Color Notepad vs Notepad
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Color Notepad
A clean and simple note-taking app that lets you personalize your experience with over 20 colorful themes. It offers a minimalist design for distraction-free writing, iCloud sync, and robust backup options.
- Minimalist design
- 20+ colorful themes
- Light & Dark Mode
- iCloud sync
- Sort notes
- Export notes
- Automatic local backups
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Color Notepad is a clean and simple note-taking app designed to match your personal style. Whether you’re jotting down quick thoughts, daily tasks, or important ideas, Color Notepad keeps things fast, easy, and customizable. Choose from 20+ colorful themes to match your mood — or let the app surprise you with a random one each time you open it. Key Feature: • Minimalist design for quick and distraction-free note-taking. • 20+ colorful themes to suit your mood. • Light & Dark Mode support for every theme. • iCloud sync to keep your notes up to date across devices. • Sort your notes by date or alphabetically. • Export individual notes or your entire archive for backup or sharing. • Automatic local backups with the ability to restore notes. Color Notepad is perfect for anyone looking for a lightweight, private, and beautifully customizable notes app — with no ads, no accounts, and no clutter.
Notepad
Capture your thoughts and organize your life with this intuitive note-taking application. It offers secure storage with a passcode and iCloud synchronization, allowing you to manage daily tasks and personal diaries efficiently. Easily categorize, color-code, and add images to your notes for better arrangement and sharing.
- User-friendly design
- iCloud sync
- App passcode protection
- Note categorization
- Share notes (text/PDF)
- Add images to notes
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This is an easy-to-use note taking app that offer wide rage of features with iCloud sync and app passcode. It is easy to manage your daily stuff and your personal diary with date wise and name wise format. Key Features - Beautiful and user friendly design - Simple way of note taking - iCloud sync and app passcode - Category to note separation - Share note with text and pdf format - Support note color to easy arrangement - Auto delete note to delete notes - Add image with your notes Keep your words safe with passcode and save it with colourful notes. Download and have fun. Keep in touch to receive all new updates. Thank you!!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Notepad at 5.0 against Color Notepad's 4.5. Color Notepad's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and ratings volume (603 vs 1). 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. Color Notepad sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Notepad sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Notepad holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Color Notepad has 603 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Color Notepad ships an update every 5 months, Notepad every 11 months. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Color Notepad | Notepad |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (603 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 46.5% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 603 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months — better | Every 11 months |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 4 MB | 6 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Dmytro Vynokurov | Piyushkumar Bhut |
Customer experience
Color Notepad
Notepad
Bugs and requests
Color Notepad
Reported bugs
7 issues- Notes deleted unexpectedly after saving
- App crashes and fails to reopen
- Text disappears or becomes invisible
- Keyboard covers note content during editing
- Inconsistent save functionality (8 out of 10 times fails)
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- App unresponsive to input commands
- Notes lost after app closure
Requested features
6 requests- Password protection for notes
- Different colors for individual notes
- Checklist functionality with reset capability
- Note sharing capabilities
- Multiple font options
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- Apple Pencil support
Notepad
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Color Notepad
- Unlimited Storage$4.99
Notepad
- Notepad++ Premium$1.99
