Notes and Folders vs PhotoNote
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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180,000 downloads worldwide! Organize texts and photos with folders. FOLDERS - You can use folders to organize notes - Support subfolders NOTES - Attach photos to the note - Letter count - Auto save in editing - Internal browser that can easily link with notes DIARY - Diary that set date - Read monthly diaries at once OTHERS - Widget - Password lock (Passcode, Touch ID and Face ID) - Search notes - Share notes to other apps - Share texts and images from other apps - Theme color - Text size change - iPad support - Backup by Dropbox - Backup by PC or Mac URL Scheme notesandfolders:// About Backup by PC or Mac There is a backup support using PC or Mac. Please read FAQ "About backup" section in preferences screen. Full screen advertisement will come out only once a day (24 hours). (It will not come out if you charge for remove ad)
PhotoNote
Capture information visually by taking photos instead of typing. Organize your visual notes with tabs and colored tags. Photos are stored within the app, preventing clutter in your device's photo gallery.
- Capture notes via camera
- Organize with tabs
- Categorize with colored tags
- Internal photo storage
- Reorder notes and tags
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Instead of typing letters on the keyboard, I'm sure there are times when I take a picture and use it as a note instead. However, there is a risk that the photo folder will be flooded with notes. It is this application that is useful in such a case. All you have to do is take a picture with the built-in camera. You can organize the notes you have taken with tabs. In addition, the photos you took will be saved in the app, so you won't clutter up your photo folder! Usage examples: - Receipt - Timetable - Cooking Recipes - Deadline for reports written on the blackboard - Organize the screenshot. In addition, you can separate the notes you took with colored tags for each category. Tags can be added, deleted, and reordered from the pre-prepared colors. You can also reorder your notes.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: PhotoNote at 5.0 against Notes and Folders's 4.5. PhotoNote also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 80%). Notes and Folders's advantage is ratings volume (300 vs 2). On price, update cadence, 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 PhotoNote sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $1.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
PhotoNote holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Notes and Folders has 300 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 80% of Notes and Folders's written reviews are positive against 100% of PhotoNote's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 21, 2026 and September 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Notes and Folders | PhotoNote |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (300 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 80.4% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 300 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 32 MB | 31 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | KinkumaDesign | Satoshi Kobayashi |
Customer experience
Notes and Folders
PhotoNote
In-app purchases
Notes and Folders
- Remove Ads$3.99
PhotoNote
- Pro plan$1.991 Month
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