Comparison

Highlight vs PetaNote

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

Head to head
About

Highlight

This app helps you revisit everyday moments by organizing photos, notes, events, and health data on a personal timeline. It offers weekly and monthly recaps, natural language search for memories, and flexible daily tracking. Your data is kept private and stored in your iCloud account.

Highlights
  • Personal timeline organization
  • Photo, note, and event integration
  • Weekly and monthly recaps
  • Natural language memory search
  • Flexible daily tracking (mood, habits)
  • Music integration for memory recall
  • Private iCloud data storage
Features
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Highlight is made for looking back without turning your life into charts or endless lists. It helps you revisit everyday moments by placing photos, notes, events, and health data on a simple personal timeline. If remembering things feels harder than it should, this is an easy place to begin, open Highlight and start putting your days back together! People don’t forget moments because they didn’t matter. Most of the time, they forget because those moments are scattered. Photos here, notes somewhere else, events that pass and are gone. Putting them side by side changes how easy it is to remember. Opening a past day is more than flipping through photos. You start to see what was happening around that moment, where you were, what you noted, how the day actually felt. Sometimes a small detail brings everything back. Other times, you notice patterns you hadn’t really thought about before. Your Life - Day by Day Instead of leaving photos, events, and notes scattered, Highlight places them next to each other for each day, week, or month. When days blend together, this makes it much easier to remember what actually happened and when. Weekly and Monthly Recaps Instead of long reports, Highlight creates simple summaries at the end of each week and month. They’re meant for quick reflection. A fast look back at busy weeks, trips, or periods when a lot was happening, without needing to write anything extra. Search Your Memories If you can’t remember exactly when something happened, that’s okay. You can search your notes naturally and find moments by asking simple questions. It saves time and avoids endless scrolling through old entries. Track What Matters - Your Way The daily rating is flexible. Some people use it to track mood. Others use it for productivity, habits, or progress on personal projects. There’s no right way to use it. Over time, those small inputs turn into a clear overview you can actually learn from. Your Memory Soundtrack If you connect your music, Highlight shows your most played song each month. It’s a small touch, but it often brings memories back faster than words do. Your Data, Your Control - Full Privacy Everything is stored in your own iCloud account. Highlight doesn’t see your information and never shares it. Your timeline stays personal, exactly as it should be. Highlight isn’t meant to take over your journal or treat life like a spreadsheet. It sits quietly in the background, helping you remember, reflect, and spot small details along the way. Over time, it grows into a simple record of how your life came together. Download our app today and begin creating a personal timeline that makes it easier to remember what really happened. See your moments come together, reflect on your days naturally, and keep a clear record of your life over time! --- Terms of Use: https://www.termsfeed.com/live/c50e838c-8397-4436-9171-6dc4586e3c7b

About

PetaNote

Easily create visually appealing journal entries from your notes and photos. Choose from various artistic styles to design unique scrapbook pages for everyday memories, trips, and more. Save, revisit, and share your creations effortlessly.

Highlights
  • Generate visual journal pages from text and photos
  • Multiple scrapbook and hand-drawn styles
  • List, image, calendar, and weekly views
  • Save and share journal pages
  • Weekly challenges and streaks
  • Submit work to the Square for discovery
Features
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PetaNote turns your everyday text and photos into cute scrapbook-style journal images. Write a short note, add one or more photos, and generate a designed journal page you can save, revisit, and share. It is made for food memories, outfits, trips, study moments, workouts, hobbies, and the small daily scenes worth keeping. With PetaNote, you can: - Generate visual journal pages from text and photos - Choose from multiple scrapbook and hand-drawn styles - Review entries in list, image, monthly calendar, and weekly views - Save generated pages to Photos and share them anywhere - Join weekly challenges and streaks to earn free points - Submit your work to the Square so more people can discover it PetaNote is for anyone who likes journaling, photo memories, cute collage layouts, and visual life tracking, without spending time on manual design. --- **Point Packs Available** 50 Points — $5.99 100 Points — $8.99 150 Points — $12.99 **Upgrade Membership** • No more point anxiety • Free access to all VIP art styles • Ad-free experience **Subscription Options:** Basic — $3.99 / month Intermediate — $4.99 / month Premium — $7.99 / month Subscriptions are auto-renewable. Unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current subscription period, the subscription will automatically renew. The fee will be charged to your Apple ID account within 24 hours before the end of the current period. You can manage or cancel your subscription on your iOS device by going to **Settings → Apple ID → Subscriptions**. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Highlight4 screens
PetaNote4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: PetaNote at none against Highlight's shown. Highlight's advantage is ratings volume (12 vs 1). On price, rating, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Highlight sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month and PetaNote sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Highlight against 5.0 for PetaNote. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Highlight has 12 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Highlight versus PetaNote: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHighlightPetaNote
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (12 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings12 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 5 days—
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS17.616.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size31 MB85 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperScrappedApps LLC培强 郝

Customer experience

Highlight

All ratings11 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

PetaNote

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

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Highlight

Subscriptions2
  • Highlight Pro$1.991 Month
  • Highlight Pro$7.996 Months
6 purchases

PetaNote

Subscriptions3
  • Monthly Basic Plan$3.991 Month
  • Monthly Intermediate Plan$4.991 Month
  • Monthly Premium Membership$7.991 Month
One-time3
  • 50 points$5.99
  • 100 Points$8.99
  • 150 Points$12.99

Questions

Is Highlight free?
Highlight is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is PetaNote free?
PetaNote is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Highlight or PetaNote?
Highlight and PetaNote are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 12 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Highlight or PetaNote have ads?
Highlight shows ads; PetaNote does not.

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