Notes by Color vs Slips
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Notes by Color
This app uses color as a primary organizational tool, allowing users to create custom color labels for notes. It offers a visual system for quick scanning and filtering, simplifying note management without complex folder structures. Users can capture ideas, track tasks, or organize study materials with an intuitive, clutter-free interface.
- Custom color labels
- Visual note filtering
- Clutter-free interface
- Full-text search
- iCloud sync
- AI summaries (Premium)
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Toono turns color into your most powerful organizational tool. Most note apps make you work harder than you should – folders, tags, nested systems, endless scrolling. Toono is different. Create your own color labels, give each note a color, and instantly have a visual system your brain understands at a glance. No complexity. No clutter. Just your colors, your way. HOW IT WORKS Color isn't decoration here – it's structure. Scan your notes in seconds, filter by color with one tap, and always know where everything is. Whether you're capturing ideas, tracking tasks, writing, studying, or keeping life organized, Toono adapts to how you think. FREE • Up to 3 custom color labels • Filter by color with one tap • Sort by date or title (A–Z) • Full-text search • iCloud sync across your devices • Recently Deleted – restore notes anytime • Easy sharing • Light and dark mode • English, Spanish, and Japanese PREMIUM – one-time purchase, no subscription • Unlimited colors • Manual sorting – drag notes into your own order • Pin important notes to the top • AI summaries with Apple Intelligence* • Light or dark text for each color • Adjustable note preview length *AI summaries require a device with Apple Intelligence and a supported language. No account needed. Your notes stay on your devices and in your own iCloud. Your colors. Your system. Your clarity. Download Toono and find out how much calmer your notes can feel.
Slips
This app offers a streamlined note-taking experience with a maximum of five customizable notes. Personalize each note with icons and colors, and sync them seamlessly across all your Apple devices. It provides rich text formatting and quick access options.
- Five customizable notes
- iCloud synchronization
- Rich text formatting
- Home/Lock Screen widgets
- Share sheet integration
- Mac app support
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Slips — Five notes, made yours Five slips. That's all. Slips is a notes app built on a simple idea: five fixed notes are enough for the things you actually return to, and few enough that you always know where everything is. No folders to organize, no archive to dig through, no blank-page guilt. Pick a slip and write. MADE YOURS Name each slip, choose an icon from hundreds of symbols, and give it a color. Groceries, Books, Trips, Meds, Faith, Projects, whatever your five are. Reorder them any time. ALWAYS IN SYNC Your slips live in your own private iCloud and stay current on iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Edit on one device, and it's on the others. Nothing is collected, nothing is tracked, and there are no accounts to create. BACKED UP, JUST IN CASE Every device quietly saves a daily backup of your slips, keeping the last three. Restoring takes one tap, and a safety copy is made first, so even a restore can be undone. You can also export your slips to a file and keep it anywhere. RICH WHERE IT COUNTS Bold, italic, underline, highlight, headers, bulleted and numbered lists, tap-to-check checklists, dividers, and links that turn into preview cards. FAST WAYS IN Add to a slip from any app with the share sheet. Automate with Siri and Shortcuts. Put a slip on your Home Screen or Lock Screen with widgets, or capture instantly from Control Center. AT HOME ON THE MAC A real Mac app: your slips in the sidebar, formatting in the menu bar, Cmd+1 through Cmd+5 to switch slips, an optional menu bar icon, and sharing straight from Safari. SIMPLE PRICING Try a single Slip for free forever. Slips Plus unlocks all five. One purchase covers iPhone, iPad, and Mac, and is shareable with your family. Slips Plus subscriptions renew automatically until canceled in your App Store account settings, at least 24 hours before the current period ends. Lifetime is a one-time purchase. Privacy policy: https://mattlangford.com/slips-privacy Terms of use: Apple's standard EULA Support: https://mattlangford.com/slips-support
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Slips at weekly against Notes by Color's monthly. Slips also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.8). Notes by Color's advantage is ratings volume (4 vs 1). On price, review sentiment, ads and in-app purchases 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. Notes by Color sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Slips sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Slips holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 1 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
Notes by Color ships an update monthly, Slips weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and October 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Notes by Color | Slips |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (4 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 4 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 5 MB | 22 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Two Moon Tree | Matthew Langford |
Customer experience
Notes by Color
Slips
In-app purchases
Notes by Color
- Unlock Premium$6.99
Slips
- Slips Monthly$1.991 Month
- Slips Yearly$14.991 Year
- Slips Lifetime$49.99









