Note To Self vs HashTagNotes
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Note To Self
This app allows you to quickly send emails to your own address for tracking to-do items or saving notes. It prioritizes your privacy by not using third-party servers and queues emails for sending when connectivity is available.
- Send emails to your own address
- Track to-do items
- Save notes for archive
- Prioritizes user privacy
- Offline email queuing
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Note to self helps you quickly send email to your own email address. If you ever sent email to yourself to track to-do item or save a note for archive along with your email, this is a tool for you. We don't use any third party servers to send your emails, to ensure that you are in control of your privacy and if you don't have connectivity at the moment mail will be queued for sending and delivered when you get connection next time.
HashTagNotes
Organize quick notes, links, and files with tags for easy retrieval. This note-taking app syncs seamlessly across all your Apple devices.
- Message yourself notes, links, and files
- Organize with tags
- Easy retrieval of notes
- Syncs across Apple devices
- Proper note-taking interface
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Message yourself notes, links and files but in a proper note-taking app! Better organize quick snippets of notes with tags to find relevant ones easily. Best of all, it works and syncs across all of your Apple devices!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Note To Self at none against HashTagNotes's 3. Note To Self also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). HashTagNotes's advantage is update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 27 months). 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
Both are free to download. HashTagNotes sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Note To Self asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Note To Self against 5.0 for HashTagNotes. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 3 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
Note To Self ships an update every 27 months, HashTagNotes every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on June 7, 2026 and June 1, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Note To Self | HashTagNotes |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (3 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 3 | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 27 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Vision Pro — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 0 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Sergey Chernyshev | Yujian Yao |
Customer experience
Note To Self
HashTagNotes
In-app purchases
Note To Self
No in-app purchases
HashTagNotes
- Support editing tag color$2.99
- Unlimited attachments$3.99
- Support iCloud Sync$7.99
Questions
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