Contender | Weekly Challenges vs footnotes
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Contender | Weekly Challenges
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Every Sunday at midnight, a new challenge goes live. Six days to commit. One honest check-out. No extensions. Contender is a weekly challenge app built for people who want real progress - physical, mental, social, creative, discipline. Not another habit tracker. A shared ritual with a deadline. FREE TO USE JOIN THE LIVE WEEK - New curated challenge every Sunday - Join with one tap - free, no account needed - Log Monday through Saturday: check or fail each day - Check out on Sunday and see how the world did COMPETE WITH OTHERS See who’s in. Follow live stats as the week runs. Some weeks 70% finish. Some weeks 20% do. Share your result and see how rare your win really is. SHAPE NEXT WEEK While you’re in this week’s challenge, vote between 4 random challenges for next Monday. No repeats for 6 weeks - your crew helps pick what’s next. GO DEEPER (INCLUDED FREE) - Streaks and badges in your profile - 38+ challenges in the library — start any challenge on your own 6-day run CONTENDER PRO (OPTIONAL IN-APP PURCHASE — AUTO-RENEWABLE SUBSCRIPTION) Contender Pro is not included with the free app. It requires a separate auto-renewable annual subscription purchase. With Contender Pro you can: - Create private challenges - Invite friends with a private link Payment is charged to your Apple ID account at confirmation of purchase. The subscription renews automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel anytime in Settings → Apple ID → Subscriptions. Free to join. Hard to quit. Are you a Contender? Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://www.johnlab.ch/contender-privacy
footnotes
This app allows you to capture everyday moments using words, photos, video, and voice. Organize your memories into different notebooks and revisit them to build a timeline of your life. You can also transform these moments into shareable stories.
- Multimedia note-taking (text, photo, video, voice)
- Organize notes into notebooks
- Timeline view of life moments
- Create shareable stories from notes
- Edit and add to past entries
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footnotes is a quiet notebook for the photographs, voices, passing thoughts, ideas, and ordinary moments that make up a life. you can: - capture the full texture of a moment: in words, photos, video, and voice, all together. - return to old notes, add new moments, and watch a timeline of your life slowly take shape. - make notebooks for different parts of your life, and - turn moments into little stories to share. slices of light sizzling on a wall. laughter of friends sloppy and gold. the loosey goosey fragments. all of which you look back on with tenderness, kept whole. footnotes makes space for the footnotes of a life. the little things that become the story of who you are.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: footnotes at none against Contender | Weekly Challenges's 1. footnotes also leads on ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 3 days vs every 3 weeks). Contender | Weekly Challenges's advantage is iOS requirement (16.4 vs 18.0). On price 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
Both are free to download. Contender | Weekly Challenges sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $4.99 per year. footnotes asks for nothing beyond the download.
Contender | Weekly Challenges ships an update every 3 weeks, footnotes every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 28, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Contender | Weekly Challenges | footnotes |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 4.8 (200 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 95.8% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | — | 200 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | — | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 68 MB | 35 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Daniel Signer | Doppler HQ, Inc |
In-app purchases
Contender | Weekly Challenges
- Contender Pro$4.991 Year
footnotes
No in-app purchases
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