Cache vs ARCH Cam
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Cache
This app offers a private and secure way to manage your notes and tasks using Markdown and Git for synchronization. It prioritizes user control, speed, and offline access, ensuring your data is always yours and accessible.
- Private notes and tasks
- Markdown format
- Git synchronization
- Version control
- Offline access
- Instant search
- Task tracking
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For users who value complete control over their knowledge. Powerful personal knowledge management with no vendor lock-in, no privacy compromises—just fast, portable notes synced through git. --- **Highlights & Features** ## Your Notes, Your Data You are in total control of your notes and privacy. Your notes never touch our servers - everything stays on your devices, synced through your own git server. Complete privacy. No tracking. No exceptions. ## Beautiful Markdown Your notes are stored, viewed and edited as clean portable markdown. No proprietary formats, no lock-in. Your knowledge remains accessible forever in files you own, readable in any text editor. ## Git Sync Cache is a Git client - use GitHub, GitLab, Gitea, your own server, or any Git service. Version control built-in means you never lose your work and you control who has access. ## Every Task, Tracked Every checkbox across every note, individually tracked with due dates and priorities. Cache surfaces what's overdue, due today, or coming soon — so nothing slips through the cracks. ## Lightning Fast Built around speed to get ideas out of your head quickly. Fluid touch gestures or comprehensive keyboard shortcuts, minimal interface, instant search - nothing slows you down on any device. ## Instant Search Find anything instantly across your entire knowledge base. Line-level results show context immediately and feel magical. No waiting, no indexing delays, no network requests, just results. ## First-Class Journaling Date-based notes with first-class support for effortless journaling. Browse, search, and edit your daily entries seamlessly. Journals and reference notes coexist with fully configurable categories. ## Modal Editing (Alpha) Optionally use powerful modal editing with Vim and Helix motions. For power users who want maximum efficiency, or stick with simple mode for traditional editing. ## Offline First Carry your notes with you. Your devices always have your full notes repository. Work anywhere, anytime, without depending on internet connectivity. ## Seamless on iPhone & Mac Optimized for iPhone with a minimal interface that feels right at home. Your notes sync across all your Apple devices through Git. ## Opinionated Minimalism Every feature serves one purpose: managing your markdown notes faster and better. No plugins means no bloat, no distractions, no performance compromises. Just powerful note-taking, nothing more. --- Terms of service: https://www.cachenotes.app/docs/terms-of-service/ Privacy policy: https://www.cachenotes.app/docs/privacy-policy/
ARCH Cam
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Arch Recap is a spatial memory archive. Screenshots and photos navigable in 3D Arches. AI search on-device. No servers, no accounts. Stay offline. Recapture your moments. - Type "recipe for sweet & sour chicken" or "flight from August". An on-device Gemma 3n model surfaces matches instantly. - Arches. Spatial rooms for the moments you revisit. Pinch out to fly between them. Each keeps its own layout, tile size, and name. - On-device AI. Google's Gemma 3n via MediaPipe, running entirely on iPhone. - Spatial layouts. Sphere, helix, cube, cylinder, rings, waves. - Photo notes. Tap under any photo in an album Arch to leave a translucent caption. - Long-press. Drag a screenshot to share or delete. No menus. - Calendar. Ask "add this", confirm in the native editor. - 100% on-device. No accounts. No cloud. Your moments stay yours.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Cache at every 3 weeks against ARCH Cam's every 2 months. On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Cache ships an update every 3 weeks, ARCH Cam every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and October 20, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Cache | ARCH Cam |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 39 MB | 39 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Rocketware Limited | Bob Van den Audenaerde |
In-app purchases
Cache
No in-app purchases
ARCH Cam
No in-app purchases









