GSDlist vs Lines | Beyond Notes
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
GSDlist
This app offers a fresh approach to task management, allowing users to create detailed to-do lists with tags, locations, and team collaboration. It helps organize tasks by time, category, and location to create a focused daily list for efficient productivity.
- Task management with tags
- Location-based task organization
- Team collaboration features
- Categorization of tasks
- Daily 'Today' list creation
- Time-based task management
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A new take on ToDo Lists and task management with tags, locations, verbs, teams, and power. Build a deep list of things you intend to do, and manage them by time, category, and location into a Today list -- Getting' Stuff Done. The author is a veteran Apple developer and built this for his own use, and has over 37,000 closed items in the app, over almost 10 years of use. It's a good app.
Lines | Beyond Notes
This app offers a comprehensive knowledge management system, allowing users to create rich text notes with media, capture web content, and record voice memos. It provides powerful organization tools like tags, folders, and linking, along with secure biometric authentication for privacy.
- Rich text and media note creation
- Web page capture
- Camera and voice note recording
- Tag and folder organization
- Note linking
- Biometric authentication
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Lines goal is to go beyond traditional note-taking, aspiring to be your one-stop solution for knowledge management. With Lines, you can: - Write expressively using rich text and media attachments - Capture information instantly with your camera - Share web pages from your browser and store them as notes - Retrieve information instantly with search - Organize with tags and folders - Keep what’s important close with pinned notes - Connect your thoughts by linking between notes - Record voice notes - Keep notes private using biometric authentication - And much more.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: GSDlist at 5.0 against Lines | Beyond Notes's 4.2. GSDlist also leads on iOS requirement (15.6 vs 17.0). Lines | Beyond Notes's advantage is update cadence (every 5 weeks vs every 9 months) and ratings volume (5 vs 1). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
GSDlist holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Lines | Beyond Notes has 5 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
GSDlist ships an update every 9 months, Lines | Beyond Notes every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 2, 2026 and September 29, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | GSDlist | Lines | Beyond Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | 4.2 (5 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 5 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 9 months | Every 5 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Mac |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 28 MB | 8 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Glenn Reid | Andres Portillo Chacon |
Customer experience
GSDlist
Lines | Beyond Notes
In-app purchases
GSDlist
No in-app purchases
Lines | Beyond Notes
No in-app purchases
