Sampledex Producer Notes vs Jeejee
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
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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.
Jeejee
This app combines Markdown, LaTeX, and handwriting for versatile note-taking and document editing. It supports structured notes, mathematical typesetting, and PDF annotation with Apple Pencil. Documents are stored locally or in the cloud, with compatibility across various formats.
- Markdown editor with live preview
- LaTeX typesetting for math and reports
- Handwriting with Apple Pencil
- PDF annotation
- Local and cloud file storage
- Export to PDF, Markdown, and images
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Jeejee is a note-taking and document editor that combines Markdown, LaTeX and handwriting in a single app: Markdown for structured notes, LaTeX for mathematical typesetting and formal reports, and handwriting with Apple Pencil, including annotation directly on lecture PDFs. Documents are stored in the location the user selects. Markdown, LaTeX, HTML, CSV, plain text and PDF remain compatible with other tools that support these formats; handwritten notes are saved as editable .jeejee files. Designed for students, researchers and professionals in science and engineering: class notes, lab reports, theses, derivations and exam preparation. Markdown • Side-by-side editor and preview, synchronized while typing and scrolling • Headings, lists, to-do items, tables, code, quotes and images • Inline and display math • Syntax coloring for code blocks, with optional line wrapping • Function plots that mark zeros, extrema and intersections • Mind maps built from indented lists, viewable in full screen • Heading outline in View mode for long documents • Format bar with common formatting and templates for code, plots and mind maps • Export to PDF or Markdown LaTeX • Built-in typesetting engine that compiles to PDF in the app, offline, with no separate TeX installation • XeLaTeX typesetting with full support for Chinese and Unicode • Automatic recompilation, with error lines clearly indicated • Source and PDF side by side • Export to PDF or LaTeX source Handwriting • Apple Pencil on iPad: pen, pencil, highlighter, eraser, lasso and shape recognition • Three colors and three stroke widths in the toolbar • Blank, ruled, grid and dotted paper in white or black, with multipage notes and page thumbnails • Strokes that continue across page boundaries • Text boxes, images with cropping, and function graphs • Copy, cut and paste for text, images and strokes; up to 100 undo steps • Annotation copies of PDFs, leaving the original unchanged • On iPad, the toolbar can move into the title bar for more writing space • Export as .jeejee files, PDF or page images; save page images to Photos on iPhone and iPad Files • Markdown, LaTeX, HTML, CSV, plain text and handwritten notes; HTML with live preview, CSS and JavaScript • Code files such as .js, .css, .py and .json with syntax coloring • Local, iCloud and System Folder storage, including external folders supported by the system and file providers • List, card and icon views; icons display document content • A preview pane on iPad and Mac shows document content and file details • Select multiple files to share, copy or delete; drag files to Recently Deleted to delete them • Recents, Favorites, drag and drop, and Recently Deleted • Configurable file types for the New menu Designed for iPhone, iPad and Mac • Resizable, docked sidebar on iPad, with a full-screen editor for open documents • Multiple windows, a native sidebar and keyboard shortcuts on Mac • Seven editor themes with Dark Mode • Built-in illustrated user guide Pricing Jeejee is free, with no advertising and no account required. Optional tips in Settings > Support Jeejee do not unlock features and support ongoing development. Privacy • Jeejee does not track users. • Document contents and file names stay in the selected storage location and are not sent to the developer. • Crash reports and usage statistics are collected to improve the app. They exclude document contents and file names, and are not linked to the user's identity. • Tips are processed by Apple; Jeejee does not receive payment information.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Sampledex Producer Notes at none against Jeejee's 6. On price, rating, 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
Both are free to download. Jeejee sells 6 one-off in-app purchases. Sampledex Producer Notes asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Sampledex Producer Notes against 5.0 for Jeejee. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.
| Parameter | Sampledex Producer Notes | Jeejee |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 1 |
| Update frequency | — | Every 3 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac | iPhone, iPad, Mac |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 3 MB | 93 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Robert Clemons | Youci Huang |
In-app purchases
Sampledex Producer Notes
No in-app purchases
Jeejee
- Small Tip$0.29
- Sticker pack (tier NT$30)$0.99
- Sticker pack (tier NT$60)$1.99
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- Medium Tip$2.99
- Sticker pack (tier NT$90)$2.99
- Large Tip$11.99








