Comparison

Flatmate vs footnotes

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

Head to head
About

Flatmate

Features
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Living with flatmates shouldn't mean sticky notes on the fridge and awkward money conversations. Flatmate keeps your household organized in one shared app. KEY FEATURES: • Chore rotation - Fair, automatic weekly rotation so no one's stuck doing the dishes every time • Split expenses - Log shared costs, split any way you like, and settle up without the math • Shopping list - One shared list everyone can add to and check off • Activity feed - See what's happening in your household at a glance • Push reminders - Get nudged when a chore's due or an expense needs settling HOW IT WORKS: Create a household and invite your flatmates with a simple join code or share link. Everyone sees the same chores, expenses, and shopping list, kept in sync in real time. WHY FLATMATE? No spreadsheets. No group chat scrolling. No "whose turn is it again?" Just one shared source of truth for running a household with other people. Download Flatmate and get your household organized today.

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

Flatmate4 screens
footnotes4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: footnotes at every 3 days against Flatmate's every 10 days. Flatmate's advantage is iOS requirement (16.4 vs 18.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Flatmate ships an update every 10 days, footnotes every 3 days. Both last shipped on November 10, 2026.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Flatmate versus footnotes: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFlatmatefootnotes
PriceFreeFree
Rating—4.8 (210 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—95.8% of reviews
Number of ratings—210 — better
Update frequencyEvery 10 daysEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
Monetization—Free
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS16.4 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size44 MB35 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperTomasz SzeligaDoppler HQ, Inc

In-app purchases

None

Flatmate

No in-app purchases

None

footnotes

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Flatmate free?
Flatmate is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is footnotes free?
footnotes is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Flatmate or footnotes have ads?
Neither Flatmate nor footnotes shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Flatmate or footnotes?
Flatmate ships an update every 10 days, and footnotes every 3 days. Most recently, Flatmate was updated on November 10, 2026 and footnotes on November 10, 2026.

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