Notes and Folders vs Note!
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 note-taking app. Create nested folders for notes and photos, lock sensitive entries with a passcode, and easily search your content. It also includes a built-in web browser for capturing online information.
- Nested folder organization
- Attach multiple photos to notes
- Passcode lock with Face/Touch ID
- Auto-save functionality
- Built-in web browser
- Searchable notes
- Share Extension support
Read full descriptionHide full description
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.
Note!
This app offers a minimalist approach to note-taking, focusing on speed and simplicity. It allows for quick plain text entries, organized by modification date, with options for text resizing and passcode protection for privacy.
- Quick plain text notes
- Sorted by latest modified
- Pinch to zoom text size
- Set passcode to lock notes
Read full descriptionHide full description
Nothing more, nothing less. Designed to be as minimal as possible for quick plain text notes. + Sorted by latest modified + Pinch to zoom/change text size + Set a passcode to lock your notes
Screenshots
Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Notes and Folders at fortnightly against Note!'s every 13 months. Notes and Folders also leads on review sentiment (80% vs 61%). Note!'s advantage is ratings volume (1.1K vs 304) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 18.0). On price, rating, ads and in-app purchases 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 and Note! sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Note! holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 304 and 1.1K respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 80% of Notes and Folders's written reviews are positive against 61% of Note!'s, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Notes and Folders ships an update fortnightly, Note! every 13 months. The most recent releases landed on November 9, 2026 and November 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Notes and Folders | Note! |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (304 ratings) | 4.7 (1.1K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 80.4% of reviews — better | 61.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 304 | 1.1K — better |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Every 13 months |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| 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 | 18.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 17 MB | 5 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | KinkumaDesign | RIEU Limited |
Customer experience
Notes and Folders
Note!
Bugs and requests
Notes and Folders
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Note!
Reported bugs
3 issues- Ads disrupt note-taking experience
- Inability to delete old notes
- Lack of printing functionality
Requested features
4 requests- Add iCloud sync and backup
- Implement a paid, ad-free version
- Allow for note organization and sorting
- Improve text formatting and editing capabilities
In-app purchases
Notes and Folders
- Remove Ads$3.99
Note!
- Remove Ads$3.99
