ProjectBoard vs Subnotes
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side โ with what reviewers say about each.
ProjectBoard
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ProjectBoard โ projects, tasks, notes, and files in one place. Everything a project needs lives together: the tasks, the notes, the files, and the conversation. No more scattering one project across four apps. PLAN YOUR DAY, NOT JUST YOUR LIST Drag a task onto the calendar to block time for it. Let Plan My Day pack your tasks into the gaps you actually have free โ it reads your real calendar, so it schedules around meetings instead of pretending they don't exist. Start a focus session and work a block at a time. TASKS THAT MATCH HOW YOU THINK Subtasks for the steps. #tags across projects. Saved smart lists for the views you return to. An Inbox that catches anything you haven't sorted yet. WRITES THE BORING PARTS FOR YOU โ ON DEVICE Smart Fill turns a sentence into a task with the right date, project, and priority. Your Daily Brief tells you what matters this morning. Smart Inbox Triage sorts what piled up. Search understands what you meant, not just what you typed. It runs on your device. ON EVERY SCREEN YOU OWN A genuine Mac app โ split view, menu bar commands, keyboard shortcuts throughout. iPhone and iPad. An Apple Watch app for checking off work from your wrist. Home and Lock Screen widgets you can tap to complete a task. Shortcuts and voice for capture without opening anything. FILES WHERE YOU EXPECT THEM A ProjectBoard folder in Finder and the Files app, syncing both ways. Open documents straight in from Finder, or share them in from any app. Annotate with inline markup. BUILT FOR WORKING TOGETHER Share a project, chat alongside the work, and watch tasks and notes update live as your team moves. START FASTER Seven built-in project templates, or build your own with tasks that schedule themselves relative to your start date or deadline.
Subnotes
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Subnotes is a plain-text notes and to-do list app for iPhone, iPad & Mac. Any line you write can become a task. โข Thoughts and tasks, side by side โ jot things down like a paper notebook, then switch views to see everything organized by priority, automatically. โข Editing a task is just editing text โข Recurring tasks and due dates โข Link notes together to connect related thinking โข Templates for weekly reviews, meeting notes, habit tracking, trip planning, and more. Note-taking and task planning are deeply personal โ so Subnotes stores everything as plain text, not a proprietary format. Copy, paste, or export anytime. It also syncs privately over your own iCloud account: no signup, no account creation, no servers but Apple's. For iPhone, iPad, and Mac
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Subnotes at weekly against ProjectBoard's every 2 months. ProjectBoard's advantage is iOS requirement (18.0 vs 26.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.
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Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
ProjectBoard ships an update every 2 months, Subnotes weekly. Both last shipped on October 28, 2026.
| Parameter | ProjectBoard | Subnotes |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Weekly โ better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch โ better | iPhone, iPad, Mac |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 โ better | 26.0 |
| Further details โ not scored | ||
| Size | 17 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Rebecca Adormeh-Kwao | Martin Ramsin |
In-app purchases
ProjectBoard
No in-app purchases
Subnotes
No in-app purchases









