NotesApp vs Metis
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
NotesApp
Capture thoughts, ideas, and tasks with this feature-rich notes app. Easily add images, create tables, and manage lists to organize your life. Enjoy real-time synchronization across devices for seamless access.
- Quickly capture ideas and tasks
- Insert images to enhance notes
- Create tables for data organization
- Manage to-do and shopping lists
- Intuitive and simple interface
- Real-time synchronization across devices
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Turn your thoughts and ideas into organized digital chaos with our feature-rich notes app. With this app, you can not only jot down your thoughts and ideas, but also give them life by inserting images, creating spreadsheets and organizing lists - all in one place. App features: Making notes: Quickly capture your ideas, thoughts, and tasks whenever they come to mind. Insert Images: Bring your notes to life by adding photos directly from your device, making your notes more visual and memorable. Creating tables: Organize information using tables to easily structure your data and analyze it. List Management: Create to-do lists, shopping lists, or any task and keep track of them with ease and convenience. Intuitive Interface: Enjoy simplicity and ease of use with a smart design and intuitive interface. Real-time synchronization: Your notes are always with you thanks to syncing between devices, allowing you to access them anytime, anywhere. Our notes app is more than just a place to take notes, it's your personal assistant for organizing your daily life, perfect for both work and personal needs. Create, organize and share your ideas more easily and efficiently than ever before. Start using today and make your information flow manageable and inspiring.
Metis
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Metis is a native Markdown editor and local-first knowledge base. Your notes are just .md files in a folder you own - Metis is a fast, beautiful, native view over them. No lock-in, no proprietary format, no account required to write. WRITE IN LIVE PREVIEW A clean Obsidian-style editor styles your Markdown as you type - headings, bold, lists, quotes and code - while keeping the raw syntax one tap away. It feels like writing in a document, not in code. On iPad it's a full three-pane workspace with hardware-keyboard shortcuts. CONNECT YOUR IDEAS Link any two notes with [[wiki links]]. Backlinks appear automatically, so you always see what references the note you're reading. An interactive link graph shows your whole knowledge base at a glance - zoom, pan, and drag nodes to explore the connections. READ BEAUTIFULLY Reading mode renders the full document: headings, tables, task lists, images, syntax-highlighted code, Mermaid diagrams, and real math (LaTeX) rendered natively - no web view. ORGANIZE YOUR WAY Tag anything with #tags, group notes into folders, and see typed properties (status, owner, due...) that live as YAML front matter and are preserved as you edit. A fast switcher and full-text search get you anywhere instantly. ON-DEVICE AI (Apple Intelligence) Summarize a note, suggest tags or related links, and ask your whole vault a question - all running privately on your device. AI is optional; the app is fully functional without it. SYNC ACROSS YOUR DEVICES Keep your vault in iCloud and the same notes are on your Mac, iPad and iPhone - still as plain .md files you can open anywhere. Edits sync in the background, and Metis helps you resolve conflicts if two devices change the same note. LOCK WHAT MATTERS Any note can be locked with your notes password and opened with Face ID or Touch ID. Locked notes are encrypted on disk and stay encrypted in iCloud - and they're kept out of search and previews. PRIVATE AND YOURS Everything stays in plain files on your device. No tracking, no cloud lock-in. Open the same folder in any other Markdown editor whenever you like. Import an existing folder of notes (from Obsidian or anywhere) and Metis just works. ONE PURCHASE, ALL YOUR DEVICES A single one-time purchase unlocks Metis Pro on your Mac, iPad and iPhone - no subscription. Try everything free for 7 days. Metis is made by Empiric Apps. Questions or feedback? contact@empiricapps.com
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Verdict
The clearest difference is iOS requirement: NotesApp at 16.0 against Metis's 18.0. On price, 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
Both are free to download. NotesApp sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Metis sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
| Parameter | NotesApp | Metis |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (3 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 3 — better | — |
| Update frequency | — | Every 2 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 42 MB | 14 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Evgenii Statnikov | Burlac Mihail |
In-app purchases
NotesApp
- Full version of the app$2.99
Metis
- Metis Pro$14.99









