Comparison

Scrappy vs Sol

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

Head to head
About

Scrappy

Organize your thoughts, research, and media with a digital scrapbook. Save text, links, images, and files, then find them easily with powerful search and categorization tools. Supports offline viewing and password protection for sensitive notes.

Highlights
  • Save text, links, and images
  • Organize with categories and tags
  • Powerful search with suggestions
  • Offline viewing of web pages
  • Password protection for notes
  • Share extension for easy saving
  • Preview PDFs and media files
Features
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Scrappy is a digital scrapbook for ideas, research, and fun. Use Scrappy to save text, links and images—and find them again. Scrappy shows everything as large thumbnails that open to fill the view, where you can swipe through items individually. Scrappy’s sidebar shows favorites, recent items, and categories for things like notes, images, and web links to help you find what you need, along with its excellent search features. You can also create your own lists, including smart lists, with customizable icons and colors, and items can have searchable, and optionally color-coded tags too. In addition to notes, web links and images, Scrappy can play movie and audio files, has built-in support for previewing PDFs and text files, and can show other files with Quick Look. * GETTING STUFF IN - Scrappy’s Share extension can save web links, images, files and text from within other apps - If you’ve already copied something, use New from Clipboard to create a new item from the home screen or within the app itself - You can also take photos or videos with the camera, and add photos and videos from your Photos library * NOTES Use notes to collect text, links, images and other attachments. - Notes have consistent styles, and pasted text is cleaned up automatically - Links can be shown as clickable text or previews - Links to YouTube and other videos can be played inline - Include quotes, checklists, bulleted and numbered lists, highlighted text, horizontal dividers, and links to other items - Lock notes to protect sensitive information with a password that only you know * WEB LINKS When you save a web link to Scrappy, what’s shown adapts to the content: - Articles resemble reader mode in web browsers with a featured image and cleaned-up text - Other links, such as social media posts, will appear as cards with a summary and image - YouTube and other links to videos can be played Scrappy also supports links with highlights, showing only that text, and when you view the original page the highlighted text will be scrolled into view. When viewing web links, Scrappy lets you: - Remove portions of text from articles - Edit information about the links - Save the original page for offline viewing too, if required * SEARCH Once you’ve got things into Scrappy, you’ll want to find them again. Scrappy finds items by their name, date, kind, URL, tags and content, including text in scanned PDFs and images. Scrappy finds images by the text and prominent features they contain, and what they represent, such as screenshots, illustrations and receipts. Search suggestions appear as you type, and you can combine these to drill down to what you need. Found text is highlighted as you swipe through results. Scrappy also lets you create Smart Lists to match items against a set of rules. * GETTING STUFF OUT Finally, it’s no good putting things in an app if you can’t get them back out again. All the items you add to Scrappy can be dragged to other apps or saved as files, and you can export any list or the entire library as files and folders in standard formats that any good app can understand. * SUBSCRIPTIONS Use of Scrappy requires a paid subscription that you can purchase in the app. Payment will be charged to your account following any free trial offered unless cancelled in Account Settings at least 24-hours before the end of the trial period. The subscription will automatically renew unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current period. Subscriptions may be managed and auto-renewal may be turned off by going to Account Settings after purchase. If you start a free trial and cancel before it ends, you cannot reactivate the free trial. When your subscription ends, you will lose access to any functionality provided by the subscription. Terms of Use: https://reinventedsoftware.com/scrappy/terms.html

About

Sol

Features
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Sol is a daily notes app designed for the way your days actually unfold. Instead of making you organize everything into folders, notebooks, or complicated systems, Sol gives each day its own space. Capture quick thoughts, meeting notes, tasks, links, images, ideas, and anything else you want to remember, right when it happens. Your notes naturally stay connected to the day they belong to, creating a clear and useful record of your life and work. CAPTURE EVERYTHING IN ONE PLACE Write down a quick thought or create a detailed, structured note. Sol is flexible enough for both. Use it for: • Daily notes and personal logs • Meeting notes and client work • Tasks and reminders • Ideas and inspiration • Links, images, and useful information • Recipes, lists, and plans ORGANIZED BY DAY There is no need to decide where every note belongs. Sol automatically keeps your entries organized by date, so you can focus on capturing what matters instead of managing a filing system. FAST BY DESIGN Sol is built to feel immediate. Create a new entry, start typing, and move on with your day. The interface stays out of your way while still giving you the tools you need to structure your notes. FIND ANYTHING Search across your notes and use hashtags to connect related entries across different days. Turn scattered daily thoughts into an archive that becomes more valuable over time. MORE THAN JUST NOTES Mark entries as tasks, set reminders, add images and links, and organize your day without switching between multiple apps. Sol brings your notes, tasks, and memories together in one calm, chronological space. YOUR DAYS, REMEMBERED Small notes are easy to forget, but together they tell the story of what you worked on, thought about, discovered, and accomplished. Sol helps you capture your days as they happen and return to them whenever you need. Terms of use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Scrappy4 screens
Sol4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Scrappy at every 11 days against Sol's every 5 weeks. Scrappy also leads on device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (18.6 vs 26.0). On price, ads and in-app purchases 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. Scrappy sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $14.99 per year and Sol sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Scrappy ships an update every 11 days, Sol every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Scrappy versus Sol: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterScrappySol
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (4 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews33.3% of reviews—
Number of ratings4 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 11 days — betterEvery 5 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac — betteriPhone
Requires iOS18.6 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size23 MB17 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperSteve HarrisAdam Kovacs

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Scrappy

Subscriptions3
  • Scrappy for iPhone and iPad14 Days trial$14.991 Year
  • Scrappy for Mac14 Days trial$19.991 Year
  • Scrappy for Mac, iPhone and iPad14 Days trial$29.991 Year
3 purchases

Sol

Subscriptions2
  • Sol Pro Monthly$2.991 Month
  • Sol Pro Yearly$9.991 Year
One-time1
  • Sol Pro Lifetime$19.99

Questions

Is Scrappy free?
Scrappy is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Sol free?
Sol is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Scrappy or Sol have ads?
Neither Scrappy nor Sol shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Scrappy or Sol?
Scrappy ships an update every 11 days, and Sol every 5 weeks. Most recently, Scrappy was updated on October 24, 2026 and Sol on October 29, 2026.

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