NewTwos vs Harbor Notes
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
NewTwos
Capture thoughts, tasks, and ideas instantly in one unified space. This app automatically organizes your entries by date and makes everything searchable, syncing seamlessly across all your devices. It's designed for speed and simplicity, replacing multiple productivity tools.
- All-in-one note capture
- Automatic daily organization
- Instant searchability
- Cross-device syncing
- Integrations with other apps
- Replaces multiple productivity tools
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Write things down at the speed of thought. 21 million things written. Free to use, forever. Twos is the fastest, all-in-one place to get any *thing* out of your head - notes, to-dos, reminders, lists, ideas, events - and find it the moment you need it. No folders to build. No setup. Just open it and write. ONE PLACE FOR EVERYTHING: Thoughts, tasks, reminders, ideas, grocery lists, meeting notes, that 3 am thought you'll forget by morning. It all lives in one place, so nothing slips through. Most people who switch tell us Twos replaced four or five apps at once. YOUR DAY, SORTED BY ITSELF: Write something today and Twos puts it where it on your daily list. Anything you don't finish rolls over to tomorrow on its own, so nothing gets lost between days. Your Today view always shows what matters right now - nothing to maintain. FIND ANYTHING, EVEN MONTHS LATER: Everything you write becomes searchable the instant you write it. Ask Twos Chat a question, and it answers from your own things - "what was that book someone recommended?" - in seconds. The more you write down, the more Twos can do for you. USE TWOS ANYWHERE: Twos syncs across your phone, tablet, and browser instantly. It is available on your browser at WriteThingsDown.com, as a Chrome extension, a WhatsApp integration, an email integration, a text integration, and more. HOW IT COMPARES: Unlike Notion, Twos is truly built for mobile. Unlike Obsidian, there's nothing to set up. Unlike Apple Notes, the things you write become organizable pieces you can act on. Twos has the structure of a bullet journal without the blank-page overhead. WHAT PEOPLE USE TWOS FOR: · Daily to-do lists and planning · Grocery and shopping lists · Meeting notes and follow-ups · Travel and packing lists · Journaling and daily reflections · Goals and habit tracking · Brainstorming and idea capture · Coordinating with family and friends "I'm spinning a lot of plates - a full-time job, a team of 10, a home to run. It's all in Twos." — Nicola As featured in TechCrunch and The Verge. Twos is free. Everything you need costs nothing, with optional upgrades when you want them. Privacy policy: https://www.TwosApp.com/privacy Terms of service: https://www.TwosApp.com/terms
Harbor Notes
Capture, organize, and secure all your thoughts, tasks, and files in one private space. This app offers rich note-taking features, robust organization, and instant search, even within images and scanned documents. Your data is yours, with optional end-to-end encryption and no ads or data selling.
- Rich notes with checklists, tables, and highlights
- Notebooks, stacks, and tags for organization
- Task management with due dates
- Document scanning and sketching
- Voice memos and file attachments
- Instant search with OCR
- Offline-first native apps
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Harbor is your private second brain — a fast, native notes app for people who want to remember everything and own it for life. Capture notes, organize them into notebooks, tag anything, attach photos and files, scan paper documents, sketch ideas, and record voice memos. Then find any of it in seconds — Harbor's search even reads the text inside your images and scans. REMEMBER EVERYTHING • Rich notes with checklists, tables, images, links, and highlights • Notebooks and stacks that keep every part of your life organized • Tags that cut across notebooks • Tasks with due dates, right beside your notes • Scan documents with your camera; sketch with your finger or Apple Pencil • Voice memos and file attachments of every kind • Instant search across everything — including the text inside images and scans (OCR) YOURS, EVERYWHERE • Truly native apps for iPhone, iPad, and Mac — no web wrapper • Offline-first: your notes live on your device and sync automatically • The full web app at app.harbor.my from any browser • A web clipper that saves articles and pages straight into your notebooks PRIVATE BY DESIGN • No ads. No selling your data. No training AI on your notes. Ever. • Optional end-to-end encryption locks down your most sensitive notes so that no one — not even us — can read them • Export everything anytime in open formats. You are never locked in. SWITCHING FROM ANOTHER NOTES APP? Import your Evernote notebooks (.enex files) with the Mac or web app — your notebooks, tags, and attachments sync straight to your iPhone and iPad. SIMPLE, HONEST PRICING Harbor is free for up to 50 notes, 3 notebooks, and 20 tags — no credit card required. When you outgrow the free plan, Harbor Unlimited removes every limit: • $9.99/month or $99/year • Unlimited notes, notebooks, tags, tasks, and files • A written price-lock promise in our terms: your price won't go up for at least 3 years Subscriptions are billed to your Apple ID and renew automatically until cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel anytime in your App Store account settings. And even if you stop paying, you can always read and export your notes — Harbor never holds your data hostage. Privacy Policy: https://harbor.my/privacy/ Terms of Use: https://harbor.my/terms/ Questions? A real person answers: help@harbor.my
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Harbor Notes at 5.0 against NewTwos's 4.1. Harbor Notes also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 61%). NewTwos's advantage is update cadence (daily vs every 4 days) and ratings volume (32 vs 4). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. NewTwos sells 9 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and Harbor Notes sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Harbor Notes holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: NewTwos has 32 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 61% of NewTwos's written reviews are positive against 100% of Harbor Notes's.
NewTwos ships an update daily, Harbor Notes every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 5, 2026 and October 11, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | NewTwos | Harbor Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.1 (32 ratings) | 5.0 (4 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 61.1% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 32 — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Daily — better | Every 4 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPad, Mac |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 138 MB | 37 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Twos Technologies Incorporated | Cloudmanic Labs, LLC |
Customer experience
NewTwos
Harbor Notes
In-app purchases
NewTwos
- Twos Plus7 Days trial$4.991 Month
- Twos Plus7 Days trial$39.991 Year
- 200 coins + 2 gems$1.99
- 700 coins + 8 gems$4.99
- 1,500 coins + 18 gems$9.99
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- 3,500 coins + 40 gems$19.99
- 9,000 coins + 80 gems$49.99
- 20,000 coins + 150 gems$99.99
- Plus Lifetime$199.00
Harbor Notes
- Unlimited — Monthly$9.991 Month
- Unlimited — Yearly$99.001 Year









