Comparison

Gravity Notes vs Stash

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

Head to head
About

Gravity Notes

This app offers a minimalist approach to note-taking, organizing entries in a single, chronological list. Users can easily rescue, archive, or delete notes with simple gestures. It supports Markdown formatting and custom tags for efficient organization and offline search.

Highlights
  • Single note list organization
  • Swipe gestures for note management
  • Markdown formatting support
  • Customizable tags for categorization
  • Offline search functionality
  • Home Screen widget for quick entry
Features
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Gravity keeps all your notes in one list, with the newest at the top. As you add more, older notes sink down the list. When one of them still matters, swipe it right and it comes back to the top. The idea comes from Andrej Karpathy's append-and-review note: write everything in one place, read back through it now and then, and move up whatever you still care about. Gravity has no folders, so there's nothing to file. Writing The cursor is waiting at the top when you open the app. Type your note and press Return twice, or tap the add button. A half-written draft stays where you left it. Rescuing and tidying Swipe right on a note to rescue it. Swipe left to archive, delete, share or copy. Archived notes have a page of their own, and deleted notes stay in Deleted Notes until you restore them or clear them out. Markdown and checklists Headings, bold, italics, lists, links and quotes show formatted in the list. Start a line with "- [ ]" to make a checklist, then tick items off without opening the note. In the editor the formatting appears as you type, and a small bar above the keyboard adds headings, bold, lists and checklists. Everything is saved as plain Markdown text. Tags Start a note with todo:, idea:, read: or any word followed by a colon, and it gets a colour of its own. Type todo: into search to see only those notes. There's no tag manager to look after. Search Search covers every note on your phone, archived ones too, and works offline. It finds what you mean as well as what you typed: "sofa" finds your note about the couch. Typos, plurals, accents and shorthand like appt still find the note, and dates, phone numbers and amounts match however you write them. Getting notes in The Home Screen widget starts a new note or pastes in whatever you last copied. You can also share text or a link from another app, and it becomes a new note at the top of the list. Privacy Your notes are stored on your iPhone. Gravity has no ads, and you don't need an account. If you want your notes on your other Apple devices, turn on iCloud sync; it also works with Gravity for Mac, which is sold separately. Gravity Sync (Beta) syncs with Android too, free during the beta. You can export everything as JSON or Markdown at any time. Looks Choose light, dark or OLED black, or follow the system, and pick from six text sizes. There's a stats page too, worked out on your phone, of course. Price You pay once. There's no subscription, no in-app purchases and no ads. Privacy policy: https://www.gravitynotes.app/privacy-policy

About

Stash

This AI-powered notebook helps you capture ideas, summarize content from links or videos, and set reminders. It researches and organizes your notes into readable markdown, with offline capabilities for note-taking.

Highlights
  • AI-powered summarization
  • Research and organization
  • Offline note capture
  • Reminders
  • Markdown note format
  • Tag filtering and search
Features
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Zero prompt AI Notebook. Paste a link, a video, a few words: and watch Stash summarize, add reminders, and do research for you. Capture - Type a rough note or attach photos from the camera or library - Stash even when you are offline; notes queue and are summarized when you are back online Summarize - The Stash server researches and organizes the note (vision + web search) - You get a readable markdown note, not a chat transcript - A note is summarized once; a failed summary keeps your original text and images Recall - Browse recent notes, filter by tags, or search - Optional reminders fire from the server so they are not stuck on one phone Stash Pro (optional auto-renewable subscription) - Raises summary and research limits - Purchase, restore, and manage through your Apple ID - Privacy Policy: https://stash.graftedsoftware.com/legal/privacy - Terms: https://stash.graftedsoftware.com/legal/terms

Screenshots

Gravity Notes4 screens
Stash4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Stash at Free against Gravity Notes's $9.99. Stash also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 92%) and device support (4 vs 2). Gravity Notes's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2) and ratings volume (9 vs 1). On rating, update cadence and ads 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

Stash is free to download; Gravity Notes costs $9.99 up front. Stash sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $7.99 per month. Gravity Notes asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Gravity Notes against 5.0 for Stash. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Gravity Notes has 9 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 92% of Gravity Notes's written reviews are positive against 100% of Stash's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Gravity Notes ships an update every 11 days, Stash fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on November 11, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Gravity Notes versus Stash: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGravity NotesStash
Price$9.99Free — better
Rating5.0 (9 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews91.7% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings9 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 11 days — betterFortnightly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaidFreemium — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS17.015.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size75 MB56 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperTristan ManchesterAndrew Rice

Customer experience

Gravity Notes

All ratings9 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews12 reviews
Positive91.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative8.3%

Stash

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Gravity Notes

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Stash

Subscriptions2
  • Stash Pro$7.991 Month
  • Stash Unlimited (yearly)$79.991 Year

Questions

Is Gravity Notes free?
Gravity Notes costs $9.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Stash free?
Stash is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Gravity Notes or Stash?
Gravity Notes and Stash are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 9 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Gravity Notes or Stash have ads?
Neither Gravity Notes nor Stash shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Gravity Notes or Stash?
Gravity Notes ships an update every 11 days, and Stash fortnightly. Most recently, Gravity Notes was updated on November 11, 2026 and Stash on October 31, 2026.

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