Popt Notes vs Sukoon
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Popt Notes
This app intelligently suggests tags for dates, contacts, places, and media as you type. It transforms plain text notes into interactive pages with rich content like contact cards, show posters, and maps. Organize and access your information with ease, all while prioritizing your privacy.
- Auto-suggests tags for dates, contacts, places, and media
- Rich content integration (contact cards, show posters, maps)
- Add points of interest with directions and contact info
- Movie and TV show details with trailers and watch links
- Timestamped notes and wiki-style page linking
- Organized views for to-dos, dates, and collections
- Private and local data processing
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Popt is the new mobile notes app that does more with less. As you type, Popt quietly suggests tags for dates, contacts, places, and even movies & TV shows. Your notes stay plain and fast, but pop to life with contact cards, show posters, timelines, maps and more. NO SPEED LIMIT • Jot one liners faster than you can say Popt • From 0 to reminder in under 5.1s • Tag dates, places and contacts with a quick tap • Search or compose a new note from the same thumb-friendly text area NEW! ADD POINTS OF INTEREST TO YOUR NOTES • Insert landmarks, restaurants, gyms and more, right in your notes • Browse all your points of interest in the Places tab, neatly organised by country and city • Instantly get directions for any of your tagged places • Call a restaurant to make a booking, visit the website of a museum in just a tap MOVIES & TV SHOWS • Type a title in the Home tab and Popt will suggest trending movie and tv show matches without sending your words anywhere • Movies & TV items you add to your notes give you quick access to the trailer and to 'where to watch' links • Search online without leaving Popt to find rarer titles • Powered by The Movie Database PAGES THAT POP • Each note can be the beginning of a new page • Add timestamped notes to pages – great for journaling! • Customize pages with 100+ stickers crafted by human artists • Link pages together, wiki-style MULTIPLE PERSPECTIVES • To-dos from all your notes are gathered in the To-dos tab • Tagged dates and timeframes compose a timeline in the Dates tab • Movies, contacts and places show up in the Collections tab • Coming soon: calendar integration, links collection, more detailed places (restaurants, venues, addresses, your own location...) SHARE MORE THAN TEXT Popt pages can be shared with other Popt users via Airdrop, email, WhatsApp, Slack... When you share a Popt page, you're also sharing the content associated with the tags it contains: • Contact cards of any tagged contacts • Geographical information of any tagged places • The timeline of tagged dates • Rich cards for tagged movies & TV shows LOCAL AND PRIVATE • Analytics disabled by default • As you type suggestions powered by on-device data and analysis: your notes are yours only • No iCloud sync – your Popt data will transfer to a new iPhone when using Apple's Quick Start transfer, restoring an iCloud backup, or restoring a local backup • Popt notes can also be exported as a single restorable archive (Backstage tab -> Export all) • Popt archives are plain text files you can open on any device. Best browsed with Obsidian (https://obsidian.md – free version available) • End-to-end encrypted sync is on the roadmap 100% FREE FOR EARLY ADOPTERS During its launch phase, Popt is entirely free! • No sign-up • No ads • No downgrading – what is free now will remain free* * In order to recognize you as an early adopter and keep our promise, we may ask you to open a free account at a later stage. --- Popt Notes - Baked in Switzerland with passion and care
Sukoon
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Your next scroll can wait. Make room for what matters. Sukoon helps you step out of automatic scrolling and return to your day with intention. Take a mindful break, protect time for salah, or settle into a focused session for work, study, and worship. PAUSE THE SCROLL Enable automatic pauses after sustained phone use, or choose the apps and schedules you want to protect. Guided breaks give you a calm place to breathe and reset. Essential apps in Always Allowed remain available during automatic breaks. OPEN WITH INTENTION When you choose to return to a protected app, take a short pause with breathing, reflection, dhikr, or another mindful activity. Temporary access helps you make a deliberate choice about what comes next. PROTECT YOUR PRAYER TIME Use prayer-time protection to pause selected distractions around salah. Follow prayer times, track your daily prayers, and confirm when you have finished. MAKE TIME FOR FOCUS Create focus sessions for deep work, study, or worship. Explore calm soundscapes, Quran listening, and routines that help you settle in. Optional Hard Mode keeps a session running until its timer ends. SEE YOUR HABITS MORE CLEARLY Scroll Control brings together Time, Opens, and Choices to help you understand your screen habits. Review your progress and build a steady rhythm with daily streaks. A QUIETER EXPERIENCE, AT A GLANCE A compact Home status and clear Lock Screen Live Activities let you check your remaining time without getting pulled back into the app. Available in English and Arabic, with right-to-left layouts. PRIVACY AND CHOICE Sukoon uses Apple's Screen Time framework. Your selected apps and Screen Time activity stay on your device. Screen Time permission is required for app protection. Sukoon is free to use, with no ads or subscriptions. An optional tip supports development and does not unlock additional features. Less autopilot. More presence.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Popt Notes at none against Sukoon's 4. Popt Notes also leads on update cadence (every 6 days vs every 2 weeks). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. Sukoon sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. Popt Notes asks for nothing beyond the download.
Popt Notes ships an update every 6 days, Sukoon every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and November 9, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Popt Notes | Sukoon |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (5 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 5 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 6 days — better | Every 2 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.4 | 18.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 119 MB | 140 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Skile SA | Abdellatif FAIZE |
In-app purchases
Popt Notes
No in-app purchases
Sukoon
- Small Tip$1.99
- Kind Tip$4.99
- Generous Tip$9.99
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- Patron Tip$24.99









