Creative Book Reader vs Notewrap
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Creative Book Reader
This application allows users to read HTML5 books and widgets offline. It provides tools to manage, search, and sort your digital library for easy access to content.
- Read HTML5 books and widgets offline
- Manage a list of books and widgets
- Search for books and widgets
- Sort by title or modified date
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Creative Book Reader is a new way to read HTML5 books generated by Creative Book Builder and book widgets generated by Creative Widget Builder. Features * Manage a list of HTML5 books and widgets * Read HTML5 books and widgets offline * Search HTML5 books and widgets * Sort HTML5 books and widgets by title or modified date
Notewrap
This app is a digital notebook designed for writers to capture ideas, organize them into chapters or scenes, and export their work in various formats. It offers formatting tools, drawing capabilities, and customizable themes to enhance the writing process.
- Organize notes into notebooks
- Rearrange and remix content
- Add front and back matter
- Export to PDF, RTF, text, markdown
- Simple text formatting tools
- Artwork creation with Apple Pencil
- Customizable themes and text settings
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Take notes on the go whenever imagination strikes, add them to a notebook and write a book, blog, essay, report or paper. Write in pieces, one scene, paragraph or chapter at a time and add them to a notebook and later rearrange & remix notes & photos so that e.g. scene 4 can become scene 1 or chapter 7 can become chapter 2. You can also add front matter such as title page, acknowledgement etc. and back matter such as end notes, photos etc. Once your draft is ready you can export your notebook to various formats such as pdf, rtf, plain text, markdown etc. An al fresco writer’s loose-leaf notebook that lets you write a book, blog, essay, report or paper on the go like never before. It provides a simple and elegant text formatting interface with style, bullets & lists, indent, align and other functions neatly categorised as separate options in the toolbar. Writers can easily set to standard manuscript format and write a book with just a tap of a button. First line indent, line spacing, font size, etc. are all available at your fingertips. Artwork feature lets you create masterpieces with your finger or Apple Pencil. Draw on any device and your artwork will get synced to other devices and scaled appropriately. You can also add artwork to a notebook and create a beautiful notebook of artworks. Notewrap also provides 2 themes, a beautiful minimalist birch tree and an elegant colour palette theme that will inspire and motivate you to write. There are preconfigured options to set theme to default, soft, mild, etc. and you can also customise by configuring options such as blur, contrast, saturation, etc. Write & Print text settings lets you write with a font size that you are comfortable with and later you can customise text settings such as font size, line spacing etc. while you export & print the notebook. Other Main Features • PDF printing of notes, photos & notebooks automatically prevents widow and orphan lines. • Dilly dallying clock widget that lets you know the amount of time spent without writing a word. • An elegant calendar view that lets you view notes & photos by days. • PDF printing of notes, photos & notebooks in Standard Manuscript, MLA, APA & CMS format with options to change paper size, page margins, font size, line spacing, etc. • Export & Share notes, photos & notebooks to plain text, markdown, rtf, html, pdf, etc. • A powerful search feature that lets you search notes, photos and notebooks and shows search results with highlighted text in the same view for easy navigation. • Self-hosted WordPress users can post notes to WordPress and create & update blog posts from right within Notewrap. • Automatic and Manual Sync that syncs notes, photos & notebooks to iCloud and across all your devices such as iPhone, iPad or Mac • Sync shows you status of the downloads & uploads of number of notes, photos & notebooks to and from iCloud. • Recent notes & photos, Grid View & List view for photos & notebooks, Parts of Speech, Sentiment Analysis and Dictionary. • Tag notes & photos as favourites and easily access them from Favourites view. It also comes loaded with other amazing features such as current location, split view, etc. Whether you are a writer writing stories, poems or articles, blogger writing blog-posts, student writing essays, assignments or reports, researcher writing research papers or simply someone who is into journaling and maintains journals such as gratitude, food etc., with Notewrap you can easily create such writings as notebooks your way on the go as it provides a simple and elegant interface and lets you take notes a paragraph, scene or chapter at a time and gives you complete control in the way you want to create and style your writings. A beautiful, powerful and elegant writing app like never before. Enjoy writing on the go!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Creative Book Reader at 100% against Notewrap's 45%. Creative Book Reader also leads on price (Free vs $9.99) and rating (5.0 vs 4.2). Notewrap's advantage is update cadence (monthly vs every 11 months) and ratings volume (32 vs 1). On ads and in-app purchases 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
Creative Book Reader is free to download; Notewrap costs $9.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Creative Book Reader holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Notewrap has 32 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of Creative Book Reader's written reviews are positive against 45% of Notewrap's.
Creative Book Reader ships an update every 11 months, Notewrap monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 10, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Creative Book Reader | Notewrap |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $9.99 |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | 4.2 (32 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 45.5% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 32 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 11 months | Monthly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 14.5 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 3 MB | 300 MB |
| Age rating | +4 | 4+ |
| Developer | Tiger Ng | Betyl Pty Ltd |
Customer experience
Creative Book Reader
Notewrap
In-app purchases
Creative Book Reader
No in-app purchases
Notewrap
No in-app purchases
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