Nota vs NoteWorthy
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Nota
Capture thoughts through typing, voice, sketches, or photos. AI assistance helps organize and refine your ideas. Offers local saving and advanced features with an optional Pro subscription.
- AI-powered note organization
- Voice-to-text transcription
- Sketching and drawing tools
- OCR for scanned documents
- Cross-device sync (Pro)
- Customizable AI actions (Pro)
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Nota is not just a place to store notes. It is a place where ideas begin, grow, and become useful. A thought can arrive while you are walking, working, reading, commuting, training, talking, or half asleep. Nota helps you catch it before it disappears, then gives that thought somewhere to develop. VOICE FIRST. INTELLIGENCE WHEN YOU NEED IT. At the bottom-right of Nota is one simple button. Tap it to record and transcribe a thought. Press and hold it to bring intelligence into the note dashboard. Press and swipe up to turn the circular button into Nota Voice, a live thinking partner you can speak with in real time. The interface stays simple. The intelligence appears when you ask for it. FROM THOUGHT TO PAPER Speak naturally and let Nota turn your voice into text. Capture an idea, memory, meeting thought, observation, reminder, sentence, question, or something you do not want to lose. Use your iPhone, iPad, Mac, or Apple Watch when pulling out a pad of paper and a pen would mean losing the moment. Never lose the idea just because your hands were busy. MEET NOTA VOICE Nota Voice is more than voice transcription. It is a conversation with your ideas. Use it as a brainstorming partner, sounding board, thought partner, collaborator, or simply a place to think out loud. Talk through a book idea, a difficult email, a business problem, a personal decision, a blog, a message to someone you care about, or an unfinished thought you cannot quite articulate yet. Nota Voice can help you explore the idea in real time, then turn the conversation into something tangible when you are finished. Ask for: • Book passages and outlines • Emails and messages • Blog posts and articles • Social posts • Plans, lists, summaries, and follow-ups • Multiple versions of the same idea • Structured notes built from the conversation Your conversation does not have to disappear when you stop talking. It can become the next version of your work. NOTA ASSIST Some ideas should not disappear into an archive. Nota Assist looks across your note universe for unfinished ideas, follow-ups, recurring patterns, and things that may deserve another look. It can remind you about a thought you forgot, a project you left unfinished, or something Nota thinks is worth revisiting. Your notes become more useful as your history grows. YOUR NOTE UNIVERSE Nota still includes the tools you expect from a powerful notes app, but they stay out of the way until you need them. • Rich text writing and formatting • Sketching, drawing, highlighting, circling, and visual thinking • Camera scanning and OCR • Voice recording and audio playback • Apple Watch capture and transcription • Tags, pinning, sorting, and search • Shared notes and simple collaboration by link • Import from Apple Notes • Import DOCX, PDF, Markdown, TXT, and RTF files • Markdown export for local AI and second-brain workflows • Cross-device sync on supported plans • Recently Deleted recovery • Themes, icons, and accent colors THOUGHTS INTO THINGS A note does not have to begin as a document. It can begin as a sentence spoken into your watch. A paragraph dictated on a walk. A line scanned from a book. A sketch. A conversation with Nota Voice. A shared idea between two people. Then it can grow. A seed becomes a tree, and that tree grows branches. Branches become bodies of work. Or maybe the old idea becomes the firewood for the next one. Nota is built for that process. The goal is not to just collect more notes. The goal is to think better, remember more of what matters, develop stronger ideas, and turn those ideas into something useful. Catch thoughts. Shape ideas. Make them real. Terms of Service: https://nota.talk/terms Privacy Policy: https://nota.talk/privacy Support: https://nota.talk/support Standard Apple EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
NoteWorthy
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Smart notes that never leave your device. NoteWorthy writes your titles, summarizes your notes, cleans up your formatting and files everything in the right place. All of it runs on your iPhone, iPad or Mac. There is no account to create, no server to trust and no internet connection required, because the app makes no network requests at all. NOW ON THE MAC NoteWorthy 2.0 is a native Mac app. It sits on the edge of your screen as a notebook of flaps, one per label: pull a flap and its notes slide out. Capture a note without leaving what you are doing, keep a sticky on the desk beside your work, and reach your recent notes from the menu bar. AI Format and AI Organize run on your Mac, not on a server. WRITE Rich text with real Markdown underneath. Checkboxes, headings, bold and italic, tables and images. Pick from six paper colors. Scan text straight out of a photo. LET IT ORGANIZE Every note gets a title and lands in Tasks, Work, Ideas, Info or Personal on its own. Make your own labels and pin the ones you use most. One tap on AI Organize tidies the whole library, and running it twice changes nothing, because filing reads what is already stored rather than asking a model to guess again. AI FORMAT AND AI SUMMARIZE Jot something down messily and let it become a proper structured note, with lists, checkboxes and headings, and your wording untouched. Or pull a long note down to a sentence or two. Preview both before anything is applied. EVERYWHERE YOU ALREADY ARE Add to NoteWorthy from any share sheet, including Safari selections. Five Shortcuts actions for Siri, the Action button and automations, including Summarize and Format, which work on text from any app. Widgets for your Home Screen and your Mac desktop, with checkboxes you can tick without opening the app. Spotlight finds your notes. JOINED UP Dates become calendar events. People link to your contacts. Addresses open in Maps. Set a reminder before a deadline. YOURS ALONE Lock the app with Face ID or Touch ID. Notes are written to disk with file protection. Export any note as Markdown and take it with you. Each device keeps its own notes: nothing is copied to a cloud. One download for iPhone, iPad and Mac, in 11 languages. Note: on-device intelligence needs an Apple Intelligence-capable device. Elsewhere NoteWorthy falls back to fast built-in heuristics and works just as well for writing, filing and search.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: NoteWorthy at none against Nota's 2. NoteWorthy also leads on update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 6 weeks). Nota's advantage is iOS requirement (17.6 vs 26.0). On price, ads 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. Nota sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $7.99 per month. NoteWorthy asks for nothing beyond the download.
Nota ships an update every 6 weeks, NoteWorthy every 3 weeks. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.
| Parameter | Nota | NoteWorthy |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Freemium | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch | iPhone, iPad, Mac |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 63 MB | 268 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Hue Network, Inc. | Suman Hansada |
In-app purchases
Nota
- Nota Pro Monthly14 Days trial$7.991 Month
- Nota Pro Annually14 Days trial$69.991 Year
NoteWorthy
No in-app purchases









