Comparison

Colored Notes Simple vs Smart Notes

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

Head to head
About

Colored Notes Simple

Organize your thoughts and reminders with a vibrant and intuitive note-taking experience. Customize your notes with colors and set timely notifications to never miss an appointment or task. Enjoy a simple yet engaging way to manage your daily information.

Highlights
  • Colorful note customization
  • Appointment and meeting tracking
  • Customizable notification reminders
  • Checklist functionality
  • Intuitive user interface
Features
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Colorful notes, shopping lists and reminders in one simple, fast app. Color Notes makes writing things down a pleasure: every note has its own color, you spot it at a glance in the grid, and reminders make sure you never forget anything. - Colors: give each note a color - groceries, work, ideas, home. - Checklists: turn a note into a list with one tap and tick off what is done. - Reminders: pick a date and time and get a notification at the right moment. - Pinned notes: keep the important ones always at the top. - Search: find any word in an instant. - 14 themes: gradients that change the look of the whole app. - Widget: your notes on the Home Screen, with a plus button to start a new one. - Text size: small, medium or large. - Sharing: send a note or a list with one tap. - Privacy: everything stays on your iPhone and iPad, no account needed. Remembering things has never been so much fun. Color Notes is free to download and use. Some extra features are available through an optional one-time in-app purchase: pay once and keep it forever, with no subscription and nothing that renews. Purchases are handled by the App Store and can be restored on any device signed in with the same Apple ID. Privacy: https://sites.google.com/site/termofuseapp/ Terms: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Smart Notes

This app helps you securely store and manage various types of personal information, including bank details, checklists, birthdays, site IDs, and general notes. It offers cloud backup, reminders, and private storage for your important data.

Highlights
  • Securely manage bank account numbers
  • Create and manage checklists
  • Track birthdays with calendar mode
  • Store and recall site IDs
  • Write general text memos
  • Manage event reminders
  • Cloud backup and restore via Google Drive
Features
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Smart Notes - Secret Notepad is a memo app to help users to write memos, checklist, event necessary daily. The list of memos supported by this app is as follows. 1. Manage bank account number - If you enter the bank account number, you can copy it to the clipboard or send it to someone. 2. Manage checklist - You can write down necessary items and use these in a shopping list or to-do list. - You can freely modify items for to-do lists, task lists or any kind of things-to-do lists. 3. Manage Birthdays list - It reminds you about family or friends' birthdays. It supports calendar mode. 4. Manage site IDs - Since there are countless internet sites out there, it is difficult to remember your IDs. This function helps you to remember them. 5. General text memo, notes - You can conveniently write down text memos. - Even long memos will be okay. 6. Manage event list - It will remind you of your upcoming appointment events. Other functions - Cloud backup and restore through Google Drive - Reminder function - Private secure notes

Screenshots

Colored Notes Simple4 screens
Smart Notes4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Colored Notes Simple at none against Smart Notes's 1. Smart Notes's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and iOS requirement (9.0 vs 16.0). On price, review sentiment, update cadence 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Smart Notes sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Colored Notes Simple asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Colored Notes Simple ships an update every 6 months, Smart Notes every 7 months. The most recent releases landed on October 6, 2026 and October 2, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Colored Notes Simple versus Smart Notes: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterColored Notes SimpleSmart Notes
PriceFreeFree
Rating2.4 (5 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews0.0% of reviews
Number of ratings5 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 6 months — betterEvery 7 months
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationAd-supported — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS16.09.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size6 MB35 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developerluca calcianoGiang Dinh Van

Customer experience

Colored Notes Simple

All ratings5 ratings
Positive20.0%
Neutral40.0%
Negative40.0%
Written reviews6 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral33.3%
Negative66.7%

Smart Notes

Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

In-app purchases

None

Colored Notes Simple

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Smart Notes

One-time1
  • Remove ads$5.99

Questions

Is Colored Notes Simple free?
Colored Notes Simple is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Smart Notes free?
Smart Notes is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Colored Notes Simple or Smart Notes have ads?
Colored Notes Simple shows ads; Smart Notes does not.
Which is updated more often, Colored Notes Simple or Smart Notes?
Colored Notes Simple ships an update every 6 months, and Smart Notes every 7 months. Most recently, Colored Notes Simple was updated on October 6, 2026 and Smart Notes on October 2, 2026.

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