Comparison

Liner Notes vs Ghost Go Run

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

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About

Liner Notes

This AI-powered journal transforms your daily reflections into unique visual art, personalized music recommendations, and weekly letters. It helps you capture feelings, track your mood, and see your days in context without pressure or guilt.

Highlights
  • AI visual art generation
  • Personalized music recommendations
  • Weekly summary letters
  • Drafts from photos and events
  • Voice and text entry
  • Home and Lock Screen widgets
  • Privacy-focused design
Features
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Your day, journaled for you. Liner Notes is an auto diary and voice journal that drafts your day from your photos, sleep, steps, heart rate and conversations, and keeps the time you spend with the people who matter as memories. No account. Your records stay on your iPhone. PHOTOS, SLEEP, STEPS WRITE YOUR DAY Your places, photos, plans, sleep, steps and workouts are already a draft of the day. Read it, change only what you want, and keep it. On days you'd rather talk, one line into the mic is plenty. YOUR HEART RATE, TENSE OR RELAXED With Apple Watch, your heart rate and heart rate variability (HRV) are compared with your usual self at that time of day, so a timeline shows when your body was tense and when it was relaxed. Plans, places, workouts and sleep sit alongside. After a workout, see how your heart rate came back down. This feature is for keeping and reflecting on your days. It is not intended for diagnosis or medical use. TIME WITH PEOPLE, IN THEIR WORDS Keep a conversation from a spoken note, and it's transcribed on your iPhone and split by speaker; summaries are made with Apple's Private Cloud Compute. The recording is deleted once it's text. Whether to tell people in the room is up to you. Conversations with people you name become part of your memories of them. FROM APPLE WATCH, TOO One press on your wrist starts recording. Your iPhone takes it from there. HEART RATE AND VOICE AS YOU TALK Your heart rate, the pitch of your voice, how much each of you talked, and laughter line up over a conversation, so you can see where it came alive. SEE HOW YOUR RELATIONSHIPS SHIFT Who you spent time with, and on what. People become glass particles and topics become capsules that shift as time plays. Liner Notes also tells you in plain words who appeared for the first time and who you haven't seen in a while. A PICTURE AND A SONG FOR EVERY DAY Each day's entry gets a picture and a song that fits. Each morning, a short note picks up from the day before, and at the end of the week, a letter to you arrives from seven days of records. YOUR RECORDS STAY ON YOUR IPHONE - There is no account - Your diary and conversations are stored on your iPhone - You choose where text is created in Settings: on your iPhone, Apple's private cloud, or OpenAI. OpenAI is used only with your consent, while you subscribe or during the preview - Export every record anytime as Markdown or as a full copy NO STREAKS, NO GUILT No streak counters, no "you missed a day" messages. While you're away, the automatic record keeps going, and it's waiting when you come back. FEATURES - A diary draft from places, photos, plans, sleep and steps - A day timeline from heart rate and HRV (tense and relaxed) - Conversation records with speakers and summaries, and recording from Apple Watch - Heart rate, voice pitch and laughter over a conversation - Workout heart rate and how it came back down afterward - Atlas: how people and topics shift over time, with highlights - The day's picture and tonight's song - A morning note and a weekly letter - Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets, Siri and the Action Button - Records calendar and "One year ago today" - Export as Markdown or a full copy, and a daily copy to iCloud Drive PRICING The daily diary, automatic records, drafting and polishing, and export are free forever, plus a morning note once a week. Your first 3 mornings (up to 7 days) let you try the subscription with no card and no automatic charge. The subscription adds a morning note every day, weekly letters, conversation records, the day's picture and tonight's song. Family Sharing supported. Full playback of tonight's song requires an Apple Music subscription. Keep the days that slip away. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://linernotes.aves.ltd/en/privacy.html

About

Ghost Go Run

Race against your past performance or a friend's recorded activity. This app provides live feedback on your progress, helping you stay ahead or catch up during runs. Track key metrics and review your history to achieve new personal bests.

Highlights
  • Race against saved activities or pace goals
  • Live gap and progress updates
  • Apple Watch integration for phone-free control
  • Spoken updates and kilometre splits
  • Activity history and record tracking
  • Optional ghost sharing for challenges
Features
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Race against a real benchmark, from you or a friend. Ghost turns a previous activity into a live reference, so you can see whether you are ahead or behind while you run. Choose a distance and pace goal or a ghost, start moving, and let the gap guide you. DURING EVERY ACTIVITY • Choose a distance and pace goal, or challenge a saved activity. • Check your gap and progress on iPhone. • Use Apple Watch to start, pause, and finish without reaching for your phone. • Hear spoken updates during the activity, including each kilometre split. • Check time, distance, pace, heart rate, and elevation when available. AFTER YOU FINISH • See the result at a comparable distance. • Review your activity history and saved references. • Discover records, trophies, and milestones earned from eligible activities. • Share your ghost through your usual apps so someone else can challenge it in Ghost. LOCAL PRIVACY Ghost does not require an account or a server. Your activities, settings, and library are stored on your device. The app uses GPS to measure the activity, motion data to help interpret the session, and HealthKit to read available fitness metrics; Apple Watch records the workout when you start from the watch. Audio is used for activity guidance. Ghost does not sell your data and has no ads. Sharing a ghost is optional: the file is sent through the app you choose and is handled according to that app’s policies. Ghost is a fitness tool. It does not provide medical diagnosis or treatment.

Screenshots

Liner Notes4 screens
Ghost Go Run4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Ghost Go Run at none against Liner Notes's 2. Ghost Go Run also leads on ratings volume (10 vs 2). On price, rating, update cadence and ads 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. Liner Notes sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Ghost Go Run asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Liner Notes against 5.0 for Ghost Go Run. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Ghost Go Run has 10 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Liner Notes versus Ghost Go Run: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLiner NotesGhost Go Run
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings)5.0 (10 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings210 — better
Update frequencyWeeklyWeekly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, Apple WatchiPhone, Apple Watch
Requires iOS18.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size36 MB6 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAves Inc.Sergio Gragera Camino

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Liner Notes

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly$3.991 Month
  • Annual7 Days trial$29.991 Year
None

Ghost Go Run

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Liner Notes free?
Liner Notes is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Ghost Go Run free?
Ghost Go Run is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Liner Notes or Ghost Go Run?
Liner Notes and Ghost Go Run are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 2 and 10 ratings respectively.
Do Liner Notes or Ghost Go Run have ads?
Neither Liner Notes nor Ghost Go Run shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Liner Notes or Ghost Go Run?
Liner Notes ships an update weekly, and Ghost Go Run weekly. Most recently, Liner Notes was updated on November 5, 2026 and Ghost Go Run on October 31, 2026.

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