Comparison

Gradekeeper for iPhone vs Notebooks

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Gradekeeper for iPhone

Manage student grades and attendance easily on your iPhone. Create classes, import student rosters, track assignments and scores, and generate progress reports. Supports various grading methods and school year structures.

Highlights
  • Create and manage classes
  • Import student rosters
  • Track assignments and scores
  • Take attendance with seating chart
  • Generate student progress reports
  • Flexible grading methods
  • Customizable school year structures
Features
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Gradekeeper makes dealing with grades easy! Thousands of teachers use Gradekeeper to manage their grades. Now you can use Gradekeeper on your iPhone. With Gradekeeper for iPhone, you can: - Create new classes right on your iPhone - Open existing classes from your Dropbox - Copy existing classes to your iPhone using iTunes file sharing - Import student rosters from a text or csv file - Email or print individual student progress reports - Add new assignments and scores - Take attendance - Take attendance using the seating chart - Assign seats or make a new seating chart - Set up your school year to use semesters, trimesters, quarters, or six terms - Set up assignment categories and weights - Compute grades using total points or category weights - Set up your own letter grades and percents If you have questions, you can email me by tapping About when in the files view and then tapping the email button. Your feedback will help make Gradekeeper better!

About

Notebooks

This app helps you write, organize, and manage documents, tasks, and files. It offers flexible writing modes, robust organization tools, and task management features, all while ensuring your data remains accessible and under your control.

Highlights
  • Formatted text, plain text, and Markdown writing
  • Create documents with styles, tables, and attachments
  • Organize with nested hierarchies and 'books'
  • Task management with due dates and checklists
  • Wiki-style linking and backlinks
  • Full-text search
  • Cross-device synchronization
Features
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Own your notes — forever. Notebooks is a writing and organization app with no subscription, no lock-in, and no worries. Your documents are stored as standard files you can always access, export, or move freely. Pay once. Use for life. Use Notebooks as a personal wiki, Zettelkasten, document archive, task manager, or long-term writing space. Capture quick notes, turn them into actionable tasks, combine text fragments into chapters, organize research, or keep business documents separate from personal journals — without ever switching apps. Designed to help you stay focused and work at your own pace, Notebooks grows with your needs and is always ready to support you. WRITE AND CREATE Create beautifully formatted documents with styles, attachments, tables, checklists, and optional tables of contents. Choose from ready-made styles or design your own. Write in different ways: Formatted text (WYSIWYG) Plain text, with smart handling of lists, automatic character pairing, and a focused writing view Markdown, supporting MultiMarkdown and Discount, with syntax highlighting, dedicated keyboard keys, wiki-style links, and interactive checklists Sketch ideas or annotate images and PDFs using Apple Pencil. STORE AND ORGANIZE Notebooks stores all documents as regular files in standard formats. You always remain in control — no lock-in, no export worries, fully compatible across devices and over time. Organize your work in books and nested hierarchies without limits. Import PDFs, emails, web pages, MS Office and iWork documents, images, audio, video, and more. Use full-text search to find even the most deeply nested document. PLAN AND ACT Turn books into project lists and documents into tasks. Assign due dates and alerts, create nested projects, and track progress naturally — right where your work lives. Use simple checklists in formatted documents or Markdown for lightweight task tracking. STAY FOCUSED Link documents together to build knowledge over time. Use wiki-style links, backlinks, contexts, and smart books to keep everything connected and within reach. When you rename or move documents, links stay intact. A PLACE YOU CAN RELY ON Sync your documents between iPhone, iPad, Mac, and PC. Work on documents stored in other apps, compile selections into PDFs or eBooks, scan documents and extract text using OCR, and trust that your data stays accessible — now and in the future. With time, Notebooks often becomes the one place users rely on to keep everything that matters close at hand. WHAT USERS SAY “Notebooks is a wonderful app — sophisticated in an unassuming way. I feel more productive without spending time managing the app itself.” “You are GTD in every way that makes it efficient — and makes me efficient.”

Screenshots

Gradekeeper for iPhone4 screens
Notebooks4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Gradekeeper for iPhone at $2.99 against Notebooks's $17.99. Gradekeeper for iPhone also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 4) and review sentiment (100% vs 82%). Notebooks's advantage is ratings volume (1.1K vs 7). On rating, update cadence, ads and monetization model 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Gradekeeper for iPhone costs $2.99 and Notebooks $17.99 up front. Notebooks sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. Gradekeeper for iPhone asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for Gradekeeper for iPhone against 4.7 for Notebooks. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Notebooks has 1.1K ratings behind it against 7, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 100% of Gradekeeper for iPhone's written reviews are positive against 82% of Notebooks's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 5 level
Gradekeeper for iPhone versus Notebooks: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGradekeeper for iPhoneNotebooks
Price$2.99 — better$17.99
Rating4.9 (7 ratings) — better4.7 (1.1K ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews — better82.3% of reviews
Number of ratings71.1K — better
Update frequencyMonthlyMonthly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaidPaid
Best chart rank#196 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS15.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size4 MB48 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDaniel EthierAlfons Schmid

Customer experience

Gradekeeper for iPhone

All ratings7 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Notebooks

All ratings1,069 ratings
Positive94.0%
Neutral2.7%
Negative3.3%
Written reviews215 reviews
Positive82.3%
Neutral5.6%
Negative12.1%

Bugs and requests

Gradekeeper for iPhone

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

Notebooks

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • Data loss after iOS upgrades
  • Compatibility issues with newer iOS versions

Requested features

4 requests
  • Improved Markdown support
  • More font and color customization options
  • Better Apple Watch integration
  • Export to Word format

In-app purchases

None

Gradekeeper for iPhone

No in-app purchases

4 purchases

Notebooks

One-time4
  • Small Tip$0.99
  • Custom Storage Locations$2.99
  • Medium Tip$2.99
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  • Generous Tip$4.99

Questions

Is Gradekeeper for iPhone free?
Gradekeeper for iPhone costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Notebooks free?
Notebooks costs $17.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Gradekeeper for iPhone or Notebooks?
Gradekeeper for iPhone is rated higher. Gradekeeper for iPhone averages 4.9 out of 5 from 7 ratings, while Notebooks averages 4.7 from 1.1K ratings.
Do Gradekeeper for iPhone or Notebooks have ads?
Neither Gradekeeper for iPhone nor Notebooks shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Gradekeeper for iPhone or Notebooks?
Gradekeeper for iPhone ships an update monthly, and Notebooks monthly. Most recently, Gradekeeper for iPhone was updated on October 24, 2026 and Notebooks on October 29, 2026.

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