Comparison

Notepad vs wryte notes

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

Head to head
About

Notepad

This app provides a simple and interactive notepad for jotting down ideas, creating lists, and organizing thoughts. It supports text, handwriting, drawing, and image attachments, making it a flexible tool for quick notes and task management on mobile devices.

Highlights
  • Create notes and lists
  • Handwriting and drawing support
  • Add images and photos
  • Organize and edit notes
  • Task management
  • Flexible canvas
Features
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Use our practical and simple interactive notepad app to write down your ideas, create shopping lists or to-do lists and organize them. Make it simple and easy to make and manage notes on the go with your smartphone or tablet. It is designed for those who just want a quick app to write down spontaneous ideas. Anywhere and anytime create notes, to-do lists, shopping list, edit or save a note! Our app works as a flexible canvas which lets you type, handwrite, draw or take notes. You can also scribble, sketch a draft or do the grocery list! Use our note-taking tools to create memos, messages, sticky notes, shopping lists, check lists and to-do lists. And you don’t need to stick to mere text – you can also add images and photos to your notes. Enjoy this task manager app that helps you to get all your lists done. Edit and organize your quick notes in this simple notepad app.

About

wryte notes

This app revolutionizes note-taking for students and educators. It offers real-time collaboration, organization tools, and PDF editing to enhance productivity and learning.

Highlights
  • Real-time collaboration with voice and video
  • PDF import and editing
  • Smart to-do list and timetable integration
  • Document sharing and organization
  • Variety of writing and drawing tools
  • Intelligent document scanning
Features
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100% GDPR COMPLIANT Revolutionize your notes with wryte Transform your school day with wryte, the tool to take notes, collaborate & communicate, practice and organize and get more done in less time Save time Say goodbye to lost notes and disorganized documents wryte automatically saves your work and organizes it for you, so you can focus on taking notes. Work in real time with friends, classmates or colleagues from anywhere in the world Live collaboration with wryte is the perfect solution for group projects, school assignments and so much more Communicate simultaneously via voice & video thanks to our custom-built technology and work live with others like never before Perfect for education wryte is the perfect tool for students & teachers, students & lecturers Improve your grades and increase your productivity with wryte Make the most of your time and get more done with wryte Add other users as friends, share documents and collaborate live with them Share documents faster than ever before Lightning-fast document sharing with wryte contacts means you'll never have to export, upload, download and import files again With just the click of a button, whole notebooks or single pages can be shared with your wryte contacts. Tools - Pen, pencil and highlighter with different colors and line widths - Lasso tool for moving, copying and duplicating - Perfect shapes (lines, circles, rectangles, arrows and polygons) - Ruler for precise work - Text input with keyboard - Link tool for linking other documents and websites - Laser pointer for presentations - Recognition of straight lines Backgrounds - Choose from a variety of backgrounds, including music paper, chemist's hexagons, vocabulary notebooks, and even a weekly planner PDFs - Import any PDF document and edit it with all wryte tools - Export documents as PDFs or in wryte format - Forward documents or receive documents from other users Photos and scans - Add existing or new photos to entries - With wryte's intelligent scanning feature, photographed documents look as if they were scanned - wryte allows easy moving, resizing, cropping and rotating of photos and scans The smart linked desktop - The wryte desk gives a quick overview of all documents and allows quick access to all documents - Customize your desk with many colors and icons Live collaboration - Work live with other users on documents - Call other wryte users with notebooks or PDF documents and work together on projects and tasks - Activate camera and microphone on demand and collaborate with others as if you were sitting in the same room - Use wryte's collaboration feature for online tutoring and experience the best online tutoring ever The smart to-do list - Add to-dos from documents - To-dos are automatically assigned to the created subject folders - Manage, schedule, prioritize and edit all to-dos in the integrated overview Automatically linked timetable - Add appointments or lessons to the integrated timetable - wryte automatically links them to folders and documents Your account connected to the wryte Cloud - 100% GDPR compliant - The wryte Cloud automatically backs up all documents encrypted if desired - Log in from any device to view and edit all documents - Everything is always securely stored, no matter what happens to the device Experience the future of writing and collaboration with wryte. Start now!

Screenshots

Notepad4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: wryte notes at 60% against Notepad's 0%. wryte notes also leads on rating (4.7 vs 3.3) and ads (none vs shown). Notepad's advantage is device support (3 vs 1). On price, in-app purchases, monetization model and iOS requirement 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. Notepad sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and wryte notes sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

wryte notes holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 3.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: wryte notes has 23 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 0% of Notepad's written reviews are positive against 60% of wryte notes's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Notepad ships an update every 12 months, wryte notes every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on August 23, 2026 and July 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Notepad versus wryte notes: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterNotepadwryte notes
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.3 (3 ratings)4.7 (23 ratings) — better
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews60.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings323 — better
Update frequencyEvery 12 monthsEvery 2 weeks — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPad
Requires iOS14.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size22 MB128 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMaria Amparo RicosSignal Hill GmbH

Customer experience

Notepad

All ratings3 ratings
Positive66.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative33.3%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

wryte notes

All ratings23 ratings
Positive91.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative8.7%
Written reviews5 reviews
Positive60.0%
Neutral40.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Notepad

One-time1
  • Remove Ads$3.49
4 purchases

wryte notes

Subscriptions4
  • Basic2 variants$0.991 Month
  • Standard2 variants$2.991 Month
  • Premium$4.991 Month
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  • Premium$9.991 Month

Questions

Is Notepad free?
Notepad is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is wryte notes free?
wryte notes is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Notepad or wryte notes?
wryte notes is rated higher. Notepad averages 3.3 out of 5 from 3 ratings, while wryte notes averages 4.7 from 23 ratings.
Do Notepad or wryte notes have ads?
Notepad shows ads; wryte notes does not.
Which is updated more often, Notepad or wryte notes?
Notepad ships an update every 12 months, and wryte notes every 2 weeks. Most recently, Notepad was updated on August 23, 2026 and wryte notes on July 5, 2026.

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