PinLog Text Notes vs Branchnote

PinLog is a simple place to save text and links you do not want to lose. Save a note, paste from the clipboard, import a file, or send content from another app through the share sheet. PinLog keeps the item clean and ready, then helps you return to it later from the app or Home Screen widget. Use it for launch notes, links to read, product ideas, checklist fragments, reminders, and small pieces of text that are useful but easy to forget. Features: - Save text and links quickly - Dictate notes with voice input - Import text, Markdown, and JSON files - Save from other apps with the share extension - Open URL pins in the browser - Tap links inside notes from the detail view - Use a widget to resurface saved items - Copy, edit, share, or delete saved pins PinLog is intentionally small: no feeds, no folders to manage, and no complicated note system. It is built for capturing something now and acting on it later.

Branchnote is a notes app organized around branches — named containers, one per topic, with every note living in exactly one of them. Instead of folders to navigate, you get a feed: every note you have in a single list, each tagged with the branch it came from. Tap a tag to jump straight there. No account needed. Open the app and start writing. ORGANIZE BY TOPIC Make a branch for work, recipes, reading, half-formed ideas — whatever you actually keep notes about. Move a note to a different branch whenever something ends up in the wrong place. WRITE IN MARKDOWN Headings, bold, italics, links, bullet and numbered lists, and checkboxes you can check off right in the note — nested up to four levels. Formatting renders as you type, and a toolbar above the keyboard applies any of it without your having to remember the syntax. FIND ANYTHING Full-text search across every note, ranked by relevance, with matching excerpts pulled out and your search terms highlighted in the results. LOCK IT Set a passcode and Branchnote locks every time you return to it. Unlock with your passcode, or with biometrics if your device supports it. Your notes stay covered in the app switcher. BACK IT UP Copy your notes into a single file and save it wherever you like, then restore it whenever you need to.