Comparison

Jotable vs Prep the day

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

Head to head
About

Jotable

Features
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Organize by Categories Keep your ideas tidy with easy-to-manage categories. Smart Note Formatting Add automatic dashes, numbering, checkboxes, and links as you type โ€” no extra steps required. Customizable Text Adjust font size, color, bold, underline, and strikethrough to make your notes your own. iCloud Sync Your notes stay up-to-date and available on all your Apple devices. Just Notes โ€” Nothing Else No AI. No ads. No in-app purchases. Just a clean, focused space for your thoughts.

About

Prep the day

Features
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Prep the Day is a morning ritual for getting your day in order. Every morning, open the app and type out everything you need to do today โ€” fast, messy, stream of consciousness. Don't think about order or priority. Just get it out of your head. Then the on-device AI takes over. It reads your dump, pulls out the real tasks, drops the routine "noise," and hands back a clean, prioritized list for the day. One brain dump in, one focused task list out โ€” every morning. ON-DEVICE & PRIVATE โ€ข All AI runs on your device using Apple Intelligence. Your text never leaves your iPhone or iPad. โ€ข No account, no sign-in, no servers, no tracking. โ€ข Works without an internet connection. WHY IT WORKS โ€ข A cluttered head makes for a scattered day. Writing it down clears it. โ€ข The AI does the sorting so you don't have to organize before you've even started. โ€ข Five minutes in the morning saves hours of "what was I supposed to do today?" FEATURES โ€ข Brain dump input โ€” type everything on your mind โ€ข On-device AI task extraction, powered by Apple Intelligence โ€ข Noise filtering โ€” trivial, routine items are dropped โ€ข Priority sorting โ€” the list comes back ordered โ€ข Edit freely โ€” add, rename, complete, and delete tasks โ€ข Session history โ€” every morning's prep is saved on-device โ€ข English and Japanese Requires a device that supports Apple Intelligence, with Apple Intelligence turned on. Prep the day. Then go live it.

Screenshots

Jotable3 screens
Prep the day3 screens

Verdict

The call

Jotable and Prep the day are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters โ€” price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them โ€” neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Jotable versus Prep the day: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterJotablePrep the day
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksโ€”
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac โ€” betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS26.026.0
Further details โ€” not scored
Size10 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperGeorge BabichevMikoto Perut

In-app purchases

None

Jotable

No in-app purchases

None

Prep the day

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Jotable free?
Jotable is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Prep the day free?
Prep the day is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Jotable or Prep the day have ads?
Neither Jotable nor Prep the day shows ads.

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