Comparison

notetime vs Grug Notes

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

Head to head
About

notetime

This app automatically timestamps every line you write, creating a chronological record of your thoughts and activities. It's ideal for journaling, meeting notes, or tracking any event with precise timing. Features include inline tagging, full-text search, and offline functionality.

Highlights
  • Automatic line timestamps
  • Inline hashtag tagging
  • Full-text search
  • Export and share notes
  • Offline functionality
  • Light and dark themes
Features
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notetime timestamps every line you write automatically. No buttons, no formatting menus, no setup. Just open the app and start typing. Every thought gets a time. Whether you're logging a meeting, journaling your day, or tracking an interview — notetime turns your notes into a timeline you can scroll back through and actually make sense of. WHAT PEOPLE USE IT FOR — Meeting notes: capture decisions, action items, and who said what — with exact timing — Daily journals: build a chronological record of your thoughts, one line at a time — Interstitial Journaling: document your thoughts in between tasks, helps people with ADHD being more productive — Interviews: log candidate responses with precise timestamps for easy review — Standups and retros: track discussion points and follow-ups as they happen — Debugging sessions: timestamp every observation so you can reconstruct what went wrong — Medical visits: note symptoms, questions, and doctor's answers in real time — Lectures and talks: jot down key points with the exact minute they were mentioned FEATURES Automatic timestamps — every line is tagged with the time the moment you write it. No extra taps, no manual entry. Inline tags — type #hashtags naturally in your notes. Tap any tag to filter across all your notes and find exactly what you need. Search — full-text search across everything you've written. Export and share — share notes as plain text, image or sharable links. Themes — light and dark modes. Works offline — your notes are stored locally on your device. No account needed. No internet required. PRO — SYNC ACROSS DEVICES upgrade to notetime PRO to unlock: — Cloud backup and sync across iOS and web (more platforms coming) — Additional themes — Support futher development notetime is free to use with no signup required. Privacy Policy: https://www.notetimeapp.com/privacy Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.notetimeapp.com/terms

About

Grug Notes

This app allows users to capture, edit, and organize notes using voice commands. It offers real-time voice interaction for finding, modifying, and asking questions about your notes, as well as a voice-powered calculator and meeting transcription. It's designed for hands-free use, syncing across devices.

Highlights
  • Live voice mode for real-time interaction
  • Hands-free note editing and retrieval
  • Voice-powered calculator
  • Meeting recording and transcription
  • AI-powered summarization
  • Personal wiki creation
  • Cloud syncing across devices
Features
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A daily notes app for people who work on their feet. Its live voice mode doesn't just take dictation: it finds your notes, edits them, answers questions, and even does the math, all while you talk. Get what's in your head onto the page, minus the clutter. LIVE MODE: TALK, AND IT ACTS This isn't dictation. Live mode understands what you mean and does it, in real time: • Find anything: ask "what did I note about the trip budget?" and the note surfaces. • Edit hands-free: add to, rewrite, or clean up a note by talking. • Ask anything: get answers from your notes, or quick answers to anything else. • Do the math: say "what's 15% of 2,400?" and get the answer on the spot. CAPTURE BY VOICE Just want it written down? Tap record and talk — your words become clean, transcribed notes instantly. MEETINGS, HANDLED Record and transcribe entire meetings, then get clean, searchable notes. Pair with your own notes and use AI to summarize. YOUR PERSONAL WIKI Mention a person, company, or date and Grug Notes tags it for you, then builds a page that pulls together every note where it comes up. A second brain, minus the busywork. PLAN IT WITH GRUG CHAT Organize each day with prompts you choose — Goals, Tasks, Training, whatever fits. Then tell Grug Chat what you're working toward and it drafts the plan straight into your days: training for a race, next week's jobs, a simple travel itinerary. You review everything it proposes before it lands. CHATGPT, GEMINI, AND CLAUDE. ONE APP. Grug Chat runs on the models you already know — ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Grok, and more — with one subscription. Pick a favorite, or ask several at once and compare their answers. WORKOUTS FROM APPLE HEALTH Plan the training, then let the results log themselves. Connect Apple Health and every workout becomes a note on the day it happened — distance, duration, pace, heart rate, and calories, right next to what you planned. Read-only, opt-in, and only from the workout apps you approve. PICK UP ANYWHERE Notes sync automatically between your phone and the web. Start anywhere, pick up right where you left off. BUILT BY A CANOE SHOP We build canoes for a living, on our feet all day with our hands full. Every notes app we tried was made for someone sitting at a desk. So we built the one we actually needed: talk to it, and it works. No keyboard required. Download and start talking. — Terms of Use: https://grugnotes.com/tos/ Privacy Policy: https://grugnotes.com/privacy/

Screenshots

notetime4 screens
Grug Notes4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Grug Notes at 5.0 against notetime's 4.7. notetime's advantage is device support (3 vs 1). On price, review sentiment, ratings volume and update cadence 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. notetime sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month and Grug Notes sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $12.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Grug Notes holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 18 and 23 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

notetime ships an update weekly, Grug Notes every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on September 20, 2026 and September 21, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
notetime versus Grug Notes: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameternotetimeGrug Notes
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (18 ratings)5.0 (23 ratings) — better
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings1823 — better
Update frequencyWeeklyEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemiumFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac — betteriPhone
Requires iOS18.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size20 MB28 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperZohar WeinsteinKamanu Composites, LLC

Customer experience

notetime

All ratings18 ratings
Positive94.4%
Neutral5.6%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews7 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Grug Notes

All ratings23 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews15 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

3 purchases

notetime

Subscriptions2
  • notetime Pro - Monthly$2.991 Month
  • notetime Pro - Yearly$29.991 Year
One-time1
  • notetime Pro - Lifetime$39.99
2 purchases

Grug Notes

Subscriptions2
  • Grug Core$12.991 Month
  • Grug Plus$17.991 Month

Questions

Is notetime free?
notetime is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Grug Notes free?
Grug Notes is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, notetime or Grug Notes?
Grug Notes is rated higher. notetime averages 4.7 out of 5 from 18 ratings, while Grug Notes averages 5.0 from 23 ratings.
Do notetime or Grug Notes have ads?
Neither notetime nor Grug Notes shows ads.
Which is updated more often, notetime or Grug Notes?
notetime ships an update weekly, and Grug Notes every 3 days. Most recently, notetime was updated on September 20, 2026 and Grug Notes on September 21, 2026.

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