Comparison

Gott vs footnotes

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

Head to head
About

Gott

Features
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The shared grocery list with no account, no ads, and no nonsense. Snap a photo of a recipe, receipt, or handwritten note and gott pulls out the items and sorts them into your aisles automatically — all on your device, nothing sent to a server. WHY PEOPLE SWITCH TO GOTT - No paywall on sharing or syncing - No account, no signup — open it and start adding - Private by design — recipe and photo processing happens on your iPhone - Real-time sharing — check off an item in one aisle while your partner adds milk from another, with no merge conflicts - Works offline — add anywhere, syncs when you're back online FEATURES - Photo-to-list: turn recipes, receipts, and notes into a sorted list - AI categorization that learns how YOUR store is laid out - Voice capture — add items as fast as you can say them - Smart suggestions for items you buy often - Multiple lists — groceries, hardware runs, party planning - Custom aisle order to match your route through the store - Shopping insights — see your habits and completed trips - Built for iPhone, available in English and Swedish No account required.

About

footnotes

This app allows you to capture everyday moments using words, photos, video, and voice. Organize your memories into different notebooks and revisit them to build a timeline of your life. You can also transform these moments into shareable stories.

Highlights
  • Multimedia note-taking (text, photo, video, voice)
  • Organize notes into notebooks
  • Timeline view of life moments
  • Create shareable stories from notes
  • Edit and add to past entries
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footnotes is a quiet notebook for the photographs, voices, passing thoughts, ideas, and ordinary moments that make up a life. you can: - capture the full texture of a moment: in words, photos, video, and voice, all together. - return to old notes, add new moments, and watch a timeline of your life slowly take shape. - make notebooks for different parts of your life, and - turn moments into little stories to share. slices of light sizzling on a wall. laughter of friends sloppy and gold. the loosey goosey fragments. all of which you look back on with tenderness, kept whole. footnotes makes space for the footnotes of a life. the little things that become the story of who you are.

Screenshots

Gott4 screens
footnotes4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: footnotes at every 3 days against Gott's every 3 weeks. footnotes also leads on iOS requirement (18.0 vs 26.2). On price, ads, 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Gott ships an update every 3 weeks, footnotes every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on November 9, 2026 and November 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Gott versus footnotes: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGottfootnotes
PriceFreeFree
Rating—4.8 (210 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—95.8% of reviews
Number of ratings—210 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
Monetization—Free
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS26.218.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size12 MB35 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperTim JohanssonDoppler HQ, Inc

In-app purchases

None

Gott

No in-app purchases

None

footnotes

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Gott free?
Gott is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is footnotes free?
footnotes is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Gott or footnotes have ads?
Neither Gott nor footnotes shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Gott or footnotes?
Gott ships an update every 3 weeks, and footnotes every 3 days. Most recently, Gott was updated on November 9, 2026 and footnotes on November 10, 2026.

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