Comparison

Dwelln vs Pipnote

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

Head to head
About

Dwelln

Automate home maintenance with a personalized schedule based on your region and home features. Integrates with popular AI assistants and calendars to keep track of tasks, reminders, and history. Share with household members for collaborative upkeep.

Highlights
  • Personalized maintenance schedules
  • AI assistant integration
  • Calendar synchronization
  • Task history and completion tracking
  • Customizable reminders
  • Shared home maintenance lists
Features
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Dwelln keeps your home from falling behind. Pick your region, tell it what your home has, and Dwelln builds your maintenance schedule for you: furnace, water heater, gutters, smoke detectors, lawn, and the seasonal work that is easy to forget. USE DWELLN FROM YOUR ASSISTANT Dwelln works with Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Muse and any assistant that connects to an MCP server. Ask what is due at your home, add a task with its date, mark work done, or add a note or a photo to a task, from the assistant you already use. Claude: find Dwelln in the Claude directory. ChatGPT and Muse: coming soon. Free for your first home, no card needed. WHAT IS DUE, AT A GLANCE Your home's tasks sit under its photo, each with a day counter. Coming up, due soon, and overdue are easy to tell apart. Group the list by due date or task type, filter it by tag, and sort it the way you think. ONE TAP WHEN IT IS DONE Tick a task's check box and the next date sets itself from the task's own cadence. Change your mind and undo it. Every completion is kept in the task's history, so you can see when the filter was last changed or the gutters last cleared. REMINDERS THAT EARN THEIR PLACE Dwelln reminds you before work is due (1, 3, 7 or 14 days ahead, you choose), on the day, and while it is overdue: daily for the first three days, then once a week. Only the tasks that need you get a reminder, never the whole list. YOUR OWN TASKS, YOUR OWN TIMING Add anything the schedule missed. Pick a date on a wheel, set how often it repeats, add notes, tags and photos, and it joins the list straight away. Keep property notes for the whole home in one place. YOUR CALENDAR, KEPT IN STEP Connect Google Calendar and every task with a due date appears in a Dwelln calendar, two-way: move an event there and the task moves with it. On iPhone, add Apple Calendar as a read-only subscription that picks up your changes as it refreshes, with no access to your personal calendars. MORE THAN ONE PLACE TO LOOK AFTER Share a home with the people who live there so everyone sees the same list, and a change one of you makes shows up on the others' lists within seconds. Move to Pro to look after more than one home and switch between them in a tap. FREE, GROUP AND PRO Free: one home, the full maintenance schedule, Google Calendar sync and the Apple Calendar subscription. Group: one shared home; each member has their own monthly subscription. Pro: every home you look after, in one monthly subscription, and everyone you invite joins free. Group and Pro are auto-renewing monthly subscriptions billed through your Apple ID. They renew until cancelled in your Apple ID settings. Privacy Policy: https://dwelln.app/privacy Terms of Use: https://dwelln.app/terms

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Pipnote

Features
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You can set a reminder for yourself. You cannot set one for your partner. Pipnote fixes that. Write a short note, pick a creature, pick a moment. It lands on their phone at exactly that moment, carried into the Dynamic Island by a small animal that is very serious about its job. Think carrier pigeon, except it is a hedgehog, and it turns up at eight on a Tuesday to say the bins need to go out. WHY A CREATURE Reminding someone you love is socially awkward. Ask twice and you are nagging. Ask nicely and you are still the person who has to remember everything. A hedgehog turning up to mention the dentist is not nagging. It is a small kindness with a face. That is the entire point of this app. HOW IT WORKS 1. Write it. 60 characters. "Bins go out tonight." "You've got this." 2. Choose who carries it and when it arrives. 3. Keep it for yourself, or send it. Sent notes travel as a link through your own Messages, so nobody signs up for anything. When a note is sent, it stays sealed. They see that something is coming and when, never what. The creature does the reveal. WHAT PEOPLE USE IT FOR Vitamins at eight. Bins on Tuesday. "Leave now or you'll miss the train." "Ring your mum, it's been three weeks." "Good luck today, I mean it." Small things, on time, from someone who was thinking about you. FREE Pip, the hedgehog. One note waiting at a time. Three sends a week. Replies are always free, so a conversation never hits a wall. A little bit of ads for other indie apps. PIPNOTE PRO All four couriers: Pip, Skye, Ember and Moss. Twenty-five notes queued at once. Snooze anything. Daily and weekly repeats for the notes you keep for yourself. Your full archive of everything anyone ever sent you. And no ad cards for other apps. THE HONEST BIT Pipnote works with the Dynamic Island on iPhone 14 Pro and later. On every other iPhone your creature arrives on the Lock Screen instead, which is the same note and almost the same magic. No account. No password. Nothing leaves your phone except the notes you choose to send, and those go through Messages, not through us. Terms of Use: https://pipnote.app/terms Apple End User License Agreement: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Dwelln4 screens
Pipnote4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Dwelln at none against Pipnote's shown. Dwelln also leads on update cadence (every 2 days vs every 5 days) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 26.0). On price, in-app purchases and device support 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. Dwelln sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month and Pipnote sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Dwelln ships an update every 2 days, Pipnote every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and November 2, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Dwelln versus Pipnote: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDwellnPipnote
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 days — betterEvery 5 days
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.1 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size39 MB97 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAcadia AI LLCRadomir Drndarski

In-app purchases

5 purchases

Dwelln

Subscriptions5
  • Group$0.991 Month
  • Group ×2$1.991 Month
  • Group ×3$2.991 Month
Show 2 more
  • Group ×4$3.991 Month
  • Pro$4.991 Month
4 purchases

Pipnote

Subscriptions3
  • Pipnote Lite - Monthly$0.991 Month
  • Pipnote Pro - Monthly$1.991 Month
  • Pipnote Pro - Annual7 Days trial$14.991 Year
One-time1
  • Pipnote Pro - Lifetime$19.99

Questions

Is Dwelln free?
Dwelln is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Pipnote free?
Pipnote is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Dwelln or Pipnote have ads?
Pipnote shows ads; Dwelln does not.
Which is updated more often, Dwelln or Pipnote?
Dwelln ships an update every 2 days, and Pipnote every 5 days. Most recently, Dwelln was updated on November 5, 2026 and Pipnote on November 2, 2026.

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