Comparison

QuickNotation vs Peel

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

Head to head
About

QuickNotation

This note-taking app helps you organize thoughts and ideas with features like drag-and-drop, priority marking, and image support. It offers multi-mode support for a comfortable experience on iPhones and iPads.

Highlights
  • Drag and drop organization
  • Priority marking
  • Image support
  • Light and dark modes
  • iPhone and iPad optimized
  • Portrait and landscape orientation
Features
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QuickNotation is a versatile note-taking app powered by Apple's latest Swift Data framework. It's designed to help you organize your thoughts and ideas with ease, offering a wide range of features that make note-taking a breeze. Key Features: -Drag and Drop: Effortlessly organize your notes using drag-and-drop functionality. Rearrange, prioritize, and group your notes in a way that makes sense to you. -Priority Marking: Stay organized by marking your notes with different priorities. Easily distinguish between high-priority and low-priority notes. -Image Support: Enhance your notes with images. Add visuals to your notes to capture memories or provide context to your thoughts. -Multi-Mode Support: QuickNotation supports both light and dark modes, ensuring a comfortable reading experience in any lighting condition. It's optimized for both iPhones and iPads, and it seamlessly transitions between portrait and landscape orientations. -QuickNotation empowers you to capture and manage your ideas, tasks, and memories like never before. Stay productive, organized, and inspired, no matter where you are or what device you're using. Download QuickNotation today and take your note-taking experience to the next level!

About

Peel

Keep important thoughts visible with sticky notes that appear on your Home Screen, Lock Screen, and Apple Watch. Quickly create notes and checklists with templates, and customize their appearance. Syncs across all your Apple devices.

Highlights
  • Lock Screen widgets for notes
  • Checklist completion without unlocking
  • Apple Watch sync
  • 21 pre-made templates
  • Customizable appearance
  • Drawing on notes
  • iCloud sync
Features
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Some thoughts are too important to bury in a notes app you never open. Peel puts them on sticky notes that live everywhere you look — your Home Screen, your Lock Screen, your wrist, your Mac. Write it once, see it until it's done. THE NOTE THAT CHECKS ITSELF OFF Tap an item on a widget and it's done — no unlocking, no opening the app. Pin a checklist to your Lock Screen and cross things off from there. It even lands on your Apple Watch the moment you write it. FAST ENOUGH TO CATCH EVERY THOUGHT • A note or checklist in seconds, from the app, a widget, the Share Sheet, or Siri • 21 ready-made templates — groceries, packing, meetings, workouts, habits • Write "dinner tomorrow at 7" and Peel offers a reminder or a calendar event. Nothing slips. TOO PRETTY TO IGNORE • 22 hand-tuned colors, custom shades, fonts, patterns and photo backgrounds • Draw on notes with Apple Pencil or your finger • A board that feels alive — satisfying check-offs, a daily streak, and confetti when you finish a list EVERYWHERE, IN SYNC iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple Watch — one board, synced instantly through your own iCloud. Check something off on your watch and it's done on your phone before you lower your arm. YOURS, PRIVATELY No account. No ads. No analytics. We can't read your notes — they live on your device and in your iCloud, period. START FREE The first 7 notes are free, forever. Peel Premium unlocks unlimited notes, every color and all widgets — from $1.99 a month with a 7-day free trial, or one payment for lifetime access. Clear mind. Done list. Get Peel.

Screenshots

QuickNotation4 screens
Peel4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: QuickNotation at none against Peel's 3. Peel's advantage is ratings volume (7 vs 1). On price, rating, 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. Peel sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. QuickNotation asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for QuickNotation against 5.0 for Peel. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Peel has 7 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
QuickNotation versus Peel: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterQuickNotationPeel
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (7 ratings)
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings17 — better
Update frequencyEvery 17 months—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS17.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size2 MB10 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperNicholas PompeaRivon Dev LLC

Customer experience

QuickNotation

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

Peel

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

QuickNotation

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

Peel

Subscriptions2
  • Peel Premium - Monthly7 Days trial$1.991 Month
  • Peel Premium - Yearly7 Days trial$14.991 Year
One-time1
  • Peel Premium — Lifetime$34.99

Questions

Is QuickNotation free?
QuickNotation is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Peel free?
Peel is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, QuickNotation or Peel?
QuickNotation and Peel are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 7 ratings respectively.
Do QuickNotation or Peel have ads?
Neither QuickNotation nor Peel shows ads.

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