Comparison

This Week vs CommonNote

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

Head to head
About

This Week

Features
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This Week is a calm, minimal weekly planner that keeps your tasks organized on a single page. Designed for people who want a readable, focused plan rather than a cluttered database, it gives you a clean view of the seven days in front of youβ€”without the stress. No accounts. No subscriptions. No tracking. Just warm paper, bold headers, and your week at a glance. PLAN YOUR WEEK WITH CLARITY β€’ Weekly Paper View: Organize your tasks vertically. See what is happening today, look back at the past few days, and easily plan ahead. β€’ Collapsible Days: Focus on the day you are working on. Open the active day and keep the rest of the week visible as quiet, collapsed rows. β€’ Calm Rollover: When you open the app on a new day, unfinished tasks can be rolled over to today with a single tap. No red flags, overdue alerts, or penalty-style notifications. CAPTURE TASKS FAST β€’ Natural Language Input: Type ideas quickly (e.g., "Run 9km Friday 7am weekly #health"). The app automatically parses days, times, and categories into confirmable chips. β€’ Area Organization: Separate your schedule using custom life areas (work, home, health) with distinct color dots. Search and filter by area or completion state. β€’ Flexible Reminders: Set local notifications in context without complex settings. Get a morning planner reminder or a calm evening nudge. 100% PRIVATE, LOCAL, & OFFLINE β€’ Your Data is Yours: Every task, reminder, and setting is stored locally on your device. β€’ No Network Access: This Week works entirely offline. Plan your schedule on a flight, in the subway, or in areas with poor reception. β€’ No Tracking: No analytics SDKs, no behavioral trackers, and no advertisements. Your privacy is complete. ONE SIMPLE UNLOCK Try the full experience free for 7 days. After the trial ends: β€’ The current week view, task completion, and basic list additions remain free forever. β€’ Gated features (reminders, recurrence engine, search, natural language input, and other weeks) can be unlocked with a single, one-time lifetime license. No recurring subscriptions. REQUIREMENTS β€’ Compatible with iPhone running iOS 17.0 or later. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

CommonNote

Features
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Bring your notes and your next steps together. Turn meeting notes into tasks, put deadlines on your calendar, and keep team discussions connected to the original work. CommonNote brings writing, planning, projects, and collaboration into one workspace for personal plans, study, creative work, and teams. WRITE THE WAY YOUR WORK NEEDS Capture a quick idea or build a detailed document with headings, checklists, tables, images, files, code, and equations. Organize your notes in nested notebooks, add tags, and keep frequently used notes in Favorites. GIVE EVERY TASK ITS CONTEXT Add an owner, due date, and status to the tasks in your notes. Follow the work in a list, on a board, or in a calendar, and open the original note when you need the details. Set up recurring tasks for work that comes around again. SEE THE PROJECT FROM MORE THAN ONE ANGLE Explore projects, notebooks, notes, and tasks in a hierarchy. Use relationship maps to connect ideas and references. Switch to structured tables to sort, filter, and group work with custom properties, formulas, and rollups. WORK TOGETHER ON THE SAME RECORD Edit shared notes at the same time and see your colleagues' cursors. Leave comments, assign work, request a review, or hand a task over with its background intact. Use personal and team conversations to coordinate without losing the record that started the discussion. KEEP GOING ON IPHONE AND IPAD Add updates and photos while you are away from your desk, check today's tasks, and continue with the same workspace on Mac or in a browser. Previously opened notes remain editable offline and synchronize after you reconnect. GO DEEPER WHEN THE WORK CALLS FOR IT Research notes can include figures, captions, mathematical expressions, and chemical formulas. Built-in tools help calculate molecular weights, moles, concentrations, and dilutions without leaving your notes. KEEP YOUR WORK ORGANIZED AND PORTABLE Find material across notes, tasks, projects, and attachments. Review saved versions and restore an earlier note when needed. Import existing Markdown files, export notes, and download a workspace backup. GET STARTED CommonNote is free to download and free to use. This version has no in-app purchases or paid plans. A CommonNote account is required. Support: https://commonnote.app/support Privacy: https://commonnote.app/privacy Terms: https://commonnote.app/terms

Screenshots

This Week3 screens
CommonNote4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: CommonNote at none against This Week's 1. CommonNote also leads on device support (4 vs 2). On price, ads and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price Β· Rating Β· Positive reviews Β· Number of ratings Β· Update frequency Β· Ads Β· In-app purchases Β· Monetization Β· Best chart rank Β· Devices Β· Requires iOS

CostPrice Β· In-app purchases Β· Ads Β· Monetization

Both are free to download. This Week sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. CommonNote asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences Β· 4 level
This Week versus CommonNote: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterThis WeekCommonNote
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyβ€”Daily
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo β€” better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch β€” better
Requires iOS17.016.1 β€” better
Further details β€” not scored
Size6 MB50 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperManish BhattacharyaJAE YOON SUNG

In-app purchases

1 purchases

This Week

One-time1
  • This Week: Weekly To-do$4.99
None

CommonNote

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is This Week free?
This Week is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is CommonNote free?
CommonNote is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do This Week or CommonNote have ads?
Neither This Week nor CommonNote shows ads.

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