Comparison

Anecnote vs Nag Me

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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/

About

Nag Me

Features
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We've all been there. You're in the shower, driving, or halfway through a biscuit when it hits you — "I still need to do that thing." You tell yourself you'll remember. You won't. Nag Me is the to-do app for one-off tasks that absolutely, positively need doing. No project boards. No Gantt charts. No "productivity system." Just relentless, increasingly irritated reminders until you actually get it done. Choose your nagger: - Naggy Nana — guilt trips and prayers - Sergeant Nag — military-grade shouting - Karen from Accounts — corporate passive-aggression - Professor Pompous — condescending statistics - Disappointed Dad — sighs that could strip wallpaper - Motivational Maniac — aggressive positivity - Petty Flatmate — notes about notes about notes Or choose all of them! Set a deadline and watch the reminders escalate from polite nudge to full-scale meltdown. No deadline? We'll nag you anyway — just less urgently. For now. Naggy Nana, Sageant Nag and Disappointed Dad are available for free. The others are availble with an In App Purchase. Features: - One-off or recurring tasks - Sporadic, unpredictable reminders (harder to ignore) - 4 aggressiveness levels, from "Gentle nudge" to "Absolute nightmare" - Quiet hours, because even Naggy Nana sleeps - Snooze a task to shut them up temporarily - Syncs across devices via iCloud — different persona per device for maximum guilt coverage - Actionable notifications: mark done or snooze straight from the lock screen You asked for this.

Screenshots

Anecnote4 screens
Nag Me4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Nag Me at every 5 days against Anecnote's monthly. Anecnote's advantage is iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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. Anecnote sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month and Nag Me sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Anecnote ships an update monthly, Nag Me every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 6, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Anecnote versus Nag Me: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAnecnoteNag Me
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyMonthlyEvery 5 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size6 MB5 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperStuart MarshallManicgrin Media Ltd

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Anecnote

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly subscription$0.991 Month
  • Annual subscription$9.991 Year
One-time1
  • Lifetime purchase$24.99
1 purchases

Nag Me

One-time1
  • Hire the whole team$2.99

Questions

Is Anecnote free?
Anecnote is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Nag Me free?
Nag Me is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Anecnote or Nag Me have ads?
Neither Anecnote nor Nag Me shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Anecnote or Nag Me?
Anecnote ships an update monthly, and Nag Me every 5 days. Most recently, Anecnote was updated on October 6, 2026 and Nag Me on October 8, 2026.

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