Comparison

SelfNote vs Nightwalk

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

Head to head
About

SelfNote

Capture ideas, reminders, and links by sending them directly to your email inbox. Supports text, audio, photos, and drawings, with extensions for seamless sharing from other apps. New features include Apple Watch integration and home screen widgets for quick access.

Highlights
  • Send notes via email
  • Attach text, audio, photos, drawings
  • Browser extensions for quick sharing
  • Apple Watch app for wrist capture
  • Home screen widgets for quick actions
  • On-device AI for subject lines and categorization
  • Speech-to-text dictation
Features
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With SelfNote, you can quickly write notes, reminders or bookmark links from your browser and send them to your own email. The concept is to send notes to self and receive them in the email inbox to be read or managed at a later time. With just a few taps and its quick share to self functions, you can create a new note and send it directly to your email inbox. This makes it easy to capture ideas and thoughts as they occur to you, without having to worry about forgetting them later on. SelfNote allows you to not only write text notes but also to add quick audio recordings, dictate to notes, drawings, and photos as notes. Additionally, you can use one of the extensions available for sending a reminder to self in the form of a link to a website, a photo, or a document (including PDFs) while browsing the internet or using any other app. KEY FEATURES - Mac App: SelfNote is now on your Mac too. Capture a thought from anywhere with the menu bar and your own keyboard shortcut, share from any app, and add widgets to your desktop. Your Pro subscription covers every device. - Apple Watch App: Capture notes from your wrist. Dictate text, record audio, or send quick phrases instantly. Your Watch syncs with your iPhone automatically. - Home Screen Widgets: Quick Actions for one-tap compose, dictate, or record. Quick Send to fire off pre-written phrases without opening the app. Recent Notes to see your latest notes at a glance. - Multiple Recipients: Add up to 10 email addresses and choose which ones receive your notes. Pro subscribers can send to up to 3 recipients simultaneously. - Attachments: Attach several photos and files to a single note. Pick them, paste them, drag and drop them, or share them from other apps (up to 5 with Pro). - On-Device AI (Pro, iOS 26+): Smart Subject generates email subject lines from your note. Auto-Categorization tags your notes. Action Items detects tasks and highlights them. All processing happens on your device. - Speech-to-Text Dictation: Speak your notes with real-time transcription for hands-free capture. - Custom Note Subjects: Set a custom email subject line for any note. - Improved Note History: Gallery and list views, search, filters by color, type, or attachment. - Siri and Shortcuts: Send notes with Siri or build workflows with the Shortcuts app. - Available in 8 Languages: English, Spanish, French, German, Japanese, Chinese (Simplified), Portuguese (Brazilian), and Italian. Whether you're looking to organize your work tasks, read an article later, plan a vacation, remember something, or simply jot down your thoughts as they occur to you, SelfNote has everything you need to stay on top of your thoughts. Overall, SelfNote is a versatile tool that helps you to easily create and manage reminders and notes, making it an essential app for anyone who wants to stay organised and on top of their tasks. Terms and Conditions: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Nightwalk

Features
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The expedition only advances while you do. Start a session and a party sets out across the dark, lit by one lantern. They walk for exactly as long as you stay out of your phone. Leave the app and they stop, and that time isn't counted. A RUN THAT LASTS MORE THAN ONE SESSION A descent spans several sessions. When a session ends the party makes camp at the depth it reached, and the next session breaks camp and walks on from there. Leaving mid-session only pauses the march; the descent ends only if you choose to abandon it, and even then 40% of its spoils come home. Choose "Return home" at camp and everything the party is carrying is banked, along with a bonus for how deep it went. NOTHING TO PLAY WITH There is nothing to play with and no choices to make during a session. The only control is a button to abandon the expedition; otherwise you are not supposed to be touching your phone — that is the entire point. The screen is built to be read in one second from across a desk. LOCKING YOUR PHONE IS NOT LEAVING Screen off and face down is the best thing you can do, so the march continues and the time still counts. Switching to another app pauses the march; only you can end a descent, by abandoning it. THE COUNTDOWN ON YOUR LOCK SCREEN While a session runs, a Live Activity shows the time remaining, a progress bar and the depth you have reached on the Lock Screen, and a small flame with the countdown in the Dynamic Island. It is there to be glanced at, not touched. FOCUSING LONGER IS NEVER WORSE Lost encounters still pay. The party cannot be wiped out. Every summary leads with the minutes you actually concentrated — even the sessions that ended badly. The expedition can fail; the focus always counts. WHAT ACCUMULATES Spoils that make it home become ember, and ember recruits and promotes your party. A deeper party walks further before it starts losing fights. Streaks, total focused time and your deepest run are kept alongside. Reminders are optional: a daily one at a time you choose, and a gentle nudge when your party is waiting at camp. Works offline. Nothing to sign up for, nothing to buy.

Screenshots

SelfNote4 screens
Nightwalk4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Nightwalk at none against SelfNote's 3. Nightwalk also leads on update cadence (every 2 weeks vs monthly). SelfNote's advantage is device support (4 vs 2). On price, ads 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

Both are free to download. SelfNote sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Nightwalk asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

SelfNote ships an update monthly, Nightwalk every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 6 level
SelfNote versus Nightwalk: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSelfNoteNightwalk
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (5 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings5 — better—
Update frequencyMonthlyEvery 2 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS16.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size23 MB3 MB
Age rating4+9+
DeveloperMakai Labs SrlWON SEOK OH

In-app purchases

3 purchases

SelfNote

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly - Unlimited access$1.991 Month
  • Unlimited access7 Days trial$9.991 Year
One-time1
  • Pro Lifetime$29.99
None

Nightwalk

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is SelfNote free?
SelfNote is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Nightwalk free?
Nightwalk is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do SelfNote or Nightwalk have ads?
Neither SelfNote nor Nightwalk shows ads.
Which is updated more often, SelfNote or Nightwalk?
SelfNote ships an update monthly, and Nightwalk every 2 weeks. Most recently, SelfNote was updated on November 3, 2026 and Nightwalk on October 31, 2026.

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