Flipnotes vs Google Keep
Both apps are made for writing something down fast. The difference starts the moment the note is saved. Keep hands you a card to tidy. Flipnotes files it, finds the date and remembers the place.
- To us Keep feels like a wall of sticky cards you have to tidy yourself.
- To us labels and colors are chores. Flipnotes files for you.
- Write a date and it lands in your agenda. In Keep you set a reminder.
- The mic, camera and pin are one tap from the writing bar.
A wall of cards, or a notebook that files itself
Google Keep is a good app for short notes and lists. You write, and the note sits there as a card. To get any order you add labels, colors and pins to each card by hand, and set reminders yourself. The more you save, the bigger the wall gets, and to us that wall starts to feel like a chore.
Flipnotes starts from the same idea: write it down before you forget. Then it does the tidying. Each note is filed, dates go into an agenda and a calendar, and Roll the dice opens an old note you had forgotten.
Saving one note, and getting it sorted
Keep needs four steps to save a typed note on a phone, and more to sort it, as Google describes them in its help centre. Flipnotes needs three, and the sorting is included.
Google Keep
- 1Open Keep
- 2Tap Create
- 3Type your note
- 4Tap Back to save it
- 5Add a label or a color if you want it sorted
- 6Set a reminder if the note has a date
Flipnotes
- 1Open the app. The writing bar is already there
- 2Type
- 3Tap Save
In Flipnotes the filing and the agenda entry happen after you save. Nothing is left to do by hand.
Type, talk, snap or pin from the writing bar
Flipnotes opens on today's page with the writing bar at the bottom. Type and tap Save. Or tap the mic and talk, and your words are typed out as you speak. The camera takes a photo, and the pin adds where you are to your next note.
It is all in that one bar. No menu to open and no card to start first.
- Type and tap Save
- Tap the mic, talk, and see the words appear
- Tap the camera for a photo; Continuous Capture puts many photos in one note
- Tap the pin to add your location
A voice note that is written out for you
In Flipnotes the mic sits in the writing bar the moment you open the app. You talk, the words appear while you speak, and the saved note has the text and a play button.
Then the note is filed like any other, and a date you mention goes in your agenda.
More about voice notes
Dates in your notes go in your agenda
In Keep you set a reminder for a date and time yourself, note by note. It works, and the reminder also shows in Google Tasks and Calendar. But it is one more thing to fill in.
In Flipnotes you just write "Dentist with Mia on Thursday at 3pm". The date is picked up and the note appears in your agenda and your calendar, by week, month or year. You wrote a sentence, and that was the whole job.
More about the agenda
Notes with a place, on a map
Tap the pin before you save and the note remembers where you were. Later you can open the map and see a pin for each place.
It helps with a restaurant you liked, a house you viewed or a parking spot.
More about locationsOpen a random old note
On a big wall of cards, old notes sink out of sight. Tap Roll the dice and Flipnotes opens a random note from your notebook. Tap again for the next one.
You will find things you forgot you wrote.
You write it. Flipnotes files it.
In Keep you organise with labels, colors and pins, and you add every one yourself. Keep's search also has filters for types and categories like books or travel, but a wall of cards you sort by hand is still your job.
In Flipnotes each note is put into one or more of over thirty categories after you save it, and notes with a date go in your agenda. You write. That is all you do.
"Dentist with Mia on Thursday at 3pm"
Goes intoDates & AppointmentsHealthPeopleIn your agenda on Thursday at 3 PM.
"Flight to Lisbon on Friday at 6:40 AM"
Goes intoDates & AppointmentsTravel"Pay the car insurance by the 30th"
Goes intoDates & AppointmentsIn your agenda on the 30th.
"Expert witness for Delgado: Dr Hanna Weiss, 0171 555 0192"
Goes intoContact InfoPhone NumbersPeople
Pro, if you use it all day
Everything on this page comes with every plan. Pro just gives you more room.
- Voice notes up to 5 minutes long (2 minutes on Personal)
- 5,000 photos a year (2,000 on Personal)
- 20 GB of storage (4 GB on Personal)
- Up to 2,000 questions a month to your notebook (280 on Personal)
Common questions
Can I move my Google Keep notes to Flipnotes?
You can export your data from Google Keep (Google has a help page for it) and copy over the notes you want to keep. From then on every new note is filed for you as you save it.
Does Google Keep have reminders?
Yes. You set a date, a time and how often it repeats, and the reminder also shows in Google Tasks and Calendar. In Flipnotes a date you write in a note goes into your agenda with no setting up.
Does Google Keep have labels and colors?
Yes, and you add them to each note yourself, which is the part we find tiring. Flipnotes puts each note in its categories after you save it.
Is there a computer version?
Yes. Flipnotes has iPhone and Android apps and runs in any browser at flipnotes.life, and your notes are the same everywhere.
Does it work on iPhone and Android?
Yes, and on your computer too: just open flipnotes.life in your browser. Your notes are the same everywhere.
Can I try it first?
Yes, your first month is free. After that you pick a plan.
Save your next note in Flipnotes
Install Flipnotes, write one thing down and see where it ends up. Open, type, Save, and it is filed.
Flipnotes is also for
- Flipnotes for real estate agentsPhotos of every property, pinned on a map, sorted for you.
- Flipnotes for house huntingKeep every house you see apart, with its photos and its place on the map.
- Flipnotes for lawyersDictate after a meeting and ask your notebook about any client.
- Flipnotes for busy peopleType one line and it's in your calendar.
- Flipnotes for journalingSay what's on your mind and flip back through your days.
Compare Flipnotes with other apps
- Flipnotes vs Apple NotesThe same quick notes, sorted for you, on iPhone, Android and any computer.
- Flipnotes vs TodoistYour tasks with your notes, an agenda, My day and a DONE stamp.
- Flipnotes vs EvernoteNo notebooks or tags to manage: write it down and it's filed.
- Flipnotes vs ObsidianOpen it and write. No vault, links or plugins to set up first.
- Flipnotes vs NotionA notebook for quick notes on your phone, not a database to build.
- Flipnotes vs Apple Notes, Evernote and OneNoteHow many steps it takes to save a note in each, side by side.
- Flipnotes vs Google Calendar and OutlookAdding an appointment: one line in Flipnotes, a form in a calendar app.