metanote Premium$12.991 Year
- One-time purchase$19.99









