Comparison

DarkBlock vs AnyNotes+

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

Head to head
About

DarkBlock

Enhance your browsing experience by permanently hiding unwanted websites from search results and enabling a dark mode in Safari. This utility app offers a cleaner, more focused way to navigate the web.

Highlights
  • Permanently hide websites from search results
  • Enable dark mode in Safari
  • Customizable browsing experience
  • Clean search results
Features
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1. Permanently hide websites that you don't want in Google Search. 2. Enable Dark Mode in Safari. This app incorporates code from the DarkReader project (https://github.com/darkreader/darkreader), which is MIT Licensed. The license is included below: https://github.com/darkreader/darkreader/blob/main/LICENSE

About

AnyNotes+

This AI-powered note-taking app helps you capture ideas through text, voice, photos, or shared webpages. It then organizes your input into structured notes, summaries, and actionable suggestions. You can further refine ideas with AI chat and group related notes into topics for better organization and sharing.

Highlights
  • Capture notes via text, voice, photos, or webpages
  • AI Inbox for automatic note organization and summarization
  • AI Chat for follow-up questions and idea development
  • Topics for grouping related notes
  • Create shareable outcomes like briefs and task lists
  • Search, tagging, pinning, and archiving for organization
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AnyNotes is an AI note-taking app that helps you capture ideas, organize information, and turn notes into clear outcomes. Ideas find a place. Outcomes take shape. Capture with text, voice, photos, or shared webpages, then let AnyNotes turn scattered input into structured notes, summaries, key takeaways, and next-step suggestions. With AnyNotes, you can: Capture notes in the way that feels natural Write text notes, record voice notes, take photos, or share webpages from other apps. Voice notes support live transcription, while images and webpages are converted into readable text. Let AI Inbox organize what you collect Every new note can flow through AI Inbox, where it is cleaned up into a clearer title, body, summary, result card, and suggested follow-up actions. Keep exploring with AI Chat Once a note has been organized, you can continue the conversation, ask follow-up questions, clarify details, and develop the idea further with AI Chat. Group related notes into Topics Bring multiple notes together under a Topic and keep the bigger picture up to date. AnyNotes helps surface the current view, recent changes, and what to do next. Create shareable outcomes faster Turn organized content into briefs, task lists, polished writing, and shareable images so your notes can move beyond capture and into action. Stay organized as your notes grow Use tags, pinning, archiving, and search to keep important notes easy to find. AnyNotes is great for: Capturing ideas and daily thoughts Organizing meetings, voice notes, and research Tracking projects and product thinking Turning scattered input into results you can share and act on Notes: AI features require an AnyNotes Pro subscription. To use AI features, you also need to provide your own OpenAI API Key or sign in with Codex. Some AI features and sync behavior depend on network access and system services.

Screenshots

DarkBlock2 screens
AnyNotes+4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: AnyNotes+ at Free against DarkBlock's $4.99. AnyNotes+ also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.3) and update cadence (weekly vs every 6 weeks). DarkBlock's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and device support (4 vs 1). On 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

AnyNotes+ is free to download; DarkBlock costs $4.99 up front. AnyNotes+ sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. DarkBlock asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

AnyNotes+ holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 1 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

DarkBlock ships an update every 6 weeks, AnyNotes+ weekly. The most recent releases landed on July 9, 2026 and August 7, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard8 real differences · 2 level
DarkBlock versus AnyNotes+: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDarkBlockAnyNotes+
Price$4.99Free — better
Rating4.3 (3 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews83.3% of reviews—
Number of ratings3 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeksWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaidFreemium — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size1 MB36 MB
Age rating4+17+
Developer金超 高冲 姜

Customer experience

DarkBlock

All ratings3 ratings
Positive66.7%
Neutral33.3%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews6 reviews
Positive83.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative16.7%

AnyNotes+

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

DarkBlock

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

AnyNotes+

One-time1
  • Pro$14.99

Questions

Is DarkBlock free?
DarkBlock costs $4.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is AnyNotes+ free?
AnyNotes+ is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, DarkBlock or AnyNotes+?
AnyNotes+ is rated higher. DarkBlock averages 4.3 out of 5 from 3 ratings, while AnyNotes+ averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do DarkBlock or AnyNotes+ have ads?
Neither DarkBlock nor AnyNotes+ shows ads.
Which is updated more often, DarkBlock or AnyNotes+?
DarkBlock ships an update every 6 weeks, and AnyNotes+ weekly. Most recently, DarkBlock was updated on July 9, 2026 and AnyNotes+ on August 7, 2026.

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