Originally Posted by Faterson

I very much disagree, and one reason for that is already included in the particular wording of your praise: "all-Apple-devices".

Please take a look at Nebulous Notes, Penforhire. It not only syncs faster than Apple's native Notes app, but it's a lot more versatile, because it's cross-platform. It's Dropbox-based, so any note I make in Nebulous Notes, I can instantly pick up on either my MacBook or my Windows desktop machine, and I can pick it up and continue editing it there with the text editor of my choice (EditPlus for me), not being restricted (once again) to Apple's Notes app, which is just as lame on the desktop as it is in iOS. And let's not even mention the superior, professional editing tools offered by Nebulous Notes and EditPlus, as opposed to Apple's Notes, which is the absolutely barrest bare-bones plain-vanilla text editor one can possibly imagine -- but at least until iOS 6, it looked good. Starting from iOS 7, it's not just feature-poor, but also unspeakably ugly. Please note that just because Nebulous Notes and EditPlus offer superior, professional text-editing tools, this does not make them in any way cluttered compared to the Notes app; they are perfectly light-weight editors in which, if you so desire, you can even turn off the display of all toolbars so that (similarly to the native Notes app) only the editing window remains.



I find both Reminders and Calendar by Apple useless (which is not surprising), and again: there are much better iOS apps accomplishing the same things that also sync effortlessly. For me, this is Toodledo for tasks, and Calendars 5 for calendars. And yes, colour coding of various calendar events does matter: the Calendars 5 app does not only show a coloured dot next to the event title, but colours the entire event field in the colour you specify, making your calendar views that much clearer. Apple's Calendar, in its typically dumb way, displays all calendar events in the same dull grey colour... I guess no bad software design choice by Apple should surprise anyone any longer; but iOS 7 is definitely a new low. I admire Apple as a ground-breaking hardware company, but their software almost universally sucks. iOS used to be the bright spot among Apple's software offerings, but the hideous make-up of iOS 7 now makes it easy to forget about the good things iOS offers to the users.