GLance Color vs Quick Notes & Draft
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
GLance Color
Extract colors from photos or live camera feeds and fine-tune them with RGB sliders. Save your favorite colors to a personal library and access standard color codes for your creative projects.
- Extract colors from photos
- Live camera color capture
- Precision RGB sliders
- Personal palette library
- View HEX and RGB codes
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Your pocket-sized color lab and personal palette library. Glance is designed for creators who work with color. It allows you to precisely extract colors from your photos or capture inspiration directly from the real world using your live camera. With intuitive RGB sliders, you can tweak and perfect your color schemes effortlessly. Core Features: Live & Photo Picker: Extract colors from your photo library or use the camera to grab colors from your surroundings. Precision Color Sliders: Fine-tune your picked colors with intuitive RGB sliders to get the exact shade you need. Personal Palette Library: Save your favorite colors to your local library and build your own digital inspiration board. Essential Color Codes: Instantly view standard HEX and RGB codes for your projects. Whether you're practicing UI design, sketching illustrations, or building a website, Glance is the perfect sidekick for your creative journey.
Quick Notes & Draft
Capture thoughts, links, and to-do lists effortlessly. Organize your notes with hashtags for easy retrieval and set reminders with a single click. Export your notes to Apple Files or other locations.
- Auto-paste copied text
- Hashtag organization
- Export notes to files
- Convert notes to reminders
- Contribute to app translation
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nanonote - Write freely and organize with #hashtags to filter your notes. People use Nanonote for saving links, creating to-do lists, daily journaling, tracking expenses, and more. Features: - Copy text from any app and just open the nanonote it will automatically paste it in the input box. So just copy from anywhere and enjoy the magic - While writing notes adds Hashtags to organise notes for future use. - Export Note: You can export all your note to a file, save them on Apple files or wherever you want. (Setting > Export Note) - Improved reminder: With one click you can convert your note to a reminder. In the current version, you can choose when to set an alert (Long press on any note to start Reminder) - Contribution to app translation: Currently we support Chinese & English, from now on anyone can contribute to app translation (Setting > App translation)
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Quick Notes & Draft at Free against GLance Color's $0.99. Quick Notes & Draft also leads on rating (4.5 vs 4.1) and update cadence (fortnightly vs every 5 weeks). GLance Color's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1). On review sentiment, ads, device support 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
Quick Notes & Draft is free to download; GLance Color costs $0.99 up front. Quick Notes & Draft sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. GLance Color asks for nothing beyond the download.
Quick Notes & Draft holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 4.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Quick Notes & Draft has 249 ratings behind it against 38, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 56% and 56% positive.
GLance Color ships an update every 5 weeks, Quick Notes & Draft fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | GLance Color | Quick Notes & Draft |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.1 (38 ratings) | 4.5 (249 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 55.6% of reviews | 55.6% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 38 | 249 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | Free with in-app purchases — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 | 14.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 11 MB | 38 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 竞尘 胡 | Santu Dey |
Customer experience
GLance Color
Quick Notes & Draft
Bugs and requests
GLance Color
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Quick Notes & Draft
Reported bugs
17 issues- Entry box doesn't work, especially after clicking tags or expanding notes
- App crashes frequently, especially when saving or deleting notes
- Notes disappear or are deleted unexpectedly
- Scan feature not working or its availability is unclear
- Hashtag functionality is broken (doesn't update, doesn't work with non-English)
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- Premium purchase button is hidden below the screen on iPhone SE
- Ads are still shown after purchasing premium
- App crashes upon opening or after adding the first note
- Welcome note cannot be deleted
- App crashes when trying to upgrade to premium
- Entry box shows paste function but no keyboard
- Scan function doesn't work
- App crashes when saving or deleting a note
- App crashes when opening
- Premium notifications continue after purchase
- Button for upgrade doesn't fit screen on iPhone SE
- Graphic displayed too big on iPhone SE 2016, making upgrade button untappable
Requested features
15 requests- Add passcode lock for security
- Add folders with passcodes
- Add widgets
- Add photo support
- More colorful interface options
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- Add a calculation feature (auto plus/minus)
- Support for multi-language hashtags
- Improve hashtag management system (view all tags)
- Apple Watch support
- Portuguese language support
- Add swipe gestures for actions
- Selection option for multiple notes (delete, share)
- Clearer description of Pro features
- Add keyboard shortcuts for saving
- Ability to delete the welcome note
In-app purchases
GLance Color
No in-app purchases
Quick Notes & Draft
- nanonote Premium$2.99
Questions
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