Comparison

NoteON vs Alcove

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

Head to head
About

NoteON

Features
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NoteON NoteON is a simple note-taking app that lets you capture text from photos and organize your notes neatly by folders and dates. Key Features 1. AI Photo Text Recognition Take a photo or upload an image, and AI will automatically recognize the text and add it to your notes. 2. Organize with Folders Create folders for work, study, ideas, and more. Keep everything organized with customizable colors. 3. Calendar View View your notes by date and easily track your records over time with a built-in calendar. 4. Favorites Bookmark important notes for quick and easy access anytime. 5. Sync Across App & Web Use your recovery code to sync your notes seamlessly across your phone, tablet, and the web. 6. Share & Export Share your notes or export them as PDF or TXT files whenever you need. Capture important moments, convert text from photos into editable notes, and stay organized with NoteON. Simple. Fast. Smart.

About

Alcove

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Alcove is a calm to-do list, daily planner and notes app in one place. Capture tasks in plain words, plan your week on a calendar, keep notes that do the maths, and move work along on kanban boards. Tick tasks off from a widget, and find the same lists on your Mac, kept in step by your own iCloud. TYPE IT THE WAY YOU'D SAY IT Write "Call mum Friday 6pm" or "Stand-up every weekday 9:30 15m /Work" and Alcove picks out the day, time, length, repeat, priority, list and tags as you type. On the Mac, press Option-Space from any app to add a task. SPEAK YOUR TASKS Say everything on your mind at once. Alcove turns it into separate tasks, each with its date, time and list. PLAN YOUR DAY AND WEEK • Today, Upcoming and a calendar with an hour grid and an all-day row • Drag a task to a new time or day • Repeating tasks for any rhythm: every few days, weeks, months or years, chosen weekdays, or counted from when you finished REMINDERS AS LOUD AS THE TASK Pick quiet, a notification, or an alarm. On iPhone with iOS 26, an alarm rings through silent mode and Focus, with Stop and Snooze. Mark a task done right from its reminder. NOTES THAT DO THE MATHS Headings, checklists, code, quotes and tables, written with Markdown shortcuts. End a line with = and it's worked out, and tables add up their own totals. Paste a checklist or table from another app and it arrives as one. Turn any checklist line into a task. KANBAN BOARDS Lay tasks out in To do, Doing and Done, or columns of your own. Tasks stay in their lists and in Today, and a card dropped in Done is finished everywhere. WIDGETS, SIRI AND SHORTCUTS • Widgets for the Home Screen, Lock Screen and Mac desktop, with tasks you can tick without opening the app • Controls for Control Center and the Lock Screen • Siri adds tasks, reads out your day and takes notes • Shortcuts actions for your own automations MADE FOR THE MAC A menu bar list with a live count, a main window with a sidebar of every list, board and note, floating windows that stay on top, and keyboard shortcuts throughout. AI assistants can work with your tasks too, but only once you turn them on, only with the permissions you approve, and every call is logged. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account to create, no ads and no tracking. Your tasks and notes sync through your own iCloud. Progress shows what you finished against what you added, worked out on your device, with no streaks and no scores. AND THE DETAILS • 100 steps of undo, and six months of history for every task • Search across tasks, notes, tags and attachments • Lists with colours and icons, folders and tags • Six accents and five papers, in light and dark ONE PURCHASE, NO SUBSCRIPTION Download free and try everything for 14 days, starting whenever you're ready. Then a single purchase unlocks Alcove for good on your Mac, iPhone and iPad, and Family Sharing includes your family. If you don't unlock, your tasks and notes stay readable and exportable, and nothing is deleted. Privacy Policy: https://alcovetasks.com/privacy Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

NoteON4 screens
Alcove4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: NoteON at none against Alcove's 2. NoteON also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.4). On price, ads and device support there is nothing between them.

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

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

Both are free to download. Alcove sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. NoteON asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences Ā· 4 level
NoteON versus Alcove: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterNoteONAlcove
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyWeekly—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better17.4
Further details — not scored
Size105 MB22 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developerinho ChoiMuhammed Basil E

In-app purchases

None

NoteON

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Alcove

One-time2
  • 14-day TrialFree
  • Alcove Unlock$29.99

Questions

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

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