Cartly+ vs Flipnotes
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Cartly+
Easily manage household shopping with a shared list that updates in real-time. Coordinate with family or roommates through built-in chat and receive smart notifications for added or checked-off items. Enjoy a clean, fast, and distraction-free design for effortless grocery planning.
- Real-time shared lists
- Built-in household chat
- Smart notifications
- Organize shopping lists
- Fast, distraction-free design
- Multiple lists (Premium)
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Less “did you get milk?” More shopping together. Cartly+ brings your household’s shopping lists, conversations and meal plans into one place. Add what you need, coordinate with your people and see what is still left to buy. For couples, families, roommates and anyone sharing the shopping. TWO WAYS TO KEEP YOUR LIST Keep an ongoing Main list for things you need without choosing a date. Use By date to organise a specific shopping trip. Clear To buy and Done sections make it easy to follow your progress and undo an accidental check. SHOP TOGETHER Invite your household and keep groceries, quantities, categories and notes in sync while connected. Someone adds an item at home. Someone else checks it off at the shop. KEEP THE CONVERSATION CLOSE Household chat keeps questions and last-minute changes alongside your shopping. Ask which milk to get or let everyone know you are heading to the store. PLAN MEALS, THEN ADD THE INGREDIENTS Save your household’s favourite recipes and plan meals for the week. Adjust servings, select the ingredients you need and add them to a shopping date. Leave out what is already in your cupboard. CONNECT YOUR AI ASSISTANT Connect a supported external AI assistant to read and update your shopping list. Ask it for dinner ideas, then tell it to add the ingredients to Cartly. Try: “Add spicy salmon rice bowl ingredients to my Cartly shopping list.” AI assistant connections are included in Free. Setup and a compatible assistant are required. Availability and external service terms vary. TAKE YOUR LIST WITH YOU Use Cartly+ on your phone or in your browser. On Apple Watch, browse, add and check off items with your paired iPhone connected. Switch between Main and today’s list on your watch and widgets. USEFUL FOR FREE • Membership in up to 2 households • Up to 50 shopping items per date, including checked items • Up to 50 unchecked items in Main list • Household chat and shared shopping • 5 saved recipes per household • Meal planning • AI assistant connections MORE ROOM WITH PREMIUM Upgrade for unlimited household memberships, shopping items and saved recipes, plus an ad-free experience. Import recipes from supported public websites and translate recipes, with daily usage limits. LISTS THAT STAY TIDY Main list keeps unchecked items until you remove them. Checked items are automatically removed after 30 days. By date items are removed more than 30 days after their shopping date, including unchecked items. An account and internet connection are required for shared updates. Apple Watch requires a compatible paired iPhone. Premium pricing and subscription terms are shown in the app. Privacy: https://cartly.plus/privacy Terms: https://cartly.plus/terms Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Flipnotes
This app automatically files your notes, voice recordings, and photos into a timeline, eliminating the need for manual organization. It allows for instant searching and integrates with AI assistants for enhanced productivity.
- Automatic chronological filing
- Instant search across all content
- Voice note transcription
- Offline-first functionality
- AI assistant integration
- Private note marking
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Flipnotes finally solves the notebook problem: the more you put in, the harder it gets to find anything. Stop organizing your notes — just capture them. Flipnotes records everything in time, files it automatically, and lets you flip through your days like a paper notebook. Intuitive from the first second, with deep functionality underneath, it becomes the daily companion you actually keep using. CAPTURE IN SECONDS Type a thought. Hold to record a voice note. Snap a photo with a zero-lag camera. Save a place with one tap. Jot a checklist. Share into Flipnotes from any app. There are no titles to invent, no folders to choose, no filing to do — you capture the moment you have it, and you're done. FLIP THROUGH YOUR DAYS Your notes live on a timeline you flip through like paper. Today is where you land; yesterday is one swipe away; last month is a few more. Everything stays where it happened — in its day, in order, exactly where your memory expects it. It feels less like an app and more like a notebook that turns its own pages. NO ORGANIZING. EVER. While you get on with your life, Flipnotes quietly sorts everything you capture: shopping lists, ideas, bills, menus, boarding passes, business cards, addresses, diary entries. Notes file themselves into categories automatically. You do nothing, and yet everything ends up in its place. FIND ANYTHING INSTANTLY Search across everything you've ever written, said, or photographed. Browse by category, scan your photos in the gallery, or see every place you've saved on your own beautiful map. Your notebook stops being a pile and becomes an index of your life. MENTION A DATE, GET AN AGENDA Write "dinner with Marie on the 17th" and it lands on your agenda by itself. Any date you mention — in any language, typed or spoken — becomes a calendar entry. Your plans assemble themselves out of your notes. VOICE NOTES THAT WRITE THEMSELVES Press, speak, done. Voice notes are transcribed automatically, so they're searchable like text and readable at a glance — and the original recording is always one tap away. TRULY OFFLINE-FIRST Everything works without signal. Capture for a week off-grid — on a hike, on a flight, in a dead zone — and it all syncs when you're back. Your notes are always on your device, never behind a loading spinner. And they're on the web too, so your whole notebook is waiting on any screen you open. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Your notes are yours. No ads, no tracking, no selling your data. Mark any note private and it is never sent to any AI feature — a locked corner of your notebook for the things that stay yours alone. WORKS WITH YOUR AI (OPTIONAL) Connect Claude or any MCP-compatible assistant and talk to your notes: create a note from a chat, ask what's on your agenda this week, find that restaurant someone recommended. Whether you're capturing ideas, house-hunting, journaling, planning trips, or just trying to remember what happened last Tuesday — Flipnotes keeps up with your life and hands it back to you, organized. --- Flipnotes comes with a free one-month trial. Continue with Personal Plan or go Pro for heavy capture: more photos, more storage, more transcription. Subscriptions renew annually and can be cancelled anytime in your App Store settings. Terms: https://flipnotes.life/terms Privacy: https://flipnotes.life/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Flipnotes at 100% against Cartly+'s 0%. Flipnotes also leads on rating (5.0 vs 2.0) and ads (none vs shown). Cartly+'s advantage is device support (4 vs 1). On price, ratings volume, update cadence and in-app purchases 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. Cartly+ sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and Flipnotes sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Flipnotes holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 2.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 0% of Cartly+'s written reviews are positive against 100% of Flipnotes's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Cartly+ | Flipnotes |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Every 2 weeks |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 48 MB | 9 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | S10 Solutions OÜ | Flipnotes |
Customer experience
Cartly+
Flipnotes
In-app purchases
Cartly+
- Cartly+ Premium Monthly$4.991 Month
- Cartly+ Premium Yearly7 Days trial$39.991 Year
Flipnotes
- Personal$3.991 Month
- Pro$25.491 Month
- Personal$39.991 Year
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- Pro$249.001 Year
- Flipnotes Personal Lifetime$99.99
- Flipnotes Pro Lifetime$599.00







