Comparison

Sampledex Producer Notes vs I Saved This. Why?

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

I Saved This. Why?

This app analyzes your saved screenshots to identify the reason you saved them. It helps you turn that information into actionable items like calendar events, reminders, or saved notes. Designed for simplicity, speed, and privacy, it processes data directly on your device.

Highlights
  • Screenshot text analysis
  • Calendar event creation
  • Reminder creation
  • Map integration
  • Information saving
  • On-device processing
  • Privacy focused
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You saved the screenshot for a reason. I Saved This. Why? helps you figure out what that reason was — and what to do next. Choose a screenshot and the app analyzes the text on your device to identify what you may have wanted to remember. Depending on the screenshot, you can: • Add an event to Calendar • Create a reminder • Open a place in Apple Maps • Save useful information for later The app is designed to be simple, fast, and private. Your screenshots are selected by you and processed on your device using Apple technologies such as Vision and on-device Foundation Models when available. No account is required. No ads. No user database. No screenshot uploads to our servers. Apple Intelligence availability depends on your device, language, region, system settings, and model availability. Stop wondering why you saved that screenshot. Turn it into something useful.

Screenshots

Sampledex Producer Notes4 screens
I Saved This. Why?3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is device support: Sampledex Producer Notes at 3 against I Saved This. Why?'s 1. Sampledex Producer Notes also leads on iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.6). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

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 I Saved This. Why?. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
Sampledex Producer Notes versus I Saved This. Why?: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSampledex Producer NotesI Saved This. Why?
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Number of ratings11
Update frequency—Every 5 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac — betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.0 — better26.6
Further details — not scored
Size3 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperRobert ClemonsHiroyuki Shibata

In-app purchases

None

Sampledex Producer Notes

No in-app purchases

None

I Saved This. Why?

No in-app purchases

Questions

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

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