Is there a good app for sync notes across devices?
Heavily used and done badly — the most disruptable kind of gap.
100
Opportunity /100
99
Demand /100
67
Competition /100
100
Execution gap /100
6
Apps serving it
103
Mined complaints
What users complain about
The most common complaints behind apps that try to sync notes across devices, mined and clustered from real reviews:
| Complaint area | Type | Mentions | What a user said |
|---|---|---|---|
| no sync across devices | missing-feature | 3 | Does not sync across devices! |
| no sync between devices | missing-feature | 2 | there’s no sync between devices |
| no cross-device sync | missing-feature | 2 | tried to download the app to multiple of my devices, iPad mini and Mac and it's like it's brand new |
| hard to sync notes across platforms | ux | 1 | they’ve made it so difficult to just want to take some good note and sync them to use across platforms |
| notes never sync across devices, lost access | reliability | 1 | elas nunca foram sincroniza das e nunca consegui abrir elas em outro dispositivo...perdi acesso a anotações importantes |
| sync fails to restore notes on new device | reliability | 1 | signed into the app again with syncing on, it didn't work... My notes never came back |
| notebooks do not sync across devices | reliability | 1 | Notebooks do not synch across devices |
| sync conflicts and duplicate notes | reliability | 1 | MULTIPLE instances of conflicts and duplication of notes when updated on EITHER platform |
| notes missing across devices | reliability | 1 | some notes are missing from some Apple devices |
| saved notes missing / not syncing | reliability | 1 | All of my accounts on different devices are logged in & alot the saved notes are missing |
| notes don't sync to Mac reliably | reliability | 1 | The notes app won’t sync with my mac ... it just chooses when it wants to sync |
| tasks not syncing across devices | reliability | 1 | I can see a full list of tasks that I created on my iPad but when I open the app on the iPhone, there’s no tab for tasks |
Apps that already serve this
| App | Rating | Ratings | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Evernote - Notes Organizer | 4.4★ | 75,297 | Free |
| Microsoft Word | 4.7★ | 2,871,023 | Free |
| Google Docs | 4.8★ | 3,110,520 | Free |
| Smartsheet: Projects & Teams | 4.8★ | 115,909 | Free |
| Translate Now - AI Translator | 4.7★ | 349,552 | Free |
| Marcus by Goldman Sachs® | 4.9★ | 250,735 | Free |
Should you build it?
Heavily used and done badly — the most disruptable kind of gap. Opportunity here scores 100 out of 100 — a function of demand, how crowded the field is, and how badly the existing apps perform. Use the live map to compare it against adjacent tasks.
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