Grug Notes vs Pink Tile
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Grug Notes
This app allows users to capture, edit, and organize notes using voice commands. It offers real-time voice interaction for finding, modifying, and asking questions about your notes, as well as a voice-powered calculator and meeting transcription. It's designed for hands-free use, syncing across devices.
- Live voice mode for real-time interaction
- Hands-free note editing and retrieval
- Voice-powered calculator
- Meeting recording and transcription
- AI-powered summarization
- Personal wiki creation
- Cloud syncing across devices
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A daily notes app for people who work on their feet. Its live voice mode doesn't just take dictation: it finds your notes, edits them, answers questions, and even does the math, all while you talk. Get what's in your head onto the page, minus the clutter. LIVE MODE: TALK, AND IT ACTS This isn't dictation. Live mode understands what you mean and does it, in real time: • Find anything: ask "what did I note about the trip budget?" and the note surfaces. • Edit hands-free: add to, rewrite, or clean up a note by talking. • Ask anything: get answers from your notes, or quick answers to anything else. • Do the math: say "what's 15% of 2,400?" and get the answer on the spot. CAPTURE BY VOICE Just want it written down? Tap record and talk — your words become clean, transcribed notes instantly. MEETINGS, HANDLED Record and transcribe entire meetings, then get clean, searchable notes. Pair with your own notes and use AI to summarize. YOUR PERSONAL WIKI Mention a person, company, or date and Grug Notes tags it for you, then builds a page that pulls together every note where it comes up. A second brain, minus the busywork. PLAN IT WITH GRUG CHAT Organize each day with prompts you choose — Goals, Tasks, Training, whatever fits. Then tell Grug Chat what you're working toward and it drafts the plan straight into your days: training for a race, next week's jobs, a simple travel itinerary. You review everything it proposes before it lands. CHATGPT, GEMINI, AND CLAUDE. ONE APP. Grug Chat runs on the models you already know — ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Grok, and more — with one subscription. Pick a favorite, or ask several at once and compare their answers. WORKOUTS FROM APPLE HEALTH Plan the training, then let the results log themselves. Connect Apple Health and every workout becomes a note on the day it happened — distance, duration, pace, heart rate, and calories, right next to what you planned. Read-only, opt-in, and only from the workout apps you approve. PICK UP ANYWHERE Notes sync automatically between your phone and the web. Start anywhere, pick up right where you left off. BUILT BY A CANOE SHOP We build canoes for a living, on our feet all day with our hands full. Every notes app we tried was made for someone sitting at a desk. So we built the one we actually needed: talk to it, and it works. No keyboard required. Download and start talking. — Terms of Use: https://grugnotes.com/tos/ Privacy Policy: https://grugnotes.com/privacy/
Pink Tile
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Pink Tile is a private time-blocking journal. Plan your day in colored blocks, log what actually happened, and see where your hours went this week and this year. WHAT IT DOES - Today tab: a 24-hour timeline. Tap an hour, or +, to add a block - Each block has a category, a start and end time, planned or logged, and an optional note - Categories tab: your own categories with a color and an icon, and the hours logged this week in each - Year tab: this year's logged hours by category, and your last 12 weeks side by side - Lock Screen and Home Screen widget that opens Pink Tile - No accounts, no cloud, no analytics tracking PRIVACY - Everything stays on your device - No third-party SDKs, no servers WITHOUT PRO Everything is unlocked for your first 3 days. After that, up to 3 categories in total. Blocks are never limited. PRO - Unlimited categories Subscription Details - Pro Monthly: $3 / month - Pro Annual: $13 / year - Lifetime: $29 one-time Subscriptions auto-renew until cancelled in Settings at least 24 hours before the renewal date. Payment is charged to your Apple ID at confirmation of purchase. Terms of Use (EULA): https://danielius.studio/pink-tile/terms Privacy Policy: https://danielius.studio/pink-tile/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Grug Notes at 17.0 against Pink Tile's 26.0. On price, update cadence, 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. Grug Notes sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $12.99 per month and Pink Tile sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $3.00 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Grug Notes | Pink Tile |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (23 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 23 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 days | Every 3 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 32 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Kamanu Composites, LLC | Danielius Chalikovas |
In-app purchases
Grug Notes
- Grug Core$12.991 Month
- Grug Plus$17.991 Month
Pink Tile
- Pro Monthly$3.001 Month
- Pro Annual$13.001 Year
- Lifetime$29.00









