Prism Notes vs BannerBye
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- Texting-like note capture
- AI-suggested tags
- Threaded idea development
- Review mode for notes
- Sync across devices
- Natural language reminders
- Lock screen capture
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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)
BannerBye
Automatically refuses cookie banners on websites before they load, ensuring a cleaner browsing experience. It employs multiple layers of privacy controls to manage consent frameworks and website-specific banners.
- Refuses cookie banners automatically
- Supports Global Privacy Control (GPC)
- Integrates with IAB TCF v2.2
- Uses open-source autoconsent rules
- Handles major consent platforms
- Private by design with no tracking
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Cookie banners, killed. Before they load. Every website wants your consent. The banner covers the page, the refuse button is hidden, and you tap accept because you came to read the article. Then the next site asks again. BannerBye stops it. Switch it on once in Safari, and it refuses every cookie banner for you, silently and automatically, on every site. —————————————————————— HOW IT WORKS BannerBye uses five independent layers, applied in order: 1. Global Privacy Control (GPC). Tells websites you do not consent to the sale or sharing of your data. 2. IAB TCF v2.2. Where a site uses this consent framework, BannerBye answers with "refuse all" before the banner appears. 3. Autoconsent rules. The open-source rules by DuckDuckGo (MPL-2.0) describe the refuse route for hundreds of consent platforms, including the detour through a settings screen. 4. Platform handlers for OneTrust, Cookiebot, Usercentrics, TrustArc and Didomi. 5. A fallback that reads the button labels on banners a site built itself, and taps "Refuse all" or "Necessary only" for you. Where a site offers "consent or pay" instead of a free way to refuse, BannerBye leaves that choice to you. —————————————————————— PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account. No analytics. No tracking. Nothing to sell. ▸ Your settings stay on your iPhone or iPad, in Safari's storage. ▸ The extension fetches a public list of button labels from bannerbye.com. The app checks once an hour whether a new version is out. Neither request identifies you. ▸ Only when you tap "Report broken site" does it send the site name, such as example.com. Nothing else. ▸ The full source code is open: github.com/BannerBye/BannerBye (MIT). —————————————————————— ABOUT SAFARI'S WARNING Safari warns that the extension can read page content, including passwords and card numbers. That warning is the same for every extension that works on web pages. BannerBye only reads the page to find the cookie banner. It does not read passwords, card numbers or your browsing history, and it does not follow you from site to site. —————————————————————— IN CONTROL Switch BannerBye on or off with one tap, or pause it for a single site. Your pause list stays on your device. WORKS WITH ▸ Safari on iPhone and iPad ▸ iOS 17 / iPadOS 17 and later Website: https://bannerbye.com Privacy: https://bannerbye.com/privacy Recently fixed sites: https://bannerbye.com/fixed Contact: hello@bannerbye.com Cookie banners, killed. Before they load.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Prism Notes at Free against BannerBye's $1.99. Prism Notes also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 75%) and ratings volume (39 vs 1). BannerBye's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2). On rating, update cadence, ads 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
Prism Notes is free to download; BannerBye costs $1.99 up front. Prism Notes sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. BannerBye asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for Prism Notes against 5.0 for BannerBye. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Prism Notes has 39 ratings behind it against 1, 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 75% of BannerBye's.
Prism Notes ships an update every 3 days, BannerBye every 4 days. Both last shipped on November 5, 2026.
| Parameter | Prism Notes | BannerBye |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $1.99 |
| Rating | 4.9 (39 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 75.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 39 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 days — better | Every 4 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPad, Mac |
| Requires iOS | 18.6 | 17.6 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 24 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Tommy Joseph | Kreatrix BV |
Customer experience
Prism Notes
BannerBye
In-app purchases
Prism Notes
- Lifetime Unlock$6.99
- Lifetime Unlock$12.99
BannerBye
No in-app purchases









