Comparison

LuDo vs Note

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

Head to head
About

LuDo

Plan your week with a clear, seven-day view. Add tasks, drag and drop them between days, and easily reschedule unfinished items. This app offers a private, device-based experience with optional iCloud sync.

Highlights
  • Seven-day weekly view
  • Drag-and-drop task management
  • Inbox for unscheduled tasks
  • Automatic weekly reset
  • Task archiving and rescheduling
  • Multiple contexts (Personal, Work)
  • Widgets for quick access
Features
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LuDo is the best way to plan the week you're in. Open it and your whole week is right there — seven days, stacked on one screen. Tap a day, add what you need to do, and get on with it. No setup. No accounts. No learning curve. Just your current week, at a glance. HOW IT WORKS Seven days, always visible, plus an inbox at the top for anything you haven't slotted into a day yet. Tap to complete. Swipe to edit or delete. Drag tasks between days — or back to the inbox — however your week shifts. A hand-drawn scribble crosses things off, like a paper notebook. AN HONEST WEEK At the end of every week, LuDo resets cleanly. Completed tasks are quietly archived. Unfinished ones don't vanish or turn red with guilt — they flow to the top of next week's inbox, ready to reschedule or let go. Nothing is ever silently lost. You decide what carries over. Own your week — the done and the undone. BUILT FOR A GLANCE The whole point: see your week in one look and know where you stand. No digging through menus, no notifications you didn't ask for, no dashboards to maintain. Designed to be opened, read, and closed — then actually used. PLAN NEXT WEEK, ON SUNDAY From Sunday, the Sunday card opens next week's board: your pending tasks are already there, ready to place onto the days they belong to. Add what's coming, come back to it all Sunday — Monday arrives already sorted. You can also add a task without opening the app: Siri, Spotlight, the Action Button or the widget. MORE, ONLY WHEN YOU NEED IT Keep Personal, Work and more as separate contexts — the same week, seen from different sides. Swipe the WEEK band to switch; each context keeps its own color and its own honest spillover. Set tasks to repeat every week for the things that always come back. Give a task a reminder — its day, an hour, done. Open a task to keep notes and checklists behind its title. On iPad, the week spreads into columns, with your contexts side by side. And glance at your week without opening the app, with Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets — free for everyone. A WEEK FOR TWO Share one context with one other person — a partner, a flatmate, a teammate. You both see and edit the same tasks, each from your own iCloud account; nothing to set up beyond an invitation link, and ending the share leaves each of you a complete copy. It runs on Apple's iCloud, never on servers of ours — there are none. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Your tasks live on your devices. No accounts. No external servers. No analytics or tracking of any kind. Your data is yours. SYNCED ACROSS YOUR DEVICES Your tasks, contexts and settings sync privately between your iPhone and iPad through iCloud — Apple's own infrastructure, never our servers. Sign in to iCloud and it's on. Prefer to stay on one device? A single switch in Settings turns sync off and keeps everything already there. Free for everyone. FREE TO TRY — YOURS WITH ONE PAYMENT Download LuDo for free and plan your week: the seven days, the honest spillover, the color themes and the widgets are all free. The free version keeps up to three tasks per day — enough for a real week. One simple payment (never a subscription) unlocks unlimited tasks, contexts, weekly repeating tasks, reminders and shared contexts — forever, including every future update. We will never add subscriptions, and we will never charge for the core of what the app is. Follow us on Instagram: @ludoweekly

About

Note

Organize your thoughts and to-dos in one app. Create rich notes with embedded media and tasks, set reminders, and manage projects with flexible layouts. Offers advanced features like AI assistance and privacy controls.

Highlights
  • Rich text editing with media embedding
  • Tasks with due dates and reminders
  • Folders, tags, and smart filters
  • Multiple view layouts (list, agenda, calendar, Kanban)
  • Focus mode for distraction-free work
  • Privacy Vault and note locking
  • AI-powered summarization and task extraction
Features
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Note-Due brings your notes and tasks together. Write a note, add tasks inside it, set due dates, and get reminded — all without switching apps. NOTES THAT DO MORE Rich text with bold, italic, highlights, checklists, and code blocks. Attach photos, scan documents, record voice memos, and embed video. Draw with Apple Pencil or your finger — handwriting can be recognised and converted to typed text. While you write or scroll, toolbars slide away so your words get the whole screen. TASKS BUILT INTO YOUR NOTES Create tasks inside any note, or add standalone tasks. Set due dates, priorities, and reminders. Quick Add understands natural language — type "call James tomorrow at 9am high priority" and Note-Due does the rest. Block tasks behind other tasks to map real dependencies. POWERFUL ORGANISATION Folders, subfolders, tags, and smart filters keep everything findable. Switch between Today, Upcoming, Overdue, All, and Inbox, and between list, agenda, calendar, and kanban layouts. Snooze tasks, pin notes, and search everything instantly. The Trash keeps deleted items until you're sure. INBOX AND FOCUS MODE Capture first, schedule later: tasks without a date land in your Inbox. When it's time to work, Focus Mode shows only today's tasks in a distraction-free view. SIRI, SHORTCUTS & SPOTLIGHT Add tasks, check what's overdue, or complete something with your voice or the Shortcuts app. Find notes and tasks from Spotlight search. BUILT FOR EVERY SCREEN Designed for iPhone, iPad, and iPhone Duo. On iPad, see your notes list beside the open note, or open any note in its own window with Stage Manager. PRIVATE BY DEFAULT Your data lives on your device. No accounts, no servers, no tracking. Optional iCloud sync keeps your Apple devices up to date using your personal iCloud — we never see it. ——— UNLOCK NOTE-DUE PRO — $9.99 ONCE, NO SUBSCRIPTION Apple Intelligence Extract tasks from a note, summarise long notes, and rewrite selected text in any style — all on-device. Your previous version is saved before every AI rewrite. Privacy Vault & Note Locking Hide folders behind Face ID in the Vault, lock individual notes, or require Face ID every time you open the app. Version History Every note is versioned automatically. Browse and restore any earlier draft. Power Tasks Recurring tasks (daily, weekdays, weekly, monthly, yearly), subtasks, dependencies, and Apple Calendar sync. Advanced Notifications Morning daily digest, second reminders, quiet hours, custom lead times, lock-screen snooze, and custom sounds. Export & Import Export notes as PDF or HTML, or your whole library as a Markdown ZIP. Import Markdown and text notes from Bear, Obsidian, or Apple Notes, and tasks from Apple Reminders. Projects & Time Tracking Group notes and tasks into projects with live progress and due dates. Add time estimates to tasks and track real time with a built-in timer. PDF Annotation & Tables Draw on PDF attachments with Apple Pencil, saved per page. Insert editable grid tables into any note. Smart Scheduling Smart Schedule checks your task load and suggests the least-busy day and time. Kanban Board Manage tasks across To Do, In Progress, and Done, and drag cards between columns.

Screenshots

LuDo4 screens
Note4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: LuDo at 5.0 against Note's 4.0. Note's advantage is update cadence (every 2 days vs every 4 days). On price, review sentiment, ratings volume 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. LuDo sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Note sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

LuDo holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

LuDo ships an update every 4 days, Note every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on September 23, 2026 and October 14, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
LuDo versus Note: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLuDoNote
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better4.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings11
Update frequencyEvery 4 daysEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS26.026.0
Further details — not scored
Size12 MB12 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAlejandro Alvarez WilmanskiJames Roche

Customer experience

LuDo

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

Note

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

LuDo

One-time1
  • Unlock Everything$3.99
1 purchases

Note

One-time1
  • Note-Due Pro$9.99

Questions

Is LuDo free?
LuDo is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Note free?
Note is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, LuDo or Note?
LuDo is rated higher. LuDo averages 5.0 out of 5 from 1 ratings, while Note averages 4.0 from 1 ratings.
Do LuDo or Note have ads?
Neither LuDo nor Note shows ads.
Which is updated more often, LuDo or Note?
LuDo ships an update every 4 days, and Note every 2 days. Most recently, LuDo was updated on September 23, 2026 and Note on October 14, 2026.

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