Comparison

Yearli vs NoteBlob

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

Head to head
About

Yearli

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Your year, beautifully visualized Yearli turns your year into a stunning grid of 365 dots. Watch each day fill in with soft pastel colors and see exactly how much of your year has passed — at a glance. Unlike other trackers that feel dark and cluttered, Yearli is designed to be minimal, cute, and calming. Your home screen deserves better. 365-DOT YEAR GRID See your entire year as a beautiful dot grid. Each day lights up as it passes. The current day pulses with a gentle heartbeat animation — a living reminder that today matters. 10 THEMES Choose from 10 handcrafted pastel color themes. 5 are free, 5 are PRO. Every theme transforms your entire experience — grid, widgets, and stats. YEAR STATISTICS - Percentage of the year completed - Days passed & days remaining - Current week and day number - Time until the next milestone HOME SCREEN WIDGETS Glance at your year progress without opening the app. - Small widget — FREE (compact year view) - Medium widget — PRO (detailed stats) - Large widget — PRO (full dot grid on your home screen) WHY YEARLI? - Pastel & cute: not dark and boring like others - Generous free version: no paywalls on day one - One-time purchase: lifetime PRO, no subscriptions ever - Lightweight: fast, no bloat, no tracking - Widgets that actually look good on your home screen FREE FEATURES: - 365-dot year grid - 5 pastel themes - Year statistics - Small home screen widget - Heartbeat animation on current day PRO (lifetime, one-time): - 5 additional premium themes - Medium & large widgets - Support an indie developer No subscriptions. No ads. No data collection. Just your year, beautifully tracked. Download Yearli today and fall in love with watching your year unfold https://www.lghdeveloper.com/en/privacy https://www.lghdeveloper.com/en/terms

About

NoteBlob

This app is a markdown note editor that uses Git for version control, ensuring no proprietary formats or complex systems. It offers a powerful editor, full-text search, and a simple Git workflow for managing your notes. Your notes are stored in your own repository, providing open-source freedom and no vendor lock-in.

Highlights
  • Markdown editor
  • Full-text search
  • Git commit, push, merge workflow
  • Note linking
  • GitHub token backup
Features
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NoteBlob is a free and opensource markdown note editor for ios and macos backed by git. No proprietary formats, no complex versioning ; just a clean git client built for note taking and AI integration. ## WHY ANOTHER NOTE APP? Notes can be confidential and personal, yet note editors usually rely on opaque technologies and, at some point, a payment system. Notes should be easy to edit, versioned, independent of any company, exportable, and confidential. Moreover, in the age of AI, your notes should be model-readable and ready to process. NoteBlob fixes that by relying on something other than itself: at its core, it uses Git and Markdown, the most universal, well-known technologies for editing and backing up data. NoteBlob is simply an interface that makes the experience more user-friendly and iOS-compatible. It provides no custom mechanism or technology, the source of truth remains your Markdown files and your Git repository. Tired of it? Just delete the app; your notes stay in your Git repo as plain Markdown files. ## FEATURES - Markdown editor with a powerful live preview and a fast native editor - GitHub sync a straightforward commit, push, and merge workflow - Full-text search across all your notes / folders - Plugins enhance user experience by importing JS modules. -- Mermaid -- Syntax highlighting And more

Screenshots

Yearli4 screens
NoteBlob4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: NoteBlob at none against Yearli's 1. Yearli's advantage is iOS requirement (15.1 vs 26.0). On price, update cadence, ads 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. Yearli sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. NoteBlob asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Yearli versus NoteBlob: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterYearliNoteBlob
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—1 — better
Update frequencyWeeklyWeekly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
Monetization—Free
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, Mac — better
Requires iOS15.1 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size42 MB13 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperLeandro GartnerGaetan Zanella

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Yearli

One-time1
  • Pro lifetime$1.99
None

NoteBlob

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Yearli free?
Yearli is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is NoteBlob free?
NoteBlob is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Yearli or NoteBlob have ads?
Neither Yearli nor NoteBlob shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Yearli or NoteBlob?
Yearli ships an update weekly, and NoteBlob weekly. Most recently, Yearli was updated on October 14, 2026 and NoteBlob on October 8, 2026.

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