Comparison

Zealous Notes vs Prexy

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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.

About

Prexy

Features
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Prexy is a notes app for people who work in stories. Every note carries a slug, a beat and a status. That one decision is the whole app: the file you write in and the list of what you owe are the same object, so nothing has to be copied from your notes into a tracker, and the tracker can never quietly go stale. THE BOARD Your stories, sorted by how work actually moves: Not Started, In Progress, Completed. Filter by beat. Beats are yours to define — the list ships generic and every one of them is renameable, deletable and reorderable, so it can describe your desk instead of somebody else's. On iPad the board and the story sit side by side, and the list steps aside when you want the whole screen for writing. On the Mac, one keystroke from inside any app opens a small panel: type a few letters of a story's name and you are writing in it. WRITING A real editor, not a text box. Bold, italic, inline code, strikethrough and links, and find-in-note for long files. Story text follows your Dynamic Type size, with a proper dark mode, a warm paper or bright white page, and a typeface chosen for reading a screen full of prose. PLAIN FILES, ALWAYS On the Mac, Prexy keeps a plain-Markdown copy of every note in a folder you choose, alongside any files you attached. Ordinary text in ordinary folders: readable in any editor, searchable with any tool, backed up by Time Machine without knowing Prexy exists. This is the part worth caring about. Your work outlives any app it was written in, and it should never need this one to be readable. ATTACHMENTS AND LINKS Add any file or photo to a story — a document, an image, a PDF, a transcript. Link one story to another, and the story you linked to shows you what points at it — so the background you filed under one slug surfaces when you need it under a different one. TASKS THAT LIVE IN THE STORY A checkbox line inside a story can become a reminder in Apple Reminders, ticked off from either side. Notes are where the work is described; Reminders is where scheduling and notifications already work well. Prexy connects the two and then stays out of the way — it never sets a due date, and never overwrites one you set. SYNC THAT IS YOURS Your notes sync between your iPhone, iPad and Mac through your own iCloud account. Not through a server of ours — there isn't one. Edit the same story in two places before they can reconcile and Prexy keeps both versions rather than picking a winner, and every note holds a version history you can read. NO ACCOUNT, NOTHING COLLECTED No sign-up, no subscription, no analytics, no advertising, no third-party services. Prexy makes no network requests of its own. Nobody but you can see your notes, and that is a property of how it is built rather than a promise in a policy. PRICING Prexy for iPhone and iPad is free, with nothing to unlock. Prexy for Mac is free for 14 days, then a one-time purchase. Built for reporters. Useful to anyone who thinks in stories.

Screenshots

Zealous Notes2 screens
Prexy4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Prexy at Free against Zealous Notes's $4.99. Zealous Notes's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1). On update cadence, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Prexy is free to download; Zealous Notes costs $4.99 up front. Prexy sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Zealous Notes asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Zealous Notes ships an update every 8 days, Prexy weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 14, 2026 and November 13, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
Zealous Notes versus Prexy: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterZealous NotesPrexy
Price$4.99Free — better
Rating4.3 (3 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings3 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 8 daysWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaid—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, Mac — better
Requires iOS26.026.0
Further details — not scored
Size265 MB3 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJason BrowningMike Shear

In-app purchases

None

Zealous Notes

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Prexy

One-time1
  • Mac 14-Day TrialFree

Questions

Is Zealous Notes free?
Zealous Notes costs $4.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Prexy free?
Prexy is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Zealous Notes or Prexy have ads?
Neither Zealous Notes nor Prexy shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Zealous Notes or Prexy?
Zealous Notes ships an update every 8 days, and Prexy weekly. Most recently, Zealous Notes was updated on November 14, 2026 and Prexy on November 13, 2026.

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