My Notes & Cards vs Notes Index
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
My Notes & Cards
Organize your thoughts into structured sections with self-contained cards. Add photos, sketches, and locations to your notes. Enjoy a private, local experience without AI or cloud syncing.
- Organize thoughts into sections and cards
- Add photos and sketches to cards
- Attach locations to cards
- Universal keyword search
- Drag-and-drop reordering
- Local privacy, no cloud sync
- Native iOS experience
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My Notes & Cards is a notes app for people overwhelmed by other notes apps. The values behind the app is simplicity and structure. The user organizes thoughts into sections, each containing bounded "cards" — discrete, self-contained notes. Section tabs at the top, swipeable cards inside. Intended audience: anyone who has tried other app notes and found the lack of structure overwhelming. The app is intentionally not AI-powered, not cloud-synced, and locally private. Features: 1. Photo on a card (resizable, tap to fullscreen). 2. Doodle on a card (finger or Apple Pencil). 3. Attach a location to a card. 4. Universal keyword search across all sections. 6. Drag to reorder for sections and cards. 7. Native iOS, no web wrapper. 8. Sections you create yourself. 9. Cards inside each section, swipe-able. https://www.myworkingmemory.ai/notecards-terms.html https://www.myworkingmemory.ai/notecards-privacy.html
Notes Index
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Notes Index turns your handwritten notes into a library you can search. Scan a notebook page or loose sheet with the built-in document scanner, or bring in a photo you already took. Notes Index cleans up the page, recognizes your handwriting on the device, and files it by date. FIND ANY PAGE Search for a word you wrote and Notes Index highlights exactly where it appears on the page. BROWSE LIKE PAPER Pinch through your library from a full-width page down to a dense grid. On iPad, open two pages side by side, like an open notebook. MARK IT UP Write on your pages with Apple Pencil or your finger, and recrop a page any time. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account and no ads. Text recognition happens on your device. Turn on iCloud sync to keep your library on all your devices, stored in your own iCloud account. Export your images and text whenever you like.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Notes Index at none against My Notes & Cards's 2. Notes Index also leads on update cadence (weekly vs every 3 weeks). My Notes & Cards's advantage is device support (4 vs 2) and iOS requirement (17.6 vs 26.0). On price and ads 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. My Notes & Cards sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.29 per month. Notes Index asks for nothing beyond the download.
My Notes & Cards ships an update every 3 weeks, Notes Index weekly. Both last shipped on October 2, 2026.
| Parameter | My Notes & Cards | Notes Index |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Vision Pro — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 6 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Myworkingmemory LLC | nedrelow, LLC |
In-app purchases
My Notes & Cards
- My Notes & Cards Monthly$1.291 Month
- Pricing$6.001 Year
Notes Index
No in-app purchases









