Comparison

RecallBox vs ScreenNote

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

Head to head
About

RecallBox

This app intelligently organizes screenshots, links, and knowledge into searchable cards. It automatically extracts key information and creates smart to-dos and reminders from your content, helping you manage scattered information efficiently.

Highlights
  • AI-powered knowledge card creation
  • Automatic screenshot and link import
  • Smart to-dos and reminders
  • Full-text search and tag organization
  • iCloud sync
  • Screenshot cleanup
Features
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RecallBox is an intelligent tool for organizing screenshots, links, and knowledge, designed for anyone who has too many screenshots, scattered information, and trouble finding things when they need them. Quickly collect important information: You can bring everyday content into RecallBox through automatic photo library import, Shortcuts, the Action Button, manual image selection, or by saving web links directly. The app organizes all materials in a timeline, making it easy to look back, browse, and find what you need. AI-powered knowledge cards: With AI, RecallBox can automatically identify key information in screenshots and links, extract titles, tags, summaries, quotes, tables, and structured content, and turn them into searchable, reusable knowledge cards. Meeting schedules from chats, study material screenshots, payment records, delivery updates, travel pages, web articles, and quick ideas can all be transformed from scattered materials into a clear and organized personal knowledge base. Smart to-dos and reminders: For content that includes times, deadlines, meetings, tasks, delivery milestones, or travel details, RecallBox can intelligently generate reminders and supports local notifications, system Reminders, and Calendar integration. Important items are grouped by Today, Overdue, and the next 7 days, helping you follow up on time without relying entirely on memory. Efficient search and long-term management: RecallBox also supports full-text search, tag organization, favorites, archiving, iCloud sync, and cleanup of processed screenshots. You can keep the knowledge content while removing the original screenshots from your system photo library, making information easier to find, your photo library cleaner, and everyday organization simpler. Give your screenshots, links, and temporary information to RecallBox, and turn scattered content into structured knowledge that is searchable, remindable, and manageable. Terms of use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

ScreenNote

Features
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ScreenNote turns screenshots into notes you can search, reuse, and act on. Capture a receipt, confirmation, message, or idea. ScreenNote reads text on-device, keeps important details close, and helps you find them again. • Useful now: codes, due to-dos and upcoming charges as one list on Home, with one-tap Add Reminder, Copy or Done. • On-device OCR: search words inside screenshots. • Auto notes: titles, summaries, tags, and key takeaways you can act on. • Ledger: turn purchase screenshots into expense records. • To-dos: collect actions and send them to Reminders. • Fast search by text, title, tag, folder, or key field. • Core processing happens on your device. • Optional AI summaries when you want them. ScreenNote is for the screenshots you meant to remember. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

RecallBox4 screens
ScreenNote4 screens

Verdict

The call

RecallBox and ScreenNote are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters — price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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. RecallBox sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month and ScreenNote sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

RecallBox ships an update every 2 weeks, ScreenNote every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on October 28, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
RecallBox versus ScreenNote: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRecallBoxScreenNote
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews66.7% of reviews—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksEvery 9 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, Mac — better
Requires iOS18.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size10 MB13 MB
Age rating17+4+
Developer玉杰 罗江 吴

In-app purchases

3 purchases

RecallBox

Subscriptions2
  • monthly pro$2.991 Month
  • Yearly Pro$34.991 Year
One-time1
  • lifetime pro$39.99
2 purchases

ScreenNote

Subscriptions2
  • Pro Monthly$2.991 Month
  • Pro Yearly$19.991 Year

Questions

Is RecallBox free?
RecallBox is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is ScreenNote free?
ScreenNote is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do RecallBox or ScreenNote have ads?
Neither RecallBox nor ScreenNote shows ads.
Which is updated more often, RecallBox or ScreenNote?
RecallBox ships an update every 2 weeks, and ScreenNote every 9 days. Most recently, RecallBox was updated on October 28, 2026 and ScreenNote on October 25, 2026.

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