Cheetah Note vs Qards
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Cheetah Note
A straightforward yet capable application for capturing and organizing your thoughts. It offers features like note archiving, editing history, and seamless cloud synchronization. Access your notes across multiple Apple devices and integrate with system-wide search and shortcuts.
- Note archiving
- Editing history
- iCloud sync
- Backup functionality
- Widget support
- Apple Watch app
- Shortcuts integration
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Cheetah Note is a simple yet powerful note app. - Archive notes - Editing history - iCloud sync - Backup - Widget - Apple Watch app - iMessage app - Actions for Shortcuts - Spotlight search - Custom keyboard
Qards
Organize your thoughts and prepare for presentations with digital note cards. Create, edit, and arrange cards within decks, then swipe through them in full-screen. Your notes sync automatically across all your devices.
- Create and edit decks of note cards
- Arrange note cards within decks
- Full-screen card swiping
- Automatic cross-device syncing
- Organize everyday thoughts
- Prepare for speeches and presentations
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Create Note Cards for your everyday thoughts, or write down keywords and cues for your next speech. Structure your Note Cards in decks and swipe through them in full-screen. Qards is the perfect tool when you want to make notes for your next speech or presentation! With Qards you can: - Create and edit decks of Note Cards. - Edit and order a deck's Note Cards as you please. - Swipe through a deck of Note Cards in full-screen. And all your Note Cards are of course automatically synced and made available across your devices!
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Verdict
Cheetah Note and Qards both sit at 4.5 stars, but that hides the real split: 100% of Qards's written reviews are positive against 63% of Cheetah Note's. Cheetah Note's advantage is update cadence (fortnightly vs every 4 months) and device support (3 vs 1). On price, rating, ratings volume and ads 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.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.5 for Cheetah Note against 4.6 for Qards. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 20 and 14 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 63% of Cheetah Note's written reviews are positive against 100% of Qards's.
Cheetah Note ships an update fortnightly, Qards every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on September 5, 2026 and September 22, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Cheetah Note | Qards |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (20 ratings) | 4.6 (14 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 62.8% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 20 — better | 14 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Every 4 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 16.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 24 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Seokhyeon Nam | Thomas Asheim Smedmann |
Customer experience
Cheetah Note
Qards
In-app purchases
Cheetah Note
No in-app purchases
Qards
No in-app purchases
