Comparison

Fade Note vs OTN

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

Head to head
About

Fade Note

Features
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Not every thought needs to live forever. Fade Note is a calm, lightweight place for temporary notes. Write down what matters now, decide how long it should stay, and let it fade when its time is up. FEATURES • Create temporary notes in seconds • Choose a lifetime from 1 minute to 1 week • Set a custom expiration date and time • See a live countdown for every active note • Search notes by title or content • Organize notes with simple colors • Restore notes from your Faded history • Delete individual notes or clear the entire history • Turn off history to permanently remove expired notes PRIVATE BY DESIGN Fade Note requires no account. Your note titles and content are stored locally on your device and are not sent to a notes server. Whether it is a quick idea, a temporary reminder, a code snippet, or something you simply need to remember for a little while, Fade Note helps you capture it without creating permanent clutter.

About

OTN

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OTN applies the mental model of a one-time password to your notes. Every note is born with a lifetime — 10 minutes, an hour, a day, a week — and quietly disappears when its time runs out. Most notes are one-time information: where you parked, a wifi password, today's to-do. They don't deserve permanent storage. OTN is built for exactly this — write it in five seconds, let it go, and never watch your list pile up again. WATCH IT FADE Notes visually age as their time runs out, dimming and blurring until they dissolve. The list itself is the timer. KEEP ONLY WHAT MATTERS Tap a note to Keep it forever, or Release it now. Keeping is a deliberate act, not the default. NOTHING IS LOST BY ACCIDENT Expired and released notes rest unseen in the Archive for a while — then they're gone for good. Restore anything before it vanishes. DESIGNED TO DISAPPEAR A dark, minimal, single-screen interface. No folders, no tabs, no clutter. Choose from three typefaces to make it yours. OTN PRO A single one-time purchase removes ads on iPhone and syncs your notes between iPhone and Mac via iCloud. Nothing piles up. As it should be.

Screenshots

Fade Note4 screens
OTN4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Fade Note at none against OTN's 1. Fade Note also leads on ads (none vs shown). On price, 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

Both are free to download. OTN sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Fade Note asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences · 4 level
Fade Note versus OTN: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFade NoteOTN
PriceFreeFree
Update frequency—Every 3 days
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, Mac — better
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size5 MB6 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperNguyen Thi Kim ChungSeokHui Lee

In-app purchases

None

Fade Note

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

OTN

One-time1
  • OTN Pro$0.99

Questions

Is Fade Note free?
Fade Note is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is OTN free?
OTN is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Fade Note or OTN have ads?
OTN shows ads; Fade Note does not.

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