Comparison

Slips vs Noodge

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

Noodge

Features
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You put it down. It stopped existing. You know the drill: a reminder chimes once, you're mid-something-else, you swipe it away — and the task quietly leaves the known universe. Noodge is a to-do app built for exactly that brain. (Ours too.) REMINDS YOU UNTIL YOU TAP DONE Pick how often it should check in — every 15 minutes, every hour, or every 3 hours — and Noodge keeps nudging until the task is actually done. Swiping a notification away doesn't break the chain. Tapping Done does. Time Sensitive notifications come through even in Focus mode. HANDLE IT WITHOUT OPENING THE APP Done, +1 hour, or This evening — right from the notification. You can run your whole day from the lock screen. NAGS LIKE A FRIEND, NOT A DRILL SERGEANT • Quiet hours (10 pm – 8 am out of the box, yours to change). No 3 a.m. guilt. • At most about 6 reminders per task per day. • Ignored something five times? Noodge gently offers to move it to tomorrow — or let it go. No shame, no streaks, no red badges of failure. ONE LIST WHEN YOU LEAVE HOME Put "buy batteries" and "return the package" on the leave-home list. Soon after you step out — usually within a few minutes; that's how iOS geofencing works, and we'd rather be honest — you get one tidy digest of everything you meant to do out there. Not five separate pings. One list. START THE NAGGING LATER (PRO) "Call the clinic — but not before 9." Pick a start time and Noodge stays quiet until then, delivers the first reminder right on the dot, and only then begins its gentle pestering. CAPTURE AT THE SPEED OF THOUGHT The keyboard is up the moment the app opens. Type the thing, tap an interval — that's it, two taps. No projects, folders, tags, or priorities. On purpose. ONE PRICE, YOURS FOREVER Three active tasks and the leave-home list are free, forever — full nagging included. A single one-time purchase unlocks unlimited tasks and scheduled start. No subscription — ever. Your brain is not a monthly revenue stream. YOUR DATA STAYS YOURS No account. No server. No analytics. Your tasks and your home location never leave your phone — see our privacy label: "Data Not Collected." Noodge is designed for ADHD brains and anyone whose "out of sight" means "out of mind." It is a productivity tool, not a medical device; it does not diagnose, treat, or manage any medical condition. Made by one person who also forgets why they walked into the kitchen. One more thing — this reminder will repeat in 15 minutes.

Screenshots

Slips4 screens
Noodge4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Slips at weekly against Noodge's every 2 months. Slips also leads on device support (3 vs 1). Noodge's advantage is iOS requirement (18.0 vs 26.0). On price, ads and in-app purchases 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 and Noodge sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Slips ships an update weekly, Noodge every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 6, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Slips versus Noodge: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSlipsNoodge
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyWeekly — betterEvery 2 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac — betteriPhone
Requires iOS26.018.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size22 MB1 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMatthew LangfordIvan Luhavoi

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Slips

Subscriptions2
  • Slips Monthly$1.991 Month
  • Slips Yearly$14.991 Year
One-time1
  • Slips Lifetime$49.99
1 purchases

Noodge

One-time1
  • Noodge Unlimited$6.99

Questions

Is Slips free?
Slips is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Noodge free?
Noodge is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Slips or Noodge have ads?
Neither Slips nor Noodge shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Slips or Noodge?
Slips ships an update weekly, and Noodge every 2 months. Most recently, Slips was updated on October 6, 2026 and Noodge on October 7, 2026.

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