Comparison

SteelNote vs TRANSFERIT

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

Head to head
About

SteelNote

This app stores your notes as plain Markdown files on your device, ensuring you always own your data. It offers seamless syncing across Apple devices, instant search, and robust import options from other note-taking applications.

Highlights
  • Plain Markdown file storage
  • iCloud sync across Apple devices
  • Local full-text search
  • Import from multiple note apps
  • Link notes and see backlinks
  • Organize with folders and tags
  • Mark notes as private
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SteelNote is a notes app built on one promise: your notes are plain Markdown files that you own. Every note is a real .md file on your device, openable in the Files app or in any editor you like, today and years from now. No proprietary database. Nothing locked away. Your notes, truly yours. Because every note is plain text, you are never trapped. Read and edit them in SteelNote, in Files, or in any other Markdown app. If you ever move on, you take your files with you as they are, in an open format that lasts. Native on all your Apple devices. SteelNote is built natively for iPhone, iPad and Mac. Your notes sync across all of them through iCloud, with no third party account and no extra sign in. Start a note on your phone and finish it on your Mac. Find anything, instantly. A local full text index makes search immediate, even in large libraries. Link notes together, see backlinks, organize with folders and tags, and turn any line into a task. Private when you want it. Mark a note as private and it stays out of widgets and AI features. Your most sensitive notes remain yours alone. Bring everything with you. Import from Bear, Notion, Obsidian and Evernote, or from Markdown, TextBundle, Word, RTF, PDF and CSV files. Your folders and structure come along. Apple Notes works too, one note at a time, because Apple offers no bulk export. Everything you expect. Add images, PDFs and tables inline. Use checklists, footnotes and links. Reach your notes from Spotlight, Siri and widgets, and hand off between devices. An open format, now standard. Markdown is a first class type across Apple platforms, and SteelNote is built natively around it. Your files are open, portable and yours. Membership. SteelNote comes with a 14 day free trial, then a yearly plan or a one time lifetime purchase. You can cancel during the trial and pay nothing, or skip the subscription and choose the lifetime purchase instead. Sync is always included and never restricted. Payment is charged to your Apple Account. A yearly plan renews automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the period. You can manage or cancel anytime in your Account settings. Privacy Policy: https://steelnoteapp.com/privacy.html Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

TRANSFERIT

Easily share large files, documents, and media without size limits. Recipients can preview and download files via a simple link, no app required. Secure transfers with expiration dates, passwords, and download limits are supported.

Highlights
  • Send large files up to email limits
  • Links with customizable expiration
  • Password protection for transfers
  • Download limits and tracking
  • Sign PDFs and collect signatures
  • Request files from others
  • Connect to cloud storage
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Send large files to anyone, with a link that expires when you say. TransferIt is a file transfer and file sharing app for sending big files that email will not take. Pick your files, add an email address or just take the link, and send. Whoever you send to opens the link in a browser and chooses what to take — no app, no account, nothing to sign up for. FULL ORIGINAL QUALITY Files are stored and served as the exact bytes you uploaded. Photos, videos and documents are never re-encoded, resized or compressed. A photo arrives as the photo you took. SEND ANYTHING Photos, videos, audio, documents, folders and zip archives. Large video files, RAW photos, design files — if you can pick it, you can send it. LINKS THAT EXPIRE You choose how long a transfer lasts. When the time is up the link stops working and the files are deleted. End one early whenever you want, and get a warning before anything expires. PASSWORD PROTECTION AND DOWNLOAD LIMITS Lock a transfer with a password so only the right person gets in. Cap how many times it can be downloaded, and see who opened what. PREVIEW BEFORE DOWNLOADING Whoever receives a transfer can look at a file before saving it, then download one, a few, or all at once. EVERYONE ADDS TO ONE ROLL Start a roll, share one link, and everybody puts their own pictures in — the wedding, the trip, the match. Nobody needs the app or an account to add to it, and every picture stays the size it was taken. ASK FOR FILES INSTEAD OF CHASING THEM Make a request link and send it to anyone. They drop their files in from a browser, with no app and no account, and everything they send lands under Received. You choose how long the link stays open and how long what arrives is kept. ONE ADDRESS THAT NEVER CHANGES A fixed link points at whichever transfer you say. Give it out once — on a website, in an email signature, on a card — and point it at something new whenever you like. Everyone who has it always gets the latest version. SEND DOCUMENTS FOR SIGNATURE Upload a PDF, say who signs it, and mark where: signature, initials, date, name, address, phone, tick boxes and more. Up to five people per document, each with their own private link, in any order or one after another. Mark a box as required and nobody can skip it. Save your own signature and business logo once and they go on automatically. When the last person signs, everyone gets the finished document with a certificate of who signed and when. SEND LATER Choose now, tomorrow morning, or an exact time, and the transfer goes out on its own. ASK THEM TO APPROVE Send work over for approval and get a straight yes, a request for changes, or a thumbs up or down on each file. They can also point: tap the picture where they mean and the note stays at that spot, or pause the video and the note carries the moment. SAVE TO YOUR OWN CLOUD Connect Google Drive or Dropbox and anything that arrives is copied into a folder of yours automatically. CHARGE FOR A TRANSFER Put a price on a transfer and whoever opens the link pays by card before the files unlock. The money goes to your own Stripe account. KEEP EVERY CLIENT TOGETHER Everything you have sent a person and everything they have sent you, on one page. SENT AND RECEIVED Two plain lists of what you have shared and what has come to you, with the time left on every one. Notifications tell you when a transfer is opened or a document is signed. PLANS Free to start, and sending documents for signature is on every plan. Paid plans raise the size of a transfer, how much storage you keep and how long links last: Plus adds fixed links, scheduled sends and cloud saves; Pro adds file requests, approvals and paid downloads; Studio adds a page per client, watermarked previews and your own branding. Subscriptions are billed by Apple and can be cancelled any time. Support: https://transferitapp.com/support Privacy: https://transferitapp.com/privacy Terms of Use: https://transferitapp.com/terms

Screenshots

SteelNote4 screens
TRANSFERIT4 screens

Verdict

The call

SteelNote and TRANSFERIT are too close to call on the numbers: across 8 compared parameters — price, review sentiment, update cadence and ads among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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. SteelNote sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $24.99 per year and TRANSFERIT sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

SteelNote ships an update every 4 days, TRANSFERIT every 2 days. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
SteelNote versus TRANSFERIT: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSteelNoteTRANSFERIT
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—1 — better
Update frequencyEvery 4 daysEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, MaciPhone, iPad, Mac
Requires iOS17.616.4 — better
Further details — not scored
Size17 MB43 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperClaude BezeaudTHOMAS JUNIOR MODESTE

Customer experience

SteelNote

Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

TRANSFERIT

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

3 purchases

SteelNote

Subscriptions1
  • Annual14 Days trial$24.991 Year
One-time2
  • Founder$44.99
  • Lifetime$79.99
3 purchases

TRANSFERIT

Subscriptions3
  • Plus$6.991 Month
  • Pro$14.991 Month
  • Studio$39.991 Month

Questions

Is SteelNote free?
SteelNote is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is TRANSFERIT free?
TRANSFERIT is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do SteelNote or TRANSFERIT have ads?
Neither SteelNote nor TRANSFERIT shows ads.
Which is updated more often, SteelNote or TRANSFERIT?
SteelNote ships an update every 4 days, and TRANSFERIT every 2 days. Most recently, SteelNote was updated on October 24, 2026 and TRANSFERIT on October 24, 2026.

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