Notepad vs Note To Self Mail
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Notepad
Securely store and organize your thoughts with advanced features like PIN/biometric locking and an anti-theft system. Convert images to text, sync across devices, and customize your notes with rich formatting and tags. Share, backup, and easily retrieve your important information.
- PIN/Biometric note locking
- Anti-theft system with photo capture
- OCR for image to text conversion
- Cloud sync across devices
- Rich text formatting and styling
- Tagging and color-coding for organization
- Text, photo, and drawing note types
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Keep important notes safely with Anti Theft System! • Lock Notes with PIN / Biometric authentication (Fingerprint / Face detection) • Anti Theft System (Capture face photo silently who entered wrong PIN) • OCR Notes - Capture image and convert readable characters into notes! (Helpful to save ID card / Bill details) • Signup account and sync notes across the devices with same email (Backup / Restore notes to cloud) • Style your note (e.g Bold / Italic / Underline / Heading / Bullets / Alignments / Undo / Redo etc) • Note Backup / Restore via Email and Document Files and Notepad cloud account • Manage unlimited Notes • Make Text / Photo / Drawing / Sketch Notes • Tag Notes for quick search • Color notes accordingly • Share notes with friends via various apps • Trash - Recover notes from here • Bookmark - Make Note Important to fetch easily • Backup PIN - Backup PIN via email for recovery • Quick Search via title / body / tags • Save note from other app support - Select text and share it via this notepad app to store note quickly without opening this app • Available in English, Spanish, French, Russian, Japanese, German, Chinese, Italian, Korean, Portuguese, Greek, Arabic languages. Privacy Policy: https://parthmpandya.github.io/Privacy-Policy-Documents/iOS_Notepad_Privacy_Policy.html Terms Of Use: https://parthmpandya.github.io/Privacy-Policy-Documents/iOS_Notepad_Terms_and_Conditions.html This app will capture image from front camera without displaying prior view(Theft Report feature). If anyone have any query regarding this app or have any suggestion to improve app performance. Let me know on my email id: droidoworld@gmail.com
Note To Self Mail
Quickly capture your thoughts and send them directly to your inbox. This app integrates with popular to-do list applications, streamlining your workflow by sending notes via email. It offers basic note-taking with advanced features available in the pro version.
- Send notes directly to inbox
- Integrates with Trello, Evernote, etc.
- Attach photos (pro)
- Create sketches (pro)
- Attach audio notes (pro)
- Scan documents (pro)
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"Note To Self Mail" is the fastest app for your notes. You can send your notes directly into your inbox, fast and without much effort and detours. "Note To Self Mail" was designed to support mail import for your favorite todo apps like Trello, Evernote, Wunderlist, Any.do, Todoist and many more. The app is not intended to manage your notes, but it offers everything you expect from a note app: - Writing notes - Attaching photos or files (pro version) - Creating sketches (pro version) - Attach audio notes (pro version) - Scan documents (Pro-Version) To make things easier and more flexible: you can use different e-mail addresses as recipients and connect to your own e-mail account for sending. Suggestions or feedback? support@note2selfmail.app Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Note To Self Mail at 90% against Notepad's 33%. Note To Self Mail also leads on rating (4.8 vs 4.3) and ads (none vs shown). On price, in-app purchases, monetization model 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
Both are free to download. Notepad sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $1.49 per month and Note To Self Mail sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per year. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Note To Self Mail holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Note To Self Mail has 378 ratings behind it against 64, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 33% of Notepad's written reviews are positive against 90% of Note To Self Mail's.
Notepad ships an update every 3 months, Note To Self Mail every 6 weeks. Both last shipped on November 2, 2026.
| Parameter | Notepad | Note To Self Mail |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (64 ratings) | 4.8 (378 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 33.3% of reviews | 90.2% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 64 | 378 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 6 weeks — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.6 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 64 MB | 85 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Parth Pandya | Mathias Lipowski |
Customer experience
Notepad
Note To Self Mail
Bugs and requests
Notepad
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Note To Self Mail
Reported bugs
7 issues- Google OAuth doesn't work properly
- Messages stuck in outbox with Google authentication
- App stops working after several weeks of use
- Safari share extension crashes or fails silently
- Browser sharing shows grey rectangle and fails
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- Music playback stops when sending notes
- Exchange server incompatibility
Requested features
8 requests- Scheduled/delayed send functionality
- Apple Watch native app
- Document scanning with PDF export
- YouTube title preservation in sharing
- iOS 26 UI updates
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- Improved browser extension performance
- Pop-up interface option instead of full screen
- Better Exchange server support
In-app purchases
Notepad
- 1 Month License For Notes App$1.491 Month
- 1 Year License For Notes App$11.991 Year
- Ad Free Notes$1.99
- 1 Month License$1.99
- 1 Year License$9.99
Note To Self Mail
- Buy me a coffee$4.991 Year
- Pro Version$4.99
- Buy me a coffee$4.99
