Comparison

Story Wiki vs Vault Notes

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

Head to head
About

Story Wiki

Organize your creative universe with a searchable notebook for characters, locations, and lore. Link entries with wiki-style connections and create custom templates. Export your worldbuilding to PDF and sync across devices.

Highlights
  • Wiki-style connections and backlinks
  • Custom templates with custom fields
  • Export to PDF
  • Full accessibility support
  • Dark Mode
  • iCloud syncing
Features
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Story Wiki is a quiet, reliable notebook for your creative universe. Built for writers, game designers, and worldbuilders, it helps you organize characters, locations, lore, and events in one searchable place. It is fully accessible, exportable, and never asks you for a monthly fee. Features: • Connect your universe: Link related entries and jump through your world with wiki-style connections and backlinks. • Custom layouts: Create reusable templates with custom fields for characters, species, or magic systems. • Export to PDF: Turn your entire wiki, or a hand-picked selection of entries, into a polished PDF for printing or sharing. • Fully accessible: Built natively to support Apple's VoiceOver, strict keyboard navigation, and extra-large Dynamic Type text. • Dark Mode: Switch to a high-contrast dark theme across all menus and sheets. • Stay synced: iCloud automatically keeps your writing updated across your iPhone, iPad, and Mac.

About

Vault Notes

Features
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Vault Notes is a private notes app built on plain Markdown. Your notes are real .md files stored locally, (and with Pro, in your own Google Drive), not rows in a database we control. We run no servers and never see what you write. WRITE WITHOUT FRICTION Live Markdown editing. Headings, bold, and checklists render as you type. Daily notes are one tap away, so journaling and quick capture stay fast. Banners, callouts, code blocks, footnotes, highlights, and LaTeX math. Paste a link and get a clean preview card. Rename the title to whatever you want. Attach images, PDFs, and GIFs. Read PDFs a page at a time. YOURS, ORGANIZED Folders and subfolders, pinned notes, instant search. Connect notes with [[wikilinks]], or embed one note inside another. Chain notes like chapters with Previous / Next follow-ups. Canvas boards when you need to think spatially. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Public View hides your private notes and images, either on a schedule or with one tap. Hand your phone to someone and don't worry about it. Mark any note or folder Private. Blur the images you'd rather not show. No analytics. No tracking. Nothing phones home. MAKE IT YOURS Features are plugins, so toggle math, callouts, timelines, and image styling as you like. Accent colors that follow you across devices. Apple Pencil sketch notes on iPad. VAULT PRO (optional subscription) Two-way sync between iPhone, iPad, and desktop, all through your own Google Drive. Version history and attachment sync included. Your notes move through your cloud. We never host or read them. Vault Notes is built by one person who uses it every day, and it shows. Download it, write something in it, see if it fits.

Screenshots

Story Wiki3 screens
Vault Notes4 screens

Verdict

The call

Story Wiki and Vault Notes are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters — price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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. Story Wiki sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Vault Notes sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Story Wiki ships an update every 10 days, Vault Notes every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 28, 2026 respectively.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Story Wiki versus Vault Notes: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterStory WikiVault Notes
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.0 (5 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings5 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 10 daysEvery 6 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size2 MB17 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperColin WrightAndre Schoolman

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Story Wiki

One-time1
  • Pro$4.99
2 purchases

Vault Notes

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly$4.991 Month
  • Yearly$49.991 Year

Questions

Is Story Wiki free?
Story Wiki is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Vault Notes free?
Vault Notes is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Story Wiki or Vault Notes have ads?
Neither Story Wiki nor Vault Notes shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Story Wiki or Vault Notes?
Story Wiki ships an update every 10 days, and Vault Notes every 6 days. Most recently, Story Wiki was updated on October 24, 2026 and Vault Notes on October 28, 2026.

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