Comparison

stax vs footnotes

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

Head to head
About

stax

Organize your discoveries into a personal library. Save links, photos, and notes from anywhere, then find them easily with smart search and custom decks. Keep track of places and experiences with ratings.

Highlights
  • Save from any app
  • Organize into custom decks
  • Smart search by name, place, category
  • Visual library of cards
  • Rate experiences (Yes, Meh, No)
  • Cross-device availability
  • Private library
Features
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stax turns the things you discover into a personal library you can actually find again. Save a restaurant from a public post, a hotel from a webpage, a screenshot from Photos, or a note to yourself. stax creates a Card with the source, useful details, and location context- then organizes related Cards into Decks. SAVE FROM ANYWHERE • Share public links, photos, and screenshots to stax from other apps • Paste a link or add context inside stax • Keep the original source connected to every Card FIND IT THE WAY YOU REMEMBER IT • Search names, places, categories, creators, and details • Use natural phrases such as “date night” or “places in Tokyo” • Return to the reason you saved something LET YOUR LIBRARY ORGANIZE ITSELF • Browse a quiet, visual library of Cards • Group ideas into custom Decks • Discover automatic Decks by trip, place, vibe, or category • Mark experiences Been and add a quick Yes, Meh, or No rating Your stax library is private to your account and available across devices. stax does not sell your data or use it for advertising.

About

footnotes

This app allows you to capture everyday moments using words, photos, video, and voice. Organize your memories into different notebooks and revisit them to build a timeline of your life. You can also transform these moments into shareable stories.

Highlights
  • Multimedia note-taking (text, photo, video, voice)
  • Organize notes into notebooks
  • Timeline view of life moments
  • Create shareable stories from notes
  • Edit and add to past entries
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footnotes is a quiet notebook for the photographs, voices, passing thoughts, ideas, and ordinary moments that make up a life. you can: - capture the full texture of a moment: in words, photos, video, and voice, all together. - return to old notes, add new moments, and watch a timeline of your life slowly take shape. - make notebooks for different parts of your life, and - turn moments into little stories to share. slices of light sizzling on a wall. laughter of friends sloppy and gold. the loosey goosey fragments. all of which you look back on with tenderness, kept whole. footnotes makes space for the footnotes of a life. the little things that become the story of who you are.

Screenshots

stax4 screens
footnotes4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ratings volume: footnotes at 200 against stax's 2. stax's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.8). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

stax holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: footnotes has 200 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
stax versus footnotes: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
Parameterstaxfootnotes
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better4.8 (200 ratings)
Positive reviews—95.8% of reviews
Number of ratings2200 — better
Update frequency—Every 3 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS17.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size62 MB35 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSovanza WooFurDoppler HQ, Inc

Customer experience

stax

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

footnotes

All ratings200 ratings
Positive97.5%
Neutral0.5%
Negative2.0%
Written reviews48 reviews
Positive95.8%
Neutral0.0%
Negative4.2%

In-app purchases

None

stax

No in-app purchases

None

footnotes

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is stax free?
stax is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is footnotes free?
footnotes is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, stax or footnotes?
stax is rated higher. stax averages 5.0 out of 5 from 2 ratings, while footnotes averages 4.8 from 200 ratings.
Do stax or footnotes have ads?
Neither stax nor footnotes shows ads.

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