visualOS vs Infinotes
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
visualOS
This app offers an infinite canvas for visual thinkers, organizing notes, folders, images, and to-do lists. It works entirely offline, saving your data as real files in a folder on your device, which can then sync via your cloud service.
- Infinite canvas for visual thinking
- Offline access and real file saving
- Syncs with your own cloud storage
- Organize notes, images, and to-dos
- Hierarchical boards within boards
- Markdown file support
- Freehand drawing and magnetic arrows
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visualOS is an infinite canvas for people who think visually. It is an infinite canvas for notes, folders, images, to-do’s and sketches. It works fully offline and saves to real files in a folder on your device. YOUR DATA IS A FOLDER YOU CAN OPEN Connect any folder on your disk and visualOS mirrors your canvas into it — every folder on the canvas is a real folder, every document a Markdown file, every image an image. Put the folder in iCloud or Dropbox and it syncs through your cloud, not ours. If you ever leave, everything stays readable. Forever. OFFLINE ISN'T A MODE. IT'S THE ARCHITECTURE. On a flight, on the train, in a studio with no signal — visualOS doesn’t care. There is no server to reach, so there is no spinner, no sync wheel, no login wall. Your canvas opens instantly because everything is already here. BOARDS WITHIN BOARDS Any board can hold more boards. A project becomes a world: moodboards inside client boards inside your studio. Drag elements into a board to file them away; breadcrumbs keep you oriented; a double-tap takes you deeper. NO ACCOUNT. NO SUBSCRIPTION. Open it and work. There's nothing to sign up for, nothing to verify, nothing to cancel. Pay once and it's yours forever — one purchase unlocks every Apple device. FREE IN THE BROWSER BUT THE APP GOES FURTHER Try visualOS free in your browser at visualos.app. When you're ready for it everywhere, the app adds what a browser can't: true offline access on the train or a plane, native pan-and-zoom gestures, Apple Pencil drawing, and your boards saved as real files that sync across iPhone, iPad and Mac through your own iCloud. EVERYTHING ELSE • Notes & rich text • Long-form documents stored as plain Markdown • Interactive to-do lists on the canvas • Images & PDFs — drag, paste or drop them in • Freehand drawing • Magnetic arrows that snap and bend • Search every board at once • Groups, locking and a snap grid Your ideas. Your files. ABOUT US As creatives, we’ve always relied on visual canvas tools to organize our thoughts, plan projects, and make sense of ideas. But one thing kept bothering us: our files and knowledge were always tied to cloud-based services. We wanted the freedom to access everything offline, without worrying about losing our work or giving up our privacy. So why can’t our own files on our device be visualized in the same intuitive way? And that’s how the idea for visualOS was born: a visual representation of your internal folder structure — offline, private, and secure. Your data stays on your device, where it belongs. We’re Sarah and Gerald, a husband-and-wife team who have been living, loving, and building things together for more than 20 years. Creating visualOS has been a ton of fun and thanks to AI we were able to push it further than we initially imagined. Now we’d love to hear what you think. If visualOS helps you work a little more creatively or makes your files easier to navigate, we’d be grateful if you shared it with others.
Infinotes
This app offers an infinite canvas for note-taking, allowing you to zoom in and out without losing quality. It supports importing PDFs, exporting sections as PDFs, and searching both handwritten and typed text. Dedicated pages help organize your notes on the expansive canvas.
- Infinite zoom canvas
- PDF import and export
- Handwritten and typed text search
- Page organization
- Apple Pencil support
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A truly infinite canvas for taking notes. Zoom in or out as far as you want, without losing any quality in writing. Import & Export Documents Add PDF pages to your infinite canvas, and export sections of your note as a PDF document. Search for Anything Handwritten and typed text is found in your documents automatically. Search for anything in the infinite canvas so you never lose a thing. Add Pages Pages let you save a section of the note to revisit later. This helps keep the free-flowing infinite canvas easy to navigate, and prevents you from losing any part of your note. High Quality Tools Use tools built by Apple with your Apple Pencil for unique effects, and a smooth writing experience.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Infinotes at 5.0 against visualOS's 4.4. Infinotes also leads on price ($4.99 vs $12.99) and review sentiment (100% vs 86%). visualOS's advantage is ratings volume (5 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 26.2). On ads, in-app purchases, monetization model 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
visualOS costs $12.99 and Infinotes $4.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Infinotes holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: visualOS has 5 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 86% of visualOS's written reviews are positive against 100% of Infinotes's.
| Parameter | visualOS | Infinotes |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $12.99 | $4.99 — better |
| Rating | 4.4 (5 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 85.7% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 5 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 days | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 26.2 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 20 MB | 6 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Dorweiler & Reimertz GbR | Carson Katri |
Customer experience
visualOS
Infinotes
In-app purchases
visualOS
No in-app purchases
Infinotes
No in-app purchases





