Harbor Notes vs CleverNote
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Harbor Notes
Capture, organize, and securely store all your notes, tasks, files, and scanned documents. This native app offers instant search, offline access, and optional end-to-end encryption for ultimate privacy and control over your information.
- Rich notes with checklists, tables, and highlights
- Notebooks, stacks, and tags for organization
- Tasks with due dates
- Document scanning and sketching
- Voice memos and file attachments
- Instant search with OCR
- Offline-first access and automatic sync
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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
CleverNote
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You don't have to remember everything. Save notes, photos, voice recordings, and documents in CleverNote. When you need the detail, ask in your own words and get an answer with a source you can check. Save without losing your flow Text, photo, voice, or PDF. The note is saved immediately and CleverNote organizes it afterwards. From your phone, tap Share and choose CleverNote: a photo, a link, or a PDF goes straight into your library, with no copying between apps. What you will find inside Home: one place to save and to ask. Notes: your library, with search and stacks to group what belongs together. People: who shows up in what you saved, with their context close by. Reminders: what you agreed to, with the note it came from. Ask when you need it "When is Ana sending the proposal?" "What do I need to send before Tuesday?" The answer points to the passage that supports it and opens the original note, so you can check. Reminders that come from a note Write "remind me to send Ana the brief on the 15th at 9 am". CleverNote identifies the date and creates the reminder. If the date is unclear, you confirm it first. Reminders arrive as push on your phone and by email, with the original note close by. The interpretation is yours to review CleverNote suggests the title, the category, and what it understood from the note. Correcting takes one sentence, and the original stays available: you can always tell what the source said apart from your own correction. Beyond the app A Chrome and Edge extension saves web pages and excerpts with the original link. A personal capture address receives messages and attachments you forward. It all lands in the same library. Right from your Home Screen CleverNote's widgets live on your Home Screen and Lock Screen, and its controls in Control Center (iOS 18 or later): one tap to jot down, record, or take a photo. When a reminder arrives, you handle it right in the notification, with Done, Snooze 1h, or Tomorrow. For people whose head is always full If ideas show up in the middle of something else and vanish before you write them down, CleverNote was built with you in mind, including people with ADHD. Talk, type, or snap a photo however it comes out, no organizing required. CleverNote saves it instantly and finds the deadlines with money on the line, like free trials, return windows, and warranties, plus the promises between you and other people. On a paid plan, it warns you before those deadlines. When you ask, the answer comes with the note it came from. Your data Export everything or delete everything whenever you want, in Privacy and data. You can start without creating an account: 5 notes and 3 questions to try it. The free plan includes 15 notes and 30 questions per month, and your account is the same across every CleverNote app. To follow spending, goals, and net worth, CleverNote Finance is a separate app. Terms of Use: https://clevernote.net/terms Privacy Policy: https://clevernote.net/privacy CleverNote is not a medical device and does not diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any condition.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is device support: Harbor Notes at 3 against CleverNote's 1. CleverNote's advantage is iOS requirement (16.4 vs 18.0). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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
Both are free to download. Harbor Notes sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month and CleverNote sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Harbor Notes ships an update every 3 days, CleverNote every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 1, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Harbor Notes | CleverNote |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (6 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 6 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 days | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 16.4 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 42 MB | 62 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | +4 |
| Developer | Cloudmanic Labs, LLC | SPAKLABS AI INC. |
In-app purchases
Harbor Notes
- Unlimited — Monthly$9.991 Month
- Unlimited — Yearly$99.001 Year
CleverNote
- CleverNote Plus$4.991 Month
- CleverNote Pro$7.991 Month
- CleverNote Plus Annual7 Days trial$49.991 Year
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- CleverNote Pro Annual7 Days trial$79.991 Year









