Comparison

Only Checklists vs Noted Note

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

Head to head
About

Only Checklists

Create reusable templates for procedures and run independent checklists from them. Track progress, archive completed tasks, and customize lists with colors and icons. Export and share your checklists in various formats.

Highlights
  • Create reusable checklist templates
  • Run independent checklists from templates
  • Automatic completion and archiving
  • Customizable colors and icons
  • Export to PDF, RTF, TXT, Markdown
  • Siri and Shortcuts integration
  • Private by design, no account needed
Features
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Only Checklists does one thing, well: checklists. Not to-do lists. Not reminders. Just real, reusable checklists — the kind professionals rely on. A to-do list is a pile of one-off tasks. A checklist is a proven procedure you run the same way every time — packing for a trip, opening the shop, pre-flight checks, closing out the month. Only Checklists is built entirely around that idea. CREATE TEMPLATES, RUN CHECKLISTS Build a template once: title, description, and an ordered list of tasks, each with optional notes. When it's time to do the work, start a checklist from the template. Each run is its own independent record — check off tasks, mark items Not Applicable, and add comments as you go. Your template stays clean and unchanged, ready for the next run. AUTOMATIC COMPLETION AND ARCHIVING When every task is done (or marked N/A), the checklist completes itself, gets date-stamped, and moves to the archive. Your active list shows only what's in progress; the archive holds your history — browsable, searchable, and exportable by month. MAKE EACH LIST YOURS Give templates and checklists their own color and icon from a curated symbol catalog, so you can tell the packing list from the pre-flight check at a glance. Sort, search, and filter to find things fast. SHARE, PRINT, AND KEEP RECORDS Export any checklist or template as a polished PDF, RTF, Plain Text, or Markdown summary — choose whether to include comments, timestamps, and N/A items. Print directly from the app. Need a permanent or portable copy? Save a CheckLists Document that re-imports losslessly on another device, with optional encryption for sensitive procedures. WORKS WITH SIRI, SHORTCUTS, AND SPOTLIGHT Start a checklist from a template, check your progress, or complete a task — by voice or automation. Templates and checklists appear in Spotlight search, so the right list is always a swipe away. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Your checklists live on your device. No account, no subscription, no tracking. If you want an app that nags you about due dates, there are plenty. If you want to do the same important things right, every time — Only Checklists is the one.

About

Noted Note

This app simulates a physical notebook for your iPhone, allowing you to type notes that appear as handwriting. It offers various writing styles, pens, paper types, and the ability to add doodles and photos. Notes are organized chronologically and searchable.

Highlights
  • Simulated handwriting typing
  • Multiple pen and paper styles
  • Doodle and photo integration
  • Scratch-out deletion effect
  • Chronological note organization
  • Searchable notes
  • Customizable sounds
Features
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noted. is a little paper notebook for your iPhone. Type, and your words appear in handwriting on paper with a bit of grain. No folders to manage, no toolbars to learn. Just a page and a pen. WRITING • Four hands: scrawl, the house hand, which inks itself stroke by stroke as you type, plus marker, looseleaf and rafikki • Four pens: ballpoint, marker, fountain and pencil • Change the hand or pen for a selection, or for just what you type next; settings picks the hand new notes start in • Plain, lined, squared or dotted paper, chosen note by note CROSSING OUT • Delete more than a few letters and they are scratched out in ink instead of vanishing; a quick typo fix still simply deletes • Keep the scratch-out, or let it go DOODLES AND PHOTOS • Draw with your finger and put the doodle on the page • Add photos from your library: as the full photo, as a cutout with the background removed, as a cutout with a white border, or held on with a binder clip or a paper clip • Move doodles and photos around the page YOUR NOTES • Every note on one wall, most recently written first, grouped by day • Search what your notes say (crossed-out words are left out) • Hold a note to crumple it up PAPERS AND SOUNDS • Cream paper by day and charcoal at night, following your iPhone • Five more papers: charcoal, spring, terracotta, violet and sea • Soft pencil sounds when you cross out, crumple a note, or pick a paper, pen or hand, with a loudness control, or turn them off ON IPHONE DUO • Closed, the outside screen is your notebook's cover, with windows cut through it to your latest page • Open it, and your notes become a book: turn the pages, with a soft page-turn sound • Tap a page and write right on it with the keyboard • A handwritten index of your notes, with dates • Eight covers: bottle green, charcoal, ink navy, rust, burgundy, kraft, and two cloth covers, breakfast and horses • Lined, squared, dotted or plain pages; blue, black or sepia ink; turn the pages or scroll • Warm, faded paper after dark LANGUAGES • noted. speaks English, Danish, German, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, and Simplified and Traditional Chinese • The handwriting writes all of them. The four hands and the self-inking scrawl are for the Latin alphabet; Cyrillic, Japanese, Korean and Chinese each have a handwriting face of their own FREE, AND THE WHOLE DRAWER Free to use, with no time limit: the scrawl, the ballpoint, cream paper (charcoal at night), scratch-outs, doodles, photos, search, sounds and the whole iPhone Duo notebook. One optional purchase, the whole drawer, adds: • the five more papers • every pen: marker, fountain and pencil • every hand: marker, looseleaf and rafikki • iCloud sync, so your notes follow you to your other iPhones One payment, kept forever. No subscription. Restore it any time from the purchase page. PRIVATE Notes stay on your device or in your own iCloud. Apple handles purchases; RevenueCat receives receipts and app/device IDs for validation and purchase statistics. No advertising tracking or data sales. Privacy Policy: https://walnut-burst-160.notion.site/Noted-Note-Privacy-Policy-3a93971e7add8199a7e4d91c688d6069 Terms of Use: https://walnut-burst-160.notion.site/Noted-Note-Terms-of-Use-3a93971e7add80428a0fdaad90470a72 Apple Standard EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Only Checklists4 screens
Noted Note4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Noted Note at Free against Only Checklists's $0.99. Noted Note also leads on update cadence (every 3 days vs every 10 days). Only Checklists's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.0) and in-app purchases (none vs 1). On ratings volume, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Noted Note is free to download; Only Checklists costs $0.99 up front. Noted Note sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Only Checklists asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Only Checklists holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 2 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Only Checklists ships an update every 10 days, Noted Note every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Only Checklists versus Noted Note: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterOnly ChecklistsNoted Note
Price$0.99Free — better
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better4.0 (2 ratings)
Positive reviews—50.0% of reviews
Number of ratings12 — better
Update frequencyEvery 10 daysEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaidFree with in-app purchases — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS26.0 — better26.5
Further details — not scored
Size2 MB115 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperCharles AmmonJerry Munyoka Nkongolo

Customer experience

Only Checklists

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Noted Note

All ratings2 ratings
Positive50.0%
Neutral50.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral50.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Only Checklists

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Noted Note

One-time1
  • the whole drawer$9.99

Questions

Is Only Checklists free?
Only Checklists costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Noted Note free?
Noted Note is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Only Checklists or Noted Note?
Only Checklists is rated higher. Only Checklists averages 5.0 out of 5 from 1 ratings, while Noted Note averages 4.0 from 2 ratings.
Do Only Checklists or Noted Note have ads?
Neither Only Checklists nor Noted Note shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Only Checklists or Noted Note?
Only Checklists ships an update every 10 days, and Noted Note every 3 days. Most recently, Only Checklists was updated on October 31, 2026 and Noted Note on November 5, 2026.

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