Noter vs Thought Meadow
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side ā with what reviewers say about each.
Noter
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Share a link, some text, a photo or a PDF to Noter and it becomes a note. The share sheet saves it straight away, without opening the app, and the note shows up on your other devices. A note with a link gets a preview card with the page's title, image and description. GitHub, Reddit, YouTube, Hacker News and X links also get a detail line, like stars, points, comments or the channel. If you add an API key from Anthropic, OpenAI or Google Gemini, Noter writes a title, a short summary and tags for each note you share. The key stays in your keychain and the request goes from your phone straight to that provider. Edit the title or body yourself and Noter leaves your text alone. The rest is a plain notes app: 1. Pinned notes on top, then the most recent. 2. Search over titles, bodies, tags and link previews. 3. Tags that suggest the ones you already use, each with its own color. 4. Pin, archive, share or delete from the note's menu. A delete can be undone for six seconds, or by shaking the phone. 5. Home and lock screen widgets for pinned notes, recent notes, or a new note. Notes sync through your private iCloud database. Noter has no account, no analytics and no server of mine in the middle. Noter for Mac is free and open source at github.com/hex/Noter. It keeps your notes as a row of dots on the edge of the screen, and has a command line and an MCP server, so coding agents can read and write notes too.
Thought Meadow
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Some ideas just need a quiet place. Thought Meadow is a simple, native notes app for iPhone, in English and Arabic. Capture a thought, plan your day, and keep what matters. Open the app and start writing, with no account or internet connection. A little room to think: ⢠Write notes with automatic local saving. ⢠Organize with folders, tags and pinned notes. ⢠Search titles, content and tags. ⢠Use Markdown preview and interactive checklists. ⢠Archive notes or move them to Trash and restore them later. ⢠Export a note as Markdown or back up your full notebook. ⢠Import text, Markdown and notebook backups through Files. Your thoughts, yours alone: ⢠No account, ads, analytics or tracking in the app. ⢠Notes stay on your device and are not sent to the developer's server. ⢠Add optional password encryption for your notebook and full backups. ⢠Your password is not stored and cannot be recovered if lost. Thought Meadow is free and open source under the MIT license. This release has no subscriptions or in-app purchases. Multi-device sync and shared lists are not available yet. Notes are excluded from automatic iPhone backups. Export copies regularly through Files and keep them outside the device: deleting the app may delete local notes. This first release has not yet had an independent security audit.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Thought Meadow at every 2 days against Noter's every 4 days. On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price Ā· Rating Ā· Positive reviews Ā· Number of ratings Ā· Update frequency Ā· Ads Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Monetization Ā· Best chart rank Ā· Devices Ā· Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Noter ships an update every 4 days, Thought Meadow every 2 days. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.
| Parameter | Noter | Thought Meadow |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days | Every 2 days ā better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Devices | iPhone, Mac ā better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 17.0 |
| Further details ā not scored | ||
| Size | 5 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Alex Geana | Alawy Alshakhouri |
In-app purchases
Noter
No in-app purchases
Thought Meadow
No in-app purchases






