Comparison

Pearcal vs NoteBlob

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

Head to head
About

Pearcal

Features
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CALCULATOR Change a number or operator in a finished expression and the result updates. LIFE COST - Enter monthly take-home and essentials once, then type a price to see the working days of pay it costs and the leftover income it uses. - Prices on a webpage show the working days they cost. CURRENCY Convert with live rates. Enter large amounts without counting zeros. TIME AND DAY Count the days between two dates. Add or subtract days, weeks, or months, including repeating intervals. SAVE YOUR CALCULATION - Star a calculation in history and add a note to it. - Keep converted amounts, Life Cost receipts, and date calculations. ASK - Ask your calculator a question in words and get the answer with the calculation behind it. - Amounts and dates you saved can be used by name, in a question or on a line you type. - Apple Intelligence enhances the questions Ask understands. Available where Apple Intelligence is enabled. ICLOUD SYNC History, receipts, notepad, and conversions stay in sync over iCloud. Access them on Mac, iPhone, and iPad.

About

NoteBlob

This app is a markdown note editor that uses Git for version control, ensuring no proprietary formats or complex systems. It offers a powerful editor, full-text search, and a simple Git workflow for managing your notes. Your notes are stored in your own repository, providing open-source freedom and no vendor lock-in.

Highlights
  • Markdown editor
  • Full-text search
  • Git commit, push, merge workflow
  • Note linking
  • GitHub token backup
Features
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NoteBlob is a free and opensource markdown note editor for ios and macos backed by git. No proprietary formats, no complex versioning ; just a clean git client built for note taking and AI integration. ## WHY ANOTHER NOTE APP? Notes can be confidential and personal, yet note editors usually rely on opaque technologies and, at some point, a payment system. Notes should be easy to edit, versioned, independent of any company, exportable, and confidential. Moreover, in the age of AI, your notes should be model-readable and ready to process. NoteBlob fixes that by relying on something other than itself: at its core, it uses Git and Markdown, the most universal, well-known technologies for editing and backing up data. NoteBlob is simply an interface that makes the experience more user-friendly and iOS-compatible. It provides no custom mechanism or technology, the source of truth remains your Markdown files and your Git repository. Tired of it? Just delete the app; your notes stay in your Git repo as plain Markdown files. ## FEATURES - Markdown editor with a powerful live preview and a fast native editor - GitHub sync a straightforward commit, push, and merge workflow - Full-text search across all your notes / folders - Plugins enhance user experience by importing JS modules. -- Mermaid -- Syntax highlighting And more

Screenshots

Pearcal4 screens
NoteBlob4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Pearcal at 17.6 against NoteBlob's 26.0. On price, update cadence, 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Pearcal ships an update fortnightly, NoteBlob every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on November 9, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Pearcal versus NoteBlob: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPearcalNoteBlob
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—1 — better
Update frequencyFortnightlyEvery 9 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
Monetization—Free
DevicesiPhone, iPad, MaciPhone, iPad, Mac
Requires iOS17.6 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size5 MB13 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperBraveyo LLCGaetan Zanella

In-app purchases

None

Pearcal

No in-app purchases

None

NoteBlob

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Pearcal free?
Pearcal is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is NoteBlob free?
NoteBlob is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Pearcal or NoteBlob have ads?
Neither Pearcal nor NoteBlob shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Pearcal or NoteBlob?
Pearcal ships an update fortnightly, and NoteBlob every 9 days. Most recently, Pearcal was updated on November 9, 2026 and NoteBlob on November 5, 2026.

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