Bamboo vs PinLog Text Notes
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Bamboo
This app is a Markdown note-taking tool for organizing knowledge and utilizing AI features. It allows users to capture ideas, write long-form content, and connect notes with wiki links. AI assistance is available for drafting, summarizing, and brainstorming, with users controlling their AI provider.
- Markdown editor with syntax highlighting
- Wiki link creation for connecting notes
- AI assistance for drafting and summarizing
- Organize notes into collections
- Cross-device synchronization
- Import and export content
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Bamboo is a Markdown notes app for writing, organizing knowledge, and using AI on your own terms. Available on iPhone, iPad, and Mac, with Web Clipper support, Bamboo helps you capture ideas anywhere and continue working across devices. Capture quick notes, long-form documents, tasks, reminders, research, meeting notes, reading highlights, and personal knowledge. Bamboo keeps your notes in Markdown so they stay portable, readable, and easy to manage. WRITE AND CAPTURE Use a focused Markdown editor with syntax highlighting, task lists, tables, wiki links, footnotes, highlights, math, images, and attachments. Keep ideas, notes, reminders, and tasks together so writing, thinking, and planning stay in one place. ORGANIZE AND CONNECT Organize notes into collections for projects, areas, archives, or research spaces. Connect ideas with wiki links, pin important notes, star favorites, and build a knowledge base that stays easy to navigate as it grows. AI ASSISTANCE, UNDER YOUR CONTROL Bamboo Pro lets you connect supported AI providers and use assistant features directly in your notes. Draft, rewrite, summarize, brainstorm ideas, and work with selected content without leaving your workspace. You stay in control of the provider and model you use. KEEP YOUR NOTES YOURS Your notes stay in Markdown, making them easy to move, back up, and keep for the long term. Search across notes, revisit recent work, import and export your content, create backups, and keep your work available across devices with optional Bamboo Pro features such as iCloud Sync, HTML export, and PDF export. Bamboo includes optional auto-renewable monthly and yearly Pro subscriptions. Payment will be charged to your Apple ID account at confirmation of purchase. Subscriptions automatically renew unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current billing period. You can manage subscriptions in your App Store account settings. Privacy Policy: https://zhigui.github.io/app-docs/bamboo/privacy_policy.html Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
PinLog Text Notes
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PinLog is a memo app that brings back text and links you want to return to later. Save in a moment, and let the app remember for you. ■ PIN IT FOR LATER • Tap + to write and save • Tap the Share button in another app and choose PinLog to save text or a link • Save copied text with Save from Clipboard • Tell Siri “Pin to PinLog” or write from Control Center or the Shortcuts app • Use voice input, or import text, Markdown, and JSON files • See the page title on pins that contain links ■ LET IT COME BACK • Pins saved a few days ago, or not viewed for a while, return on the home screen and widget • Use a pin’s bell to set a reminder for Tonight, Tomorrow morning, the Weekend, or a date and time you choose • Turn on Notify Me of One Pin Daily in Settings to receive one pin at your chosen time ■ MARK IT DONE • Done pins stop coming back. They stay saved, so you can restore them later • Mark pins Done from the widget or a notification too • Search for any pin you have saved ■ MADE TO STAY SMALL PinLog deliberately has no tags or folders. It is a focused tool for saving something now and acting on it later. Pins are stored only on this iPhone. No account is required, and there are no ads.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: PinLog Text Notes at none against Bamboo's 2. PinLog Text Notes also leads on iOS requirement (17.5 vs 26.0). On price, update cadence, ads 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. Bamboo sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. PinLog Text Notes asks for nothing beyond the download.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 months. Both last shipped on November 5, 2026.
| Parameter | Bamboo | PinLog Text Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Freemium | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 17.5 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 56 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 志贵 陈 | ZEC Inc. |
In-app purchases
Bamboo
- Monthly Pro7 Days trial$2.991 Month
- Annual Pro7 Days trial$29.991 Year
PinLog Text Notes
No in-app purchases









