Comparison

Bujo Notes vs Underway

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

Head to head
About

Bujo Notes

Features
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Bujo Notes ist ein digitales Bullet Journal mit echtem analogem Look & Feel. Schreibe Aufgaben, Notizen und Termine auf ein sauberes Punktraster — strukturiert wie auf Papier, aber durchsuchbar und synchronisiert. ANALOGE SIGNALE Tippe das Signal einer Aufgabe an, um den Status weiterzuschalten: offen, in Arbeit, erledigt (bleibt sichtbar), delegiert oder Termin — dazu reine Notizen. Erledigtes verschwindet nie. DEINE LISTEN • Today, Next und Someday — Einträge per Wisch verschieben. • Projekte bündeln zusammengehörige Aufgaben. • Monats-Tracker als Punktraster für Gewohnheiten. HANDGEMACHT • Skizzen und Sticker pro Seite — mit Apple Pencil oder Finger. • Prioritäten und Ideen markieren. DEINE DATEN GEHÖREN DIR • Kein Account, kein Login. • iCloud-Markdown-Sync: deine Seiten als sichtbare .md-Dateien in iCloud Drive oder einem selbst gewählten Ordner — kompatibel mit Obsidian. • Lokal gespeichert, optional über iCloud synchronisiert. FÜR IPHONE & IPAD • Home-Screen-Widgets für Today, Next, Someday und Projekte. • iPad: Drei-Spalten-Ansicht Today / Next / Someday.

About

Underway

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Open Underway and you land on today. Type one plain line and it becomes a dated entry. Scroll back a month and it is all still there, ticked off, on the day you did it. The days behind you sit just above, the days ahead just below, and you scroll straight through them, back through last year or forward into next. If you have ever dated a page in a paper notebook and written one line per thing, this is that, typed. Write "lunch with Sam friday 2pm #work" and Underway pulls out the date, the time and the tag on its own. Type ! or !! to mark a line important. No forms, no fields, no five taps to write down one thing. A line can be a trip, a day off, a bill, an appointment, a birthday, or where someone else in the family is that afternoon. A calendar wants a start time and an end time. A to do list wants a checkbox. A lot of life is neither, and all of it can go in here and still be findable months later. Finished tasks do not vanish. They stay on the day you did them, quietly greyed, so scrolling back through last month shows you what you actually got done. Your plan for the year and your record of it are the same thing. There is nothing to set up. No projects, no lists to build first. You open it and start typing. WHAT IS IN IT • Dates and days of the week are tinted, so a glance tells you where you are. • A switch to hide finished lines, if you would rather see only what is left. • Overdue in one move. A banner counts what slipped and offers to bring it all to today, or clear it. • Tags and priorities you type, not pick from a menu. # for a tag, ! for important. • Search across everything, still fast at tens of thousands of entries, and a calendar view to jump to any date. • Vault, for anything that has no date yet, with an optional nudge to look through it. • Repeats. Daily, weekly, monthly or yearly, ending on a date or after a count. Change one, or change this one and every one after it. • Optional reminders on anything with a time, and birthdays brought in from Contacts once so they come back every year. • Widgets on your Home Screen and Lock Screen. Tap one to land on the task. • Apple Watch. Today, overdue and the week ahead on your wrist. Tick things off, or dictate a new line and it arrives on your phone. • A look back, if you want one. How often you finish on time, what you added and completed, and how long your streak is. • Themes, palettes and paper textures. • Backups you keep. Take out a full copy, or a lightweight one you can read in any text editor, and import it back whenever you like. NO ACCOUNT, NO SERVER No sign in. No ads. No trackers. Your tasks are not sent to us, and there is nowhere for us to send them. Everything lives on your iPhone, your watch talks straight to your phone, and you can take a copy out whenever you want. Free, with nothing to buy inside. Available in English, Spanish, French, German, Japanese, and Simplified Chinese.

Screenshots

Bujo Notes4 screens
Underway4 screens

Verdict

The call

Bujo Notes and Underway are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Bujo Notes versus Underway: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBujo NotesUnderway
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS17.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size3 MB10 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperNiclas EdgeCylandea Systems LLC

In-app purchases

None

Bujo Notes

No in-app purchases

None

Underway

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Bujo Notes free?
Bujo Notes is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Underway free?
Underway is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Bujo Notes or Underway have ads?
Neither Bujo Notes nor Underway shows ads.

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