Comparison

Timeflies vs Note

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

Head to head
About

Timeflies

This app helps you stay focused on important goals by creating visual countdowns for deadlines, exams, or personal milestones. Break down your objectives into manageable tasks and track your progress to turn pressure into steady advancement.

Highlights
  • Create countdowns for any event
  • Track time remaining in various units
  • Break down goals into actionable tasks
  • Check off completed tasks
  • Build reminder plans with local notifications
  • Local data storage
Features
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Timeflies helps you stay aware of how much time remains for the things that matter most. Create a countdown for any goal, deadline, exam, launch, trip, or personal milestone. Break it into clear tasks, track progress, and keep the remaining time visible so it is easier to act with focus instead of delay. With Timeflies, you can: • Create countdowns with a title, deadline, and color theme • See time remaining in years, months, days, or seconds • Break each countdown into actionable tasks • Check off completed tasks and edit task notes • Build reminder plans with local notifications • Keep your progress stored locally on your iPhone Timeflies is designed for people who want deadlines to feel real, visible, and manageable. Whether you are preparing for an exam, finishing an application, planning a launch, or working toward a personal goal, Timeflies helps turn pressure into steady progress.

About

Note

Organize your thoughts and to-dos in one app. Create rich notes with embedded media and tasks, set reminders, and manage projects with flexible layouts. Offers advanced features like AI assistance and privacy controls.

Highlights
  • Rich text editing with media embedding
  • Tasks with due dates and reminders
  • Folders, tags, and smart filters
  • Multiple view layouts (list, agenda, calendar, Kanban)
  • Focus mode for distraction-free work
  • Privacy Vault and note locking
  • AI-powered summarization and task extraction
Features
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Note-Due brings your notes and tasks together. Write a note, add tasks inside it, set due dates, and get reminded — all without switching apps. NOTES THAT DO MORE Rich text with bold, italic, highlights, checklists, and code blocks. Attach photos, scan documents, record voice memos, and embed video. Draw with Apple Pencil or your finger — handwriting can be recognised and converted to typed text. While you write or scroll, toolbars slide away so your words get the whole screen. TASKS BUILT INTO YOUR NOTES Create tasks inside any note, or add standalone tasks. Set due dates, priorities, and reminders. Quick Add understands natural language — type "call James tomorrow at 9am high priority" and Note-Due does the rest. Block tasks behind other tasks to map real dependencies. POWERFUL ORGANISATION Folders, subfolders, tags, and smart filters keep everything findable. Switch between Today, Upcoming, Overdue, All, and Inbox, and between list, agenda, calendar, and kanban layouts. Snooze tasks, pin notes, and search everything instantly. The Trash keeps deleted items until you're sure. INBOX AND FOCUS MODE Capture first, schedule later: tasks without a date land in your Inbox. When it's time to work, Focus Mode shows only today's tasks in a distraction-free view. SIRI, SHORTCUTS & SPOTLIGHT Add tasks, check what's overdue, or complete something with your voice or the Shortcuts app. Find notes and tasks from Spotlight search. BUILT FOR EVERY SCREEN Designed for iPhone, iPad, and iPhone Duo. On iPad, see your notes list beside the open note, or open any note in its own window with Stage Manager. PRIVATE BY DEFAULT Your data lives on your device. No accounts, no servers, no tracking. Optional iCloud sync keeps your Apple devices up to date using your personal iCloud — we never see it. ——— UNLOCK NOTE-DUE PRO — $9.99 ONCE, NO SUBSCRIPTION Apple Intelligence Extract tasks from a note, summarise long notes, and rewrite selected text in any style — all on-device. Your previous version is saved before every AI rewrite. Privacy Vault & Note Locking Hide folders behind Face ID in the Vault, lock individual notes, or require Face ID every time you open the app. Version History Every note is versioned automatically. Browse and restore any earlier draft. Power Tasks Recurring tasks (daily, weekdays, weekly, monthly, yearly), subtasks, dependencies, and Apple Calendar sync. Advanced Notifications Morning daily digest, second reminders, quiet hours, custom lead times, lock-screen snooze, and custom sounds. Export & Import Export notes as PDF or HTML, or your whole library as a Markdown ZIP. Import Markdown and text notes from Bear, Obsidian, or Apple Notes, and tasks from Apple Reminders. Projects & Time Tracking Group notes and tasks into projects with live progress and due dates. Add time estimates to tasks and track real time with a built-in timer. PDF Annotation & Tables Draw on PDF attachments with Apple Pencil, saved per page. Insert editable grid tables into any note. Smart Scheduling Smart Schedule checks your task load and suggests the least-busy day and time. Kanban Board Manage tasks across To Do, In Progress, and Done, and drag cards between columns.

Screenshots

Timeflies4 screens
Note4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Timeflies at 5.0 against Note's 4.0. Timeflies also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 1) and iOS requirement (18.0 vs 26.0). On price, ratings volume, update cadence and ads 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. Note sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Timeflies asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Timeflies holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Timeflies ships an update every 3 days, Note every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 2, 2026 and October 14, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Timeflies versus Note: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTimefliesNote
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better4.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings11
Update frequencyEvery 3 daysEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS18.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size1 MB12 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperHaiping SunJames Roche

In-app purchases

None

Timeflies

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Note

One-time1
  • Note-Due Pro$9.99

Questions

Is Timeflies free?
Timeflies is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Note free?
Note is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Timeflies or Note?
Timeflies is rated higher. Timeflies averages 5.0 out of 5 from 1 ratings, while Note averages 4.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Timeflies or Note have ads?
Neither Timeflies nor Note shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Timeflies or Note?
Timeflies ships an update every 3 days, and Note every 2 days. Most recently, Timeflies was updated on October 2, 2026 and Note on October 14, 2026.

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