Comparison

Writing App vs Spur Notes

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

Head to head
About

Writing App

This intelligent writing tool offers AI-powered grammar and style corrections to enhance clarity and structure. It provides a distraction-free environment for drafting essays, emails, notes, and creative pieces, with flexible export options and organization features.

Highlights
  • AI writing assistance
  • Grammar & style correction
  • Organized writing library
  • Markdown support
  • Flexible export options
  • iCloud sync
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- Arbento is story intelligence for writers. It reads your manuscript, learns your characters, and thinks with you about structure scene by scene. - The AI that knows your whole story Most writing tools see one sentence at a time. Arbento sees the whole manuscript. Every scene you write, every character you introduce, every rule you establish Arbento reads and remembers it. When something contradicts, it says so. When a scene is missing its structural purpose, it tells you specifically what to fix. - Beat analysis Tag any scene to a story framework: Save the Cat, Three-Act Structure, or Hero's Journey. Arbento evaluates whether the scene delivers what that beat requires: a score, what's working, what to fix, and a rewrite tip drawn from your actual prose. Not generic advice. Analysis of your specific scene. - Codex AI intelligence Build your story's Codex: characters, places, world rules. Arbento reads it before every analysis. It catches continuity errors (wrong eye colour, destroyed objects reappearing), flags unregistered characters as they appear in your prose, notices when a character's behaviour contradicts their arc, and surfaces forgotten threads you haven't returned to. - Editorial feedback A developmental editor's read of your prose. What's landing, what one thing would improve it, specific language corrections, and what this scene sets up for what follows. Honest, specific, based on your writing not a generic critique. - Story health A full structural read of your entire manuscript. Missing beats, pacing observations, your strongest scene, and the single highest-priority thing to fix next. Developmental editing at a fraction of the cost. - Writing signals Readability score, sentence rhythm, tone fingerprint, overused words, echo detection. Every scene, always. - For iPhone, iPad and Mac Write on iPhone on the train. Continue on Mac at your desk. Everything syncs fast, reliable, and available offline. Arbento is for writers who want to understand their story better, not writers who want AI to write it for them. Free to try. Pro subscription unlocks AI analysis. --- Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Spur Notes

Features
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Spur Notes is a simple notes app for thoughts that sometimes branch. Write as usual. When a related idea comes to mind, quickly give it its own Related Note. The connection stays, so you can move between the original note and what grew from it. A notes app first • Write and edit notes quickly • Search your notes • Organize with tags • Keep important notes in NOW or Pinned Make room for the next thought • Quickly create a Related Note from any note • Move between the original note and related notes • See nearby notes and their connections Take the context with you • Copy a note and its connected thoughts together as text • Paste them into your writing, AI tools, or wherever you work next Your notes stay yours • Recover recent edits with Version History • Restore your most recently deleted notes • Export your notes when you want to take them with you Go further with Spur Pro • Unlimited branching • Use Pro on your device without an account • With Pro, sign in to sync notes across devices Basic note-taking is free, with unlimited ordinary notes and no account required. Your existing writing stays readable and editable if your subscription ends. Start with a note. Branch only when you need to. === Privacy Policy: https://spur-notes.com/privacy/ Terms of Use: https://spur-notes.com/terms/ Apple Standard EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Writing App4 screens
Spur Notes4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is device support: Writing App at 3 against Spur Notes's 1. Spur Notes's advantage is iOS requirement (16.4 vs 26.0). On price, ads and in-app purchases 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. Writing App sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per 7 days and Spur Notes sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $11.99 per year. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Writing App versus Spur Notes: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterWriting AppSpur Notes
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (92 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews25.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings92 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeks—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac — betteriPhone
Requires iOS26.016.4 — better
Further details — not scored
Size35 MB39 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperRuslan SayfutdinovGaku Nimiya

In-app purchases

6 purchases

Writing App

Subscriptions5
  • Writing Assistant PRO Weekly$4.997 Days
  • PRO Weekly$7.997 Days
  • PRO Monthly Subscription$12.991 Month
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  • Writing Assistant PRO Annual$25.001 Year
  • PRO Annual Subscription7 Days trial$49.991 Year
One-time1
  • Arbento PRO$99.99
1 purchases

Spur Notes

Subscriptions1
  • Spur Notes Pro7 Days trial$11.991 Year

Questions

Is Writing App free?
Writing App is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Spur Notes free?
Spur Notes is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Writing App or Spur Notes have ads?
Neither Writing App nor Spur Notes shows ads.

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