Comparison

FoldNotes vs ScrivenerBridge

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

Head to head
About

FoldNotes

Organize long notes by collapsing completed sections, keeping your workspace focused. This app uses plain Markdown files stored in iCloud or locally, ensuring your data is accessible across devices and applications. It offers advanced text styling, task management, and powerful search capabilities.

Highlights
  • Collapsible sections and list items
  • Plain Markdown file storage
  • Live Markdown styling with syntax highlighting
  • Task management with four states
  • Wiki-links with automatic backlinks
  • Powerful search with regular expressions
  • Customizable themes and fonts
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Some notes are short. Others grow into chapters, plans and running logs you scroll past a hundred times. FoldNotes lets you fold the finished parts away, so a long note stays as small as the part you are actually working on. Every note is a plain Markdown file. No database, no proprietary format, no export step. Your notes sit in iCloud Drive or on your device, and any other app can open them, today or in ten years. It is also a real iOS app, written in Swift. Not a web page in a wrapper. It opens instantly, works offline, handles a hardware keyboard properly, and does not sit in the background eating your battery. FOLD ANYTHING • Collapse any heading or list item and everything beneath it folds away • Hoist a section to work on it alone, with everything else out of sight • Task counts stay on the folded heading, so you can see what is left without unfolding WRITTEN FOR MARKDOWN • Live styling as you type — headings, lists, quotes, code, links • Six heading levels, and GFM tables with a real table editor • Code blocks with syntax highlighting • Wiki-links [[like this]], with previews and automatic backlinks • Nested tags TASKS WHERE YOU WROTE THEM • Four states: to do, in progress, done and cancelled • Due dates and priorities written inline, in plain text • Assign them to a project and add context and comments • Counts roll up to the section above them BUILT FOR IPAD • Library, notes and editor side by side • Hardware keyboard shortcuts throughout • An inspector with outline, tasks, references, properties and a note graph • Scan printed text straight into a note with the camera FIND ANYTHING • Search every note, including regular expressions • Saved queries and database views across your whole collection • Daily notes with a calendar COMING FROM ANOTHER APP • Import from Bear or Obsidian in a tap • Or simply point FoldNotes at the Markdown files you already have MAKE IT YOURS • Light and dark themes, including Nord, Dracula and Catppuccin • Choose your body, heading and code fonts • Paragraph focus, sentence focus and typewriter scrolling Folding is not a formatting trick. A long document asks you to hold every section in your head at once; folding lets you put the finished ones down. That is the whole idea, and everything else here is built around it. Your notes will outlive this app, and every app like it. That is rather the point.

About

ScrivenerBridge

Features
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Bring your Scrivener projects to iPhone and iPad and continue reading, organising, and writing wherever you are. ScrivenerBridge opens .scriv projects that you manage and preserves the Binder hierarchy, text, titles, synopses, status, document notes, and project structure. Projects can stay in the Files app or iCloud Drive, and your changes are written back to the original project. CONTINUE WRITING • Browse volumes, chapters, scenes, and documents through the Binder • Edit text, titles, synopses, document notes, and chapter status • Use rich-text formatting, punctuation, quick phrases, and a customisable keyboard bar • Set word-count targets and follow your progress READ AND ANNOTATE • Read multiple chapters continuously • Select a paragraph to add an annotation • View, edit, delete, locate, and re-anchor existing annotations • Optionally mirror annotations to Scrivener Document Notes HANDLE PROJECTS SAFELY • Create an automatic backup before writing changes • Use coordinated writes for text, project metadata, and checksums • Preserve recovery copies when an iCloud conflict occurs and let you choose the version • Load the current working set of large projects to avoid unnecessary downloads IMPORT AND EXPORT • Open a .scriv folder or .scriv.zip • Import RTF and TXT documents • Export RTF, TXT, Markdown, a complete .scriv project, or a ZIP backup PRIVACY No account is required. The app contains no advertising or analytics SDKs and does not upload your writing to developer-operated servers. Apple handles iCloud syncing according to your account settings. Pro is a one-time purchase and can be restored with the same Apple Account. Scrivener is a trademark of Literature & Latte Ltd. This independent app is not affiliated with or endorsed by Literature & Latte Ltd.

Screenshots

FoldNotes4 screens
ScrivenerBridge4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: FoldNotes at none against ScrivenerBridge's 1. FoldNotes also leads on update cadence (every 2 days vs monthly). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. ScrivenerBridge sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. FoldNotes asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

FoldNotes ships an update every 2 days, ScrivenerBridge monthly. The most recent releases landed on September 25, 2026 and September 30, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
FoldNotes versus ScrivenerBridge: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFoldNotesScrivenerBridge
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 days — betterMonthly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size21 MB5 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperFoldsoft Pty Ltd明罡 蒋

In-app purchases

None

FoldNotes

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

ScrivenerBridge

One-time1
  • Scrivener Companion Pro$9.99

Questions

Is FoldNotes free?
FoldNotes is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is ScrivenerBridge free?
ScrivenerBridge is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do FoldNotes or ScrivenerBridge have ads?
Neither FoldNotes nor ScrivenerBridge shows ads.
Which is updated more often, FoldNotes or ScrivenerBridge?
FoldNotes ships an update every 2 days, and ScrivenerBridge monthly. Most recently, FoldNotes was updated on September 25, 2026 and ScrivenerBridge on September 30, 2026.

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