Comparison

Anecnote vs Semnia

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

Semnia

Capture browser screenshots that remember their origin, reopening to the exact page you were viewing. Automatically sorts and organizes your shots by topic, order, or shopping, and shares links alongside images.

Highlights
  • Reopen screenshots to exact web pages
  • Automatic sorting by topic, order, shopping
  • Share screenshots with embedded links
  • Search text within screenshots
  • Keep local copies of screenshots
  • Parcel tracking link integration
Features
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Screenshots you take in your iPhone's built-in browser remember where they came from: tap one and the page opens again, at the part you were reading. All your screenshots sort themselves — into topics, and by the app you took them in. Share a few and the links travel with the pictures — whoever you send them to opens the real pages too. WHAT IT DOES • Takes you back to the page. A tap on a browser screenshot reopens it where you took it. A green dot means that exact page, a grey one means the site. • Follows your parcels. Screenshot the courier's text and it becomes a link to that parcel's page. • Sorts itself. Recipes, orders, parcels, shopping… and topics you make yourself. Narrow the grid by day, by site, by app, by topic, by whether a screenshot has a link — and they stack, with each other and with whatever you type. • Groups them by app. Screenshots file themselves under the app you took them in, when Semnia can tell. The rest wait under Not sorted yet, where it asks about the ones that look alike. Every one you name teaches it, so the next ones from that app can file themselves. • Sends the links with the pictures. Put several screenshots on one page and share it: in the PDF, a screenshot that has a link keeps it. Save that page as a card and it stays yours — reopen it, share it again, add to it. • Searches the words inside them, as you type, across the whole library — in any script your iPhone can read, or by the site a screenshot came from. They show up in the iPhone's own search too. • Shows the ones that look alike. Show similar lines up the screenshots that look like the one you picked, closest first — the same page taken twice, the same kind of screen. • Keeps its own copies, so your screenshots stay usable here even after you clear them out of Photos. PRIVACY No account. No cloud. No server of its own. The reading, the search, the topics, the apps and the links are all worked out on your phone, and nothing is ever uploaded. The only pages Semnia loads are the ones you tap. FREE, AND FULL Free on your newest 500 screenshots — the whole app, not a trial. One payment opens the rest of your library, for good. GOOD TO KNOW Reopening the exact page works from the moment you switch the Semnia extension on (Settings → Apps → Safari → Extensions) — it has to be watching when you take the screenshot. Screenshots you already had are still read, searched and sorted, and Semnia links what it can read off the picture itself, which usually reopens the site rather than the exact page. Everything else works without the extension. Parcel links cover the major couriers, and new ones are added all the time — a missing courier is one mail to support@semnia.com away. A parcel from an unknown courier is still kept and still searchable, just without the tracking link. A screenshot of a courier thread holding several parcels opens each of them: tap the find-links button in the viewer and every tracking number on it becomes tappable. Words are read in the languages your iPhone itself can read. A screenshot in a script iOS cannot read is still kept and still yours — just not findable by its words. A PDF you share says "made with Semnia" on its first page, as a link to the website. The link is the same in every PDF, and Settings → Sharing turns it off.

Screenshots

Anecnote4 screens
Semnia4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Anecnote at 17.0 against Semnia's 26.0. On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume 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 Semnia sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. 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 Anecnote against 5.0 for Semnia. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 1 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Anecnote ships an update monthly, Semnia every 4 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 6, 2026 and October 4, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Anecnote versus Semnia: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAnecnoteSemnia
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings2 — better1
Update frequencyMonthlyEvery 4 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size6 MB8 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperStuart MarshallEugen Tamasanu

Customer experience

Anecnote

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews7 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Semnia

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

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

Semnia

One-time1
  • Full library$9.99

Questions

Is Anecnote free?
Anecnote is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Semnia free?
Semnia is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Anecnote or Semnia?
Anecnote and Semnia are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 2 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Anecnote or Semnia have ads?
Neither Anecnote nor Semnia shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Anecnote or Semnia?
Anecnote ships an update monthly, and Semnia every 4 weeks. Most recently, Anecnote was updated on October 6, 2026 and Semnia on October 4, 2026.

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