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
Organize and easily find all your iPhone screenshots. This app provides powerful search and custom albums to manage your visual moments. Effortlessly locate original links associated with your captured images.
- Powerful screenshot search
- Customizable 'Pools' for albums
- Find original links from screenshots
- Effortless screenshot management
- Organize visual moments
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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
This app allows you to capture everyday moments using words, photos, video, and voice. Organize your memories into different notebooks and revisit them to build a timeline of your life. You can also transform these moments into shareable stories.
- Multimedia note-taking (text, photo, video, voice)
- Organize notes into notebooks
- Timeline view of life moments
- Create shareable stories from notes
- Edit and add to past entries
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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.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: footnotes at 96% against Pool, the screenshot app's 53%. footnotes also leads on rating (4.8 vs 4.6) and ratings volume (210 vs 31). On price, update cadence, 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.
footnotes holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: footnotes has 210 ratings behind it against 31, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 53% of Pool, the screenshot app's written reviews are positive against 96% of footnotes's.
Pool, the screenshot app ships an update every 5 days, footnotes every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on November 14, 2026 and November 13, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Pool, the screenshot app | footnotes |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (31 ratings) | 4.8 (210 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 53.3% of reviews | 95.8% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 31 | 210 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 5 days | Every 3 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 | 131 MB | 35 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
