Comparison

Notepad vs Prod Me

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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

About

Prod Me

Features
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Tired of reminders that get dismissed and instantly forgotten? Prod Me is a minimalist reminder tool built for one single job: to keep alerting you until your task is completed. No categories, no tags, no statistics, no ads, no subscriptions — just a clean, focused tool with a one-time purchase. Type your task, set a time, and leave the app. It saves automatically, no extra taps required. Notifications repeat at your chosen interval. Dismissing them, closing the app, or restarting your phone will not stop the reminders. They only end when you mark the task as done. Everything runs locally on your device. No account, no data collection, no internet access. Simple gestures, clean interface, and relentless reminders to help you stop forgetting things for good.

Screenshots

Notepad4 screens
Prod Me4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Notepad at Free against Prod Me's $1.99. Prod Me's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 5) and ads (none vs shown). On update cadence, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Notepad is free to download; Prod Me costs $1.99 up front. Notepad sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $1.49 per month. Prod Me asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Notepad ships an update every 3 months, Prod Me every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 2, 2026 and October 11, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Notepad versus Prod Me: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterNotepadProd Me
PriceFree — better$1.99
Rating4.3 (64 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews33.3% of reviews—
Number of ratings64 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsEvery 2 months — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS16.6 — better17.6
Further details — not scored
Size64 MB1 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperParth PandyaHua Yang

In-app purchases

5 purchases

Notepad

Subscriptions2
  • 1 Month License For Notes App$1.491 Month
  • 1 Year License For Notes App$11.991 Year
One-time3
  • Ad Free Notes$1.99
  • 1 Month License$1.99
  • 1 Year License$9.99
None

Prod Me

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Notepad free?
Notepad is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Prod Me free?
Prod Me costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do Notepad or Prod Me have ads?
Notepad shows ads; Prod Me does not.
Which is updated more often, Notepad or Prod Me?
Notepad ships an update every 3 months, and Prod Me every 2 months. Most recently, Notepad was updated on October 2, 2026 and Prod Me on October 11, 2026.

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