Comparison

Grug Notes vs Unplug Me

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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/

About

Unplug Me

This app helps you reclaim your time and attention by locking distracting applications. The only way to access them is by plugging in your phone, making it a smart device only when charging. It offers a friction-based system to prevent impulsive app usage without causing frustration.

Highlights
  • Locks distracting apps
  • Unlocks apps only when phone is plugged in
  • Scheduled blocks
  • Emergency unlocks
  • Calls and texts always accessible
  • Built on Screen Time API
Features
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Reclaim your time and attention. Unplug Me locks your distracting apps. The only way to unlock them is to plug in your phone. Set a timer to unlock them for a short period, and when the timer ends, they lock automatically again. No willpower required. Turn your phone into a dumb phone most of the day, plug it in to make it smart again. HOW IT WORKS • Choose which apps stay locked, everything else is blocked • Plug in your charger at home to unlock them • Unplug, and your phone locks again on its own • Calls and texts always get through, even while locked WHY IT WORKS Our system is designed to provide just enough friction that you can't easily open your apps but not too much that you'll be frustrated and just give up deleting ours. • No in-the-moment willpower required • The benefits of a dumb phone, without giving up your smartphone • Built on Apple's Screen Time API. Private, on-device, no ads Four emergency unlocks a week for when you're out. 1 minute wait if you run out of emergency unlocks. Scheduled blocks for hours when nothing opens, even plugged in. Privacy policy: https://findfreetime.com/unplug-privacy.html Terms: https://findfreetime.com/unplug-terms.html

Screenshots

Grug Notes4 screens
Unplug Me4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Grug Notes at every 3 days against Unplug Me's every 2 weeks. Grug Notes also leads on ratings volume (23 vs 2). On price, rating, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Grug Notes sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $12.99 per month and Unplug Me sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $8.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Grug Notes against 5.0 for Unplug Me. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Grug Notes has 23 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Grug Notes ships an update every 3 days, Unplug Me every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 20, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Grug Notes versus Unplug Me: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGrug NotesUnplug Me
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (23 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings23 — better2
Update frequencyEvery 3 days — betterEvery 2 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFreemium
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size28 MB135 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperKamanu Composites, LLCNicole Kelner

Customer experience

Grug Notes

All ratings23 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews15 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Unplug Me

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Grug Notes

Subscriptions2
  • Grug Core$12.991 Month
  • Grug Plus$17.991 Month
3 purchases

Unplug Me

Subscriptions3
  • Landline Pro (Monthly)7 Days trial$8.991 Month
  • Unplug OS Pro (Yearly)7 Days trial$49.991 Year
  • Landline Pro (Yearly)7 Days trial$59.991 Year

Questions

Is Grug Notes free?
Grug Notes is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Unplug Me free?
Unplug Me is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Grug Notes or Unplug Me?
Grug Notes and Unplug Me are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 23 and 2 ratings respectively.
Do Grug Notes or Unplug Me have ads?
Neither Grug Notes nor Unplug Me shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Grug Notes or Unplug Me?
Grug Notes ships an update every 3 days, and Unplug Me every 2 weeks. Most recently, Grug Notes was updated on October 24, 2026 and Unplug Me on October 20, 2026.

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