Comparison

footnotes vs LittleBox

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

LittleBox

Capture life's small joys with a unique journaling app. Organize moments by custom 'boxes' for activities, add photos and notes, and visualize your days and months through beautiful pinboards and posters. Enjoy private, ad-free journaling with optional Pro features.

Highlights
  • Organize moments with custom boxes
  • Add photos and short notes
  • Daily pinboard and monthly calendar views
  • Create keepsake monthly posters
  • Monthly recap of activity
  • Private and ad-free journaling
  • Automatic iCloud backups
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Keep the little moments that make your days. LittleBox is a soft, pretty journal built around boxes. Make a box for anything you love, like matcha, walks, piano, flowers or journaling, and give it a name, a colour and a print of its own. When something happens, tap its box. That's it. Add a photo or a few words if you feel like it, or nothing at all. EVERY DAY GETS A BOARD Each moment lands on a pinboard for that day as a polaroid or a little sticker. Scroll back through your days and see how they looked. Choose a paper, pattern and frame for your boards. YOUR MONTH, IN PHOTOS See the whole month on a calendar, or as a timeline of daily boards. Browse every photo as a polaroid in your album, and open any moment to read its story. MAKE A MONTHLY POSTER Turn a month into a keepsake poster with your photos, stickers and tape, then save or share it. With Pro, restyle the paper, title and tape, and shuffle the layout until it feels right. SEE WHAT YOUR DAYS ARE MADE OF A monthly recap shows which boxes you visit most, your busiest days, and the notes you wrote along the way. Pro adds a full-year view. GENTLE BY DESIGN • Tap a box to save a moment in two taps • Add up to five photos and a short note to any moment • Take a photo in the app and save a copy to your Photos library • A daily reminder that you choose, or none at all • Reminders for individual boxes • Automatic backups on your iPhone PRIVATE, ALWAYS Your moments are yours. LittleBox doesn't collect, read or keep your boxes, photos or notes. They stay on your iPhone and in your own private iCloud, where only you can see them. No account, no ads, no advertising trackers. LITTLEBOX FREE AND PRO Start free with three boxes, the board, calendar, timeline, album, monthly poster, monthly recap and iCloud sync. LittleBox Pro unlocks unlimited boxes, every board style and box pattern, the full sticker collection, poster styling and shuffle, and the yearly recap. Choose monthly, yearly (with a 7-day free trial for new subscribers) or a one-time lifetime unlock. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. You can manage or cancel in your Apple Account settings at any time. Any unused part of a free trial is forfeited when you purchase a subscription. Terms of Use: https://jellifisstudio.space/littlebox/terms Privacy Policy: https://jellifisstudio.space/littlebox/privacy

Screenshots

footnotes4 screens
LittleBox4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: footnotes at 4.8 against LittleBox's 2.0. footnotes also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 3) and ratings volume (200 vs 1). On price, update cadence, ads 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. LittleBox sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per month. footnotes asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

footnotes holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 2.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: footnotes has 200 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on November 8, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
footnotes versus LittleBox: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterfootnotesLittleBox
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (200 ratings) — better2.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews95.8% of reviews—
Number of ratings200 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 3 daysEvery 3 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFreemium
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS18.018.0
Further details — not scored
Size35 MB38 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDoppler HQ, IncHa Nguyen

Customer experience

footnotes

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

LittleBox

All ratings1 ratings
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

In-app purchases

None

footnotes

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

LittleBox

Subscriptions2
  • LittleBox Pro Monthly$5.991 Month
  • LittleBox Pro Yearly7 Days trial$29.991 Year
One-time1
  • LittleBox Pro Lifetime$74.99

Questions

Is footnotes free?
footnotes is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is LittleBox free?
LittleBox is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, footnotes or LittleBox?
footnotes is rated higher. footnotes averages 4.8 out of 5 from 200 ratings, while LittleBox averages 2.0 from 1 ratings.
Do footnotes or LittleBox have ads?
Neither footnotes nor LittleBox shows ads.
Which is updated more often, footnotes or LittleBox?
footnotes ships an update every 3 days, and LittleBox every 3 days. Most recently, footnotes was updated on November 8, 2026 and LittleBox on November 6, 2026.

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