Comparison

Quietime vs AskNote

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

Head to head
About

Quietime

Features
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Quietime is a simple and beautiful app for keeping track of the events in your life. Not another noisy calendar β€” just a clean, scrollable timeline that shows what matters. Scroll freely through your days. Quietime shows your events chronologically in a clean, vertical design. Jump back to today instantly, or scroll ahead to plan. Search across titles and notes to find what you're looking for. Create events with a title, time, notes, and color code. Choose from five colors to organize visually. Set up recurring events β€” daily, weekly, monthly, or yearly. Mark full days or specific times. Choose from ten different reminder timings β€” from one week before to the moment it happens. Add multiple reminders per event so you never miss what's important. See upcoming events right on your home screen with a 5-day widget. Display up to three events on your lock screen with Live Activities on iOS. Stay on top of things without opening the app. Follow a special date β€” a birthday, a deadline, a milestone. Quietime shows you the countdown or time since, right in the widget. Connect your system calendar and see events from all your calendars alongside your own β€” everything on one timeline. Choose from nine color themes: Dark, Light, Blue, Green, Purple, Morning Calm, Evening Glow, Night Stars, and Meadow. The app automatically adapts to light and dark mode. All data is stored locally. No account, no subscription β€” just a one-time purchase after a 14-day free trial. Quietime respects your time, even the time you spend outside the app.

About

AskNote

Features
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AskNote brings your notes, meeting minutes, and ideas together in one placeβ€”and lets you ask AI about them directly. On-device AI enables you to use AI offline. β–  Organize your way - Sort notes into folder-like hierarchies using tags - A block-based editor that freely mixes text and photos - Markdown rendering with syntax-highlighted code blocks - Star favorites, or flag notes as "Ask Later" questions to revisit β–  Ask AI about your notes - Ask questions grounded in your own notes, with the full conversation saved alongside each note - Agentic AI tools that can search, create, tag, and organize notes on your behalf - Automatic related-note suggestions, summaries, and tag recommendations - A personalized daily AI news briefing β–  Privacy first, your choice always - On-device AI options that work without an internet connection: Apple Intelligence, Google LiteRT-LM (with built-in model downloads), and Ollama - Or connect your own cloud AIβ€”OpenAI, Claude, Gemini, Grok, Perplexity, and more - You always decide which AI powers your notes β–  Meetings, handled - Record a meeting and let AI transcribe it and draft the minutes automatically - Action items are extracted β–  Everywhere you work - A universal app for iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple Vision Pro - Available in Korean, English, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, German, Swedish, Danish, Hindi, and Vietnamese Unlock more AI capabilities with an AskNote Premium subscription. This app follows Apple’s Standard End User License Agreement (EULA). https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Quietime3 screens
AskNote4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: AskNote at none against Quietime's 1. AskNote also leads on update cadence (daily vs every 5 days) and device support (3 vs 1). Quietime's advantage is iOS requirement (17.6 vs 26.0). On price and ads there is nothing between them.

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

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

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

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Quietime ships an update every 5 days, AskNote daily. The most recent releases landed on October 9, 2026 and October 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences Β· 2 level
Quietime versus AskNote: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterQuietimeAskNote
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 5 daysDaily β€” better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo β€” better
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, Mac β€” better
Requires iOS17.6 β€” better26.0
Further details β€” not scored
Size2 MB57 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperKenneth FagermoJonggyou Kim

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Quietime

One-time1
  • One time unlock$2.99
None

AskNote

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Quietime free?
Quietime is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is AskNote free?
AskNote is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Quietime or AskNote have ads?
Neither Quietime nor AskNote shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Quietime or AskNote?
Quietime ships an update every 5 days, and AskNote daily. Most recently, Quietime was updated on October 9, 2026 and AskNote on October 3, 2026.

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