SnapNote vs Skein Notes

Turn photos into notes you can use. SnapNote organizes receipts, tables, meeting notes, study materials, and everyday documents into readable, editable, searchable notes. After downloading and activating a local model, text recognition, organization, and Ask Notes run on your device. No app account or cloud AI API is required. From photos to notes Capture pages with the camera or import images from your photo library. Review, crop, and rotate pages, then choose a document type or template. Keep the original images, OCR text, and organized result together so you can check and edit the output. Ask your own documents Select saved notes to summarize key points, compare information, or create action lists. Source references help you return to the relevant note and verify the answer. Preview, save, and share generated Markdown and CSV files within the app. Organize your way Manage your library with document types, tags, favorites, and search. Use built-in templates for common tasks, or define your own structure and instructions with custom templates. Export note results in multiple formats for further editing or archiving. Made for iPhone Duo Browse a list and its details side by side on the inner display. Split views cover Notes, Ask Notes, Generated Files, Templates, and Settings. The outer display and standard iPhones retain a comfortable single-column experience. On-device processing and privacy Photos, recognized text, and notes are processed and stored on your device rather than sent to our document-processing servers. Initial model setup and model updates require an internet connection and sufficient storage. Once a model is ready, core features can work offline. AI output may contain mistakes; check it against the original material. Free and Pro Basic recognition, note management, and the basic model are free, with no per-use processing charge. Optional auto-renewable SnapNote Pro subscriptions unlock advanced models, multi-page batch recognition, PDF import, custom templates, and CSV export from Ask Notes. Monthly and annual plans are available. Prices, features, and availability are shown in the app's purchase screen. Apple handles payment; manage or cancel subscriptions in your Apple Account settings. Support: https://snapnote.bitanoworks.com/en/support Privacy Policy: https://snapnote.bitanoworks.com/en/privacy Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Skein is a notes app for people who want to keep their own files. Your vault is a folder of plain Markdown on your device or in iCloud Drive. Skein reads and writes those files directly — the same folder you open in Skein for Mac, or in any other editor. Nothing is locked in a database, and there is no service in the middle. Write it down before you lose it The app opens on a capture field. Type the thought and send it; the first line becomes the note's title and Skein files it where you told it to. No dialog, no folder picker, no naming a file before you have written anything. Find it again Search matches titles the moment you start typing and searches inside every note once the index is ready, ranked, with the matching lines and their line numbers — tap one and land on it. The Vault filters by name, by #tag or by folder in one field, and tags are real: tap one anywhere in the app to see everything carrying it. Real Markdown, properly Headings, lists, task lists, tables, footnotes, code blocks, callouts, ==highlights== and [[wikilinks]] — read cleanly and edited as text. A keyboard bar puts the things you actually reach for above the keys, including arrows that move by character and by word, and you can choose which of them appear. Type / for a command, #for a tag it already knows. Canvas Open a JSON Canvas board, move cards, connect them, colour them and write on them. The same file, the same format Obsidian writes, so a board made on the Mac opens here and back again. It keeps your writing safe Skein keeps earlier versions of a note as you edit, so you can go back to what you wrote this morning. When the same note has been changed in two places, Skein keeps both and asks — it never picks a winner quietly. Also Share text from any app straight into your vault. Four themes, including one for reading at night. Dynamic Type throughout, and full VoiceOver support. Skein does not have an account, a subscription for the basics, a server, or telemetry. Your notes never leave your device except through iCloud Drive, which is yours. Skein for Mac is a separate app on the same purchase.