Ideas vs Notes
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Ideas
Easily create notes with text, photos, and drawings. Customize text with various fonts and effects, and arrange images freely. Save and share your creations directly from your device.
- Create notes with text, photos, and drawings
- Customize text with over 50 fonts and effects
- Add and manipulate multiple images
- Save work to continue later
- Share creations to social networks
- Free and easy to use interface
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HOW TO USE: • Create a new note or edit an existing note. • You can draw, add text or add photos. • Select any font text, and move, rotate or scale the text. You can change the text color, add border, brightness, etc. • Move, rotate or scale the added images. • Save your ideas or creations. • You can save and share photos with your mobile's social networking apps. FEATURES: • Free and easy to use. • Friendly interface. • More than 50 fonts. • Several effects to apply to the text. • You can add several texts in the same picture. • Painting. • Add photos to your notes. • You can save your work to continue later.
Notes
This app combines a notepad, to-do list, and memo functionality into a single, intuitive interface. Easily create notes from text, voice, or images, and organize them with reminders and sorting options. Secure your data and transfer it to new devices.
- 3-in-1 notepad, to-do list, and memos
- Create notes from photos, images, and voice
- Set notifications and reminders
- Sort notes by urgency, category, due date, color
- Secure notes with a security code
- Data transfer to new devices
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Notes: notepad and lists is a convenient app that helps you make notes and keep lists. Why should you choose Notes: notepad and lists? - 3 in 1 Replace your to-do list, notepad and memos with this simple, all-in-one app. - Easy to use Notes: notepad and lists is an extremely simple and intuitive app. No instructions or tutorial necessary. - Fast Create a note or a list in literally seconds - the perfect way to jot down important information. A notepad, diary and to-do list that suits your face-paced lifestyle. - Multiple formats Create notes from photos, images, and voice messages, and make your to-do list or shopping list. Use it on the go, or even behind the wheel - all you have to do is record your message or take a photo. - Editing You can edit your notes, or add comments, attachments, details and notifications at any time. - Planning Notes: notepad and lists also works as a to-do list: you can set notifications and reminders (one off or repeated) for each note, and the easy-to-use calendar system helps you keep track of deadlines. - Sorting You can sort your notes by urgency, category, due date, and color, so searching through your content is quick and easy. - Security Notes: notepad and lists lets you protect your personal data with a short security-code, meaning only you can access your notes and lists. - Transfer your info If you get a new device, you won't lose your information - registered users can restore their data.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Ideas at none against Notes's 1. Ideas also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 79%) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 13.0). Notes's advantage is update cadence (monthly vs every 7 months) and ratings volume (654 vs 14). On price, rating, ads 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. Notes sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Ideas asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for Ideas against 4.8 for Notes. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Notes has 654 ratings behind it against 14, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 100% of Ideas's written reviews are positive against 79% of Notes's.
Ideas ships an update every 7 months, Notes monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 8, 2026 and October 9, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Ideas | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (14 ratings) — better | 4.8 (654 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 78.5% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 14 | 654 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 7 months | Monthly — better |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Ad-supported — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 19 MB | 109 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Mireia Lluch Ortola | Orange Dog |
Customer experience
Ideas
Notes
Bugs and requests
Ideas
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Notes
Reported bugs
1 issue- Unexpected ads appearing after recent updates for paid subscribers
Requested features
3 requests- More engaging task motivation features
- Clearer documentation on note persistence
- Improved customer support interface
In-app purchases
Ideas
No in-app purchases
Notes
- Disable ads$9.99
Questions
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