Comparison

visualOS vs Infinotes

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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.

About

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.

Highlights
  • Infinite zoom canvas
  • PDF import and export
  • Handwritten and typed text search
  • Page organization
  • Apple Pencil support
Features
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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.

Screenshots

visualOS4 screens
Infinotes4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Infinotes at $4.99 against visualOS's $12.99. visualOS's advantage is review sentiment (80% vs 50%) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 26.2). On rating, ratings volume, 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

visualOS costs $12.99 and Infinotes $4.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.4 for visualOS against 4.3 for Infinotes. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 5 and 3 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 80% of visualOS's written reviews are positive against 50% of Infinotes's.

Scorecard3 real differences · 8 level
visualOS versus Infinotes: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParametervisualOSInfinotes
Price$12.99$4.99 — better
Rating4.4 (5 ratings) — better4.3 (3 ratings)
Positive reviews80.0% of reviews — better50.0% of reviews
Number of ratings5 — better3
Update frequencyEvery 5 days—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidPaid
Best chart rank#117 — better#199
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better26.2
Further details — not scored
Size21 MB6 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDorweiler & Reimertz GbRCarson Katri

Customer experience

visualOS

All ratings5 ratings
Positive80.0%
Neutral20.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews10 reviews
Positive80.0%
Neutral20.0%
Negative0.0%

Infinotes

All ratings3 ratings
Positive66.7%
Neutral33.3%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral50.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

visualOS

No in-app purchases

None

Infinotes

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is visualOS free?
visualOS costs $12.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Infinotes free?
Infinotes costs $4.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, visualOS or Infinotes?
visualOS is rated higher. visualOS averages 4.4 out of 5 from 5 ratings, while Infinotes averages 4.3 from 3 ratings.
Do visualOS or Infinotes have ads?
Neither visualOS nor Infinotes shows ads.
Which is more popular, visualOS or Infinotes?
visualOS currently peaks at #117 in the App Store charts, and Infinotes at #199. Chart position reflects recent download velocity rather than total install base.

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