NoteScreen vs panonu
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
NoteScreen
This app displays your notes directly on your Lock Screen and Dynamic Island, ensuring you never miss important reminders. It offers simple scheduling and widget support for constant visibility, all while maintaining complete privacy.
- Lock Screen Live Activities
- Dynamic Island integration
- Scheduled note rotation
- Always-on note mode
- Home and Lock Screen widgets
- Up to 10 notes, 80 characters each
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Write a note. It lives on your Lock Screen. That's it. NoteScreen is the simplest reminder app you'll ever use. The thing you need to remember sits on your Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island — front and center every time you pick up your phone. Impossible to miss. SCHEDULE YOUR DAY • Notes rotate on your schedule — "Take out the trash" 7–8 AM, "Wind down" at 9 PM. NoteScreen swaps them automatically with a silent nudge at each change. • Recurring days — set "Trash night" for every Tuesday, "Water plants" for Sundays. • Always mode pins one note up all day. GLANCEABLE EVERYWHERE • Lock Screen Live Activity, Dynamic Island, and Home & Lock Screen widgets — your current note is wherever you look. • Interactive widgets — check off a note right from your Home Screen without opening the app. • Up to 10 notes, 80 characters each. Short enough to read at a glance. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account, no login, no cloud. NoteScreen never touches the network — your notes live on your iPhone and nowhere else. Good to know: iOS limits Live Activities to 8 hours, so the Lock Screen banner refreshes whenever you open the app. Add the Lock Screen widget for a note that never expires.
panonu
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Your notes, weekly plan, books and recipes — not buried in folders, but on one infinite canvas. panonu is a personal digital board. Open a board per topic and drop everything you want to keep in plain sight onto it. TWENTY-ONE CARD TYPES Note, to-do, checklist, image, link, quote, habit, pomodoro, grocery list, expense, key date, table, weekly plan and more — all on the same canvas, wherever you put them. COLLECTIONS — THE END OF THE UNREACHABLE "SAVED" PILE Is your social media full of films to watch and books to read? Are dozens of recipes waiting to be cooked? Don't leave everything you saved there to rot. Books, Films, Series, Recipes, Places, Studies — and a seventh one with no schema at all: Saved. Every record is searchable, taggable and sortable in your own order, so you never scroll a feed again to find that one film. Drop a book card onto any board and the record lands in your library in the background. You are never asked which folder a note belongs in. SAVE FROM THE SHARE SHEET Tap Share on a post, a page or a video and pick panonu: the link lands in Saved without opening the app. Offline, it waits in line and goes through once you're connected. TODAY The app opens on a welcome screen: today's habits, upcoming dates, open tasks, a recipe card that answers "what should I cook", and one record brought back from your collections. THE PART THAT BALANCES COLLECTING One untagged record a day: tag it, delete it, or leave it for later. No counter, no "remaining" — this is not a debt notice. HABITS A habit card stores the day you marked, not the mark itself. Streaks, percentages and missed days are computed from that record and never stored separately. GROCERY LIST — NOT PRICE, BUT RUNNING OUT Buying something doesn't remove it from the list; it postpones it. When you check a row you are asked "how many days will this last?", and the row comes back on its own. SHARING Turn a board into a single link — as a copy or as a shared workspace. You decide who can edit and who can only look. ACROSS DEVICES Connect with Google or Apple and your boards stay the same on your phone and in the browser. You can also use the app as a guest, without connecting. REMINDERS STAY ON YOUR DEVICE Notifications come from the dates you type and are scheduled on the phone. The app never invents a reason to notify you. Turkish and English. Light and dark theme. No ads, no tracking, no subscription. You can delete your account and all your data from inside the app in one step.
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Verdict
NoteScreen and panonu are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters — price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | NoteScreen | panonu |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Every 2 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 16.4 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 1 MB | 35 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Sameer Bhutani | NAZIM URDOGAN |
In-app purchases
NoteScreen
No in-app purchases
panonu
No in-app purchases









