Comparison

Fabric vs TrailsIQ

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

Head to head
About

Fabric

This AI-powered workspace helps you instantly capture, find, and collaborate on all your digital content. It acts as a self-organizing second brain, unifying notes, files, and ideas from various sources. Save time and money by replacing multiple productivity subscriptions with this single, powerful tool.

Highlights
  • Instant capture of websites, text, images, and files
  • Voice notes with AI transcription
  • Natural language AI search across connected apps
  • AI assistant for document insights and writing assistance
  • Real-time document collaboration
  • Unify digital world by connecting multiple apps
  • Rich linking and embedded content
Features
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Your files are everywhere. Your notes are scattered across apps. Your AI forgets everything you told it yesterday. You spend more time searching for things and switching between tools than doing the work. Fabric fixes all of it. One workspace for everything: notes, files, meetings, bookmarks, recordings. An AI that knows your stuff and gets smarter the more you use it. Agents that handle busywork while you sleep. 300,000+ people use Fabric. Rated 4.7 stars across platforms. AI THAT KNOWS YOU Ask your AI anything about your files, notes, and recordings. Get answers from your content with citations, not generic internet responses. The more you use Fabric, the better your AI understands your work, your projects, and your interests. SEARCH EVERYTHING Find anything across notes, files, recordings, and connected apps using natural language. "That article about pricing I saved last month," found in seconds. Three years of files, searchable by meaning, not filename. CANVAS Think visually. Spread out notes, references, images. Plan a project, map a concept, arrange ideas and files side by side. Your infinite whiteboard. HANDWRITING SCANNER Snap a photo of handwritten notes, a whiteboard, or a sketch. Fabric scans it into a clean, searchable digital note in seconds. Your messy handwriting, instantly digitised and searchable. CAPTURE ANYTHING Save websites, voice notes, screenshots, PDFs, images, bookmarks. One tap from anywhere. Browser extension, share sheet, voice capture. Everything becomes searchable the moment you save it. AI AGENTS Set up tasks that run on schedule: summarise calls, compile briefs, monitor competitors, prep for meetings, send weekly reports. Your AI works while you don't. Set it once, it runs forever. SHARE BEAUTIFULLY Send polished galleries and files instead of Google Drive links. Password-protected with link analytics. Whether it's client work, a portfolio, or a shared resource, it looks professional. CONNECTED TO YOUR APPS Gmail, Slack, Google Drive, Dropbox, and more. Fabric doesn't just search your apps. Your AI can work inside them. Send emails, create tasks, pull data across your whole stack. MEETING RECORDER Record any meeting and get an instant transcript. Your AI extracts action items, key decisions, and summaries automatically. Ask about anything discussed, found instantly. VOICE NOTES Capture ideas while walking, commuting, or cooking. Automatic transcription makes every voice note searchable and actionable. NOTES & DOCUMENTS A powerful editor with rich formatting, embedded files, toggle lists, tables, code blocks, and real-time collaboration. Write, plan, and organise in one place. ORGANISE YOUR WAY Folders, labels, smart collections, nested spaces. Or just throw everything in and let search handle it. Fabric works however your brain works. RUN YOUR BUSINESS OR YOUR LIFE Client files, study materials, family documents, creative projects, personal research, whatever you're managing, Fabric keeps it organised, searchable, and shareable. COLLABORATE Edit documents with teammates or friends. Comment on files, @mention people, share folders. Works for personal projects and teams. SECURE & PORTABLE Encrypted in transit and at rest. Your data stays yours. No lock-in: export everything anytime. FABRIC FOR TEAMS Self-writing wikis, cross-app search, AI teammates, and shared workspaces for your whole team. Visit fabric.so/teams. "Fabric has completely changed how I work. Everything in one place, finally." – Pro user "I went from a B- to an A. My AI tutor knew my textbook better than I did." – student "I run my entire freelance business from Fabric now." – solopreneur "The handwriting scanner is magic. I photograph my notes and they're instantly searchable." – creative Your AI that knows your work. Download Fabric today. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy policy: https://fabric.so/company/privacy

About

TrailsIQ

This app streamlines trail maintenance operations for field crews. Document issues, track infrastructure, manage volunteer events, and record GPS tracks directly from the field. It ensures all work is logged and teams stay coordinated, even without a constant internet connection.

Highlights
  • Log maintenance issues with GPS and photos
  • Set and update trail status
  • Catalog and track infrastructure inspections
  • Manage volunteer days and events
  • Record GPS trail tracks
  • Mark and categorize points of interest
  • Log time spent on tasks
  • Approve or reject public reports
Features
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TrailsIQ is the field-operations app for trail-maintenance crews. Whether you're patching a washout, replacing a sign, or rerouting a section after a storm, TrailsIQ keeps your work documented, your team coordinated, and your office with the data they need — without coming back to a desk to log it. WHAT YOU CAN DO • Log maintenance issues from anywhere on the trail. Drop a GPS pin, snap photos, set a priority, hit save. Issues sync to your organization's dashboard in real time. • Set trail status from the field — open, closed, partial, advisory. The moment you change it, followers of your organization get a push notification on the TrailsIQ Report app. No more "is the trail open?" calls during a storm. • Catalog infrastructure — bridges, signs, gates, water bars — and inspect it with a guided walkthrough that grades what you find and files follow-up work for anything that fails. Trails get inspections too. The app surfaces what's overdue. • Talk it through on the item itself. Every issue carries a discussion thread with photos and @mentions, so the question and the answer live with the work. • Plan a new line before you cut it. Draw or walk a route and the app scores it against grade and side-slope rules, flagging fall-line sections and pitches that are too steep to hold. • Record GPS trail tracks as you walk, ride, or rebuild a route. The recorder works in your pocket — lock the screen and keep moving; the track keeps growing. Edit vertices on the map after you stop, then save it as a new trail or correction. • Run volunteer days and events with signup forms, online waivers, and per-event reminders. Field crews see who's signed up and check folks in from the app. • Keep the crew's day in one place — a daily report anyone can post to, projects to group work against, seasonal checklists for opening and closing sweeps, and tool and material stock with counts you can correct from the shed. • Mark points of interest. Trailheads, viewpoints, intersections, parking — all categorized and searchable. • Log time spent on each task, and track expenses with auto-cropped receipt photos. Tap-scan a receipt at the trailhead — iOS's document scanner clips it perfectly. Link it to a task and export a weekly or monthly PDF. • Approve or reject incoming public reports. When a trail visitor files an issue through TrailsIQ Report, your crew gets a push notification — handle it straight from the bell panel. • Annotate issue photos with a pencil tool — circle the bad joint, point to the loose bolt — so whoever picks up the task sees exactly what you saw. MAPS MADE FOR TRAIL WORK Hillshading and contours to read the ground before you walk it, aerial imagery where it's available, and rainfall and trail-wetness readings per network so you know whether the tread will hold. WORKS OFFLINE — INCLUDING THE MAP Download a trail network before you leave signal and the map, the terrain, the trails and the photos come with you. No bars, and the map still draws. And every save — issues, structures, expenses, photos, GPS tracks — goes through a local queue that survives the app closing or your phone dying. Nothing gets lost. The queue resumes the moment you reconnect. PUSH NOTIFICATIONS When a public report comes in, your phone buzzes. Tap the banner to jump straight to the issue — no menu hunting. WHO IT'S FOR TrailsIQ is built for organizations that maintain trails — mountain-bike clubs, parks departments, trail associations, land trusts, equestrian groups. Bike parks can track lifts; climbing areas can catalog crags, routes and bolt inspections. If your team works on trails and you need a record of what was done, who did it, and when, this is the app. You'll need an active TrailsIQ account, or membership in an organization that has one. New here? Sign up at trailsiq.com.

Screenshots

Fabric4 screens
TrailsIQ4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: TrailsIQ at none against Fabric's 13. TrailsIQ also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.6) and update cadence (every 2 weeks vs monthly). Fabric's advantage is ratings volume (253 vs 1). On price, 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

Both are free to download. Fabric sells 13 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per 7 days. TrailsIQ asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

TrailsIQ holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Fabric has 253 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Fabric ships an update monthly, TrailsIQ every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 27, 2026 and October 28, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Fabric versus TrailsIQ: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFabricTrailsIQ
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (253 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews62.2% of reviews—
Number of ratings253 — better1
Update frequencyMonthlyEvery 2 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS15.615.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size31 MB3 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperFabric InternetMus Mountain Works LLC

Customer experience

Fabric

All ratings251 ratings
Positive89.6%
Neutral3.2%
Negative7.2%
Written reviews45 reviews
Positive62.2%
Neutral6.7%
Negative31.1%

TrailsIQ

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

13 purchases

Fabric

Subscriptions13
  • Plus – Weekly$2.997 Days
  • Pro – Weekly$4.997 Days
  • Plus – Monthly$5.991 Month
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  • Plus – Monthly$9.991 Month
  • Pro – Monthly$16.001 Month
  • Pro – Monthly$24.001 Month
  • Max – Monthly (Legacy)$39.991 Month
  • Plus – Yearly7 Days trial$56.001 Year
  • Max – Monthly$68.001 Month
  • Plus – Yearly7 Days trial$96.001 Year
  • Pro – Yearly7 Days trial$150.001 Year
  • Pro – Yearly$214.991 Year
  • Max – Yearly$389.991 Year
None

TrailsIQ

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Fabric free?
Fabric is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is TrailsIQ free?
TrailsIQ is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Fabric or TrailsIQ?
TrailsIQ is rated higher. Fabric averages 4.6 out of 5 from 253 ratings, while TrailsIQ averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Fabric or TrailsIQ have ads?
Neither Fabric nor TrailsIQ shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Fabric or TrailsIQ?
Fabric ships an update monthly, and TrailsIQ every 2 weeks. Most recently, Fabric was updated on October 27, 2026 and TrailsIQ on October 28, 2026.

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