Comparison

Memo Notepad HD vs Surely

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

Head to head
About

Memo Notepad HD

Capture your thoughts, drafts, journals, and lists with this intuitive note-taking app. Organize notes into notepads, set reminders, and collaborate with others via email or integrated messaging. Enjoy seamless offline access and fast cloud syncing.

Highlights
  • Organize notes with multiple notepads
  • Share and collaborate on notes
  • Fast, secure cloud sync
  • 100% offline use
  • Set reminders for notes
  • Integrated messenger for shared notes
Features
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The simple and easy place for your quick thoughts Memo Notepad provides you with a totally simple way to take notes on your iPad. Saving, cloud syncing all happens in the background. Just focus and write down what you are thinking super quickly and easily. Memo is a perfect place for your thoughts, email drafts, journals, lists, or study and meeting notes. Beyond the simplicity of standard note taking, Memo gives you the power to organize your notes into individual notepads or to set reminders if you want to come back to a note later. If you want to share your notes with your friends, you can easily send them a copy over email. You can even add a contact from your Address Book to a note to let them view and edit a note. Sharing a lot of notes? You can share an entire notebook of notes, even discuss your notes with the integrated messaging support. Everything in Memo is usable offline, all your notes are always accessible, you'll never be bothered about your connectivity. Even sharing will still work offline, when you are online later Memo will sync your changes to your contacts. You can use Memo Notepad offline or online, all your notes made offline will sync when you get back online. You can access all your notes offline. You can search through your notes, and it will find what you are looking for instantly as you type. Features: - Organize your thoughts with multiple notepads - Share and collaborate on notes with family, friends or coworkers - Super fast sync - encrypted and securely backed up in the cloud - Personalize with various font options in Writing Styles - Designed to allow 100% offline use. Never wait for "syncing" - Mark notes to be reminded later - Integrated messenger for shared notepads Tips: - If you delete a note by accident, shake to undo - If you forget your cloud sync password, try guessing a password to reveal the 'forgot password' button, it will email you a reset link Other Apps: - You can use your same sync account with our other apps: Do it (Tomorrow), Everyday Notes Premium Cloud Sync Subscription Service: - Sync with Dropbox and Google Drive as well as other bonus features is available on a subscription basis of $0.99/month or $4.99/year. (subscription uses iTunes Account at purchase, final price depends on country) - To cancel or select not to auto-renew a subscription, go to Account Settings after purchase. Subscriptions during a single period cannot be cancelled. - Premium subscriptions automatically renew, unless selected not to, or canceled. Cancellations or disabling of auto-renew must happen at least 24 hours before the end of the month or year. - Bonus features include: Note and Notepad locking with password and touch-id support, more font options, dark and sepia themes. Sync Accounts (if enabled): - Privacy policy can be found at https://account.adylitica.com/txt/privacy_policy.txt and Terms of use at: https://account.adylitica.com/txt/terms_of_use.txt Memo Notepad is a project we are working to make a great app for everyone's notes. Please email us at web-support@adylitica.com with your feedback, questions, issues, ideas, or just to say hello :)

About

Surely

This app offers a streamlined approach to task management, focusing on completion rather than complex organization. It provides essential actions like completing, deleting, or deferring tasks, intentionally omitting features that might encourage procrastination.

Highlights
  • Complete tasks
  • Delete tasks
  • Defer tasks
  • Minimalist interface
  • Focus on task completion
Features
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Most todo apps give you lots of features to organize your todos. But you don't want to be spending time organizing your todos: you want to be completing them. Surely is a focused todo app giving you just the features you need to get your todos done. There are only three things you can do with a todo: * Complete it * Delete it * Defer it Here are all the features Surely doesn't have because they encourage you to keep more todos instead of completing them: * Separate defer dates and due dates * Complex ways of searching for todos * Separate lists of todos so you aren't looking at all of them at once * Bulk defer features. It should not be painless to defer many todos to the future; it should be painful to work with multiple todos so that you complete or delete them Surely is available for free on both iOS and the web.

Screenshots

Surely4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Surely at 100% against Memo Notepad HD's 50%. Surely also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.0) and in-app purchases (none vs 2). Memo Notepad HD's advantage is ratings volume (3 vs 1). On price, update cadence and ads 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. Memo Notepad HD sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Surely asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Surely holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 1 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 50% of Memo Notepad HD's written reviews are positive against 100% of Surely's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Memo Notepad HD ships an update every 2 months, Surely every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Memo Notepad HD versus Surely: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMemo Notepad HDSurely
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.0 (3 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews50.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings3 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 6 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemiumFree — better
DevicesiPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.015.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size6 MB34 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAdylitica, Inc.Josh Justice

Customer experience

Memo Notepad HD

All ratings3 ratings
Positive66.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative33.3%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%

Surely

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Memo Notepad HD

Subscriptions2
  • Premium Sync$0.991 Month
  • Premium Sync$4.991 Year
None

Surely

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Memo Notepad HD free?
Memo Notepad HD is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Surely free?
Surely is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Memo Notepad HD or Surely?
Surely is rated higher. Memo Notepad HD averages 4.0 out of 5 from 3 ratings, while Surely averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Memo Notepad HD or Surely have ads?
Neither Memo Notepad HD nor Surely shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Memo Notepad HD or Surely?
Memo Notepad HD ships an update every 2 months, and Surely every 6 weeks. Most recently, Memo Notepad HD was updated on November 6, 2026 and Surely on November 3, 2026.

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