Comparison

Flipnotes vs Next Time

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

Head to head
About

Flipnotes

Features
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Flipnotes finally solves the notebook problem: the more you put in, the harder it gets to find anything. Stop organizing your notes โ€” just capture them. Flipnotes records everything in time, files it automatically, and lets you flip through your days like a paper notebook. Intuitive from the first second, with deep functionality underneath, it becomes the daily companion you actually keep using. CAPTURE IN SECONDS Type a thought. Hold to record a voice note. Snap a photo with a zero-lag camera. Save a place with one tap. Jot a checklist. Share into Flipnotes from any app. There are no titles to invent, no folders to choose, no filing to do โ€” you capture the moment you have it, and you're done. FLIP THROUGH YOUR DAYS Your notes live on a timeline you flip through like paper. Today is where you land; yesterday is one swipe away; last month is a few more. Everything stays where it happened โ€” in its day, in order, exactly where your memory expects it. It feels less like an app and more like a notebook that turns its own pages. NO ORGANIZING. EVER. While you get on with your life, Flipnotes quietly sorts everything you capture: shopping lists, ideas, bills, menus, boarding passes, business cards, addresses, diary entries. Notes file themselves into categories automatically. You do nothing, and yet everything ends up in its place. FIND ANYTHING INSTANTLY Search across everything you've ever written, said, or photographed. Browse by category, scan your photos in the gallery, or see every place you've saved on your own beautiful map. Your notebook stops being a pile and becomes an index of your life. MENTION A DATE, GET AN AGENDA Write "dinner with Marie on the 17th" and it lands on your agenda by itself. Any date you mention โ€” in any language, typed or spoken โ€” becomes a calendar entry. Your plans assemble themselves out of your notes. VOICE NOTES THAT WRITE THEMSELVES Press, speak, done. Voice notes are transcribed automatically, so they're searchable like text and readable at a glance โ€” and the original recording is always one tap away. TRULY OFFLINE-FIRST Everything works without signal. Capture for a week off-grid โ€” on a hike, on a flight, in a dead zone โ€” and it all syncs when you're back. Your notes are always on your device, never behind a loading spinner. And they're on the web too, so your whole notebook is waiting on any screen you open. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Your notes are yours. No ads, no tracking, no selling your data. Mark any note private and it is never sent to any AI feature โ€” a locked corner of your notebook for the things that stay yours alone. WORKS WITH YOUR AI (OPTIONAL) Connect Claude or any MCP-compatible assistant and talk to your notes: create a note from a chat, ask what's on your agenda this week, find that restaurant someone recommended. Whether you're capturing ideas, house-hunting, journaling, planning trips, or just trying to remember what happened last Tuesday โ€” Flipnotes keeps up with your life and hands it back to you, organized. --- Flipnotes comes with a free one-month trial. Continue with Personal Plan or go Pro for heavy capture: more photos, more storage, more transcription. Subscriptions renew annually and can be cancelled anytime in your App Store settings. Terms: https://flipnotes.life/terms Privacy: https://flipnotes.life/privacy

About

Next Time

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You remembered the perfect question on the drive home. Three hours too late. Again. Next Time is a small notebook for the people in your life. Add notes tied to a person, things to tell them, ask them, bring them, or just remember about them. Next time you see them, it's all there. Five kinds of notes: Tell, Ask, Bring, Remember, and About. About is permanent, a growing list of small facts about someone that never gets marked done. The rest slide into an archive once you're finished with them. Set reminders, if you want them. Add a date and time to any note. Or don't. Some things just need a place to live. Made by someone who still forgets to ask that one thing. But is working on it. Terms: https://thenexttime.app/terms Privacy: https://thenexttime.app/privacy

Screenshots

Flipnotes4 screens
Next Time4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is device support: Next Time at 3 against Flipnotes's 1. Flipnotes's advantage is iOS requirement (16.0 vs 26.0). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.

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

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Both are free to download. Flipnotes sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month and Next Time sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Flipnotes ships an update weekly, Next Time every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on October 8, 2026 and October 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences ยท 4 level
Flipnotes versus Next Time: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFlipnotesNext Time
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyWeekly โ€” betterEvery 10 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, Vision Pro โ€” better
Requires iOS16.0 โ€” better26.0
Further details โ€” not scored
Size8 MB11 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperFlipnotesVerena Ortlieb

In-app purchases

4 purchases

Flipnotes

Subscriptions4
  • Personal$3.991 Month
  • Pro$25.491 Month
  • Personal$39.991 Year
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  • Pro$249.001 Year
3 purchases

Next Time

Subscriptions2
  • Next Time Pro Monthly7 Days trial$4.991 Month
  • Next Time Pro Yearly14 Days trial$44.991 Year
One-time1
  • Next Time Pro Lifetime$99.99

Questions

Is Flipnotes free?
Flipnotes is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Next Time free?
Next Time is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Flipnotes or Next Time have ads?
Neither Flipnotes nor Next Time shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Flipnotes or Next Time?
Flipnotes ships an update weekly, and Next Time every 10 days. Most recently, Flipnotes was updated on October 8, 2026 and Next Time on October 3, 2026.

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