Pool, the screenshot app vs footnotes
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Pool, the screenshot app
This app helps you organize and manage your captured screenshots, turning them into structured content. It allows for categorization, link retrieval, sharing, and easy searching of your saved visuals. Join the waitlist for gradual access.
- Organize screenshots into pools
- Automatic content categorization
- Find original links
- Share pools with friends
- Searchable content
- Easy to revisit
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Do you take wayyy too many screenshots like us? And then have absolutely no idea what to do with them or where to find them? Pool is for you. Pool is a happy little home for all those moments that mattered on your iPhone screen. 1. Incredible search We built a ridiculously good search engine so you can find any screenshot—even when you barely remember it. 2. Beautiful Pools We reinvented albums and called them Pools. Because everything is better in a Pool. 3. Smart actions Pool finds the original links behind your screenshots, like magic. Screenshot everything. Throw it in Pool. Find it whenever you want. Privacy Policy: https://pool.day/privacy Terms of Service: https://pool.day/terms
footnotes
Capture the full texture of everyday moments with words, photos, video, and voice. Organize these memories into notebooks and create a timeline of your life. Share your moments as little stories.
- Capture moments with text, photos, video, and voice
- Organize notes into different notebooks
- Build a timeline of life's moments
- Create shareable stories from moments
- Edit and add to old notes
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footnotes is a quiet notebook for the photographs, voices, passing thoughts, ideas, and ordinary moments that make up a life. you can: - capture the full texture of a moment: in words, photos, video, and voice, all together. - return to old notes, add new moments, and watch a timeline of your life slowly take shape. - make notebooks for different parts of your life, and - turn moments into little stories to share. slices of light sizzling on a wall. laughter of friends sloppy and gold. the loosey goosey fragments. all of which you look back on with tenderness, kept whole. footnotes makes space for the footnotes of a life. the little things that become the story of who you are.
Screenshots
Verdict
Pool, the screenshot app and footnotes both sit at 4.9 stars, but that hides the real split: 97% of footnotes's written reviews are positive against 47% of Pool, the screenshot app's. footnotes also leads on update cadence (every 2 days vs every 5 days) and ratings volume (158 vs 14). On price, rating, ads and in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for Pool, the screenshot app against 4.8 for footnotes. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: footnotes has 158 ratings behind it against 14, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 47% of Pool, the screenshot app's written reviews are positive against 97% of footnotes's.
Pool, the screenshot app ships an update every 5 days, footnotes every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 19, 2026 and October 23, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Pool, the screenshot app | footnotes |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (14 ratings) — better | 4.8 (158 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 47.2% of reviews | 97.4% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 14 | 158 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 5 days | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 145 MB | 27 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Random Access Memories | Doppler HQ, Inc |
Customer experience
Pool, the screenshot app
footnotes
In-app purchases
Pool, the screenshot app
No in-app purchases
footnotes
No in-app purchases
