Comparison

Tackle vs Noted Note

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

Head to head
About

Tackle

Manage daily tasks, checklists, and reminders effortlessly with smart features and home screen widgets. Organize everything into folders, set priorities, and sync across devices. Prioritizes privacy with on-device data storage and iCloud sync.

Highlights
  • Smart checklists
  • Home and lock screen widgets
  • Reminders and notifications
  • Folders and organization
  • Themes and personalization
  • Privacy-focused design
  • iPad optimized features
Features
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Check off today's list without opening the app. Tackle keeps daily tasks, groceries, routines, and packing lists on your Home and Lock Screens. Check items off from a widget, organize lists in folders, and keep everything synced through your private iCloud. KEY BENEFITS • Interactive Home Screen checklist widgets • Lock Screen checklist with completion progress • Priorities for individual checklist items • Reminders for the checklist note • On-device dictation for quickly adding task lines • Folders, favorites, colors, wallpapers, and app lock • iCloud sync across iPhone, iPad, and Mac • No subscription or in-app paywall HOW IT WORKS 1. Create a checklist 2. Add items and priorities 3. Pin the list to a widget and check items off as you go Tackle does not include subtasks, collaboration, Apple Reminders sync, or a separate due date on every item. Start with the list you need today.

About

Noted Note

This app simulates a physical notebook for your iPhone, allowing you to type notes that appear as handwriting. It offers various writing styles, pens, paper types, and the ability to add doodles and photos. Notes are organized chronologically and searchable.

Highlights
  • Simulated handwriting typing
  • Multiple pen and paper styles
  • Doodle and photo integration
  • Scratch-out deletion effect
  • Chronological note organization
  • Searchable notes
  • Customizable sounds
Features
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noted. is a little paper notebook for your iPhone. Type, and your words appear in handwriting on paper with a bit of grain. No folders to manage, no toolbars to learn. Just a page and a pen. WRITING • Four hands: scrawl, the house hand, which inks itself stroke by stroke as you type, plus marker, looseleaf and rafikki • Four pens: ballpoint, marker, fountain and pencil • Change the hand or pen for a selection, or for just what you type next; settings picks the hand new notes start in • Plain, lined, squared or dotted paper, chosen note by note CROSSING OUT • Delete more than a few letters and they are scratched out in ink instead of vanishing; a quick typo fix still simply deletes • Keep the scratch-out, or let it go DOODLES AND PHOTOS • Draw with your finger and put the doodle on the page • Add photos from your library: as the full photo, as a cutout with the background removed, as a cutout with a white border, or held on with a binder clip or a paper clip • Move doodles and photos around the page YOUR NOTES • Every note on one wall, most recently written first, grouped by day • Search what your notes say (crossed-out words are left out) • Hold a note to crumple it up PAPERS AND SOUNDS • Cream paper by day and charcoal at night, following your iPhone • Five more papers: charcoal, spring, terracotta, violet and sea • Soft pencil sounds when you cross out, crumple a note, or pick a paper, pen or hand, with a loudness control, or turn them off ON IPHONE DUO • Closed, the outside screen is your notebook's cover, with windows cut through it to your latest page • Open it, and your notes become a book: turn the pages, with a soft page-turn sound • Tap a page and write right on it with the keyboard • A handwritten index of your notes, with dates • Eight covers: bottle green, charcoal, ink navy, rust, burgundy, kraft, and two cloth covers, breakfast and horses • Lined, squared, dotted or plain pages; blue, black or sepia ink; turn the pages or scroll • Warm, faded paper after dark LANGUAGES • noted. speaks English, Danish, German, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, and Simplified and Traditional Chinese • The handwriting writes all of them. The four hands and the self-inking scrawl are for the Latin alphabet; Cyrillic, Japanese, Korean and Chinese each have a handwriting face of their own FREE, AND THE WHOLE DRAWER Free to use, with no time limit: the scrawl, the ballpoint, cream paper (charcoal at night), scratch-outs, doodles, photos, search, sounds and the whole iPhone Duo notebook. One optional purchase, the whole drawer, adds: • the five more papers • every pen: marker, fountain and pencil • every hand: marker, looseleaf and rafikki • iCloud sync, so your notes follow you to your other iPhones One payment, kept forever. No subscription. Restore it any time from the purchase page. PRIVATE Notes stay on your device or in your own iCloud. Apple handles purchases; RevenueCat receives receipts and app/device IDs for validation and purchase statistics. No advertising tracking or data sales. Privacy Policy: https://walnut-burst-160.notion.site/Noted-Note-Privacy-Policy-3a93971e7add8199a7e4d91c688d6069 Terms of Use: https://walnut-burst-160.notion.site/Noted-Note-Terms-of-Use-3a93971e7add80428a0fdaad90470a72 Apple Standard EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Tackle4 screens
Noted Note4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Noted Note at 50% against Tackle's 0%. Noted Note also leads on price (Free vs $0.99) and update cadence (every 3 days vs every 3 months). Tackle's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and device support (3 vs 1). On ads 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

Noted Note is free to download; Tackle costs $0.99 up front. Noted Note sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Tackle asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Tackle ships an update every 3 months, Noted Note every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Tackle versus Noted Note: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTackleNoted Note
Price$0.99Free — better
Rating—4.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews50.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings—2 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaidFree with in-app purchases — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac — betteriPhone
Requires iOS26.0 — better26.5
Further details — not scored
Size76 MB115 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMohini SharmaJerry Munyoka Nkongolo

Customer experience

Tackle

Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

Noted Note

All ratings2 ratings
Positive50.0%
Neutral50.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral50.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Tackle

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Noted Note

One-time1
  • the whole drawer$9.99

Questions

Is Tackle free?
Tackle costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Noted Note free?
Noted Note is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Tackle or Noted Note have ads?
Neither Tackle nor Noted Note shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Tackle or Noted Note?
Tackle ships an update every 3 months, and Noted Note every 3 days. Most recently, Tackle was updated on October 30, 2026 and Noted Note on November 5, 2026.

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