Comparison

Emery vs Flipnotes

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

Head to head
About

Emery

This app helps you prioritize your daily tasks by categorizing them into 'Must Do,' 'High Impact,' and 'Extras.' It also integrates time blocking and calendar syncing to help you manage your schedule effectively and make real progress.

Highlights
  • Task prioritization (Must Do, High Impact, Extras)
  • Time blocking and scheduling
  • Calendar sync (Google, Outlook)
  • Meeting prioritization
  • Notes and project organization
  • Private meeting notes
Features
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Emery is the guilt-free daily planner. Every morning starts fresh. No red overdue badges. No broken streaks. No "you completed 47% of your tasks" making you feel like you failed. Open the app, see today, sort in five minutes, work. Miss a day? Miss a week? Come back and the app is still ready. Three empty buckets. No judgment. And it won't become another dead app on your phone. We use Emery every morning and answer every support email ourselves. It's been in active development for years – not built over a weekend and abandoned. The 3-Bucket System Every morning, sort your tasks into three groups: – Fires – will cause real problems if you skip them today – Growth – moves your career, business, or goals forward – Extras – helpful but not critical Fires first. Then protect time for Growth. Extras fill the gaps. The whole sort takes about 5 minutes. You start your day with clarity – not a 30-item list and zero direction. Time Blocking Drag and drop tasks onto your calendar to protect your time: – Block time for Fires so they get done – Reserve focused hours for Growth work – Fit Extras into the gaps Sort Your Meetings Too Sync your Google, Outlook or Apple calendar and apply the same three buckets to meetings. See which ones move things forward – and which ones just fill your calendar. Calendar Sync – Google Calendar, Outlook and Apple Calendar support – Connect multiple calendars in one view – Add private notes to meetings Notes and Projects – Capture notes and ideas anytime – Organize tasks and notes by project – Keep meeting context in one place Who It's For Emery is for people who own their schedule – managers, solopreneurs, freelancers, anyone who decides what to work on today. It's not a project management tool. It's not an AI that schedules your day. And it's not another app that punishes you when you stop using it. 5 minutes every morning. A clean page. Real progress by the end of the day. Sort your day. Start today. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Flipnotes

Features
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Flipnotes finally solves the notebook problem: the more you put in, the harder it gets to find anything. Stop organizing your notes — just capture them. Flipnotes records everything in time, files it automatically, and lets you flip through your days like a paper notebook. Intuitive from the first second, with deep functionality underneath, it becomes the daily companion you actually keep using. CAPTURE IN SECONDS Type a thought. Hold to record a voice note. Snap a photo with a zero-lag camera. Save a place with one tap. Jot a checklist. Share into Flipnotes from any app. There are no titles to invent, no folders to choose, no filing to do — you capture the moment you have it, and you're done. FLIP THROUGH YOUR DAYS Your notes live on a timeline you flip through like paper. Today is where you land; yesterday is one swipe away; last month is a few more. Everything stays where it happened — in its day, in order, exactly where your memory expects it. It feels less like an app and more like a notebook that turns its own pages. NO ORGANIZING. EVER. While you get on with your life, Flipnotes quietly sorts everything you capture: shopping lists, ideas, bills, menus, boarding passes, business cards, addresses, diary entries. Notes file themselves into categories automatically. You do nothing, and yet everything ends up in its place. FIND ANYTHING INSTANTLY Search across everything you've ever written, said, or photographed. Browse by category, scan your photos in the gallery, or see every place you've saved on your own beautiful map. Your notebook stops being a pile and becomes an index of your life. MENTION A DATE, GET AN AGENDA Write "dinner with Marie on the 17th" and it lands on your agenda by itself. Any date you mention — in any language, typed or spoken — becomes a calendar entry. Your plans assemble themselves out of your notes. VOICE NOTES THAT WRITE THEMSELVES Press, speak, done. Voice notes are transcribed automatically, so they're searchable like text and readable at a glance — and the original recording is always one tap away. TRULY OFFLINE-FIRST Everything works without signal. Capture for a week off-grid — on a hike, on a flight, in a dead zone — and it all syncs when you're back. Your notes are always on your device, never behind a loading spinner. And they're on the web too, so your whole notebook is waiting on any screen you open. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Your notes are yours. No ads, no tracking, no selling your data. Mark any note private and it is never sent to any AI feature — a locked corner of your notebook for the things that stay yours alone. WORKS WITH YOUR AI (OPTIONAL) Connect Claude or any MCP-compatible assistant and talk to your notes: create a note from a chat, ask what's on your agenda this week, find that restaurant someone recommended. Whether you're capturing ideas, house-hunting, journaling, planning trips, or just trying to remember what happened last Tuesday — Flipnotes keeps up with your life and hands it back to you, organized. --- Flipnotes comes with a free one-month trial. Continue with Personal Plan or go Pro for heavy capture: more photos, more storage, more transcription. Subscriptions renew annually and can be cancelled anytime in your App Store settings. Terms: https://flipnotes.life/terms Privacy: https://flipnotes.life/privacy

Screenshots

Emery4 screens
Flipnotes4 screens

Verdict

The call

Emery and Flipnotes are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters — price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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. Emery sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $19.99 per month and Flipnotes sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Emery versus Flipnotes: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterEmeryFlipnotes
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.2 (29 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews72.2% of reviews—
Number of ratings29 — better—
Update frequencyWeeklyWeekly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.0 — better16.0
Further details — not scored
Size76 MB8 MB
Age rating+44+
DeveloperStaffpass LimitedFlipnotes

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Emery

Subscriptions3
  • Premium Monthly3 Days trial$19.991 Month
  • Premium Quarterly3 Days trial$39.993 Months
  • Premium Annual7 Days trial$99.991 Year
4 purchases

Flipnotes

Subscriptions4
  • Personal$3.991 Month
  • Pro$25.491 Month
  • Personal$39.991 Year
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  • Pro$249.001 Year

Questions

Is Emery free?
Emery is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Flipnotes free?
Flipnotes is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Emery or Flipnotes have ads?
Neither Emery nor Flipnotes shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Emery or Flipnotes?
Emery ships an update weekly, and Flipnotes weekly. Most recently, Emery was updated on October 15, 2026 and Flipnotes on October 8, 2026.

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