Comparison

The Valley Hub vs Notely

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

Head to head
About

The Valley Hub

Features
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The official companion app for members and guests of The Valley, a focused co-working space for builders, founders, and remote professionals. Manage your workspace access, membership, and passes all from your phone. Key Features: Touchless Door Unlocking: Instantly unlock doors and access the space securely right from the app. Day Pass Management: Easily purchase and manage your Day Passes to walk in and get to work—simple, quiet, and effective. Membership Management: View your plan, update payment information, and manage your monthly membership details on the go. Quick Support Tickets: Submit support requests or ask questions to the staff instantly, ensuring you get help when you need it. Buy & Book: Quickly purchase passes and book Meeting Spaces for your workshops or team talks. Download The Valley Hub App and start working with zero friction. Short Description (for the top of the App Store page): Your key to The Valley Hub! Unlock doors, manage memberships, buy day passes, and submit support tickets—all in one place.

About

Notely

This app offers a private and flexible digital notebook for handwriting, typed notes, and PDF annotation. Convert handwriting to editable text, draw with precision tools, and organize your work with folders and backups. Keep ideas accessible without an account or internet connection.

Highlights
  • Handwriting to editable text conversion
  • Precision drawing tools
  • PDF annotation and markup
  • Organized library with folders
  • On-device search
  • Portable backups
Features
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Notely is a notebook for iPad and iPhone that feels like paper and keeps everything on your device. Write by hand, mark up PDFs, record a lecture while you take notes, then study from what you wrote. There's no account and no cloud. Your notes stay where you wrote them. New in 1.4 Notely has a hand-drawn look now, with drawn icons and handwritten headings. I also rebuilt the pencil from scratch. It picks up the grain of the paper and responds to pressure, and if you tilt Apple Pencil on its side it shades like a real one. Record the lecture with your notes Press record and keep writing. Notely transcribes on your device as you go and remembers when each stroke was written. Later, tap a line of ink and the audio jumps to what was being said at that moment. Tapping a line in the transcript works too. Transcription depends on on-device speech support for your language and device. If it isn't available, Notely still saves the audio. Study from your own notes Make flashcards yourself, or lay tape over part of a page and quiz yourself on what's underneath. Cards come back on a spaced review schedule, and you can turn on reminders for when they're due. On devices with Apple Intelligence, Notely can also draft cards from a note and answer questions about it, with a link back to the page each answer came from. You review every draft before it's saved. Handwriting that turns into text Tap the handwriting button and Notely turns your writing into typed text, on the device. Anything it can't read confidently stays as ink. Search also looks inside your handwriting, typed text and PDFs. Pages or open space Use Letter or A4 pages, or switch a note to an infinite canvas when you need room to think. There's always a blank page waiting at the end, and if you don't use it, it's left out when you export. Templates include Cornell notes, dot grid, lab reports, math and physics pages, and music staff. Import PDFs and write on them, or scan paper pages with the camera. Private by default Notely works offline, with no analytics and no ads. Lock any note with Face ID or a password. Locked notes are kept out of Spotlight search and the widget. A few more things - Export pages as PDF or PNG - Back up notes to a .vectora archive and restore them without overwriting anything - Bring notebooks over from Goodnotes or Notability (PDF exports work best; native import is experimental) - A home screen widget with recent notes and a New note button - Shortcuts actions to create a quick note or open recent notes - Folders, tags and smart collections Notely is made by one person. If something bugs you, the support page reaches me directly.

Screenshots

The Valley Hub4 screens
Notely4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Notely at every 4 days against The Valley Hub's every 3 months. On price, ads, in-app purchases 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

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

The Valley Hub ships an update every 3 months, Notely every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 19, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
The Valley Hub versus Notely: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterThe Valley HubNotely
PriceFreeFree
Rating—4.4 (8 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—33.3% of reviews
Number of ratings—8 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsEvery 4 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
Monetization—Free
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size32 MB25 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperThe Valley Hub LLCJUSTIN WEI SUN

In-app purchases

None

The Valley Hub

No in-app purchases

None

Notely

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is The Valley Hub free?
The Valley Hub is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Notely free?
Notely is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do The Valley Hub or Notely have ads?
Neither The Valley Hub nor Notely shows ads.
Which is updated more often, The Valley Hub or Notely?
The Valley Hub ships an update every 3 months, and Notely every 4 days. Most recently, The Valley Hub was updated on October 19, 2026 and Notely on October 25, 2026.

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