BarcodeNote vs Where Is It
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side โ with what reviewers say about each.
BarcodeNote
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BarcodeNote is a simple barcode search app that lets you quickly scan barcodes, save scan records, and manage them with notes. You can scan product barcodes, item codes, inventory codes, or any codes you need to check frequently, then save them as records and look them up again whenever needed. Scanned barcodes are organized by date, and you can add notes to each record, making the app useful not only as a barcode scanner but also as your personal barcode management notebook. By registering the search sites you use often, you can quickly search scanned barcodes on Google, Amazon, or any other site you prefer. With the link settings feature, you can add and manage your own search URLs, making it easier to check product details, compare prices, or look up information.
Where Is It
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Find anything in your home โ a photo-first inventory organized by room. **THE PROBLEM** Where did you put the spare charger? The good scissors? That box of holiday lights? Every household has hundreds of small things, and remembering where each one lives is the kind of friction that nobody ever solves โ until you're tearing apart drawers. **WHY YOUR NOTES APP ISN'T ENOUGH** Drop household items into the same notes app where work ideas, shopping lists, and meeting prep already live, and they get buried โ filtering them out becomes its own search problem. Notes apps are built around text too, not photos, but you remember what a thing looks like, not what it's called. **THE SOLUTION** Where Is It uses your camera as the front door. Open a room, point at an object, snap. The app organizes every photo by the room it lives in โ Living Room, Kitchen, Bedroom, Garage โ so "where did I put it" is one tap, one scroll. Share a household with your partner over iCloud, in real time. Photo-first. Private by default. No ads, no tracking.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Where Is It at none against BarcodeNote's shown. BarcodeNote's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs every 6 weeks) and iOS requirement (15.6 vs 18.1). On price, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
BarcodeNote ships an update weekly, Where Is It every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 28, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | BarcodeNote | Where Is It |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Weekly โ better | Every 6 weeks |
| Ads | Yes | No โ better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 โ better | 18.1 |
| Further details โ not scored | ||
| Size | 29 MB | 25 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | ezCodeLab | Seung-Un Ham |
In-app purchases
BarcodeNote
No in-app purchases
Where Is It
No in-app purchases









