Comparison

Taby vs Limelight

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

Head to head
About

Taby

Capture ideas, tasks, and media in a simple, message-like format. Organize thoughts with customizable tabs and add photos, videos, or links to your notes. Create checklists and set reminders for important items.

Highlights
  • Message-like note-taking
  • Organize with customizable tabs
  • Add text, photos, videos, and links
  • Create checklists and to-dos
  • Set reminders
  • Home screen widgets
Features
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Taby is a simple notes app for capturing ideas, tasks, reminders, thoughts and media in one calm place. Each note feels like a message to yourself: open a tab, write what is on your mind and continue with your day. Keep notes, lists, journal entries, links, photos and videos without building a complicated productivity system. The free version lets you create and organize up to 5 tabs and 10 tasks. Super Taby is an optional paid subscription required to unlock unlimited tabs and tasks, reminders, and color themes. Capture a thought before it disappears Some things need a full entry; others only need one line. Use Taby as an everyday notepad for a new idea, something you want to remember, a passing thought or a small detail from your day. Open the app, choose a tab and write naturally. There is no elaborate setup standing between you and the note you want to keep. Organize everything with tabs Create as many tabs as you need and give different parts of your life their own place. Keep projects separate from personal thoughts, save recommendations in a reading or watching tab, collect links for later, or make a space for recipes, travel ideas and memories. Tabs provide enough structure to find your way back without turning note-taking into another task. Add more than text A note can hold the context that makes it useful. Add photos and videos when words are not enough, keep links you do not want to lose, and combine text with the media connected to an idea or memory. Use Taby for visual journals, reference collections, inspiration, personal records or anything else that belongs beside your words. Make lists and remember what matters Turn everyday plans into practical checklists. Keep a to-do list, a shopping list, a set of steps for a project, books you want to read or movies you want to watch. Add reminders when a note needs your attention later. Check off completed items and keep the rest close to the notes and context that inspired them. See your notes from the Home Screen Widgets let you glance at important notes without first looking through the app. Keep a current list, a reminder or a thought where it is easy to notice during the day. Your notes remain part of your routine without asking you to maintain a complicated dashboard. Use Taby for: • quick ideas and random thoughts • personal notes and journaling • to-dos, checklists and reminders • reading and watching lists • photos, videos and memories • useful links and reference collections • notes you want to see in a widget A quieter way to stay organized Taby is for people who want a clear place to write things down, not a “second brain” they have to manage. There are no productivity rituals to follow and no pressure to organize every thought perfectly. Make the tabs that feel useful, add what matters and return when you need it. Simple notes, gentle structure and one calm place for everyday life. Requires iOS 26.0 or later. Terms of Use (EULA): https://nevatas.github.io/taby-legal/TERMS_OF_USE Privacy Policy: https://nevatas.github.io/taby-legal/PRIVACY_POLICY

About

Limelight

Features
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You save things all the time — articles, videos, posts, recipes, products, notes, places. Then they vanish into a pile you never open again. Limelight fixes that. Save anything from any app, and Limelight reads it for you, pulls out what matters, and sorts it so you can actually find it later. HOW IT WORKS • Save from anywhere. Share a link, post, video, or photo to Limelight from any app. One tap and it's in. • It reads everything for you. Limelight writes a clean summary and the key points of each save, so you remember why you kept it. • It organizes itself. Your saves are grouped by topic automatically — no filing, no setup. • Find anything in seconds. Search by the title or by what's actually inside a save. Results appear as you type. • Keep notes and reminders. Add a quick note to any save, or set a reminder so the things you meant to get to don't slip away. • See what connects. Limelight surfaces related saves, so one good find leads to the next. SAVE ANYTHING Articles, blog posts, and news. Videos from your favorite apps. Recipes, products, and places to go. Photos and your own notes. If it matters to you, it belongs in Limelight. PRIVATE BY DESIGN You sign in with Apple — that's the only account you need. Your saves are yours. Limelight doesn't track you and doesn't sell your data. PRICING Limelight is a paid subscription: $9.99 per month, or $29.99 per year with a 7-day free trial. Payment is charged to your Apple Account. Your subscription renews automatically unless you cancel at least 24 hours before the period ends. Manage or cancel any time in Settings. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Save it. Find it. Use it.

Screenshots

Taby4 screens
Limelight4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Limelight at none against Taby's shown. Limelight also leads on update cadence (every 2 days vs every 5 days) and iOS requirement (18.0 vs 26.0). On price, in-app purchases 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Taby sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.90 per month and Limelight sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Taby ships an update every 5 days, Limelight every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 6 level
Taby versus Limelight: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTabyLimelight
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 5 daysEvery 2 days — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS26.018.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size27 MB28 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperTHE COOL COMPANYAlec Rodriguez-Joseph

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Taby

Subscriptions2
  • Super Taby Monthly3 Days trial$4.901 Month
  • Super Taby Yearly7 Days trial$29.991 Year
2 purchases

Limelight

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly$9.991 Month
  • Limelight Annual$29.991 Year

Questions

Is Taby free?
Taby is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Limelight free?
Limelight is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Taby or Limelight have ads?
Taby shows ads; Limelight does not.
Which is updated more often, Taby or Limelight?
Taby ships an update every 5 days, and Limelight every 2 days. Most recently, Taby was updated on October 31, 2026 and Limelight on November 5, 2026.

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