Comparison

FoldNotes vs TaskNotes

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, allowing you to focus on current tasks. This app uses plain Markdown files stored in iCloud Drive or locally, ensuring your data is accessible and future-proof. It offers robust Markdown support, task management, and powerful search capabilities.

Highlights
  • Collapse any heading or list item
  • Hoist sections for focused work
  • Live Markdown styling
  • GFM tables with editor
  • Code blocks with syntax highlighting
  • Wiki-links with previews
  • Task management with four states
  • Search with regular expressions
Features
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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

TaskNotes

Features
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TaskNotes is a calm, capable task manager built around portable Markdown records. Capture work quickly, decide what matters today, and organise tasks without locking your information into one app. • Create, edit, complete, search, and reorder tasks • Plan with lists, boards, calendars, due dates, and scheduled dates • Set priorities, recurring tasks, reminders, and dependencies • Track time and attach images • Turn rough notes into selected tasks with Scratchpad • Choose system, light, or dark appearance • Inspect the Markdown record behind any task TaskNotes works with mdbase collections. Use a hosted collection or connect one kept on your computer; the same interface and task model apply either way. Your collection remains the authoritative home of your tasks, and each task stays a structured Markdown record you can use beyond TaskNotes. Reminders are delivered by mdbase, so TaskNotes does not need to stay open. Notification payloads contain no task titles, descriptions, paths, or record content. Learn more at tasknotes.dev.

Screenshots

FoldNotes4 screens
TaskNotes4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: TaskNotes at 15.0 against FoldNotes's 18.0. On price, update cadence, 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

FoldNotes ships an update every 3 days, TaskNotes every 2 days. Both last shipped on November 13, 2026.

Scorecard1 real difference · 8 level
FoldNotes versus TaskNotes: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFoldNotesTaskNotes
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 daysEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS18.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size26 MB15 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperFoldsoft Pty LtdCallum Alpass

In-app purchases

None

FoldNotes

No in-app purchases

None

TaskNotes

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is FoldNotes free?
FoldNotes is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is TaskNotes free?
TaskNotes is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do FoldNotes or TaskNotes have ads?
Neither FoldNotes nor TaskNotes shows ads.
Which is updated more often, FoldNotes or TaskNotes?
FoldNotes ships an update every 3 days, and TaskNotes every 2 days. Most recently, FoldNotes was updated on November 13, 2026 and TaskNotes on November 13, 2026.

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