Comparison

Harbor Notes vs Unplug Me

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

Head to head
About

Harbor Notes

Capture, organize, and secure all your thoughts, tasks, and files in one private space. This app offers rich note-taking features, robust organization, and instant search, even within images and scanned documents. Your data is yours, with optional end-to-end encryption and no ads or data selling.

Highlights
  • Rich notes with checklists, tables, and highlights
  • Notebooks, stacks, and tags for organization
  • Task management with due dates
  • Document scanning and sketching
  • Voice memos and file attachments
  • Instant search with OCR
  • Offline-first native apps
Features
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Harbor is your private second brain — a fast, native notes app for people who want to remember everything and own it for life. Capture notes, organize them into notebooks, tag anything, attach photos and files, scan paper documents, sketch ideas, and record voice memos. Then find any of it in seconds — Harbor's search even reads the text inside your images and scans. REMEMBER EVERYTHING • Rich notes with checklists, tables, images, links, and highlights • Notebooks and stacks that keep every part of your life organized • Tags that cut across notebooks • Tasks with due dates, right beside your notes • Scan documents with your camera; sketch with your finger or Apple Pencil • Voice memos and file attachments of every kind • Instant search across everything — including the text inside images and scans (OCR) YOURS, EVERYWHERE • Truly native apps for iPhone, iPad, and Mac — no web wrapper • Offline-first: your notes live on your device and sync automatically • The full web app at app.harbor.my from any browser • A web clipper that saves articles and pages straight into your notebooks PRIVATE BY DESIGN • No ads. No selling your data. No training AI on your notes. Ever. • Optional end-to-end encryption locks down your most sensitive notes so that no one — not even us — can read them • Export everything anytime in open formats. You are never locked in. SWITCHING FROM ANOTHER NOTES APP? Import your Evernote notebooks (.enex files) with the Mac or web app — your notebooks, tags, and attachments sync straight to your iPhone and iPad. SIMPLE, HONEST PRICING Harbor is free for up to 50 notes, 3 notebooks, and 20 tags — no credit card required. When you outgrow the free plan, Harbor Unlimited removes every limit: • $9.99/month or $99/year • Unlimited notes, notebooks, tags, tasks, and files • A written price-lock promise in our terms: your price won't go up for at least 3 years Subscriptions are billed to your Apple ID and renew automatically until cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel anytime in your App Store account settings. And even if you stop paying, you can always read and export your notes — Harbor never holds your data hostage. Privacy Policy: https://harbor.my/privacy/ Terms of Use: https://harbor.my/terms/ Questions? A real person answers: help@harbor.my

About

Unplug Me

This app helps you reclaim your time and attention by locking distracting applications. The only way to access them is by plugging in your phone, making it a smart device only when charging. It offers a friction-based system to prevent impulsive app usage without causing frustration.

Highlights
  • Locks distracting apps
  • Unlocks apps only when phone is plugged in
  • Scheduled blocks
  • Emergency unlocks
  • Calls and texts always accessible
  • Built on Screen Time API
Features
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Reclaim your time and attention. Unplug Me locks your distracting apps. The only way to unlock them is to plug in your phone. Set a timer to unlock them for a short period, and when the timer ends, they lock automatically again. No willpower required. Turn your phone into a dumb phone most of the day, plug it in to make it smart again. HOW IT WORKS • Choose which apps stay locked, everything else is blocked • Plug in your charger at home to unlock them • Unplug, and your phone locks again on its own • Calls and texts always get through, even while locked WHY IT WORKS Our system is designed to provide just enough friction that you can't easily open your apps but not too much that you'll be frustrated and just give up deleting ours. • No in-the-moment willpower required • The benefits of a dumb phone, without giving up your smartphone • Built on Apple's Screen Time API. Private, on-device, no ads Four emergency unlocks a week for when you're out. 1 minute wait if you run out of emergency unlocks. Scheduled blocks for hours when nothing opens, even plugged in. Privacy policy: https://findfreetime.com/unplug-privacy.html Terms: https://findfreetime.com/unplug-terms.html

Screenshots

Harbor Notes4 screens
Unplug Me4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Harbor Notes at every 4 days against Unplug Me's weekly. Harbor Notes also leads on device support (3 vs 1). On price, rating, ratings volume 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. Harbor Notes sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month and Unplug Me sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $8.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Harbor Notes against 5.0 for Unplug Me. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 2 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Harbor Notes ships an update every 4 days, Unplug Me weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 11, 2026 and October 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Harbor Notes versus Unplug Me: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHarbor NotesUnplug Me
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (4 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings4 — better2
Update frequencyEvery 4 days — betterWeekly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemiumFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac — betteriPhone
Requires iOS18.018.0
Further details — not scored
Size37 MB135 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperCloudmanic Labs, LLCNicole Kelner

Customer experience

Harbor Notes

All ratings4 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Unplug Me

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Harbor Notes

Subscriptions2
  • Unlimited — Monthly$9.991 Month
  • Unlimited — Yearly$99.001 Year
3 purchases

Unplug Me

Subscriptions3
  • Landline Pro (Monthly)7 Days trial$8.991 Month
  • Unplug OS Pro (Yearly)7 Days trial$49.991 Year
  • Landline Pro (Yearly)7 Days trial$59.991 Year

Questions

Is Harbor Notes free?
Harbor Notes is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Unplug Me free?
Unplug Me is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Harbor Notes or Unplug Me?
Harbor Notes and Unplug Me are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 4 and 2 ratings respectively.
Do Harbor Notes or Unplug Me have ads?
Neither Harbor Notes nor Unplug Me shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Harbor Notes or Unplug Me?
Harbor Notes ships an update every 4 days, and Unplug Me weekly. Most recently, Harbor Notes was updated on October 11, 2026 and Unplug Me on October 3, 2026.

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