Zealous Notes vs Task Ledger
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Zealous Notes
Organize your thoughts with a versatile note-taking application. Link related notes, embed various media files directly, and enhance your text with markup tools. Features include searchable PDFs, video playback, and audio transcription.
- Stackable and linked notes
- Inline PDF, video, and audio embedding
- Searchable and mark-upable PDFs
- Audio transcription
- Hashtag organization
- Marker mode with zoom
- Calendar event linking
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A lot like the Notes app you're used to, plus some added features: • Open several notes as a stack. - related notes can be linked together. • Subdivide your notes into Sections • PDFs, Video & Audio files attach inline, alongside your notes' other contents. - PDFs can be zoomed, scrolled, searched & marked-up. - Videos can play picture-in-picture or full-screen - Voice Notes audio files can be transcribed (with your permission) • Keep related notes together: - embed related notes as attachments - assign relatable #hashtags to your notes • Marker Mode - mark anywhere inside or outside of your notes - link markup with your highlighted or underlined text. - zoom-in for more precise drawings. • Link notes to your Calendar events (with your permission) • Case sensitive Find/Replace/Replace-All • Multiple Line-Spacing options See the included `Getting Started` guide for more, including several additional features available from within the app's Settings.
Task Ledger
Prioritize your to-do list using the Eisenhower matrix. This app helps you categorize tasks as urgent or not, important or not, to focus on what matters most. It offers seamless syncing and data export options.
- Eisenhower matrix prioritization
- Task categorization (urgent/important)
- iCloud sync across devices
- No ads or tracking
- Export to JSON/CSV
- Import from backup
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Task Ledger is a focused, no-frills task manager built around the Eisenhower matrix. Categorize tasks between urgent or not urgent, important or not important. This framework for prioritizing tasks is highly effective. • Syncs across your iPhone and iPad through your private iCloud account • No analytics, no ads, no third-party tracking • Export everything to JSON or CSV at any time • Import from a previous backup just as easily
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Task Ledger at Free against Zealous Notes's $4.99. Task Ledger also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.3). On ratings volume, 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
Task Ledger is free to download; Zealous Notes costs $4.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Task Ledger holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 2 respectively.
Zealous Notes ships an update every 8 days, Task Ledger weekly. The most recent releases landed on September 17, 2026 and October 1, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Zealous Notes | Task Ledger |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $4.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.3 (3 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 3 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 8 days | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 — better | 26.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 265 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Jason Browning | Connor Carmichael |
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In-app purchases
Zealous Notes
No in-app purchases
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No in-app purchases
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