Bee vs NotesApp with lock
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Bee
This AI companion learns from your daily life to provide conversation summaries, to-do suggestions, and personalized insights. It offers a unique conversational experience, growing with you over time.
- Ambient context summarization
- Suggested to-dos and actions
- Personal insights generation
- Timely reminders
- Conversational AI
- Learning and growth over time
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Meet Bee, the personal wearable AI that understands you. Bee transforms your ambient context into conversation summaries, suggested to-dos, actions, memories, personal insights and timely reminders. It learns and grows with you each day, giving you access to a personal AI you can talk to about anything in your life.
NotesApp with lock
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NotesApp helps you create, organize, search, and print personal notes in a simple folder-based workspace. Create folders to group related notes, then add note entries with titles, rich text content, and image attachments. Search across folders and entries, review highlighted matches, and open results directly from the search screen. NotesApp includes password protection, biometric unlock support, password recovery hints, and reset password options to help keep your notes accessible and organized. You can also print notes or export them as neatly formatted PDF documents with titles, dates, page numbers, and image scaling. The app supports multiple languages and is designed for everyday note taking, personal organization, and quick retrieval of saved information.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Bee at every 2 days against NotesApp with lock's weekly. Bee also leads on iOS requirement (17.6 vs 26.0). 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. Bee sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $11.99 per month and NotesApp with lock sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Bee ships an update every 2 days, NotesApp with lock weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 27, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Bee | NotesApp with lock |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (3K ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 61.2% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 3K — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 days — better | Weekly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, Apple Watch | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 100 MB | 14 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Bluush Inc | Chaode He |
Bugs and requests
Bee
Reported bugs
3 issues- Inconsistent performance, with some users reporting non-functioning devices
- Issues with calendar integration, including pulling in other users' calendars
- Difficulty with login and account management
Requested features
6 requests- Ability to name participants in conversations
- Integration with more platforms like Google Docs and OneNote
- Improved speaker tagging and editing capabilities
- More therapeutic response and coaching features
- Ability to export daily summaries
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- Better distinction between real-life conversations and media playback
NotesApp with lock
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Bee
- Bee Pro Monthly$11.991 Month
- Bee Pro Annual$99.001 Year
NotesApp with lock
- NotesApp Pro Unlock$5.99
