Comparison

Funnel vs NearNotes

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

Head to head
About

Funnel

Quickly capture thoughts, tasks, notes, photos, sketches, and songs to your favorite apps. Integrates with popular productivity tools and offers convenient widgets for instant access.

Highlights
  • Capture tasks to multiple to-do apps
  • Send notes and photos to PKM apps
  • Capture sketches and calendar events
  • Home Screen and Lock Screen Widgets
  • Shortcuts and Share Sheet support
  • Built-in document scanner
  • Song capture via Shazam integration
Features
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Funnel allows you to effortlessly capture your thoughts and moments to various apps and services. The inspiration to capture something quickly comes from ideas written by David Allen, in his book Getting Things Done. Features: ======= • Capture tasks to Reminders, Todoist, OmniFocus or Things with due dates in natural language. • Capture notes and photos to a variety of popular note taking and personal knowledge management apps. • Capture sketches and calendar events • Beautiful Home Screen and Lock Screen Widgets • Shortcuts Support • A built in document scanner. • Use Shazam to capture your songs directly to your apps. • iCloud Sync for your Destinations • A timeline showing your recent captures • A selection of delightful app icons to pick from. • A lock screen widget to easily access Funnel from your lock screen. • Drag and drop images or text from other apps into Funnel. • Once you capture something with Funnel, Funnel also provides you with a link to easily switch to the newly captured item. • Long press the Funnel icon for quick home screen actions. • Integration with the iOS Share Sheet (currently within the Funnel app only) • Dynamic Island/Live Activities Support • Control Center Widgets Creating Destinations: ================ To link Funnel to your note-taking or task management apps, navigate to the 'Destination' Tab, select 'Add New Destination', and choose an app from the provided list. After adding a Destination, you can click on it for further customization. You can also define templates that get appended or prepended along with your capture. Your Destinations and the order of your Destinations are all synced to your private iCloud account. Funnel offers 30 captures for free, and then requires a subscription or a lifetime purchase. All Yearly Subscriptions come with a 1-week free trial. Enjoy Funneling! Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

NearNotes

This app allows you to set reminders tied to specific locations. Receive alerts when you arrive at or leave a chosen place, with options to manage reminders directly from notifications. It prioritizes privacy and battery efficiency.

Highlights
  • Location-based reminders
  • Smart location alerts
  • Fast place selection
  • Actionable notifications
  • Lock screen radar
  • Private iCloud sync
  • Battery-efficient operation
Features
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Remember it where it matters. NearNotes is a private, location-first reminder app that connects reminders to real places. Create a reminder, choose a location, and receive an alert when you arrive or leave. NEARBY REMINDERS See active reminders ordered by distance, so you immediately know what matters around you. FAST PLACE SELECTION Find places using Apple Maps search, pick directly on the map, use saved places, or paste links from Apple Maps, Google Maps, and Waze. SMART LOCATION ALERTS Choose a specific place or, for supported categories, ask NearNotes to remind you at another nearby similar place. USEFUL ACTIONS Complete, archive, resume, snooze, navigate, or wait for the original place directly from the app and supported notifications. LOCK SCREEN RADAR Show a selected reminder on the Lock Screen and Dynamic Island, with distance updates while NearNotes is active. SAVED PLACES Save Home, Work, or any custom place for faster reminder creation. PRIVATE ICLOUD SYNC Reminders and saved places use local-first storage and synchronize through your private iCloud database across your devices. BATTERY-EFFICIENT NearNotes uses Apple’s region-monitoring technology instead of continuously running GPS in the background. PRIVACY FIRST • No separate NearNotes account • No advertising • No cross-app tracking • No continuous location history • Anonymous diagnostics are off by default NearNotes works on iPhone and iPad and includes actionable notifications, quiet hours, adjustable reminder radius, widgets, and private iCloud synchronization.

Screenshots

Funnel4 screens
NearNotes4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: NearNotes at none against Funnel's 4. NearNotes also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.6) and review sentiment (100% vs 80%). Funnel's advantage is ratings volume (47 vs 2). On price, ads 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

Both are free to download. Funnel sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. NearNotes asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

NearNotes holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Funnel has 47 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 80% of Funnel's written reviews are positive against 100% of NearNotes's.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Funnel versus NearNotes: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFunnelNearNotes
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (47 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews80.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings47 — better2
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeks—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemiumFree — better
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS26.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size36 MB12 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperNoteSight Labs ApSMosaab Yassir Lafrimi

Customer experience

Funnel

All ratings43 ratings
Positive88.4%
Neutral2.3%
Negative9.3%
Written reviews25 reviews
Positive80.0%
Neutral4.0%
Negative16.0%

NearNotes

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

4 purchases

Funnel

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly Pro$1.991 Month
  • Yearly Pro7 Days trial$14.991 Year
One-time2
  • Lifetime: Early Discount$39.99
  • Lifetime$49.99
None

NearNotes

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Funnel free?
Funnel is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is NearNotes free?
NearNotes is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Funnel or NearNotes?
NearNotes is rated higher. Funnel averages 4.6 out of 5 from 47 ratings, while NearNotes averages 5.0 from 2 ratings.
Do Funnel or NearNotes have ads?
Neither Funnel nor NearNotes shows ads.

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