Comparison

Sampledex Producer Notes vs Pearlog

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

Head to head
About

Sampledex Producer Notes

This app combines a rich text notebook, task organizer, and MIDI chord tools for musicians. Capture musical ideas, plan tasks with due dates, and create chord progressions to export to music software. Notes can be enriched with details, images, and links, and exported as PDFs.

Highlights
  • Rich text notebook for session notes
  • Task organizer with due dates and status
  • MIDI chord composer and progression builder
  • Export notes and tasks as PDF
  • Local data storage, no account required
  • Supports images, links, and tables
Features
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Keep your musical ideas, session notes, and next steps together. Sampledex Producer Notes brings a rich text notebook, a task organizer, and MIDI chord tools into one native Mac workspace. Capture an idea during a session, plan the work ahead, and carry your chord progressions into your music software. WRITE WITH CONTEXT Create session logs, song ideas, artist notes, and release plans. Use headings, fonts, colors, highlights, lists, checklists, tables, web links, and images with captions. Add artist, song, and beat details so each note stays connected to the project. KEEP THE SESSION MOVING Turn follow-ups into tasks with status and due dates. Focus on what is open, due today, overdue, waiting, or complete. Search across your notes and tasks, sort your workspace, and reuse templates for recurring work. EXPLORE CHORD IDEAS Choose a root, chord type, octave, tempo, and length. See the notes on a piano keyboard, listen to chords, and arrange them into progressions. Reorder or duplicate steps, adjust their length, then export a standard MIDI file or drag it into compatible music software. SHARE A CLEAR RECORD Export an individual note or your notes and tasks as PDF. Keep formatted text, images, captions, tables, and clickable web links together in a document you can share or archive. WORK LOCALLY Your notes, tasks, images, and settings are stored on your Phone. No in-app account is required. You choose when to export files or open external web links. Built for iPhone and iPad. Requires iOS 17 or iPadOS 17 or later.

About

Pearlog

Features
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BUILD HABITS YOUR WAY - Check in to log the day, add an entry afterward, or run a timer. - A missed day is repairable. - Paste text and Pearlog turns it into projects, activities, and tags. - Your secondhalf works with you. Secondhalf is available where Apple Intelligence is enabled. ORGANIZE WITH PROJECTS AND TAGS - Group your activities into projects, then tag them. - Check-ins and time counted per project, by week or by date range. - Give a project a deadline and get reminded before it. COST TRACKING Give a project an hourly rate, a per-activity rate, or both. MAGIC WORDS Type a short word and Pearlog expands it into a full description. SIRI Log a check-in, start a timer, or add a project. ICLOUD SYNC AND EXPORT Habits and activities stay in sync over iCloud. Access them on Mac, iPhone, and iPad.

Screenshots

Sampledex Producer Notes4 screens
Pearlog4 screens

Verdict

The call

Sampledex Producer Notes and Pearlog are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Sampledex Producer Notes versus Pearlog: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSampledex Producer NotesPearlog
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequency—Weekly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, MaciPhone, iPad, Mac
Requires iOS17.0 — better17.6
Further details — not scored
Size3 MB4 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperRobert ClemonsBraveyo LLC

In-app purchases

None

Sampledex Producer Notes

No in-app purchases

None

Pearlog

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Sampledex Producer Notes free?
Sampledex Producer Notes is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Pearlog free?
Pearlog is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Sampledex Producer Notes or Pearlog have ads?
Neither Sampledex Producer Notes nor Pearlog shows ads.

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