Comparison

Yearli vs Nota6

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

Nota6

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Reader-first Markdown app for the AI era — with a built-in Reference Library so it's useful the moment you open it. BUILT-IN LIBRARY (12 references, all offline) The welcome screen has a "Browse Library" button. Tap it and you have 12 curated documents available immediately, in English and Simplified Chinese: • Markdown / GFM syntax references • Mermaid Diagram Gallery — 10 diagram types (flowchart, sequence, class, state, ER, gantt, pie, mindmap, timeline, git graph), each with source + rendered output • KaTeX Math Reference — symbols, operators, matrices, common formulas • Code Highlighting Gallery — Swift, Python, TypeScript, Go, Rust, SQL, and more (190+ languages bundled) • Reading AI-Generated Markdown — four shapes of agent output and how to read each • CLAUDE.md & AGENTS.md spec — how AI-instruction files work • README Patterns, Design Doc & RFC Patterns • Nota6 Tips & Tricks, iPad Keyboard Shortcuts, Themes Showcase These aren't placeholders — they're useful reading material for anyone who works with AI coding assistants and the .md files they produce. WHAT MAKES IT DIFFERENT FROM A BROWSER • Mermaid diagrams, KaTeX math, syntax-highlighted code, all rendered offline. No network requests during rendering. Safari Reader can't do Mermaid; Nota6 can. • Auto-refresh on file change with smart scroll anchoring: when an external editor rewrites the file, the preview re-renders in place and stays at the same heading even if the document length shifts. • Open files from anywhere via the system share sheet, Files, iCloud Drive, or the "Open in Nota6" action. iOS-NATIVE INTEGRATIONS • Shortcuts / App Intents: "Open Markdown File" and "Export Markdown as HTML" are first-class Shortcuts actions. Automate from Siri or your iPad keyboard. • iCloud sync: your theme, font, width, and Custom-theme colors follow you across iPhone, iPad, and Mac. • Workspace full-text search (āŒ˜ā‡§F) across an entire folder of .md files. • Bookmark self-heal: if AI tooling renames or moves files in your workspace, Nota6 reattaches by content fingerprint instead of breaking. READING EXPERIENCE • Quick Edit: switch to Source, correct raw Markdown, and save with Command-S on a hardware keyboard. Nota6 preserves the original encoding, BOM, and line endings, and warns before overwriting external changes. • 5 themes: GitHub Ā· Paper Ā· Notion Ā· Terminal Ā· Custom. Custom lets you pick body + monospace fonts and 4 colors (background, text, heading, code block) right inside the app. • 4 font sizes, 3 reading widths, Light / Dark / Auto appearance. • Outline panel with live filter and scroll-synced active heading; floating breadcrumb when the outline is closed. • Per-file reading-progress dots in the workspace sidebar. • Click-to-zoom for Mermaid diagrams and images; long-press to Copy or Save as PNG. iPAD HARDWARE KEYBOARD Full shortcut set: ⌘O Ā· ā‡§āŒ˜O Ā· ⌘F Ā· ⌘P Ā· ⌄⌘O Ā· ⌘R Ā· ⌘[ / ⌘] Ā· ⌘W. Press-and-hold ⌘ for the discoverability HUD. EXPORT PDF or self-contained HTML via the system share sheet — straight to Files, Mail, Slack, Notion, or any other destination. PRIVACY No analytics. No third-party SDKs. No network requests unless the document itself references remote images. Rendering libraries (KaTeX, Mermaid, highlight.js) are bundled offline. English + Simplified Chinese.

Screenshots

Yearli4 screens
Nota64 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Nota6 at none against Yearli's 1. Nota6 also leads on update cadence (every 3 days vs weekly). Yearli's advantage is iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.0). On price, ads and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price Ā· Rating Ā· Positive reviews Ā· Number of ratings Ā· Update frequency Ā· Ads Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Monetization Ā· Best chart rank Ā· Devices Ā· Requires iOS

CostPrice Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Ads Ā· Monetization

Both are free to download. Yearli sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Nota6 asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Yearli ships an update weekly, Nota6 every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 28, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences Ā· 3 level
Yearli versus Nota6: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterYearliNota6
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyWeeklyEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, Mac — better
Requires iOS15.1 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size42 MB11 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperLeandro Gartner笑天 刘

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Yearli

One-time1
  • Pro lifetime$1.99
None

Nota6

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Yearli free?
Yearli is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Nota6 free?
Nota6 is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Yearli or Nota6 have ads?
Neither Yearli nor Nota6 shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Yearli or Nota6?
Yearli ships an update weekly, and Nota6 every 3 days. Most recently, Yearli was updated on October 28, 2026 and Nota6 on October 31, 2026.

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