Comparison

Notori vs Pull to Refresh

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

Head to head
About

Notori

Features
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You save something because it matters. Later, you remember the idea but not where you put it. Notori is an AI notes app that turns scattered notes into a connected second brain you can return to. CAPTURE WITHOUT SORTING FIRST Write a thought, paste a useful link, or add a photo. Start with what is on your mind instead of choosing a folder before you can save it. Notori keeps the original note and looks for useful connections with the rest of what you have saved. BUILD CONTEXT WITH TOPICS Related notes come together in Topics. A trip, project, person, reading list, or recommendation can grow as you add details. Each Topic gives you a clearer place to revisit the notes that belong together without losing their original context. SEARCH AND ASK YOUR NOTES Use local search on your saved notes when you remember a word or detail. When you need the wider picture, ask a question in your own words. Notori answers from the material you saved and shows the sources behind the answer. Open any source to read the original note and check the context yourself. USE NOTORI TO • Capture text notes, links, and photos • Bring related notes together in Topics • Search the material you have saved • Ask questions about your own notes • Follow cited sources back to the original Keep project clues, travel plans, things you want to read, details about people, and recommendations in one connected memory. Save one useful piece at a time, then find it again through Topics, search, or Ask. MORE WAYS TO SAVE, FULL CONTROL Save from other apps with the Share sheet, add PDFs and text files, or start a note from a Home Screen widget. With iCloud turned on, your notes sync through your own private iCloud to your other devices. Export your notes as Markdown or delete them permanently whenever you want. AI AT THE CORE AI is an essential part of Notori, and you accept its processing before you start. To build Topics and answer questions, note text, resized copies of your photos, your question, and the relevant sources are processed through Notori’s server and OpenAI. Saving and local search work on your device. Notori requires an active subscription or, if eligible, an active seven-day free trial. Apple shows the local price, billing period, and trial eligibility before confirmation. Payment is handled through your App Store account. The subscription renews automatically until you cancel it in your App Store subscription settings. Privacy Policy: https://miguelangelxramirez.github.io/Notori-privacy/privacy-policy/ Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Pull to Refresh

This app locks your most time-consuming applications until you complete physical exercises. Earn back minutes for your apps by doing push-ups, sit-ups, or other movements, with the camera accurately counting your reps. Your exercise data can be saved to Health.

Highlights
  • App time allowance setting
  • Exercise-based rep counting
  • Pose detection for accurate reps
  • Health app integration
  • Optional public leaderboard
  • Strict mode for enhanced blocking
Features
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Pull to refresh. Actually pull. Pick the apps that eat your day, give them an allowance, and when it runs out they lock. To get back in, you do reps. The camera counts them on your phone. HOW IT WORKS 1. Choose the apps. Instagram, TikTok, X, games — whatever you actually lose hours to. 2. Set the allowance. So many minutes a day, a few minutes an hour, or nothing at all. 3. Run out, and they shut. 4. Do a set. Push-ups, sit-ups, squats, pull-ups or jumping jacks. 5. Spend what you earned, on whichever app you were reaching for. THE COUNTING IS HONEST Reps are scored from your body's joint positions, not from your phone shaking in a pocket. A rep only counts on a full movement — down to depth and back — so half-reps score nothing, and the app tells you why instead of leaving you guessing. Shaking the phone pays exactly zero. Time is measured in real use of those apps, not on a clock. Put the phone down mid-scroll and the minutes you paid for wait for you — for at least half an hour, and four times as long as the unlock for bigger ones, up to 22 hours. NO VIDEO LEAVES YOUR PHONE Pose detection runs on the device. No video is recorded, stored or uploaded, and there is no account to make. iOS hands the app opaque tokens rather than names, so it can tell that you picked an app — never what you do inside it. What does leave goes through Apple: rep counts and badge progress to Game Center once you say yes, your name and numbers to the iCloud board if you join it, and a copy of your history to your own iCloud. IT COUNTS TWICE Finished sets can be saved to Health as workouts, so reps done here go to your Move ring and show up in Fitness with everything else. RACE SOMEONE Signed in to Game Center, you get its leaderboards — this week and all time — and nine badges to earn, under your Game Center name. Nothing is sent until you say yes. On iOS 26 and later, start a Rep Race with a friend from Game Center: the biggest single set done during the race wins. Not on Game Center? Join the iCloud board under any name you like; leaving deletes your row. PRO Free covers a whole working loop: one group of apps on a daily allowance, every exercise, rep counting, Health and the leaderboards. Forever. Pro makes the lock harder — it never makes it softer: - Strict mode. A rule you cannot switch off the moment you want to. Changing it costs a cooling-off period first, which is exactly when you would have caved. - Minutes per hour. Short check-ins instead of one long sitting. - As many rules as you like, with different limits for different apps. - Your whole history, with streaks. Money never buys screen time here; reps do. Pro is a subscription, renewing until cancelled, or a one-off payment for good. Manage or cancel any time in Settings. WORTH KNOWING Blocking uses Apple's Screen Time. You will be asked to grant it on first launch, and the camera when you do your first set. Deleting the app removes every lock, whatever you have bought — this is a speed bump you chose, not a cage. Terms of Use (EULA): https://pull-to-refresh.pages.dev/terms Privacy Policy: https://pull-to-refresh.pages.dev/privacy

Screenshots

Notori4 screens
Pull to Refresh4 screens

Verdict

The call

Notori and Pull to Refresh are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters — price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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. Notori sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per 7 days and Pull to Refresh sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $12.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Notori ships an update every 5 days, Pull to Refresh every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and October 18, 2026 respectively.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Notori versus Pull to Refresh: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterNotoriPull to Refresh
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (8 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—8 — better
Update frequencyEvery 5 daysEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
Monetization—Freemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS18.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size14 MB9 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMiguel Angel RamirezIvan Chernoknizhnikov

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Notori

Subscriptions3
  • Notori Premium Weekly7 Days trial$3.997 Days
  • Notori Premium Mensual7 Days trial$11.991 Month
  • Notori Premium Anual7 Days trial$34.991 Year
2 purchases

Pull to Refresh

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly$12.991 Month
  • Yearly$44.991 Year

Questions

Is Notori free?
Notori is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Pull to Refresh free?
Pull to Refresh is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Notori or Pull to Refresh have ads?
Neither Notori nor Pull to Refresh shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Notori or Pull to Refresh?
Notori ships an update every 5 days, and Pull to Refresh every 3 days. Most recently, Notori was updated on October 7, 2026 and Pull to Refresh on October 18, 2026.

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