vNote vs iNote
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
vNote
Capture ideas quickly with a minimalist note-taking experience. Organize and visualize your thoughts using customizable fonts, colors, and sizes for at-a-glance comprehension. Focus on content without distractions.
- Quick note-taking
- Visual organization
- Customizable fonts
- Adjustable colors
- Adjustable sizes
- Minimalist interface
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Take notes with 2 taps and view them as you like. vNote is a simple App, that goes straight to the point. No dates, deadlines, alarms or labels. It encloses your notes in a single screen and lets you choose how to visualize them by changing fonts, colors and sizes, to get with just a glance, all the information that you need. For information and suggestions: canali.nicola@gmail.com
iNote
Organize your thoughts, tasks, and lists using a vibrant color-coding system. Add images, set reminders, and sync across devices with iCloud. View notes in various layouts and even pin them to your Today Board widget.
- Organize notes by color
- Attach photos to notes
- iCloud sync and backup
- Checklist notes for to-do lists
- Reminders and calendar view
- Pin notes to Today Board widget
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iNote Free is a simple and quick sticky notepad app. This helps you organize your notes, memos, messages, emails, shopping lists, check lists and to-do lists by COLOR. Taking color notes with iNote is never easier than before. MANAGE NOTE BY COLOR Each note has a main color so you can group these notes by a color-category in a professional way like: memos, to-do lists, shopping lists, emails, travels, and ideas... ADD IMAGES TO NOTE Notes now can attach photos. All photos are sync with iCloud too. DISPLAY NOTE WITH MANY OPTIONS You can view your notes in grid (like sticky note), quick list, or detail list. This app helps you sort notes by color, remind time, updated time, created time, or title name. So you can view these note quickly and super easily. SYNC WITH ICLOUD, NEVER LOST YOUR NOTE Your notes is sync with your iCloud account, so you can take note on iPhone and use on your iPad and vise versa. You will never lost note because your data is saved on iCloud. BACKUP & IMPORT EASILY You can backup your data, send via email then import them on all of your devices when ever you want. This app supports importing notes from ColorNote app on other devices, so you will never miss your notes. FAST CREATE TODO LIST In the checklist mode, you can take note quickly and re-arrange to-do items easily. When clicking on each item, you can check or un-check as done by a quick tap. Checked item will be slashed like the way you check them on your notebook. REMIND AND CALENDAR With each note, you can add a reminder. Then the app will notify you when the even happens. You can also repeat these events daily, weekly, monthly or yearly depend on your settings. And you can view these events in calendar mode. It will help you have a quick view of events on specific month and day. PIN ON TODAY BOARD WIDGET You now can pin notes on to Today Board up to 12 notes, then you can access these note every where, at any time you need from Notification Center. KEY FEATURES: - Organize notes by color, display with many layout options - Attach photos to note - Sync with iCloud, backup and import notes - Checklist notes for To do list and Shopping list - Remind notes and calendar - Pin notes on Today Board iNote supports up to 12 languages: English, Vietnamese, Spanish, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, German, French, Turkish, Portuguese, Russian, Italian. The list will be continue updated.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: vNote at 95% against iNote's 49%. vNote also leads on ads (none vs shown) and rating (4.4 vs 4.1). iNote's advantage is ratings volume (2.4K vs 14) and update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 6 weeks). On price, in-app purchases, monetization model and device support 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
Both are free to download. vNote sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and iNote sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
vNote holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 4.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: iNote has 2.4K ratings behind it against 14, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 95% of vNote's written reviews are positive against 49% of iNote's.
vNote ships an update every 6 weeks, iNote every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 29, 2026 and October 13, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | vNote | iNote |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (14 ratings) — better | 4.1 (2.4K ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 95.5% of reviews — better | 49.1% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 14 | 2.4K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 — better | 15.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 34 MB | 18 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Nicola Canali | CONG DUC TRAN |
Customer experience
vNote
iNote
Bugs and requests
vNote
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
iNote
Reported bugs
3 issues- Notes disappearing after updates
- White text on white background making notes unreadable
- Inability to rearrange items in checklists
Requested features
4 requests- Add undo/redo functionality
- Improve search and filtering options
- Allow custom font and text formatting
- Provide backup and restore options
In-app purchases
vNote
- Pro Version$1.99
iNote
- ColorNote Premium$4.99








