Comparison

Dhinote vs Sebastian Assistant

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

Head to head
About

Dhinote

Features
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Dhinote is a fast, intelligent note app that organizes your thoughts and actions — automatically. Why Dhinote? Structured by design: - Notes are automatically organized into a clear, easy-to-navigate structure. No more messy notebooks or endless searching.Notes and tasks together: - Capture thoughts and turn them into actionable tasks — all in one place. Fast and frictionless: - Open, write, save. Dhinote is built for speed, so nothing gets in the way of your flow of thoughts. Clean and focused: - A calm, distraction-free interface that helps you stay focused on what matters. In Sanskrit, Dhi (धी) primarily means intellect, understanding, thought, reflection, or mind, embodying the power to comprehend and discern, often seen as the mind's activity or a higher form of knowingness.

About

Sebastian Assistant

Organize your day by consolidating calendars, reminders, notes, alarms, and timers into a single, person-centric timeline. Quickly access and share information related to specific contacts, streamlining your daily planning and task management.

Highlights
  • Unified timeline for calendar, reminders, notes, alarms, timers
  • Person-centric threads for organized contact information
  • Customizable daily dashboard
  • Markdown notes with image and attachment support
  • Multiple timers and alarm scheduling
  • Home and Lock Screen widgets
  • Drive mode for glanceable information
Features
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Sebastian — Daily Assistant Sebastian pulls your calendar, reminders, notes, alarms and timers into one place, and keeps them tied to the people they are actually about. THREADS Link a calendar, a reminder list, a note, an alarm or a timer to a person, and Sebastian builds them a thread — one timeline of every appointment, reminder, note and comment involving them. Filter it to one kind of entry, then share it as text or a formatted PDF. It is the fastest way to answer "what has been going on with Mum's care?" without digging through four apps. YOUR DAY • Today: events, due reminders and what needs attention, in a dashboard you arrange yourself. • Reminders: group by list, due date, priority or status. Save Quick Views, act on many at once, and timebox a task straight onto your calendar. • Calendar: day, week and month, with conflict spotting and travel time. • Notes: Markdown, images and attachments, with their own widgets — and with Plus, Notes on the web: read and edit them in any browser, synced through your own iCloud. TIMERS, ALARMS AND FASTING Multiple named timers, full alarm scheduling, and fasting timers that keep running past their target so you can see how long you actually fasted. WIDGETS AND SHORTCUTS Home Screen, Lock Screen and StandBy widgets, launcher cards, Live Activities, Control Center controls, Spotlight search and Siri Shortcuts. DRIVE MODE A large-type, glanceable view of what is next when you are on the road. PRIVACY Your calendar, reminders and contacts stay on your device and in Apple's own apps. Sebastian asks for what it needs and nothing more. There is no account and no sign-up. FREE AND PLUS Free shows every calendar and reminder list you have — nothing is hidden. You can add to and edit any three of each, and tick off or delete a reminder wherever it lives. It includes alarms, timers, severe weather alerts, and the small and medium widgets. Sebastian Plus is a single one-time purchase — no subscription, nothing to renew — and it lifts every limit: editing in all your calendars and lists, unlimited notes, sync across your devices, Notes on the web, full thread history and export, hourly and 10-day forecasts, focus timers, shared tags and the large launcher widgets. It is shareable with your Family Sharing group. New installs get 30 days of everything to try first. https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Dhinote4 screens
Sebastian Assistant4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Dhinote at none against Sebastian Assistant's 1. Sebastian Assistant's advantage is update cadence (every 2 days vs every 3 weeks). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. Sebastian Assistant sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Dhinote asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Dhinote ships an update every 3 weeks, Sebastian Assistant every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
Dhinote versus Sebastian Assistant: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDhinoteSebastian Assistant
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Number of ratings—1 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
Monetization—Freemium
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS17 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size38 MB31 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperGopal KrishnamaniMichael Surratt

In-app purchases

None

Dhinote

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Sebastian Assistant

One-time1
  • Sebastian Plus$9.99

Questions

Is Dhinote free?
Dhinote is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Sebastian Assistant free?
Sebastian Assistant is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Dhinote or Sebastian Assistant have ads?
Neither Dhinote nor Sebastian Assistant shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Dhinote or Sebastian Assistant?
Dhinote ships an update every 3 weeks, and Sebastian Assistant every 2 days. Most recently, Dhinote was updated on October 25, 2026 and Sebastian Assistant on November 5, 2026.

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