Notes and Folders vs PPNote
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
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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.
PPNote
Organize your thoughts and web links efficiently. Collect information from other apps, create custom notes with categories and subcategories, and easily manage your content with favorite and hidden options. Streamline your workflow with quick actions for moving and tagging notes.
- Collect notes and links from other apps
- Automatic categorization by URL
- Manual note creation with categories/subcategories
- Favorite and hide notes
- Quick actions for moving and tagging
- Organize with categories, subcategories, and tags
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PPNote helps you better manage your notes. 1. Collect from other apps. - You can collect information from other apps(like Safari, Chrome, etc) to PPNote through Share button. - When it's a web page, the note will be automatically categorized by URL. 2. Create note in PPNote. - You can manually create note either in category or in sub category. If there is no category yet. Please create one. 3. Favorite a Note. - You can favorite a note from context menu. - Favorite notes always show on the top. Easier for you to View. - You can view all the favorite notes in [Notes] tab. 4. Hide a Note. - You can hide a note from context menu. - Hidden notes are not shown by default. You can view them by tapping the [Show hidden notes] button. - You can view all the hidden notes in [More] tab. 5. Quick Action in Context Menu. - Quickly move note to other category/sub category. - Quickly add or remove tag for a note. - More actions. 6. Organize Notes. - Use category, sub category and tag to organize notes better.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Notes and Folders at 4.5 against PPNote's 3.5. Notes and Folders also leads on review sentiment (80% vs 40%) and update cadence (fortnightly vs every 7 months). PPNote's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 18.0). 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. Notes and Folders sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and PPNote sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Notes and Folders holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 3.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Notes and Folders has 304 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 40% of PPNote's.
Notes and Folders ships an update fortnightly, PPNote every 7 months. The most recent releases landed on November 9, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Notes and Folders | PPNote |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (304 ratings) — better | 3.5 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 80.4% of reviews — better | 40.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 304 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Every 7 months |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| 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 | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | KinkumaDesign | 金鹏 王 |
Customer experience
Notes and Folders
PPNote
In-app purchases
Notes and Folders
- Remove Ads$3.99
PPNote
- [More Features]$1.99
