Comparison

(beat) for iOS vs Blekk | Notes

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

Head to head
About

(beat) for iOS

This screenwriting app offers a distraction-free environment for writers to focus on their craft. It supports Fountain markup for portable and future-proof documents, with features like automatic scene numbering and auto-completion for efficient writing.

Highlights
  • Distraction-free UI
  • Fountain markup support
  • Automatic scene numbering
  • Auto-complete for scene headings and character names
  • PDF export
  • Final Draft import/export
  • Novel mode
Features
Currently charting
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An elegant Fountain screenwriting app, created by a screenwriter for screenwriters. The perfect companion for full macOS version of Beat. Beat lets you write in a flow: Just start typing and let Beat take care of the formatting. There are as little distractions as possible to let you concentrate on writing. The app uses Fountain markup to store your documents, so everything you write is portable and future-proof. Your files are stored only on your own accounts and devices, and they are kept completely private. • Distraction-free UI • Index cards • Automatic scene numbering • Auto complete for scene headings and character names • PDF export • Final Draft import and export • Revision/edit tracking • Novel mode • Collection of templates for a quick start

About

Blekk | Notes

This app offers a simple, elegant notebook, task tracker, and journal. It provides a fresh page for each day on a single scroll, with easy search and offline functionality. Multiple notebooks, PIN locking, and sharing options are available.

Highlights
  • Daily fresh pages on a single scroll
  • Task tracking with checkboxes
  • Searchable notes and tags
  • Multiple notebooks with custom pens
  • PIN-locked notebooks
  • Offline functionality
  • Shareable notebooks
Features
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Blekk is your notebook, task tracker, journal, and scratchpad - simple, elegant, and focused. One fresh page for each day, all on a single scroll. Not every note needs a formal notetaking app. Blekk is for the things you jot down but don't always know where to stash. There is nothing to set up and nothing to organise. Open it and today is waiting for you. Write, and it saves as you type. Late nights stay on one page: the day turns over at 5 AM, not midnight. Type a task and it becomes one, with a checkbox. Yesterday fades behind today, every past day stays in the scroll, and anything you've ever written is a search away - your words, your tags, the themes rising in your writing. The past stays reachable, without pulling focus from today. Blekk is a quiet place to write anything and everything. Welcome. Also: • Keep more than one notebook, each with its own pen and ink - one for work, one for the garden, one for the book you keep meaning to write • Lock any notebook with a PIN • Choose warm cream or stone paper; night ink comes on after dark • Share a notebook with your team, then return to a personal space that stays separate • Works fully offline; sign in and your words follow you everywhere, encrypted at rest • Export everything as plain markdown, any time - your notes are yours, and reading them is never paywalled • No AI. No feeds. No streaks. No distractions. Free for 30 days with everything on. After that, the basic plan keeps one writing device, with reads and export everywhere, forever. Blekk Plus adds unlimited notebooks and writing from every device. Teams bring shared notebooks with per-seat billing. Blekk Plus and Teams are auto-renewable subscriptions, billed through your Apple ID. Payment is charged at confirmation of purchase; the subscription renews automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period, and can be managed or cancelled in your Apple ID account settings. Privacy policy: https://blekk.app/privacy Terms of use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

(beat) for iOS4 screens
Blekk | Notes4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Blekk | Notes at Free against (beat) for iOS's $11.99. Blekk | Notes also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.3) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 18.0). (beat) for iOS's advantage is ratings volume (44 vs 1) and chart position (#39 vs unranked). On update cadence, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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

Blekk | Notes is free to download; (beat) for iOS costs $11.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Blekk | Notes holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: (beat) for iOS has 44 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

(beat) for iOS ships an update every 3 days, Blekk | Notes every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 5 level
(beat) for iOS versus Blekk | Notes: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
Parameter(beat) for iOSBlekk | Notes
Price$11.99Free — better
Rating4.3 (44 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews80.4% of reviews—
Number of ratings44 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 3 days — betterEvery 5 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidFree with in-app purchases — better
Best chart rank#39 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPod, Mac — better
Requires iOS18.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size14 MB14 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperLauri-Matti ParppeiJamie Druitt

Customer experience

(beat) for iOS

All ratings44 ratings
Positive81.8%
Neutral4.5%
Negative13.6%
Written reviews46 reviews
Positive80.4%
Neutral6.5%
Negative13.0%

Blekk | Notes

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

In-app purchases

None

(beat) for iOS

No in-app purchases

None

Blekk | Notes

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is (beat) for iOS free?
(beat) for iOS costs $11.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Blekk | Notes free?
Blekk | Notes is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, (beat) for iOS or Blekk | Notes?
Blekk | Notes is rated higher. (beat) for iOS averages 4.3 out of 5 from 44 ratings, while Blekk | Notes averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do (beat) for iOS or Blekk | Notes have ads?
Neither (beat) for iOS nor Blekk | Notes shows ads.
Which is updated more often, (beat) for iOS or Blekk | Notes?
(beat) for iOS ships an update every 3 days, and Blekk | Notes every 5 days. Most recently, (beat) for iOS was updated on October 14, 2026 and Blekk | Notes on October 10, 2026.

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