Comparison

Steel Notes vs FlagHour

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

Head to head
About

Steel Notes

This app helps you capture and organize quotes from books, articles, and your own ideas. It allows you to connect related thoughts and trace them back to their source material, building a lasting library of your reading and insights.

Highlights
  • Capture book quotes
  • Clip web articles
  • Organize notes and resources
  • Connect related ideas
  • Searchable library
  • Trace ideas to source
Features
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Steel Notes gives your books, quotes, articles, and ideas a lasting place to live. CAPTURE WHAT MATTERS • Quickly capture quotes from physical books. • Your margin notes automatically appear. • Search quotes, notes, and resources. PRESERVE USEFUL ARTICLES • Clip text from articles on the web. • Keep the content without the page disappearing from the web. CONNECT YOUR THINKING • Reference books, quotes, and articles within your own notes. • Connect related ideas across different sources. • Trace each idea back to the material that inspired it. BUILD YOUR READING LIBRARY Keep the books you have read and the ideas you have collected organized in one focused space. Steel Notes is made for students, researchers, academics, and thoughtful readers who want more from their reading than a collection of forgotten highlights. For readers to remember. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

FlagHour

This app helps flat-rate technicians track their flagged hours and estimate their pay before payday. It allows logging or scanning repair orders (ROs), monitoring RO status, and reconciling paychecks. Users can set goals and view efficiency metrics, with optional iCloud sync for Pro users.

Highlights
  • Scan ROs with OCR
  • Quick RO logging with templates
  • Track RO status (Open, Flagged, Booked, Paid)
  • Monitor expected gross pay
  • Calculate daily and period efficiency
  • Reconcile paychecks against stubs
  • Export hours data to CSV
Features
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Your shop tracks hours for the business. FlagHour tracks them for you. Scan or log every RO, see flagged hours and expected pay, and check your paycheck before payday. If you work flat rate, you know the drill: you flag hours all day, but you don't really know where you stand until the check hits. FlagHour fixes that. Snap a photo of the RO or log it in a couple of taps, and the app works out your expected gross pay as you go. HOW IT WORKS 1. Set your flag rate, pay schedule and work-day hours 2. Save templates for the jobs you do most 3. Tap a template, enter the RO number, done 4. Watch your hours, pay and efficiency update right away KEY FEATURES • Scan an RO (Pro): take a photo and FlagHour reads the RO number, labor lines and hours. You check the draft before saving, and the photo is read on your phone • Quick RO logging: log an RO in a couple of taps with saved job templates • RO status: Open, Flagged, Booked or Paid, with a list of ROs that still need booking • Hours changes: when the shop changes an RO's hours, keep the old and new hours and a note • Expected pay: your projected gross pay for the current period, updated with every RO • Efficiency: daily and period efficiency at a glance • Pay periods: weekly, biweekly, twice a month or custom • Job templates: save your common jobs (brakes, diag, timing chains) with their usual flag hours • Warranty and customer pay: mark warranty ROs and see the split • Goals: set an hours or pay goal for each period • VIN scanner: scan a VIN barcode to fill in the vehicle • Paycheck reconciliation (Pro): enter what your check shows and see if you were paid for every hour • Pay stub photos (Pro): keep a photo of each stub with its period • History (Pro): every past pay period with full RO details • CSV export (Pro): your hours for your records, taxes or a pay question • Search and filter (Pro): find any RO by number, date, job or vehicle • Widgets: today's hours, period progress and unbooked hours on your Home Screen • Live Activities (Pro): track your shift on the Lock Screen and Dynamic Island • iCloud sync (Pro): keep iPhone and iPad in sync • Reminders: an end-of-shift nudge to log your ROs • Dark Mode, because shop lighting is bad enough BUILT FOR TECHS FlagHour is made for flat-rate technicians, not a generic time tracker forced into the job. Every screen is built around how techs work: RO numbers, flagged hours, job names, warranty vs. customer pay, booked vs. unbooked, and efficiency. No account. No ads. Your data stays on your device, with optional iCloud sync for Pro users. FLAGHOUR PRO Free includes RO logging, RO status, expected pay, efficiency, up to 3 templates, the VIN scanner and widgets. Pro adds RO scanning, unlimited templates, paycheck reconciliation, full history, CSV export, search, iCloud sync and Live Activities. Pro is available as a one-time Lifetime purchase, or as a monthly or annual subscription. Stop guessing what your check will be. Start tracking with FlagHour. EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Terms of Use: https://cpickard2790.github.io/terms.html Privacy Policy: https://cpickard2790.github.io/privacy-policy.html#flaghour

Screenshots

Steel Notes4 screens
FlagHour4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Steel Notes at weekly against FlagHour's every 3 weeks. Steel Notes also leads on iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.2). 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. Steel Notes sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $5.00 per month and FlagHour sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. 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 Steel Notes against 5.0 for FlagHour. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 1 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Steel Notes ships an update weekly, FlagHour every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Steel Notes versus FlagHour: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSteel NotesFlagHour
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings2 — better1
Update frequencyWeekly — betterEvery 3 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFreemium
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS17.0 — better26.2
Further details — not scored
Size27 MB8 MB
Age rating9+4+
DeveloperPitts VenturesChad Pickard

Customer experience

Steel Notes

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

FlagHour

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Steel Notes

Subscriptions1
  • Steel Notes Monthly$5.001 Month
3 purchases

FlagHour

Subscriptions2
  • FlagHour Pro Monthly$2.991 Month
  • FlagHour Pro Annual$19.991 Year
One-time1
  • FlagHour Pro Lifetime$39.99

Questions

Is Steel Notes free?
Steel Notes is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is FlagHour free?
FlagHour is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Steel Notes or FlagHour?
Steel Notes and FlagHour are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 2 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Steel Notes or FlagHour have ads?
Neither Steel Notes nor FlagHour shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Steel Notes or FlagHour?
Steel Notes ships an update weekly, and FlagHour every 3 weeks. Most recently, Steel Notes was updated on October 31, 2026 and FlagHour on November 6, 2026.

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