Comparison

Prism Notes vs Scrappy

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

Head to head
About

Prism Notes

Capture thoughts and links quickly with a familiar texting interface. Organize ideas with AI-suggested tags and develop them across linked threads. Review notes to keep what matters and easily search by keyword or meaning.

Highlights
  • Texting-like note capture
  • AI-suggested tags
  • Threaded idea development
  • Review mode for notes
  • Sync across devices
  • Natural language reminders
  • Lock screen capture
Features
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Prism is the private place for quick thoughts and links. It feels like texting, rather than writing in a document. Capture easily, organize with tags, develop ideas across threads, review to keep only what matters. Free to try! Features: - Private and on-device - Opt in to iCloud sync between iPhone and Mac - Voice transcription and voice memos - Lock screen widgets for text and voice capture - AI-suggested tags to make organizing easy or automatic AI tagging (requires apple intelligence) - Review mode to keep notes alive or let them go - Threads to evolve a thought and link them together - Search by keyword - Natural language reminders - just say "remind me tomorrow at 2pm" (requires apple intelligence)

About

Scrappy

Organize your thoughts, research, and media with a digital scrapbook. Save text, links, images, and files, then find them easily with powerful search and categorization tools. Supports offline viewing and password protection for sensitive notes.

Highlights
  • Save text, links, and images
  • Organize with categories and tags
  • Powerful search with suggestions
  • Offline viewing of web pages
  • Password protection for notes
  • Share extension for easy saving
  • Preview PDFs and media files
Features
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Scrappy is a digital scrapbook for ideas, research, and fun. Use Scrappy to save text, links and images—and find them again. Scrappy shows everything as large thumbnails that open to fill the view, where you can swipe through items individually. Scrappy’s sidebar shows favorites, recent items, and categories for things like notes, images, and web links to help you find what you need, along with its excellent search features. You can also create your own lists, including smart lists, with customizable icons and colors, and items can have searchable, and optionally color-coded tags too. In addition to notes, web links and images, Scrappy can play movie and audio files, has built-in support for previewing PDFs and text files, and can show other files with Quick Look. * GETTING STUFF IN - Scrappy’s Share extension can save web links, images, files and text from within other apps - If you’ve already copied something, use New from Clipboard to create a new item from the home screen or within the app itself - You can also take photos or videos with the camera, and add photos and videos from your Photos library * NOTES Use notes to collect text, links, images and other attachments. - Notes have consistent styles, and pasted text is cleaned up automatically - Links can be shown as clickable text or previews - Links to YouTube and other videos can be played inline - Include quotes, checklists, bulleted and numbered lists, highlighted text, horizontal dividers, and links to other items - Lock notes to protect sensitive information with a password that only you know * WEB LINKS When you save a web link to Scrappy, what’s shown adapts to the content: - Articles resemble reader mode in web browsers with a featured image and cleaned-up text - Other links, such as social media posts, will appear as cards with a summary and image - YouTube and other links to videos can be played Scrappy also supports links with highlights, showing only that text, and when you view the original page the highlighted text will be scrolled into view. When viewing web links, Scrappy lets you: - Remove portions of text from articles - Edit information about the links - Save the original page for offline viewing too, if required * SEARCH Once you’ve got things into Scrappy, you’ll want to find them again. Scrappy finds items by their name, date, kind, URL, tags and content, including text in scanned PDFs and images. Scrappy finds images by the text and prominent features they contain, and what they represent, such as screenshots, illustrations and receipts. Search suggestions appear as you type, and you can combine these to drill down to what you need. Found text is highlighted as you swipe through results. Scrappy also lets you create Smart Lists to match items against a set of rules. * GETTING STUFF OUT Finally, it’s no good putting things in an app if you can’t get them back out again. All the items you add to Scrappy can be dragged to other apps or saved as files, and you can export any list or the entire library as files and folders in standard formats that any good app can understand. * SUBSCRIPTIONS Use of Scrappy requires a paid subscription that you can purchase in the app. Payment will be charged to your account following any free trial offered unless cancelled in Account Settings at least 24-hours before the end of the trial period. The subscription will automatically renew unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current period. Subscriptions may be managed and auto-renewal may be turned off by going to Account Settings after purchase. If you start a free trial and cancel before it ends, you cannot reactivate the free trial. When your subscription ends, you will lose access to any functionality provided by the subscription. Terms of Use: https://reinventedsoftware.com/scrappy/terms.html

Screenshots

Prism Notes4 screens
Scrappy4 screens

Verdict

The call

Prism Notes and Scrappy both sit at 4.9 stars, but that hides the real split: 100% of Prism Notes's written reviews are positive against 33% of Scrappy's. Prism Notes also leads on update cadence (every 3 days vs every 11 days) and ratings volume (38 vs 4). On price, rating, ads and in-app purchases 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. Prism Notes sells 2 one-off in-app purchases and Scrappy sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $14.99 per year. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for Prism Notes against 5.0 for Scrappy. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Prism Notes has 38 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 100% of Prism Notes's written reviews are positive against 33% of Scrappy's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Prism Notes ships an update every 3 days, Scrappy every 11 days. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Prism Notes versus Scrappy: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPrism NotesScrappy
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.9 (38 ratings)5.0 (4 ratings) — better
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews — better33.3% of reviews
Number of ratings38 — better4
Update frequencyEvery 3 days — betterEvery 11 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPad, Mac
Requires iOS18.618.6
Further details — not scored
Size24 MB23 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperTommy JosephSteve Harris

Customer experience

Prism Notes

All ratings38 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews15 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Scrappy

All ratings4 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive33.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative66.7%

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Prism Notes

One-time2
  • Lifetime Unlock$6.99
  • Lifetime Unlock$12.99
3 purchases

Scrappy

Subscriptions3
  • Scrappy for iPhone and iPad14 Days trial$14.991 Year
  • Scrappy for Mac14 Days trial$19.991 Year
  • Scrappy for Mac, iPhone and iPad14 Days trial$29.991 Year

Questions

Is Prism Notes free?
Prism Notes is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Scrappy free?
Scrappy is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Prism Notes or Scrappy?
Scrappy is rated higher. Prism Notes averages 4.9 out of 5 from 38 ratings, while Scrappy averages 5.0 from 4 ratings.
Do Prism Notes or Scrappy have ads?
Neither Prism Notes nor Scrappy shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Prism Notes or Scrappy?
Prism Notes ships an update every 3 days, and Scrappy every 11 days. Most recently, Prism Notes was updated on October 25, 2026 and Scrappy on October 24, 2026.

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