Comparison

Note vs Stacks

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

Head to head
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.

About

Stacks

Features
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Everything you save online ends up scattered — a restaurant buried in your Instagram saves, a recipe in a TikTok favourite, a hotel in a Safari tab you'll never find again. Stacks brings all of it into one place and organizes it for you. Share a link to Stacks from any app and it reads the page, works out what it is, and files it away: the restaurant into Food, the hotel into Travel, the outfit into Fashion — with a title, a summary, tags and a cover image, ready to find months later. SAVE FROM ANYWHERE • Share from Instagram, TikTok, Pinterest, Reddit, YouTube, X, Facebook or Safari — anything with a share sheet • Or paste a link straight into the app • Shared links are imported and organized in the background, before you next open the app ORGANIZED FOR YOU • Every save is categorized automatically — Food, Travel, Fashion, Fitness, Shopping, Learning and more • Tags, topics, summaries, places, brands and recipes pulled out of the page for you • Smart collections group related saves into a trip, a reservation, a concert, a birthday • Or build your own collections by hand FIND IT BY MEANING • Search understands what you meant, not just the words you typed • "Sushi in Tokyo" or "black outfit" surfaces the right save, even when those exact words aren't in it • Filter by category, platform, tag or collection MORE THAN A BOOKMARK • Map — every saved place on one map, exactly what you want before a trip • Calendar — put a save on a date and get a reminder when it matters • Notes and checklists on any save, for packing, shopping and planning • Favourites and an archive to keep the list clean PRIVATE BY DESIGN • No account. Nothing to sign up for • On iPhones with Apple Intelligence, saves are analyzed by Apple's on-device model; on every other iPhone an on-device fallback does the same job • Search runs on-device too — no query ever leaves your iPhone • No analytics, no ads, no tracking, no third-party SDKs, and no servers of ours for anything to be sent to Free, with no subscription and no in-app purchases.

Screenshots

Note4 screens
Stacks4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Stacks at none against Note's 1. On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. Note sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Stacks asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Note versus Stacks: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterNoteStacks
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 days—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS26.026.0
Further details — not scored
Size12 MB7 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJames RocheGerard Rodriguez

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Note

One-time1
  • Note-Due Pro$9.99
None

Stacks

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Note free?
Note is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Stacks free?
Stacks is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Note or Stacks have ads?
Neither Note nor Stacks shows ads.

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