Comparison

Slips vs Saturn

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

Head to head
About

Slips

This app offers a streamlined note-taking experience with a maximum of five customizable notes. Personalize each note with icons and colors, and sync them seamlessly across all your Apple devices. It provides rich text formatting and quick access options.

Highlights
  • Five customizable notes
  • iCloud synchronization
  • Rich text formatting
  • Home/Lock Screen widgets
  • Share sheet integration
  • Mac app support
Features
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Slips — Five notes, made yours Five slips. That's all. Slips is a notes app built on a simple idea: five fixed notes are enough for the things you actually return to, and few enough that you always know where everything is. No folders to organize, no archive to dig through, no blank-page guilt. Pick a slip and write. MADE YOURS Name each slip, choose an icon from hundreds of symbols, and give it a color. Groceries, Books, Trips, Meds, Faith, Projects, whatever your five are. Reorder them any time. ALWAYS IN SYNC Your slips live in your own private iCloud and stay current on iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Edit on one device, and it's on the others. Nothing is collected, nothing is tracked, and there are no accounts to create. BACKED UP, JUST IN CASE Every device quietly saves a daily backup of your slips, keeping the last three. Restoring takes one tap, and a safety copy is made first, so even a restore can be undone. You can also export your slips to a file and keep it anywhere. RICH WHERE IT COUNTS Bold, italic, underline, highlight, headers, bulleted and numbered lists, tap-to-check checklists, dividers, and links that turn into preview cards. FAST WAYS IN Add to a slip from any app with the share sheet. Automate with Siri and Shortcuts. Put a slip on your Home Screen or Lock Screen with widgets, or capture instantly from Control Center. AT HOME ON THE MAC A real Mac app: your slips in the sidebar, formatting in the menu bar, Cmd+1 through Cmd+5 to switch slips, an optional menu bar icon, and sharing straight from Safari. SIMPLE PRICING Try a single Slip for free forever. Slips Plus unlocks all five. One purchase covers iPhone, iPad, and Mac, and is shareable with your family. Slips Plus subscriptions renew automatically until canceled in your App Store account settings, at least 24 hours before the current period ends. Lifetime is a one-time purchase. Privacy policy: https://mattlangford.com/slips-privacy Terms of use: Apple's standard EULA Support: https://mattlangford.com/slips-support

About

Saturn

Features
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Saturn is the reminder app that actually understands you — and never talks about you. Just type or speak naturally: “take blood pressure medicine every morning at 8”, “pay rent on the 1st every month until December”, “gym every other Tuesday”, “team lunch the last Friday of every month”. Apple Intelligence, running entirely on your iPhone, turns your words into perfectly scheduled reminders — with a built-in parser as backup on every device. BE REMINDED YOUR WAY • A week before, the day before, on the day — any combination • Daily, weekly, monthly, yearly, every other week, the last Friday of the month — and repeats that end on a date or after a number of times • Mark done or snooze right from the notification • Keep reminding me: an opt-in nudge that comes back until you mark it done • An Alarm tier for the few things you truly can’t miss — it rings through silent mode and Focus TIMERS, TOO • Several at once, with a live countdown in the Dynamic Island and on the Lock Screen • Presets you keep, a history that runs again, and Snooze when the tea needs five more minutes STAY ON TOP OF LIFE • Finance, medicine, plans, and everyday reminders — color-coded, with your own categories • A Logbook of everything you’ve completed, searchable, with Restore for the one you marked done by mistake • Insights: completion rate, streak, on-time rate, best and worst weekday, and six months of what you paid — computed on your device, for your eyes only • Widgets for today and your next bill, Home Screen quick actions, Control Center buttons, and Spotlight search PRIVATE BY ARCHITECTURE • No account. No cloud. No analytics. No network calls. • Voice dictation and AI parsing run entirely on-device • A daily backup stays on your phone, and you can restore it yourself • The App Store privacy label says “Data Not Collected” because there is nothing to collect Saturn remembers everything — and shares nothing.

Screenshots

Slips4 screens
Saturn4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Saturn at none against Slips's 3. Saturn also leads on update cadence (daily vs weekly). On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume 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. Slips sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Saturn 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 Slips against 5.0 for Saturn. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Slips ships an update weekly, Saturn daily. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and November 13, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Slips versus Saturn: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSlipsSaturn
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings11
Update frequencyWeeklyDaily — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS26.026.0
Further details — not scored
Size22 MB7 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMatthew LangfordNeiell Care Paradiang

Customer experience

Slips

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Saturn

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Slips

Subscriptions2
  • Slips Monthly$1.991 Month
  • Slips Yearly$14.991 Year
One-time1
  • Slips Lifetime$49.99
None

Saturn

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Slips free?
Slips is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Saturn free?
Saturn is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Slips or Saturn?
Slips and Saturn are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Slips or Saturn have ads?
Neither Slips nor Saturn shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Slips or Saturn?
Slips ships an update weekly, and Saturn daily. Most recently, Slips was updated on October 31, 2026 and Saturn on November 13, 2026.

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