Comparison

footnotes vs Maalob

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

Head to head
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.

About

Maalob

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Maalob helps you build a calm, dependable personal safety routine. Set the schedule that works for you, add trusted contacts, and check in in seconds. If a check-in is missed—or you deliberately signal that you need help—Maalob helps your approved contacts understand what happened and when to act. FEATURES • Fast check-ins with a private four-digit PIN • Optional Face ID or Touch ID for normal quick check-ins • A discreet reverse-PIN duress signal • Flexible schedules, grace periods, and rest windows • Trusted-contact invitations and alert preferences • Optional foreground location when you choose to share it • Check-in history, private safety history, and an in-app Inbox • Configurable email reminders • Native Maalob account creation and email/password sign-in • In-app profile, session, safety-reset, and account-deletion controls PRIVACY BY DESIGN Location is never continuously tracked. Sensitive safety details are retrieved from access-controlled Maalob records while you are signed in. Email reminder and in-app activity preferences remain under your control. Maalob is free to use today and has no checkout, subscription, or in-app purchase. IMPORTANT Maalob is a safety-support tool, not an emergency service. Email, message, and trusted-contact delivery are not guaranteed. If you may be in immediate danger, contact your local emergency services.

Screenshots

footnotes4 screens
Maalob4 screens

Verdict

The call

footnotes and Maalob are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

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

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
footnotes versus Maalob: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterfootnotesMaalob
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (210 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews95.8% of reviews—
Number of ratings210 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 days—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS18.017.4 — better
Further details — not scored
Size35 MB5 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperDoppler HQ, IncJOSE RICARDO RODRIGUEZ ABREU

In-app purchases

None

footnotes

No in-app purchases

None

Maalob

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is footnotes free?
footnotes is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Maalob free?
Maalob is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do footnotes or Maalob have ads?
Neither footnotes nor Maalob shows ads.

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