Comparison

Gravity Notes vs Bulletin

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. Notes can be easily rescued, archived, or deleted 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 and checklists
  • Customizable tags for categorization
  • Offline search with typo correction
  • Home Screen widget for quick entry
  • Multiple theme and text size options
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 no analytics, 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 five 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

Bulletin

Features
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Bulletin is where you keep the links worth keeping, and share the ones worth sharing. Save from anywhere. Tap Share in Safari, Instagram, X, or any app and choose Bulletin. Every save gets a clean card with the page's own image and title, and lands on your Bulletin at yourbulletin.com/you. Want one just for you? Tap Keep private. Make lists. Gather links into lists: agencies you'd hire, tools you actually use, places to eat in a city. Each public list has its own page to share, and any list can be private. Find it again. Search your whole Bulletin by what a link is about, not just its title. Save from your computer with Bulletin for Chrome, or send links to Bulletin on WhatsApp.

Screenshots

Gravity Notes4 screens
Bulletin3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Bulletin at Free against Gravity Notes's $9.99. Bulletin also leads on update cadence (every 5 days vs every 11 days). Gravity Notes's advantage is chart position (#182 vs unranked). On ads, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement 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

Bulletin is free to download; Gravity Notes costs $9.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Gravity Notes ships an update every 11 days, Bulletin every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on November 7, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 8 level
Gravity Notes versus Bulletin: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGravity NotesBulletin
Price$9.99Free — better
Rating5.0 (9 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews91.7% of reviews—
Number of ratings9 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 11 daysEvery 5 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaid—
Best chart rank#182 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size59 MB5 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperTristan ManchesterTimothy Masek

In-app purchases

None

Gravity Notes

No in-app purchases

None

Bulletin

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Gravity Notes free?
Gravity Notes costs $9.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Bulletin free?
Bulletin is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Gravity Notes or Bulletin have ads?
Neither Gravity Notes nor Bulletin shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Gravity Notes or Bulletin?
Gravity Notes ships an update every 11 days, and Bulletin every 5 days. Most recently, Gravity Notes was updated on November 7, 2026 and Bulletin on November 6, 2026.

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