Comparison

Subnotes vs Joeny Notes

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

Head to head
About

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. • Thoughts and tasks, side by side — jot things down like a paper notebook, then switch views to see everything organized by priority, automatically. • Editing a task is just editing text • Recurring tasks and due dates • Link notes together to connect related thinking • Templates for weekly reviews, meeting notes, habit tracking, trip planning, and more. Note-taking and task planning are deeply personal — 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

About

Joeny Notes

A fast, native note-taking application for Apple devices that organizes your thoughts with notebooks and tags. It supports Markdown writing, powerful search, and syncs across your devices via iCloud.

Highlights
  • Notebooks and stacks
  • Nested tags
  • Markdown editor with formatting bar
  • Full-text search with operators
  • iCloud sync across devices
  • End-to-end encrypted notes
  • Share notebooks for collaboration
Features
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BetterNote is a fast, native notes app for iPhone, iPad and Mac. It has notebooks, tags and powerful search, and your notes are stored as plain Markdown in your own iCloud account. ORGANIZE YOUR WAY • Notebooks and stacks • Nested tags, such as work/clients • Favorites, saved searches and a Trash you can restore from • A Home Screen widget for your favorite notes • Recent Activity, showing which notes changed and on which device WRITE IN MARKDOWN • An editor that styles Markdown as you type, with a formatting bar • Notes open in Read mode, which renders tables, code blocks and task lists • Read a note aloud with the current word highlighted • Full-screen reading that can keep the screen on while you cook • Dark mode and Dynamic Type, with VoiceOver support • Photo and file attachments, with Quick Look previews FIND ANYTHING • Instant full-text search with ranked, highlighted results • Evernote-style operators: notebook:, tag:, intitle:, created:day-7, todo:false, resource:image and more • Text inside images and PDFs is recognized on your device and included in search SYNC AND SHARE WITH iCLOUD • Syncs across all your devices through your iCloud account • Note text is end-to-end encrypted • Share a notebook with other people to read or edit BRING YOUR NOTES WITH YOU • Import .enex exports from Evernote • Export everything as Markdown files at any time PRIVATE BY DESIGN BetterNote has no accounts, no ads, no analytics and no servers of its own. Your notes stay on your devices and in your iCloud.

Screenshots

Subnotes4 screens
Joeny Notes4 screens

Verdict

The call

Subnotes and Joeny Notes are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters — price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Subnotes ships an update weekly, Joeny Notes every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 28, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Subnotes versus Joeny Notes: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSubnotesJoeny Notes
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Number of ratings—1 — better
Update frequencyWeeklyEvery 5 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
Monetization—Free
DevicesiPhone, iPad, MaciPhone, iPad, Mac
Requires iOS26.026.0
Further details — not scored
Size4 MB21 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMartin RamsinJoeny Bui

In-app purchases

None

Subnotes

No in-app purchases

None

Joeny Notes

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Subnotes free?
Subnotes is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Joeny Notes free?
Joeny Notes is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Subnotes or Joeny Notes have ads?
Neither Subnotes nor Joeny Notes shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Subnotes or Joeny Notes?
Subnotes ships an update weekly, and Joeny Notes every 5 days. Most recently, Subnotes was updated on October 28, 2026 and Joeny Notes on October 24, 2026.

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