Chronaya vs Pipnote
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Chronaya
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Catch return windows, warranty expirations, free trials and subscription renewals before they cost you. Chronaya keeps each important date together with its reminders, receipt, notes and next step, on your device and without an account. A calendar can remind you of a date. Chronaya also keeps what you need to act on it: the receipt for a return, the invoice for a warranty claim, the price of a renewal, or the link to manage a free trial. WHAT YOU CAN TRACK • Return windows: the last day to return an online or in-store purchase • Warranties: the warranty expiration date, with the receipt or invoice • Subscriptions and free trials: a reminder before a renewal or before a trial turns into a charge • Memberships and recurring payments: weekly, monthly or yearly • Documents: passport, ID card, driver's license, visa and permit expiry dates • Insurance: car, home, health and travel policy renewals • Vehicles: registration, inspection and insurance dates • Any other personal or household deadline REMINDERS THAT FIT THE DEADLINE • Get reminded on the day, or from 1 day up to 1 year before • Start with sensible defaults for each type, such as 7 days and 1 day before a return deadline, or 30 days and 7 days before a document expires • Choose the time of day your reminders arrive • Mark a subscription payment as completed and the record moves to the next renewal date • Reminders are scheduled on your device and work offline SEE WHAT NEEDS ATTENTION • Dates are grouped into Overdue, Today, Next 7 Days, Next 30 Days and Later • Each type of record suggests a useful next step, such as checking the saved receipt before a return • Search titles, notes and attachment names, or filter by category RECEIPTS AND DOCUMENTS IN THE SAME PLACE • Take a photo of a receipt, or add images and PDFs from your photos and files • Preview supported attachments inside the record • Save the price, store, order or serial number, and your own notes • Tap links and phone numbers saved in your notes When a reminder arrives, the date and the proof you need are already together. SEE WHAT YOU AVOIDED PAYING When you confirm that you canceled a subscription before it renewed, Chronaya adds that payment to your yearly savings summary. Only renewals you mark as canceled are counted. Chronaya never estimates savings for you. PRIVATE AND OFFLINE BY DESIGN • No account or sign-up • Records and attachments are stored on your device • No Chronaya cloud account; your records and attachments are not uploaded automatically • No ads • Back up your records and attachments to a single file and restore them later Internet access may be needed for app updates, App Store purchases and opening saved links. Reminder delivery depends on your notification settings. FREE AND LIFETIME PRO Chronaya Free includes up to 5 active records, 1 attachment per record and 2 reminders per record. Archived records do not count toward the limit. Lifetime Pro is an optional one-time in-app purchase, not a subscription. It removes these limits and lets you choose a separate reminder time for each record. Backup and restore, offline use, the savings summary and the ad-free experience are included for everyone. ALSO INCLUDED • Light and dark themes, including a true black dark mode • English and Turkish • Your choice of currency and date format Chronaya is for the dates that can cost you money, time or access when they slip by.
Pipnote
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You can set a reminder for yourself. You cannot set one for your partner. Pipnote fixes that. Write a short note, pick a creature, pick a moment. It lands on their phone at exactly that moment, carried into the Dynamic Island by a small animal that is very serious about its job. Think carrier pigeon, except it is a hedgehog, and it turns up at eight on a Tuesday to say the bins need to go out. WHY A CREATURE Reminding someone you love is socially awkward. Ask twice and you are nagging. Ask nicely and you are still the person who has to remember everything. A hedgehog turning up to mention the dentist is not nagging. It is a small kindness with a face. That is the entire point of this app. HOW IT WORKS 1. Write it. 60 characters. "Bins go out tonight." "You've got this." 2. Choose who carries it and when it arrives. 3. Keep it for yourself, or send it. Sent notes travel as a link through your own Messages, so nobody signs up for anything. When a note is sent, it stays sealed. They see that something is coming and when, never what. The creature does the reveal. WHAT PEOPLE USE IT FOR Vitamins at eight. Bins on Tuesday. "Leave now or you'll miss the train." "Ring your mum, it's been three weeks." "Good luck today, I mean it." Small things, on time, from someone who was thinking about you. FREE Pip, the hedgehog. One note waiting at a time. Three sends a week. Replies are always free, so a conversation never hits a wall. A little bit of ads for other indie apps. PIPNOTE PRO All four couriers: Pip, Skye, Ember and Moss. Twenty-five notes queued at once. Snooze anything. Daily and weekly repeats for the notes you keep for yourself. Your full archive of everything anyone ever sent you. And no ad cards for other apps. THE HONEST BIT Pipnote works with the Dynamic Island on iPhone 14 Pro and later. On every other iPhone your creature arrives on the Lock Screen instead, which is the same note and almost the same magic. No account. No password. Nothing leaves your phone except the notes you choose to send, and those go through Messages, not through us. Terms of Use: https://pipnote.app/terms Apple End User License Agreement: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Chronaya at none against Pipnote's shown. Chronaya also leads on device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 26.0). Pipnote's advantage is update cadence (every 5 days vs every 2 weeks). On price 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. Chronaya sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Pipnote sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Chronaya ships an update every 2 weeks, Pipnote every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Chronaya | Pipnote |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 24 MB | 97 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | AHMET BURHAN KAYALI | Radomir Drndarski |
In-app purchases
Chronaya
- Chronaya Lifetime Pro$4.99
Pipnote
- Pipnote Lite - Monthly$0.991 Month
- Pipnote Pro - Monthly$1.991 Month
- Pipnote Pro - Annual7 Days trial$14.991 Year
- Pipnote Pro - Lifetime$19.99









