StarNote vs Elevator Field Command
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
StarNote
This app offers a realistic pen-on-paper handwriting experience on tablets with an infinite canvas for notes and sketches. It includes advanced layering, PDF annotation, and a robust organizer for efficient digital note-taking and planning.
- Realistic low-latency handwriting
- Infinite canvas for unlimited space
- Layered design for complex projects
- Deep PDF annotation and markup
- Robust file management and search
- Lifetime access with one-time purchase
- Free templates and digital assets
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StarNote is a clean and powerful note-taking app for handwriting, PDF annotation, study, work, and everyday planning. Write naturally with your stylus, organize notebooks, mark up PDFs, and keep all your ideas in one simple workspace. Built for students, professionals, and tablet users, StarNote helps you take class notes, review lecture slides, annotate documents, plan your day, and build a paperless study or work system. With smooth handwriting, flexible notebooks, PDF markup, and digital planning tools, StarNote makes it easy to capture ideas and stay organized. No monthly subscription. Choose a one-time purchase and enjoy a long-term note-taking tool without ongoing fees. Download StarNote and start building your digital notebook today.
Elevator Field Command
This app helps elevator mechanics manage their routes, track equipment, log service history, and record hours. It provides offline access to code guides, manuals, and service logs, ensuring all essential information is readily available in the field.
- Offline code guide companion
- Equipment and service history tracking
- Service logging with photos and receipts
- Time ticket and timesheet management
- Watch list for urgent items
- Offline document storage
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Your route. Your records. Your way. Elevator Field Command is a field tool for elevator mechanics who need to stay organized without relying on an internet connection. It is free, and it is still being built out: some parts are unfinished, and the app asks for a password on first open while that is the case. If you work on escalators, Escalator Field Command is the finished one. ELEVATOR FIELD GUIDE A plain-language companion to ASME A17.1 / CSA B44, right in the app. Ask a question the way you'd ask a senior mechanic, typed or spoken, and get a clear, sourced answer in seconds. Set your province or state and the guide answers for the code edition your region has adopted, with any later change shown separately. Jump to any rule by its number, bookmark the ones you lean on, and keep reading with no signal: a copy stays on your phone. EVERYTHING IN ONE PLACE Track every elevator on your route with equipment specs, service history, and building contacts. Manufacturer, model, controller, number of ropes and rope size, number of openings, year installed. Upload PDFs, manuals, and code books for offline access. Tag them, filter by category, sort by name, date, or most recently opened. Everything stays on your device. SERVICE LOGGING Log maintenance, repairs, callbacks, and sold work in seconds. Add photos and receipts, parts replaced, hours, and notes. Auto-save means you never lose your work. HOURS AND TIMESHEETS Log time tickets with tags for shop time, meetings, training, and travel. Weekly timesheets fill themselves from your records. Copy a whole day as text for your company's system, or send it as a PDF with expenses and a photo of each receipt. WATCH LIST Flag units that need attention, with photos, a priority, and a checklist of what needs fixing. Urgent items surface on the dashboard so nothing gets missed. WORKS OFFLINE. ALWAYS. All data lives on your device. No accounts, no cloud, no internet required. Daily backups, and one export file carries records, photos and manuals to a new phone or a coworker. iPhone and iPad. Privacy Policy: https://www.termsfeed.com/live/4e87787e-3481-4629-8246-8b9c1631c866 Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Elevator Field Command at 100% against StarNote's 74%. Elevator Field Command also leads on update cadence (every 3 days vs every 2 weeks) and monetization model (free with in-app purchases vs paid). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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. StarNote sells 21 one-off in-app purchases and Elevator Field Command sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $6.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
StarNote ships an update every 2 weeks, Elevator Field Command every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on September 30, 2026 and September 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | StarNote | Elevator Field Command |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (94 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 73.5% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 94 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | Free with in-app purchases — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 422 MB | 59 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Onyx International Inc. | Mike Dangerfield |
Customer experience
StarNote
Elevator Field Command
In-app purchases
StarNote
- StarNote AI Trial$0.99
- Templates\Stickers$3.90
- Templates\Stickers$4.49
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- Templates\Stickers$4.79
- Templates\Stickers$5.00
- Templates\Stickers$5.79
- StarNote Lifetime PRO$5.99
- Templates\Stickers$6.69
- Templates\Stickers$6.79
- StarNote AI Plus$6.99
- Templates\Stickers$7.79
- Templates\Stickers$8.99
- Templates\Stickers$9.79
- Templates\Stickers$9.99
- Templates\Stickers$10.99
- Templates\Stickers$11.49
- Templates\Stickers$11.90
- Templates\Stickers$12.99
- StarNote AI Pro$22.99
- Templates\Stickers$38.90
- Templates\Stickers$42.90
Elevator Field Command
- Elevator Field Command Pro Monthly$6.991 Month
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