Comparison

Nota vs Qide

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

Head to head
About

Nota

Features
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You had a great idea this morning. You were in the shower, or walking, or halfway through something else. By the time you sat down to write it up, it was gone. Not entirely โ€” just blurry enough to lose the edge that made it worth capturing. Nota exists for that moment. Open the app and speak. Or type, if that is how you think. There are no rules about how you capture โ€” only that you do. A quick voice note on a walk. A typed thought between calls. An imported recording from a meeting you wanted to revisit. Nota takes whatever you give it and turns it into something structured and useful, automatically. After you capture a note, Nota goes to work. It transcribes your audio on-device, privately, without sending anything to a server. Then it reads what you said and produces a clean summary, a list of action points, key moments you can jump to, and insights โ€” patterns, risks, decisions โ€” surfaced from your own words. You do not have to read back through everything. You do not have to organize anything manually. You open the note and the value is already there. If you want to go deeper, you can talk to your note directly. Ask it what decisions were made. Ask it to list the open questions. Ask it to summarize just the part about pricing, or the part about the timeline. The note assistant understands your content and answers in plain language. It is not a search bar. It is a conversation with your own thinking. That is what a single note gives you. But the real shift happens when your notes start talking to each other. Over days and weeks, you capture more. Customer calls. Product ideas. Research conversations. Weekly reflections. Each one is useful on its own. Together, they hold something larger โ€” a pattern, a direction, a story about where things are heading โ€” that you would never see by reading them one at a time. Smart Notes is how Nota surfaces that bigger picture. You give it a topic and a time range. It reads across your notes, finds what is relevant, and composes a single, coherent output. Your week of product thinking becomes a strategy document. Your last five customer calls become a list of the things people actually want. Your scattered ideas about a launch become the outline of a plan. You did not write any of that. You just captured, consistently, the way you already think. Nota is private by default. Transcription runs locally on your device using on-device AI. Nothing is sent to a server unless you choose to use cloud processing for longer or more complex recordings. There are no accounts to create, no logins, no data handed over before you have even decided if you trust something. You open the app, you capture, and what you say stays yours. Everything you produce โ€” transcripts, summaries, action points, insights โ€” can be exported in whatever format you need. The audio is yours too. Nota works for founders who want to stop losing what came out of a customer call. For creators who think through episodes out loud before they write a single word. For students who need to capture a lecture and come back to the key points without replaying the whole thing. For anyone who has ever had a good idea and watched it dissolve before they could use it. You think faster than you type. Start there. Capture anything. Understand it. Build on it. Terms of Service: https://trynota.ee/terms/

About

Qide

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Qide helps you understand your work motivation and turn that insight into clear, AI-guided action plans. Motivation changes from person to person. The same goal, deadline, feedback, or team dynamic can energize one person and drain another. Qide helps you see your own patterns, spot what is getting in the way, and take the next useful step. Discover your motivation archetype Find the work style that best reflects how you stay engaged, make progress, and do your best work. Qide gives you a clear archetype summary, practical tips, and comparisons that help you understand how you relate to colleagues. Find your motivation blockers When work feels harder than it should, Qide helps identify the blocker behind it: unclear priorities, low autonomy, missing recognition, weak support, or another pattern affecting your motivation. Turn insight into action Get personalized action plans with concrete next steps, participants, and guidance. Qide helps turn reflection into practical progress, so you are not left with vague advice. Check in and improve over time Use pulse check-ins to keep Qide updated on what is changing. As your situation evolves, your blockers, actions, and recommendations can evolve too. Built for individuals, teams, and managers Use Qide to understand your own motivation, compare working styles with teammates, and support better conversations around engagement, focus, and progress. With Qide Pro, unlock deeper archetype insights, full motivation tips, and detailed action guidance for blockers. Qide is for: - Understanding your work motivation - Finding motivation blockers - Getting personalized action plans - Discovering your motivation archetype - Improving focus and career growth - Supporting employee engagement and team motivation - Making manager check-ins more useful Know what drives you. See what blocks you. Take the next action with Qide. Terms of Use: https://www.qide.me/terms Privacy Policy: https://www.qide.me/privacy Apple Standard EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Nota4 screens
Qide4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is device support: Nota at 3 against Qide's 1. Qide's advantage is iOS requirement (18.2 vs 26.0). On price, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Both are free to download. Nota sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per 7 days and Qide sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $9.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

Scorecard2 real differences ยท 4 level
Nota versus Qide: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterNotaQide
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 9 daysโ€”
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch โ€” betteriPhone
Requires iOS26.018.2 โ€” better
Further details โ€” not scored
Size54 MB39 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperChipp Studio OUQide ltd

In-app purchases

6 purchases

Nota

Subscriptions3
  • Weekly$5.997 Days
  • Monthly$11.991 Month
  • Annual7 Days trial$69.991 Year
One-time3
  • AI Credits: Small pack$8.99
  • AI Credits: Medium pack$22.99
  • AI Credits: Large pack$59.99
1 purchases

Qide

Subscriptions1
  • Qide Pro Monthly7 Days trial$9.991 Month

Questions

Is Nota free?
Nota is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Qide free?
Qide is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Nota or Qide have ads?
Neither Nota nor Qide shows ads.

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