Comparison

CalmTask vs Note Flow Pro

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

Head to head
About

CalmTask

This app helps you organize your day with tasks, time planning, and focus sessions. It integrates notes, diaries, and progress insights into a gentle, visual productivity experience. Stay focused with Pomodoro timers and calming sounds, while tracking your personal growth.

Highlights
  • Task creation with priorities and due dates
  • Flexible Pomodoro focus sessions
  • Calming background sounds for focus
  • Notes and diary entries with photos
  • Monthly calendar and weekly timeline views
  • Progress and focus statistics
  • Offline-first experience with optional sync
Features
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Plan your days with clarity, focus on what matters, and keep your personal growth in one calm space. CalmTask brings tasks, time planning, focus, notes, diaries, and progress insights together in a visual productivity experience designed to feel gentle rather than overwhelming. PLAN TASKS YOUR WAY • Create tasks with priorities, due dates, time ranges, reminders, and groups • Organize projects, routines, study, work, health, and personal goals • Review your plans in a full monthly calendar or a vertical 24-hour week view • Adjust scheduled time directly from the weekly timeline BUILD FOCUSED MOMENTUM • Start flexible Pomodoro focus sessions • Use calming background sounds while you work • Receive a notification when a focus session or break ends • Understand your focus rhythm with weekly and monthly statistics KEEP YOUR PERSONAL SPACE • Write private notes and organize them by category • Capture diary entries with text and photos • Turn meaningful moments into a personal stamp collection • See completed tasks, focus patterns, monthly activity, and group distribution WORK ACROSS YOUR TOOLS • Keep your CalmTask data available locally for an offline-first experience • Sign in to sync supported personal data across devices • Members can connect Google Calendar, import selected Apple Calendar events, and map tasks with a Notion database CalmTask is free to begin. Optional membership unlocks expanded planning views, unlimited notes and stamps, complete personal statistics, and supported calendar integrations. Existing data remains yours if membership ends. Create a rhythm that supports your life, one thoughtful task at a time.

About

Note Flow Pro

Capture ideas with rich text, photos, or voice memos. Organize with custom labels and find them instantly with smart search. Set reminders and plan your life with an integrated calendar. Customize themes and enjoy a fast, private, offline experience.

Highlights
  • Local-first notes with offline support
  • Text, photo, and voice memo capture
  • Time-based alerts and reminders
  • Integrated calendar view
  • Customizable labels, search, and filters
  • Light and dark mode themes
  • Ad removal via one-time purchase
Features
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Note Flow — Your Ideas, Always Within Reach Note Flow is the all-in-one note-taking and personal productivity app designed for users who want speed, privacy, and complete control. No account required. No cloud dependency. Everything stays securely on your device, so your thoughts, plans, and memories remain private and instantly accessible. Capture ideas the way they come to you. Write rich text notes, attach photos, or record voice memos directly inside any note. Whether it is a quick thought, a detailed journal entry, a meeting summary, or a shopping list, Note Flow adapts to your workflow. Stay organized with color-coded labels and a clean, intuitive layout. Create categories like Personal, Work, Ideas, and Important, or build your own custom labels. Find anything in seconds with the built-in search and smart filters. Never miss what matters. Set time-based alerts and reminders for individual notes. Choose from a collection of alarm sounds, pick the exact date and time, and let Note Flow notify you when it is time to act. Perfect for deadlines, appointments, birthdays, medication reminders, and daily tasks. Plan your life with the integrated calendar view. See all your scheduled notes at a glance, navigate days and months easily, and connect your notes directly to your calendar events. It is a simple yet powerful way to turn notes into a daily planner. Customize the experience to match your style. Select from multiple accent colors and themes, switch between light and dark mode, and enable haptic feedback for a more responsive feel. The app supports multiple languages, making it comfortable for users around the world. Note Flow is built to be lightweight, fast, and reliable. It works offline, launches quickly, and respects your battery and storage. Key features: Local-first notes with full offline support Text, photo, and voice memo notes Time-based alerts with custom alarm sounds Integrated calendar and event linking Labels, search, filters, and sorting Light and dark mode with multiple color themes Multilingual interface Haptic feedback support Ad removal via one-time purchase Fast, lightweight, and privacy-focused Download Note Flow today and turn every idea into action.

Screenshots

CalmTask4 screens
Note Flow Pro4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: CalmTask at none against Note Flow Pro's shown. On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume 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. CalmTask sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month and Note Flow Pro sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for CalmTask against 5.0 for Note Flow Pro. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 2 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
CalmTask versus Note Flow Pro: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCalmTaskNote Flow Pro
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings22
Update frequencyFortnightly—
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemiumFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS15.015.0
Further details — not scored
Size92 MB17 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperTSAI-LING CHENGiovanni Emanuele Spina

Customer experience

CalmTask

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Note Flow Pro

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

2 purchases

CalmTask

Subscriptions2
  • CalmTask Premium Monthly14 Days trial$3.991 Month
  • CalmTask Premium Annual14 Days trial$34.991 Year
1 purchases

Note Flow Pro

One-time1
  • noteflow_remove_ads_lifetime$1.99

Questions

Is CalmTask free?
CalmTask is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Note Flow Pro free?
Note Flow Pro is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, CalmTask or Note Flow Pro?
CalmTask and Note Flow Pro are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 2 and 2 ratings respectively.
Do CalmTask or Note Flow Pro have ads?
Note Flow Pro shows ads; CalmTask does not.

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