Sigma Notepad Calculator vs Orbit
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Sigma Notepad Calculator
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Write your bills, a trip or a dinner to split as a note. Every line shows its result as you type. Your monthly bills, the way you think about them: "rent: 1200", "food: 380", "transport: 95", then "rent + food + transport" shows 1675. Change the rent and every line that uses it updates. No equals sign, no formulas, no grid. Splitting dinner? Write "dinner: 240", "tip: 15% of dinner", then "(dinner + tip) / 4" for each share. Planning a trip? "hotel: $85 times 3", "flights: $420", then "hotel + flights". Free with three sheets and the full calculator. No ads, no time limit. Sigma Pro unlocks unlimited sheets, export, iCloud sync, and five more themes, billed yearly, monthly, or once for life. New subscribers get a 7-day free trial on the yearly plan. Highlights: - Money notes. Bills, trips, shared costs and quick estimates, written as plain lines with a result beside each one. - Named values. Name a number once and use it on any line below. Change it and every line that uses it updates. - Natural language arithmetic. Operators read like English: times, plus, of. Percentages, averages, units, and dates work the way you write them. - Currency. Live rates with offline cache. When rates are out of date, a dot appears on the line; tap it to see when they were fetched. - Themes. Six themes including a high-contrast option. The default follows your system light and dark; five more unlock with Sigma Pro. - Sheets. Up to three sheets on the free tier. Sigma Pro unlocks unlimited sheets, export to PDF, Markdown, and plain text, plus iCloud sync across your devices. - Private by default. Sheets stay on your device. iCloud sync uses your private database, never our servers. - Designed for iOS first. Reads French and English natively. No web app, no ads, no surprise pop-ups. - For the technical side: hex, square roots, and trigonometry are there too. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://getsigma.app/privacy
Orbit
Capture and organize your thoughts, ideas, and moments effortlessly. This AI-powered tool creates a calm timeline of your life, offering daily recaps and the ability to search your memories. It integrates with Apple services for seamless capture and organization.
- Capture text, voice, photos, links, and locations
- AI-powered organization and summarization
- Daily recap of your day
- Searchable memory recall
- Task suggestion from memories
- Reading list and habit tracking
- Beautiful shareable memory cards
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Orbit is a second brain for the things you don't want to forget — moments, ideas, voice notes, photos, the link you saved at 2am. Everything lives in one calm timeline that AI quietly organizes for you. No tagging. No folder hierarchy. No notification fatigue. Just capture, and let Orbit find the meaning later. — WHAT YOU GET — • Capture anything in seconds — text, voice memos, photos, links, screenshots, even a place. Apple Intelligence handles the rest: titles, tags, summaries, categorization. • Daily Recap — a one-paragraph reflection of your day, generated each evening from the moments worth revisiting. • Ask Orbit — chat with your own memories. Ask "what did Pamela say last weekend?" or "what was the restaurant in Roatan?" Orbit answers from your captures, never from the cloud. • On This Day, Year in Review, Time Capsules — Orbit surfaces your past at the right moment. • Tasks that find themselves — write "I should call mom tomorrow" anywhere in a memory and Orbit suggests it as a task. Promote what you mean. Ignore what you don't. • Reading list & habit tracking — captures like "I want to read…" or "ran 5k" land in their own surfaces, quietly tracked over time. • Beautiful share cards — turn a memory, a Daily Recap, or a Year in Review into an editorial-quality image, ready for Stories, iMessage, or just keeping. • Privacy by design — On-device AI via Apple Intelligence. Voice transcribed locally. Sleep + steps stay on your phone. iCloud sync runs end-to-end. Nothing is sold. Nothing is shared. — DESIGNED FOR APPLE — Lock Screen camera capture · Apple Watch voice notes · Siri Shortcuts · Spotlight search · Home Screen widgets · Safari extension · Share extension · iOS Reminders & Calendar sync · HealthKit sleep + steps in your Daily Recap — PRO — A monthly or annual subscription unlocks unlimited captures and the full AI surfaces. Cancel anytime from Settings → Subscription. — WHY WE BUILT IT — Journaling apps ask too much. Note apps forget everything. The things we want to remember keep slipping away. Orbit is what we wished existed — a calm, native, private place where life can quietly accumulate, and an AI that helps you find what matters without taking over the experience. Welcome to Orbit. — Terms of Use (EULA): https://orbitbrain2.netlify.app/terms Privacy Policy: https://orbitbrain2.netlify.app/privacy By downloading Orbit, you agree to the Terms of Use linked above. Subscriptions auto-renew unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period — manage or cancel anytime from iOS Settings → Apple ID → Subscriptions.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Orbit at every 3 days against Sigma Notepad Calculator's every 4 weeks. Sigma Notepad Calculator's advantage is iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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. Sigma Notepad Calculator sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month and Orbit sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Sigma Notepad Calculator ships an update every 4 weeks, Orbit every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 8, 2026 and October 18, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Sigma Notepad Calculator | Orbit |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 4.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Number of ratings | — | 1 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 weeks | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | — | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 15 MB | 19 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Soules Studio Ltd | Joshua Caleb Green |
In-app purchases
Sigma Notepad Calculator
- Monthly$1.991 Month
- Annual7 Days trial$14.991 Year
- Lifetime$29.99
Orbit
- Orbit Pro$2.991 Month
- Orbit Pro7 Days trial$29.991 Year
- Orbit Pro Lifetime$79.99









