Anecnote vs Fast Actions for Notion
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Anecnote
Capture and organize your thoughts, memories, and important information with a powerful note-taking app. Utilize custom categories, tags, and smart views to easily filter and retrieve your notes when you need them most. Offers flexible in-app purchase options to unlock full potential.
- Flexible note creation with custom metadata
- Smart views for advanced note filtering
- Distraction-free reading experience
- Custom URL scheme for external note creation
- Categorization, tagging, and starring options
- Actionable notes for to-do lists
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Anecnote: Your Personal Note-Taking Companion and Memory Manager Unlock the power of Anecnote, the ultimate note-taking and management app designed for anyone who wants to capture their memories, quotes, advice, reviews, anecdotes, and more. Whether you’re journaling your travels, documenting personal experiences, storing interesting trivia or simply keeping track of important notes, Anecnote provides the flexibility and features you need. Its real superpower is being able to 'surface' your notes when you need them via the use of our powerful filtering system (called Smart views). It is the ultimate aide-memoire! FLEXIBLE NOTE MANAGEMENT Create notes for any and every purpose — memories, reviews, travelogues, journal entries, facts and more. Customise each note with relevant metadata to suit your needs: • Categories: Classify your notes by type (e.g., review, memory, anecdote, fact, trivia, journal). • Area: Contextualise your notes by assigning it an area (e.g. home, work, family, personal). • People: Tag individuals related to your notes for easy reference. • Source: If the content of the note is from a particular person (or website) then you can add that info in too • Tags: Add unlimited tags to describe your notes' content and subject matter. • Starred: Mark any note with a star to quickly add to a favourites list • Action required: Mark any note as needing some kind of action and it will show up in a Todo list of notes You can use as many or as few of these as you want/need to describe your notes. And if these default labels don't suit you can even change them to words that better relate to your use cases / language. SMART VIEWS Effortlessly filter your notes using built-in smart views (All Notes, Starred Items, Todos) or create Custom views tailored exactly to your needs. All of your added metadata is available for filtering purposes so you can create advanced filters to show just what you need. For example, view all Reviews for Movies with a 5-star rating or list all memories that involve your daughter etc. The options are endless! STREAMLINED READING Enjoy a distraction-free reading experience in any Smart View with the ability to view all note content at once, hiding metadata all metadata for a clean look. CUSTOM URL SCHEME Add notes from anywhere using the custom url scheme. For example you could use Shortcuts app to build prompts that ask you about your day that will create the all of the required content for a daily journal entry that gets automatically added to Anecnote. There are urls to create and open notes. IN-APP PURCHASING OPTIONS Unlock the full potential of Anecnote with our flexible in-app purchasing options: • Free Tier: Create up to 10 notes and 1 custom smart view. • Monthly Subscription: Enjoy unlimited notes and smart views, plus the ability to duplicate notes and smart views. • Annual Subscription: Get all the benefits of the monthly plan at a discounted rate. • Lifetime One-Off Payment: Make a single payment to unlock unlimited notes, smart views, and duplication features forever. Any of the above payment options unlocks UNLIMITED notes and smart views! They also enable the ability to duplicate notes and saved views as well as allowing importing of notes via a CSV file. WHY CHOOSE ANECNOTE? With a beautiful interface and extensive customisation options, Anecnote takes note-taking and memory management to a whole new level. Organise your thoughts, preserve your memories, and access your notes with ease. Start your journey of capturing life’s moments today! TERMS OF USE: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ PRIVACY: https://anecnote.app/privacy/
Fast Actions for Notion
Log any type of information into your Notion databases quickly and easily, even without an internet connection. Create custom actions with pre-filled fields for rapid data entry on the go.
- Log photos, text, numbers, dates, and files
- Pre-fill fields for single-tap entries
- Create multiple actions per database
- Works offline with automatic uploads
- Direct Notion API integration
- Supports any full-page Notion database
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Log anything into your Notion databases in seconds. Set up custom actions, each with its own set of fields, and capture entries on the go without ever opening Notion. CAPTURE ANYTHING • Photos, text, numbers, dates, selects, multi-selects, checkboxes, URLs, emails, phone numbers, and files • Pre-fill fields with default values so common entries take a single tap • Create multiple actions for the same database with different field sets WORKS OFFLINE • Entries are saved to a local queue when you have no connection • Uploads happen automatically when you're back online • Track every entry with live status updates in the upload queue BUILT FOR NOTION • Connects via official Notion OAuth - your data stays yours • Direct Notion API integration, no middleman • Supports any full-page database with any combination of properties EXAMPLE WORKFLOWS • Expense tracking - log amount, category, and receipt photo • Daily journal - mood, tags, and a quick note • Workout log - exercise, sets, reps, and notes • Book notes - title, rating, and key takeaways • Meeting notes - action items with tags and dates Set up your databases once, then capture in seconds every time.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Fast Actions for Notion at none against Anecnote's 3. Fast Actions for Notion also leads on update cadence (weekly vs monthly) and ratings volume (6 vs 2). On price, rating, review sentiment and 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
Both are free to download. Anecnote sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Fast Actions for Notion asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Anecnote against 5.0 for Fast Actions for Notion. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 6 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
Anecnote ships an update monthly, Fast Actions for Notion weekly. The most recent releases landed on September 5, 2026 and August 21, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Anecnote | Fast Actions for Notion |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) | 5.0 (6 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 6 — better |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 16.4 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 6 MB | 56 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Stuart Marshall | Michal Zolnieruk |
Customer experience
Anecnote
Fast Actions for Notion
In-app purchases
Anecnote
- Monthly subscription$0.991 Month
- Annual subscription$9.991 Year
- Lifetime purchase$24.99
Fast Actions for Notion
No in-app purchases





