apple-notes-cost-tuning

Apple Notes Cost Tuning

Overview

Apple Notes is free. The only cost is iCloud storage, which is shared across all Apple services.

iCloud Storage Tiers

Plan	Storage	Price/mo	Notes Capacity
Free	5 GB	$0	~50,000 text notes
iCloud+ 50GB	50 GB	$0.99	Effectively unlimited
iCloud+ 200GB	200 GB	$2.99	Effectively unlimited
iCloud+ 2TB	2 TB	$9.99	Effectively unlimited

Storage Optimization

# Check Notes storage usage
osascript -l JavaScript -e "
  const Notes = Application(\"Notes\");
  const notes = Notes.defaultAccount.notes();
  let totalChars = 0;
  notes.forEach(n => { totalChars += n.body().length; });
  \`${notes.length} notes, ~${Math.round(totalChars / 1024)}KB of text content\`;
"

# Large notes (>100KB body — usually have embedded images)
osascript -l JavaScript -e "
  const Notes = Application(\"Notes\");
  Notes.defaultAccount.notes()
    .filter(n => n.body().length > 100000)
    .map(n => \`\${n.name()} (${Math.round(n.body().length/1024)}KB)\`)
    .join(\"\\n\");
"

Resources

• Mac Automation Scripting Guide
• JXA Examples