Comparison

Eyeball vs Grape Notes Pro

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

Head to head
About

Eyeball

This app helps you save and understand web links, from articles to videos. It uses AI to find your saved content in context and provides weekly digests. Personalize your experience with custom filters and notes, and export your ideas to other apps.

Highlights
  • Save any URL (articles, videos, podcasts)
  • AI-powered contextual search
  • Customizable filters that evolve
  • Weekly digests of saved content
  • Recall relevant links based on current interests
  • Add notes and export to other apps
Features
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Eyeball is a log for every link (article, podcast, recipe, tweet, YouTube, etc) you want to keep, with a series of sophisticated reminders. Eyeball understands what you saved, what it means to you, and why you saved it โ€” and resurfaces what's important. - TRACKING. Log which platform, which date, which friend sent it and which group chat it came from. Add your notes next to each one. - REMINDERS: Set your own to read, watch, try, share, listen again. We'll also send you a series of AI-powered weekly recaps and links from your archive that you might like. - FILTERS. Custom filters adapted to your links library. These change as you do, evolving as you save new interests at different times in your life - CHAT. The best of AI to find your links in context. Find all the recipes that one friend who can cook sent you... - INSTRUCTIONS. Tell Eyeball about yourself and what you're looking for, and Eyeball will learn and provide more useful responses. 100% INDEPENDENT AND SUPPORTED BY YOU Eyeball was created from scratch by a magazine writer and the product is maintained by a team of two. Choosing the Patron tier helps Eyeball survive and not go the way of Pocket and so many other save-later apps. Rather than give your money to evil billionaires, why not give it to me so that I can become an evil billionaire? Contact: kabir@indieworld.io

About

Grape Notes Pro

Features
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NEW IN 2.0: scan a page of handwritten notes and turn it into an editable checklist. Every scan is now a searchable PDF, and you can find any word you wrote. All of it happens on your iPhone or iPad. No account, no subscription, nothing uploaded. Grape Notes Pro is a private notes and scanning workspace. Scan paper, read photos of notes and whiteboards, import files, or just type. Then search, organize, and export everything. TURN SCANS INTO NOTES - Turn into Note reads a scan or photo and rebuilds it as editable Markdown - Larger handwriting and short lines like "Decisions:" become headings - Checkbox marks, bullets, arrows and numbered lines become real lists - Lines starting with TODO, Action or Follow up become tasks - Lines that wrapped on paper are joined back into paragraphs - The original scan is kept, and the new note shows where it came from SEARCHABLE PDFS - The text read from each page is embedded as an invisible layer, so search, select and copy work in the Files app and other PDF readers - Read Text Again makes scans from earlier versions searchable too - Find in Scan highlights every match on the page, with next and previous buttons - Scanned pages are sized to print at Letter width HANDWRITING AND PRINTED TEXT - Printed text and handwriting are read on your device - The language can be detected automatically, or you can pick the languages you write in - Custom vocabulary for names, jargon and abbreviations - Turn off spelling correction for part numbers and codes - Works best with clear handwriting FROM PHOTOS - Pick up to 30 photos of pages, whiteboards or receipts - Rotate, reorder, filter and delete pages in the Scan Studio before saving - Apply one filter to every page; Black & White now gives crisp black-and-white pages FIND ANYTHING - Library search matches every word you type, in any order, ignoring accents - Best matches come first, with a highlighted snippet showing where the word is, even deep inside a scan - Spotlight on your Home Screen finds notes and scans (you can turn this off) - Siri and Shortcuts: Scan Notes, Notes from Photos, New Note, Search Notes SMART DETAILS - Found in This Note lists dates, links, email addresses, phone numbers and street addresses - Tap a date to set a reminder, or a number, link or address to open it - Summarize long notes: on iPhone and iPad models with Apple Intelligence (iOS 26 or later), the on-device model writes the summary; on other devices the app picks the key sentences EXPORT - PDF export now runs over as many pages as the note needs, with headings, lists and checkboxes formatted - New: Rich Text (.rtf) for word processors and a web page (.html) - Export many items at once as separate PDFs or as one combined PDF - Plain text, Markdown, JSON and password-protected PDF are still here EVERYTHING FROM 1.x - Markdown editor with toolbar, live preview and tappable checklists - Custom notebooks, tags, pins, sorting and filters - Reminders with local notifications - Note Map links related notes and flags possible duplicates - Library Insights and a daily writing goal - Note templates and an offline Markdown reference PRIVATE BY DESIGN - No account, no sign-in, no ads, no subscriptions - No analytics or tracking - Your notes, scans and imported files stay on your device

Screenshots

Eyeball4 screens
Grape Notes Pro4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Eyeball at Free against Grape Notes Pro's $3.99. Eyeball also leads on iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.0). Grape Notes Pro's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 5). On update cadence, ads and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Eyeball is free to download; Grape Notes Pro costs $3.99 up front. Eyeball sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Grape Notes Pro asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Eyeball ships an update every 4 days, Grape Notes Pro weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences ยท 5 level
Eyeball versus Grape Notes Pro: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterEyeballGrape Notes Pro
PriceFree โ€” better$3.99
Positive reviews37.5% of reviewsโ€”
Update frequencyEvery 4 days โ€” betterWeekly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo โ€” better
MonetizationFreemiumโ€”
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod โ€” betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.1 โ€” better17.0
Further details โ€” not scored
Size50 MB5 MB
Age rating9+4+
DeveloperKabir ChibberRobert Corbin

In-app purchases

5 purchases

Eyeball

Subscriptions5
  • Monthly subscription1 Month trial$3.991 Month
  • Eyeball Pro (Monthly) Tier7 Days trial$9.001 Month
  • Annual subscription1 Month trial$39.991 Year
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  • Eyeball Pro (Annual) Tier7 Days trial$99.001 Year
  • Eyeball Patron Tier7 Days trial$199.001 Year
None

Grape Notes Pro

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Eyeball free?
Eyeball is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Grape Notes Pro free?
Grape Notes Pro costs $3.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do Eyeball or Grape Notes Pro have ads?
Neither Eyeball nor Grape Notes Pro shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Eyeball or Grape Notes Pro?
Eyeball ships an update every 4 days, and Grape Notes Pro weekly. Most recently, Eyeball was updated on October 24, 2026 and Grape Notes Pro on October 31, 2026.

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