Comparison

Jiff Note vs ProjectBoard

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

Head to head
About

Jiff Note

Features
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Jiff Note is a private offline notes app for capturing ideas, journals, photos, videos, and voice notes on your device. Write quickly, stay organized, and keep personal information under your control. Your notes are stored locally, with support for locked notes, categories, pinned notes, and local backup and restore. Features: - Private offline notes stored on your device - Add text, photos, videos, and voice notes - Lock sensitive notes for extra privacy - Pin important notes to the top - Organize notes with custom categories - Personalize notes with colorful themes - Local backup and restore - Clean experience with no ads Premium: - Unlock more limits and advanced features with a one-time purchase. - No subscription.

About

ProjectBoard

Features
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ProjectBoard — projects, tasks, notes, and files in one place. Everything a project needs lives together: the tasks, the notes, the files, and the conversation. No more scattering one project across four apps. PLAN YOUR DAY, NOT JUST YOUR LIST Drag a task onto the calendar to block time for it. Let Plan My Day pack your tasks into the gaps you actually have free — it reads your real calendar, so it schedules around meetings instead of pretending they don't exist. Start a focus session and work a block at a time. TASKS THAT MATCH HOW YOU THINK Subtasks for the steps. #tags across projects. Saved smart lists for the views you return to. An Inbox that catches anything you haven't sorted yet. WRITES THE BORING PARTS FOR YOU — ON DEVICE Smart Fill turns a sentence into a task with the right date, project, and priority. Your Daily Brief tells you what matters this morning. Smart Inbox Triage sorts what piled up. Search understands what you meant, not just what you typed. It runs on your device. ON EVERY SCREEN YOU OWN A genuine Mac app — split view, menu bar commands, keyboard shortcuts throughout. iPhone and iPad. An Apple Watch app for checking off work from your wrist. Home and Lock Screen widgets you can tap to complete a task. Shortcuts and voice for capture without opening anything. FILES WHERE YOU EXPECT THEM A ProjectBoard folder in Finder and the Files app, syncing both ways. Open documents straight in from Finder, or share them in from any app. Annotate with inline markup. BUILT FOR WORKING TOGETHER Share a project, chat alongside the work, and watch tasks and notes update live as your team moves. START FASTER Seven built-in project templates, or build your own with tasks that schedule themselves relative to your start date or deadline.

Screenshots

Jiff Note4 screens
ProjectBoard2 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: ProjectBoard at none against Jiff Note's 1. ProjectBoard also leads on device support (4 vs 2). Jiff Note's advantage is iOS requirement (15.5 vs 18.0). On price, update cadence and ads 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. Jiff Note sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. ProjectBoard asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 2, 2026 and October 13, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 3 level
Jiff Note versus ProjectBoard: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterJiff NoteProjectBoard
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 2 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS15.5 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size26 MB17 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer小宇 王Rebecca Adormeh-Kwao

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Jiff Note

One-time1
  • Premium$12.99
None

ProjectBoard

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Jiff Note free?
Jiff Note is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is ProjectBoard free?
ProjectBoard is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Jiff Note or ProjectBoard have ads?
Neither Jiff Note nor ProjectBoard shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Jiff Note or ProjectBoard?
Jiff Note ships an update every 2 months, and ProjectBoard every 2 months. Most recently, Jiff Note was updated on October 2, 2026 and ProjectBoard on October 13, 2026.

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