Notch vs Inkstone Notes

Your whole life, one place. And it never leaves your phone. Notch brings tasks, classes, habits, money, health, meals, notes and reminders into one fast, private planner. Start with the free planner, or open the labelled sample planner to see every section filled in before you add a thing. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account. No cloud. No analytics. No tracking. Your records live in files on your iPhone. There are no servers and no way for anyone else to read what you enter. Lock it all behind Face ID. INCLUDED FREE • Unlimited tasks and notes • Up to five active habits, with streaks and history kept • One active class with assignments, grades and its dated agenda • One syllabus import, reviewed before it is saved • Alerts for your tasks and class deadlines • Daily backups on your device, export, themes, accent colours and Face ID lock • The full sample planner, to explore any section NOTCH PRO • Unlimited classes and syllabus imports: paste a Canvas assignments page or scan a screenshot, review the titles, dates and times, save • Calendar with day, week and month views, with your iPhone calendars alongside • Finance: income, spending, bills and subscriptions, budgets, debts, savings goals, investments, safe to spend and projected balance • A live shift tracker that counts your earnings in real time, right in the Dynamic Island • Health: workouts, splits, volume, nutrition and optional Apple Health insights • Meals: a week of meals built around your goals and budget, with the grocery list and prep plan to match • Travel, standalone Reminders, shopping lists, order tracking, bucket list and the weekly review • The full dashboard with the money trend QUICK ADD Type "$14 lunch" or "call mom friday 2pm" and it lands in the right place. Widgets for the Home Screen and Lock Screen. MAKE IT YOURS Light and dark themes, custom accent colours, alternate app icons. Reorder tabs and dashboard sections to match how you think. PRICING Notch Pro is a yearly or monthly subscription, or a one-time lifetime purchase with no renewal. Eligible subscribers get a seven-day free trial; the price and terms shown before purchase apply. Manage or cancel a subscription in your Apple Account settings. Restore purchases from Settings on any iPhone signed in with the same Apple Account. Everyone who installed Notch before version 1.3 keeps Pro at no charge, on this phone and the next. Optional weather, exchange rates and place search contact their providers. Purchases are handled by Apple. Nothing else leaves the phone. Plan it. Notch it. Questions? notchsupport@gmail.com Privacy policy: https://notchplanner.com/privacy.html

Inkstone keeps your notes as what they already are: plain Markdown files, in a folder you choose, on your own device. There is no database, no import step and no proprietary format. A vault another Markdown app created opens here, and a vault created here opens there. If Inkstone disappeared tomorrow, you would still have a folder of Markdown. WRITING Headings, bold, quotes, callouts, checkboxes, tables and code all render in place as you type, with the syntax revealed only on the line the cursor is on. Reading mode is a separate, read-only view for when you want the page without the scaffolding. Body font, code font and their sizes are set independently. LINKING [[Note]], [[Note#Heading]], [[Note^block]], ![[Embeds]] and aliases declared in frontmatter all resolve into one index. Every note shows what points at it, what it points at, and which of its links have no target yet. Rename a note and every link that pointed at it is rewritten across the whole vault, in the same action. SEEING THE SHAPE The graph view draws your notes as nodes joined by their links, and the simulation is deterministic — the same vault draws the same picture every time, so you can learn its layout instead of re-reading it on every open. SPATIAL NOTES The canvas puts cards, files and connections on an infinite sheet, saved as JSON Canvas 1.0 — the same open format other implementations read and write. FINDING THINGS A fuzzy switcher opens over every note with one gesture. Full-text search understands tag: and path:, and tags work inline or in frontmatter, nested, in any script. TYPOGRAPHY THAT HANDLES CJK Chinese sets solid — no word spaces — so a Latin word dropped into a Han sentence collides with it. Inkstone sets the gap between scripts properly, and lets you choose fonts and sizes that suit both. TWO DEVICES Sync a vault through iCloud, or push it to a GitHub repository with conflicts settled once rather than left as two copies. Per-file-type filters decide whether attachments and media travel with it. PRIVATE BY CONSTRUCTION No account. No telemetry. No network call you did not ask for. Your files are on your device and go only where you send them. Interface in English, Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese.