Notal Pro vs Orbit
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Notal Pro
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Notal Pro is a fast and elegant note-taking app designed for writing, organization, and powerful tables. Capture ideas quickly, structure your notes with rich text, and work with smart tables that feel natural inside your documents. Write without distractions, organize everything in one place, and turn simple notes into more useful workspaces with formulas, autosums, and integrated tables. Main Features: • Rich text notes with clean formatting • Integrated tables inside your notes • Automatic lists using “-”, “*”, “1.” and “@” • Pin notes instantly and keep them organized • Light and dark mode • Automatic iCloud sync • Minimal and modern interface • iPhone and iPad support Pro Features: • Advanced formulas in tables • Autosums and extra table operations • Enhanced formatting tools • Improved table workflows on iPad • Additional Pro improvements over time Notal Pro is a clean space to think, write, calculate, and stay organized. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Orbit
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Orbit is a calm, capable place for everything you want to plan, capture, organize, and find again. Tasks, notes, lists, collections, files, media, and reminders stay close together without turning your workflow into clutter. No costs, no account, no internet connection needed. It just works. Plan your day in day, list, and month views. Work with flexible tasks, priorities, times, durations, reminders, and recurrence rules. Move tasks with gestures, collect ideas in the pool, and keep an eye on tasks that have been postponed. Notes in Orbit are flexible and expressive, with formatting, fonts, colors, alignment, attachments such as images, files, audio recordings, and drawings, plus a clean full view for reading. When needed, you can export notes with their content and media as a PDF and share them. Orbit is more than just text: Record audio directly in Orbit, capture visual ideas with drawings, and organize information in tables. For structured information, Orbit includes many list types with clever designs and advanced features such as shopping lists, routines, recipes, diaries, documents, password lists, birthday lists and more. Collections bring related things together: tasks, notes, lists, files, media, websites, and custom elements can be organized like projects. Search helps you quickly find content across tasks, notes, lists, and collections. Orbit is designed with privacy in mind. Your organizer data stays locally on your device. Notes, lists, and collections can be locked with a PIN, password, or device lock, with optional biometric unlock. Backups, import, export, ZIP/PDF output, and Orbitshare (for sharing and importing content between Orbit apps) give you control over how you save or share your data. The app itself can adapt to the way you work: design, automatic theme switching, background images, start screen, language, sorting behavior, date and time format, additional favorite buttons for tasks, and more can be adjusted in detail. Orbit is made for people who carry a lot in their head and still want a clear, thoughtful way to stay organized.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Orbit at fortnightly against Notal Pro's every 5 months. Orbit also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 26.0). 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
Both are free to download. Notal Pro sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month and Orbit sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Notal Pro ships an update every 5 months, Orbit fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 28, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Notal Pro | Orbit |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 6 MB | 54 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Samuel Molina | Tim Lindenberger |
In-app purchases
Notal Pro
- Monthly Subscription$2.991 Month
- Yearly Subscription$14.991 Year
- Notal Pro Lifetime$24.99
Orbit
- Support Orbit - 1€$0.99
- Support Orbit - 3€$2.99
- Support Orbit - 5€$3.99
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- Support Orbit - 10€$8.99









