Comparison

NotaFlow vs Hyphen

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

Head to head
About

NotaFlow

Features
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With NotaFlow you always have notes, reminders, and calendar at your fingertips — all in one intuitive and modern app. NotaFlow is a lightweight app to jot down notes and reminders in seconds. It works offline, saves everything locally or optionally in iCloud, and does not track users. Main features: • Quick notes with title, content, and images (Camera/Photo Library). • Reminders with local notifications and fast management. • Calendar integration: create events in the app and import your calendar events as notes. • Agenda view to quickly see what’s coming up. • Trash with restore or permanent delete. • Optional iCloud sync. • Face ID/Touch ID lock. • Backup and export in .json format. • Customizable appearance: System/Light/Dark mode and theme color. • Full localization (IT/EN) and dynamic home greeting. Privacy: All notes and images remain on your device or in iCloud if enabled. No advertising tracking.

About

Hyphen

This minimalist app allows for quick capture of daily thoughts, tasks, and moments. It organizes entries by day and provides a visual timeline of your year, highlighting days with more activity. Notes are automatically timestamped and can be entered via typing or voice.

Highlights
  • Quick entry via typing or voice
  • Automatic timestamping
  • Visual year-in-a-glance timeline
  • Smart grouping of related notes
  • Secure cross-device syncing
  • Private and inaccessible by developer
Features
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Hyphen is a quiet place for the details you would otherwise lose. Write a sentence, list, quotation, decision, observation, or full page. Every note belongs to its day, so you can move naturally through time and return by date, month, year, Chronicle, or search. WRITE WITHOUT FRICTION Capture a quick thought in place. Expand into the full editor when the thought becomes something larger. MARKDOWN MADE FOR IPHONE Use headings, emphasis, lists, checklists, quotations, links, and code without hunting through the iOS keyboard for punctuation. SEE YOUR DAYS TAKE SHAPE Move naturally between Day, Month, and Year, and view time as a quiet record of activity. Hyphen shows continuity without turning your writing into a streak game. FIND WHAT YOU WROTE Search your writing, browse Chronicle, and move directly back to the day where a thought belongs.

Screenshots

NotaFlow4 screens
Hyphen4 screens

Verdict

The call

NotaFlow and Hyphen 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

NotaFlow ships an update every 4 days, Hyphen every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 5, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
NotaFlow versus Hyphen: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterNotaFlowHyphen
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (7 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—7 — better
Update frequencyEvery 4 daysEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
Monetization—Free
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS17.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size4 MB4 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAntonio CapuanoCHRISTOPH J WHITELAM

In-app purchases

None

NotaFlow

No in-app purchases

None

Hyphen

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is NotaFlow free?
NotaFlow is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Hyphen free?
Hyphen is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do NotaFlow or Hyphen have ads?
Neither NotaFlow nor Hyphen shows ads.
Which is updated more often, NotaFlow or Hyphen?
NotaFlow ships an update every 4 days, and Hyphen every 2 days. Most recently, NotaFlow was updated on October 5, 2026 and Hyphen on October 8, 2026.

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