Ukulele Notepad vs Datum
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Ukulele Notepad
This app allows ukulele players to quickly create, edit, and share song ideas using a touch-friendly tab editor. It supports custom tunings, various musical techniques, and offers cloud saving and PDF export options.
- Create and edit ukulele tabs
- Custom tunings and string support
- Add chords, lyrics, and performance notes
- Cloud saving and email sharing
- Export to PDF or text
- Autoscroll for playback
- Left-handed view option
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Ukulele Notepad helps you easily and quickly jot down song ideas in guitar tab, save them to the cloud and email them to band mates. I created this app as I found that when playing around with ideas on my own, or after a jam session, I was still using paper to jot down ideas. I have tried some of the other tab writing apps out there but none of them used the touch screen like a guitar fret board which really speeds things up. I'm keen to make this app as useful as possible so please feel free to contact me if you want any new features added. Create and Edit Tab: - Edit song details like title, artist, transcribed by and tempo - Add time signatures, lyrics and performance notes - Add chords, strum patterns and lyrics above your tabbed notes (no other apps I've seen support this!) - Add any number of strings and custom tunings including 4,5,6 and 7 string guitars/bass guitars - Use touch screen to quickly add notes with a single tap - Choose from common chord patterns to save time - Add techniques likes slides, hammer ons, pull offs muted notes, harmonics, tremolo, vibrato, ghosts/ties, tapping and more - Backspace as well as delete button for faster editing - Cut, copy and paste sections of tab, even between different songs - Undo button - the last 10 actions are recorded and can be undone - Continuous chord mode - saves having to perform an extra tap to start adding chords - Option to view notes on the fret board - Supports repeated bar notation - Tab Playback (no note modulation for now) - Can change guitar neck to left handed view - Supports note lengths from whole notes to 1/64, dotted notes and triplets - Add a capo View, Export and Share: - Export to PDF or text - Transpose songs up and down - Organize songs by artists or use tags to create albums and setlists - Use autoscroll to view tabs and play along - Layout optimised for both tablets and phones - Zoom in and out depending on your screen size - Print from device - Save songs to file in your cloud storage like Dropbox, or export via email. - Ability to perform a full backup and restore - useful if you are switching devices - Import songs shared from other people's Guitar Notepad apps - View and search through your songs by title, artist name or last modified time
Datum
A minimalist calendar application designed for Apple devices, offering a clean interface and customizable widgets for iOS, macOS, and watchOS. View upcoming events, daily schedules, and monthly overviews directly from your home screen or watch face.
- Minimalist calendar interface
- Lockscreen widgets for iOS
- Event display widgets
- Calendar widgets with event marks
- watchOS calendar and complications
- Support for iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple Watch
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Datum is a minimalistic iOS, watchOS, macOS and visionOS calendar app. For iOS there are Lockscreen Widgets that show you the current date and there are Lockscreen Widgets that show up to 3 events for today. The iOS and macOS apps include the following widgets: - a small widget that shows the current date and at the bottom the events for this day - a small widget that shows a calendar with up to 3 event marks for each day - a medium widget that shows the same as the first small widget and on the right side a calendar with up to 3 event marks for each day - a large widget that shows the same as the medium widget and a list of the upcoming events - a extra large widget that shows a calendar and a list of the upcoming events (only for iPadOS 15+) The watchOS app shows a calendar with up to 3 event marks for each day. You can switch to the next/previous month by tapping on the arrows at the bottom of the calendar. You can view all events for each day by tapping on a day. There are also complications for all watchfaces included that show you the current date.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Datum at 100% against Ukulele Notepad's 52%. Datum also leads on device support (5 vs 3). Ukulele Notepad's advantage is iOS requirement (11.0 vs 17.6). On price, update cadence, 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
Ukulele Notepad costs $1.99 and Datum $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Ukulele Notepad ships an update every 2 months, Datum every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 16, 2026 and October 9, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Ukulele Notepad | Datum |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $1.99 | $1.99 |
| Rating | 3.5 (20 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 52.4% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 20 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 3 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, Vision Pro — better |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 17.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 10 MB | 11 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Codefad | Michael Lindinger |
Customer experience
Ukulele Notepad
Datum
In-app purchases
Ukulele Notepad
No in-app purchases
Datum
No in-app purchases









