Subnotes vs Atelier Tables
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side โ with what reviewers say about each.
Subnotes
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Subnotes is a plain-text notes and to-do list app for iPhone, iPad & Mac. Any line you write can become a task. โข Thoughts and tasks, side by side โ jot things down like a paper notebook, then switch views to see everything organized by priority, automatically. โข Editing a task is just editing text โข Recurring tasks and due dates โข Link notes together to connect related thinking โข Templates for weekly reviews, meeting notes, habit tracking, trip planning, and more. Note-taking and task planning are deeply personal โ so Subnotes stores everything as plain text, not a proprietary format. Copy, paste, or export anytime. It also syncs privately over your own iCloud account: no signup, no account creation, no servers but Apple's. For iPhone, iPad, and Mac
Atelier Tables
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Edit spreadsheets on your iPhone and iPad, wherever your files live. Tables is a spreadsheet editor for the Excel and CSV files you already have. Open them from the Files app, edit them with formulas, charts, comments, and macros, and save them back where they came from. Files - Open and save Excel workbooks (.xlsx) and macro-enabled workbooks (.xlsm) in place - Open and save CSV and TSV files - Share a workbook as an Excel file, or the sheet you're viewing as CSV or TSV - Undo and redo any change Formulas - Type formulas into the formula bar, just like on a computer - More than 500 built-in functions, covering every Excel function except those that need a web service, a server, an add-in, a pivot table, or phonetic data - Dynamic arrays that spill, including XLOOKUP, FILTER, SORT, UNIQUE, LET, LAMBDA, GROUPBY, and PIVOTBY - Financial, statistical, engineering, database, and regular expression functions - References to Excel tables, and union and intersection operators - Search the function library, and sum a selection in one tap Charts and Objects - Create column, bar, line, area, pie, doughnut, and scatter charts from your data - Choose stacked or percent-stacked layouts, and place the legend where you want it - Select, move, resize, and delete charts, plus the pictures and shapes already in a workbook Comments - See at a glance which cells have comments - Add, reply to, resolve, and delete comments and notes - Comments move with their cells when you insert or delete rows and columns, or copy and paste Macros - Run the VBA macros in a workbook, including prompts and message boxes - Edit modules in a code editor with syntax coloring and automatic indentation - Add standard and class modules, or start a macro project in any workbook - A built-in help book explains what macros can and can't do in Tables Shortcuts and Siri - Get, create, read, change, and save workbooks with Shortcuts actions you can chain together - Read cells and ranges, find rows, set values, append rows, sort, and clear ranges - Add, rename, and delete sheets - Ask Siri to calculate a formula or create a new workbook Formatting - Bold, italic, underline, and strikethrough - Text and fill colors, font sizes, alignment, text wrapping, and rotation - Style borders edge by edge, in a range of line styles - Merge and unmerge cells - Number formats for currency, accounting, percentages, dates, times, and more, plus custom format codes Sheets and Rows - Add, rename, duplicate, hide, and reorder sheets - Insert, delete, hide, and resize rows and columns - Select several ranges at once: hold one finger on a selection and pick more with another Built for Touch - Full dark mode support - VoiceOver support
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Verdict
Subnotes and Atelier Tables are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters โ price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them โ neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.
Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
| Parameter | Subnotes | Atelier Tables |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Weekly | โ |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac | iPhone, iPad, Mac |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 26.0 |
| Further details โ not scored | ||
| Size | 4 MB | 13 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Martin Ramsin | Justin Xin |
In-app purchases
Subnotes
No in-app purchases
Atelier Tables
No in-app purchases








