Comparison

Ideally 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

Ideally

Save and organize all your digital content, from links and photos to notes and videos. Easily share and collaborate with friends, and use AI-powered features to automatically summarize and categorize your saved items.

Highlights
  • Save content from any app
  • Organize with named shelves
  • Collaborate on shelves and notes
  • Visual boards for ideas
  • AI-powered summarization and auto-filing
  • Search by meaning, not just keywords
  • Set reminders
Features
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Save everything you meant to remember Ideally is where the things you save — a photo, a link, a screenshot, a video, a stray thought — actually stay findable. Save it once, and Ideally gives it a home and keeps it glowing where you'll see it again. SAVE FROM ANYWHERE Share a photo, video, link, or note straight from any app's share sheet. Or send a post to Ideally by DM on Instagram or Facebook and it lands in your library automatically — no copy-pasting, no app-switching. SHELVES, NOT JUNK DRAWERS Everything you save gets organized onto shelves you name — a trip, a reading list, a home renovation, whatever you're actually collecting. Pin the ones you use most, filter by source or tag, and search across all of it. SHARE WITH YOUR FRIENDS Invite a friend to a shelf or note as a collaborator or a viewer, and keep track of things together. BOARDS AND REMINDERS Lay notes out visually on a board when a list isn't the right shape for the idea. Set a reminder on anything you don't want to forget to act on. IDEALLY ENHANCED Turn on Enhance and the firefly does the tidying for you: it reads what you saved, writes a real title and summary, and auto-files it onto the right shelf. Ask questions about a single note or a whole shelf in chat — "what was that recipe with the lemon?" — and search by meaning instead of exact words. Ideally Enhanced is an auto-renewing subscription: • Monthly — $4.99/month • Yearly — $44.99/year (save 25%) Includes 200 Enhanced notes and 200 chats a month, with up to 120 minutes of video Enhance. Payment is charged to your Apple ID account at confirmation of purchase. Subscriptions auto-renew unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period; manage or cancel anytime in your Apple ID account settings. Enhance requires an account and is available for users 18 and older (13–17 with guardian-eligible access where applicable). Your library is yours. Read our Privacy Policy and Terms of Service from within the app or on our website.

About

Noted Note

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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 Your notes stay on your device. No accounts, no tracking, no analytics. Turn on iCloud sync and they go to your own iCloud account, and nowhere else. 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

Ideally4 screens
Noted Note4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Ideally at every 3 days against Noted Note's every 2 months. Ideally also leads on iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.5). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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

Both are free to download. Ideally sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and Noted Note sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Ideally ships an update every 3 days, Noted Note every 2 months. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
Ideally versus Noted Note: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterIdeallyNoted Note
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 days — betterEvery 2 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.0 — better26.5
Further details — not scored
Size34 MB61 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperSAMUEL ORLANDO RIOBOLIJerry Munyoka Nkongolo

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Ideally

Subscriptions2
  • Ideally Enhanced Monthly$4.991 Month
  • Ideally Enhanced Annual$44.991 Year
1 purchases

Noted Note

One-time1
  • the whole drawer$2.99

Questions

Is Ideally free?
Ideally is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Noted Note free?
Noted Note is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Ideally or Noted Note have ads?
Neither Ideally nor Noted Note shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Ideally or Noted Note?
Ideally ships an update every 3 days, and Noted Note every 2 months. Most recently, Ideally was updated on October 24, 2026 and Noted Note on October 24, 2026.

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