Comparison

Sampledex Producer Notes vs Stellata

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

Stellata

This app helps you save and organize visual content from any source, automatically grouping similar items. Explore your saved items in various visual formats like grids, boards, or even a 3D galaxy. Collaborate with friends by sharing links directly between devices.

Highlights
  • Automatic visual grouping of saves
  • Multiple visual display modes (Grid, Board, Wall, Galaxy, Sphere, Earth, Timeline, Projects)
  • Direct device-to-device sharing
  • Import from Instagram, Pinterest, Are.na, Obsidian
  • Visual and text-based search
  • Collaborative moodboards for projects
Features
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Some things stay with you. The image you stop for. The idea you come back to. Stellata is where they go. Tap Share in any app — Instagram, TikTok, X, YouTube, Pinterest, a blog, anything — and the picture, the words and the video come across with the link. Screenshots, photos, videos and PDFs come in too, no link needed. Then it starts to sort itself. ALIKE SAVES DRIFT TOGETHER Every link is read on your phone: its words, and what its picture shows. Nothing is sent anywhere. Tags appear on their own, and saves that belong together drift into groups in the galaxy, so even from far off you can see what your saving is really about. The same links gather into themes you can filter by — branding, motion, space, whatever you turn out to be into. EIGHT WAYS TO LOOK Grid — everything you saved, at a glance, image first. Board — your saves spread over one plane, like a wall. Wall — your pictures in columns that go on forever, whichever way you go. Galaxy — your library as a world in space, alike saves floating together in groups. Tap a link and a light travels out through everything it connects to, by picture, by meaning, by tag, through its own group and across to the others. Sort it by color, by time, by site or by style, or place words of your own, and the links they're about gather around them. Sphere — step inside the galaxy, your saves all around you, above and below. Drag to look around. Earth — your saves light up where in the world they are, on a globe or on a map. Timeline — every save on one line, newest first, opening out as you scroll back through the days. Projects — a space for a trip, a piece of work, or whatever you're into this week, each with a moodboard to lay out by hand: move, pinch and twist the pictures, then draw, write and join them with arrows. Send one out as a lookbook, a PDF of every save. Hold a finger still and draw a loop in the galaxy or on a board, and everything inside is picked, ready to move, share or delete together. SIT DOWN WITH A FRIEND Put two phones side by side and the ties between your saves and theirs run from one screen to the other. See where your tastes meet, throw a link across, and leave with a little of theirs. The phones talk to each other directly — nothing goes through a server, and only what you choose to bring ever leaves your phone. BRING WHAT YOU ALREADY SAVED Your Instagram saves come across, and your Pinterest boards, Are.na channels and Obsidian vault too, so you start with your real collection instead of an empty page. FIND YOUR WAY BACK Type or say what you're looking for, or tap + to pick a color, a style or a photo, and the saves that fit fly in close. Or describe what a picture shows, like “cracked ice,” and Search finds it, even when no title or tag says so. It reads the words in your pictures too, so a screenshot turns up by what it says. Point the camera at a poster or a wall to see the saves that look most like it. Filter by site, by type, by color. SCAN WHAT YOU SAVED Smart Scan reads a save for what it holds: a recipe to cook from, its timers ringing even on a locked phone, a workout's sets, a trip's places on a map, an event's date, a product's specs, an app's type and colors. Play a video, and Stellata names its song. ON YOUR MAC TOO Stellata is on the Mac as well, your library kept in step by iCloud, and Stellata Unlimited comes along. IT STAYS YOURS Everything syncs through your own iCloud, and previews are kept on the phone, so your library is there with no signal. Share a project and a few people can save into it together, on one moodboard. No account to make, no feed, no one else's algorithm. STELLATA UNLIMITED The free plan holds 30 links. Unlimited holds any number, as a monthly subscription or a one-time purchase. If Unlimited ends, nothing is deleted: your newest 30 stay open and the rest wait for you. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://stellata.app/privacy.html

Screenshots

Sampledex Producer Notes4 screens
Stellata4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Sampledex Producer Notes at none against Stellata's 2. Stellata's advantage is ratings volume (7 vs 1). On price, rating, ads 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Stellata sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Sampledex Producer Notes asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Sampledex Producer Notes against 5.0 for Stellata. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Stellata has 7 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Sampledex Producer Notes versus Stellata: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSampledex Producer NotesStellata
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (7 ratings)
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings17 — better
Update frequency—Every 3 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad, MaciPhone, iPad, Mac
Requires iOS17.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size3 MB25 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperRobert ClemonsAbdullah Alkhatib

In-app purchases

None

Sampledex Producer Notes

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Stellata

Subscriptions1
  • Stellata Unlimited$1.991 Month
One-time1
  • Stellata Unlimited Lifetime$14.99

Questions

Is Sampledex Producer Notes free?
Sampledex Producer Notes is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Stellata free?
Stellata is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Sampledex Producer Notes or Stellata?
Sampledex Producer Notes and Stellata are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 7 ratings respectively.
Do Sampledex Producer Notes or Stellata have ads?
Neither Sampledex Producer Notes nor Stellata shows ads.

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