Comparison

CaseJournal vs ProofDesk

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

Head to head
About

CaseJournal

This app helps organize case notes, clues, and investigative theories. It allows users to link evidence, people, and events to develop and track confidence in their theories. On-device review features can analyze text-based information to identify facts, inconsistencies, and gaps.

Highlights
  • Capture observations and details
  • Develop and link investigative theories
  • Track evidence, people, and locations
  • On-device text review with Apple Intelligence
  • Identify inconsistencies and information gaps
  • Analyze theories and supporting evidence
Features
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Case Notes & Clues Capture observations, working theories, follow-up questions, leads, and important details as a case develops. NEW – Investigative Theories Develop multiple working theories for a case. Link supporting and contradicting evidence, people, locations, notes, and timeline events while tracking confidence as your investigation evolves. On-Device Review On supported devices, use Apple Intelligence to review the text-based information stored in a case. Review can consider working theories, notes, clues, people, timeline events, locations, and user-created connections to identify supported facts, possible inconsistencies, information gaps, relationship patterns, and useful follow-up questions. Theory Review can also analyze individual theories by examining supporting and contradicting information, related people, locations, timeline events, unanswered questions, and alternative explanations. Review is advisory only. It does not determine guilt, identity, motive, or legal conclusions. Photo contents and voice-memo audio are not analyzed.

About

ProofDesk

This app helps you meticulously document important events and information. Capture photos, voice memos, notes, and scans, then organize them into case files for easy export and sharing. An AI assistant can help summarize and analyze your documented evidence.

Highlights
  • Capture photos, voice memos, notes, and scans
  • Organize evidence into case files
  • Automatic transcription of voice memos
  • Add witnesses, expenses, and locations
  • Export time-stamped PDF reports
  • AI Assistant for summarization and analysis
  • Local data storage for privacy
Features
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There are times in life when every detail matters — and when memory alone isn't enough. ProofDesk lets you keep a clear record of what happens, as it happens: a photo, a voice memo after a conversation, a quick note, a scan of a letter. 5 seconds per capture. Everything is dated, organized, and stays on your iPhone. HOW IT WORKS 1. You open a case file in 30 seconds (5 contexts proposed: family, work, neighborhood, inheritance, other). 2. You capture in the moment: photo, multi-page scan, voice memo (with auto transcription), quick note, imported file. No second-guessing, no getting lost in your vacation photos. 3. You enrich it when you have time: description, tags, witnesses, expenses, location. 4. The day you want to share — with a loved one, a mediator, a professional — you export a complete, time-stamped PDF in one tap. WHAT YOU CAPTURE • Photos from the camera or gallery • Multi-page scans with automatic detection • Voice memos transcribed automatically (on iPhone, never in the cloud) • Time-stamped quick notes • Imported files (PDF, DOCX, .eml, images) • Optional GPS location, editable afterwards • Witnesses (name, contact, what they saw) • Expenses incurred (categorized, totaled) VARIOUS USES ProofDesk adapts to very different situations: • A separation or divorce where you want to track exchanges and decisions • A difficult period at work that you want to document factually • Tensions with a neighbor you want to trace • An inheritance or sensitive family decisions to keep in memory • A specific event (accident, incident) to preserve precisely • Or simply a daily life where "just in case" makes sense You decide what your case file is for. ProofDesk is a documentation and organization tool — what you do with it stays between you and the people you choose. THE AI ASSISTANT (PREMIUM) Once your case file is built, the AI Assistant helps you: • Summarize it from different angles • Identify incomplete elements (without date, without title, without context) • Prepare a clear timeline • Cross-reference items between them The Assistant is on your side — not neutral. It helps you make your case file coherent. It doesn't give legal advice: on any matter of law, it redirects you to a professional. PRIVACY Your pieces stay on your iPhone (local SwiftData storage). No account to create, none of your pieces on a server. Depending on your setting, the analysis can even stay 100% on the iPhone, with Apple's on-device AI. The AI Assistant is opt-in: without your explicit consent, nothing leaves your phone. When you turn on the external AI, only the relevant text is sent encrypted in real time to Mistral SAS (Paris, France) — never your photos, your recordings or your location — and it is never stored on their side (Zero Data Retention enabled). Only the proof of your consent is kept on our servers in Europe, as the GDPR requires. No advertising. No tracking. No third-party analytics. PREMIUM Free: one active case file to get started. Premium ($9.99/month or $79/year): unlimited case files and items, AI Assistant, complete PDF export. 7-day free trial. Both plans are subscriptions: they auto-renew unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the period. Cancel anytime from App Store Settings. IMPORTANT ProofDesk is an organization tool, not a law firm. It gives no legal advice, creates no attorney-client relationship, and what you enter is not privileged. The AI can be wrong: always verify. For legal questions, consult a licensed attorney. Terms of Use: https://proofdesk.app/terms Privacy Policy: https://proofdesk.app/privacy IN A NUTSHELL ProofDesk is the tool you use without thinking about it, for the day when memory won't be enough. Built by an independent developer in France.

Screenshots

CaseJournal4 screens
ProofDesk4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: ProofDesk at 5.0 against CaseJournal's 1.0. CaseJournal's advantage is update cadence (every 4 days vs every 3 weeks). On price, ratings volume, 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. CaseJournal sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and ProofDesk sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

ProofDesk holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 1.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

CaseJournal ships an update every 4 days, ProofDesk every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 27, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
CaseJournal versus ProofDesk: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCaseJournalProofDesk
PriceFreeFree
Rating1.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings11
Update frequencyEvery 4 days — betterEvery 3 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.517.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size44 MB16 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperStobywan StudiosAntoine Conan

In-app purchases

1 purchases

CaseJournal

One-time1
  • CaseJournal Pro$14.99
2 purchases

ProofDesk

Subscriptions2
  • ProofDesk Premium$9.991 Month
  • ProofDesk Premium$79.001 Year

Questions

Is CaseJournal free?
CaseJournal is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is ProofDesk free?
ProofDesk is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, CaseJournal or ProofDesk?
ProofDesk is rated higher. CaseJournal averages 1.0 out of 5 from 1 ratings, while ProofDesk averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do CaseJournal or ProofDesk have ads?
Neither CaseJournal nor ProofDesk shows ads.
Which is updated more often, CaseJournal or ProofDesk?
CaseJournal ships an update every 4 days, and ProofDesk every 3 weeks. Most recently, CaseJournal was updated on October 27, 2026 and ProofDesk on October 25, 2026.

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