Notes and Folders vs Notepad
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Notes and Folders
Organize your thoughts and memories with this app. Create folders for notes, attach photos, and even keep a dated diary. Secure your entries with password protection and access them easily with widgets and search functionality.
- Organize notes with folders and subfolders
- Attach photos to notes
- Dated diary entries
- Password lock (Passcode, Touch ID, Face ID)
- Widgets for quick access
- Search notes
- Backup to Dropbox, PC, or Mac
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Over 240,000 downloads worldwide! Notes and Folders is a simple notepad that lets you organize notes and photos with folders. You can also lock your notes with a passcode. FOLDERS - Organize your notes with folders - Create folders inside folders NOTES - Attach multiple photos to a note - Character count - Auto-save while editing - Editing buttons: copy & paste, undo, select, and arrow keys - Built-in web browser to add text and screenshots of web pages to your notes DIARY - Write a diary entry for any date - Read a whole month of entries at once OTHERS - Widget - Passcode lock (Face ID and Touch ID supported) - Search notes - Share notes to other apps - Save text and images from other apps (Share Extension) - Theme colors - Adjustable text size - iPad support - Backup with Dropbox - Backup with a computer URL SCHEME notesandfolders:// BACKUP You can back up your notes with Dropbox, or with a computer (Finder on Mac, or the Apple Devices app or iTunes on Windows). For details, see FAQ > "About Backup" in the app's settings. ADS This app shows banner ads, and a full-screen ad only once a day (every 24 hours). Ads are not shown after purchasing ad removal.
Notepad
A straightforward writing application that allows for easy note-taking and sentence composition. It offers robust editing tools like undo/redo and a keyboard toolbar for efficient text manipulation. The app is designed for one-handed operation and includes features for organizing notes with folders and backups.
- Note and folder management
- Undo/Redo editing
- Keyboard toolbar for text manipulation
- One-handed operation design
- Startup lock with iOS authentication
- Dark mode support
- iCloud backup
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This is a simple notepad app that has useful features not only to take notes but also to write sentences. Mistakes of editing can be fixed easily by undo/redo feature. If you want to restore a note to previous content, you will be able to restore from update history. On keyboard toolbar, There is convenient features such as moving cursor up/down/left/right and select/copy/cut/paste. In addition, This app is made to make it easy to operate with one hand. ------ This is a notepad app that implements convenient features while being careful not to impair the simple operation feeling. The features of this app is below. Notes management features: - Manage notes by folders - Sort notes and folders freely - Manage update and delete history of notes Notes editing features: - Store a note at real time - Change font size while viewing a note - Show character, word, line count - Link text to other app such as Email and SNS - keyboard toolbar --> Select/Copy/Cut/Paste --> Move cursor up/down/left/right by one character --> Move cursor to start or end of note --> Move cursor to start or end of line --> Undo and Redo of editing Other features: - Startup lock - Use iOS authentication (Face ID, Touch ID, Passcode) - Mini note - Ancillary note when creating notes - Change color setting to dark mode - Export and Import backup files - iCloud backup
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Notepad at none against Notes and Folders's 1. Notepad also leads on rating (4.9 vs 4.5) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 18.0). Notes and Folders's advantage is ratings volume (302 vs 30). On price, review sentiment, update cadence and ads 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 and Folders sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Notepad asks for nothing beyond the download.
Notepad holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Notes and Folders has 302 ratings behind it against 30, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 80% of Notes and Folders's written reviews are positive against 79% of Notepad's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Notes and Folders ships an update every 3 weeks, Notepad monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 26, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Notes and Folders | Notepad |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (302 ratings) | 4.9 (30 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 80.4% of reviews — better | 78.9% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 302 — better | 30 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Monthly |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Ad-supported — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 17 MB | 16 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | KinkumaDesign | Makoto Yamabayashi |
Customer experience
Notes and Folders
Notepad
In-app purchases
Notes and Folders
- Remove Ads$3.99
Notepad
No in-app purchases
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