Comparison

NoteWorthy vs ZimeZumi

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

Head to head
About

NoteWorthy

Features
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Smart notes that never leave your device. NoteWorthy writes your titles, summarizes your notes, cleans up your formatting and files everything in the right place. All of it runs on your iPhone, iPad or Mac. There is no account to create, no server to trust and no internet connection required, because the app makes no network requests at all. NOW ON THE MAC NoteWorthy 2.0 is a native Mac app. It sits on the edge of your screen as a notebook of flaps, one per label: pull a flap and its notes slide out. Capture a note without leaving what you are doing, keep a sticky on the desk beside your work, and reach your recent notes from the menu bar. AI Format and AI Organize run on your Mac, not on a server. WRITE Rich text with real Markdown underneath. Checkboxes, headings, bold and italic, tables and images. Pick from six paper colors. Scan text straight out of a photo. LET IT ORGANIZE Every note gets a title and lands in Tasks, Work, Ideas, Info or Personal on its own. Make your own labels and pin the ones you use most. One tap on AI Organize tidies the whole library, and running it twice changes nothing, because filing reads what is already stored rather than asking a model to guess again. AI FORMAT AND AI SUMMARIZE Jot something down messily and let it become a proper structured note, with lists, checkboxes and headings, and your wording untouched. Or pull a long note down to a sentence or two. Preview both before anything is applied. EVERYWHERE YOU ALREADY ARE Add to NoteWorthy from any share sheet, including Safari selections. Five Shortcuts actions for Siri, the Action button and automations, including Summarize and Format, which work on text from any app. Widgets for your Home Screen and your Mac desktop, with checkboxes you can tick without opening the app. Spotlight finds your notes. JOINED UP Dates become calendar events. People link to your contacts. Addresses open in Maps. Set a reminder before a deadline. YOURS ALONE Lock the app with Face ID or Touch ID. Notes are written to disk with file protection. Export any note as Markdown and take it with you. Each device keeps its own notes: nothing is copied to a cloud. One download for iPhone, iPad and Mac, in 11 languages. Note: on-device intelligence needs an Apple Intelligence-capable device. Elsewhere NoteWorthy falls back to fast built-in heuristics and works just as well for writing, filing and search.

About

ZimeZumi

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KEEP WHAT MATTERS IN SIGHT. ZimeZumi was developed by a person with ADHD for people with ADHD and for anyone who thinks visually. Bring thoughts, images, documents and useful connections into one personal space. CAPTURE FIRST. ORGANIZE LATER. New thoughts start in the INBOX. Life areas, nested folders, colors, tags, markers and pins help you give them a home when you are ready. Search across note titles, text and tags, then narrow your results by tag or note color. GIVE YOUR NOTES A RECOGNIZABLE SHAPE Use colored headings, highlights, knowledge blocks, lists, checklists and tables. Keep images, galleries, PDFs and other attachments beside your thoughts. Collapse sections to focus, or move a whole section with its content. SEE THE BIG PICTURE Your dashboard brings recent, pinned and unsorted notes together. Open a folder while the dashboard is active to see that folder's recent and marked items, with its contents in alphabetical order. Switch between lists and cards. MAKE ROOM FOR CONNECTIONS Arrange ideas, shapes, text and source cards on whiteboards. Connect them with lines and arrows. Open a linked note in the reference view and keep the board in sight. KEEP FILES IN CONTEXT Link existing files and reveal them in Finder. Connect local folders as media libraries, so originals can stay where they are. Mark a passage in an embedded PDF and link back to it. PDF markers are stored in the note; the original PDF stays unchanged. A DAILY NOTE THAT FITS YOU Enable My Day to create a daily note. Choose a neutral English or German template, edit your own, or copy a template from an existing note. Each vault keeps its own choice. Existing daily notes stay as they are. BRING KNOWLEDGE IN. TAKE IT WITH YOU. Import Markdown, Obsidian notes, HTML, text and supported office documents. Export notes as PDF, Markdown or portable HTML. A text note's HTML export can include accessible images and attachments. Back up your vault as an HTML ZIP or export a Markdown copy with folders and attachments. External file originals and linked notes are not automatically bundled with a single-note export. YOUR VAULT. YOUR FILES. Notes are standalone HTML files in a folder you choose. Local use needs no ZimeZumi account or mandatory ZimeZumi cloud. Locally available content works offline. An optional file service such as iCloud Drive can make the vault available across your devices. OPTIONAL AI CONNECTION Connect a compatible AI client through the local MCP server and choose its permissions. With a cloud model, requested content may be sent to that provider. ZimeZumi does not include a built-in cloud AI model. ZimeZumi on iPhone and iPad uses the same vault format, with a different mobile feature set. ZimeZumi is a personal knowledge space, not a medical application.

Screenshots

NoteWorthy4 screens
ZimeZumi4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: ZimeZumi at weekly against NoteWorthy's every 3 weeks. ZimeZumi also leads on iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

NoteWorthy ships an update every 3 weeks, ZimeZumi weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences ยท 4 level
NoteWorthy versus ZimeZumi: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterNoteWorthyZimeZumi
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksWeekly โ€” better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac โ€” betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS26.017.0 โ€” better
Further details โ€” not scored
Size268 MB25 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSuman HansadaNico Plagemann

In-app purchases

None

NoteWorthy

No in-app purchases

None

ZimeZumi

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is NoteWorthy free?
NoteWorthy is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is ZimeZumi free?
ZimeZumi is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do NoteWorthy or ZimeZumi have ads?
Neither NoteWorthy nor ZimeZumi shows ads.
Which is updated more often, NoteWorthy or ZimeZumi?
NoteWorthy ships an update every 3 weeks, and ZimeZumi weekly. Most recently, NoteWorthy was updated on October 31, 2026 and ZimeZumi on October 29, 2026.

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