Notes and Folders vs BundleNote
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.
BundleNote
Organize your thoughts and notes into digital binders. Easily attach images, save scrolling text as images, and customize text settings. Protect your privacy with a passcode lock and ensure your data is safe with automatic backups to Google Drive.
- Page-by-page note saving
- Combine notes into binders
- Image attachment (up to 10 per note)
- Save scrolling text as images
- Keyboard expansion buttons for editing
- Passcode lock for privacy
- Automatic backup to Google Drive
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BundleNote allows you to save text on a page-by-page basis and combine it into a binder. It provides a great feature when you want to number and keep multiple related notes. You can easily switch pages by swiping quickly. Binders can also be sorted into categories. 【Features】 ■ Image attachment You can paste up to 10 photos in one note. ■ Save notes as images Even sentences that require scrolling can be saved as a single image. ■ Keyboard expansion button The "Cursor Move" buttons, "Paste", and "Select all" buttons for editing are displayed at the top of the keyboard. (Buttons that are not displayed can be displayed by horizontal scrolling.) ■ Sorting notes and binders After tapping the "Edit" button, you can sort by long-pressing and dragging. ■ Text settings You can set the character size, character spacing, and line spacing in detail. ■ Passcode lock Protect your privacy with 4-digit numbers and biometrics. ■ Automatic backup This is a convenient backup / restore function when changing models or in case of emergency. Save the backup to Google Drive. ■ Character number display 【Billing Factor】 With a single purchase, the following benefits will be in effect forever. ・Remove Ads. # LICENSE Icons by Icons8
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Notes and Folders at every 3 weeks against BundleNote's every 3 months. Notes and Folders also leads on ratings volume (303 vs 54). BundleNote's advantage is iOS requirement (11.0 vs 18.0). On price, rating, review sentiment 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 and BundleNote sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.5 for Notes and Folders against 4.6 for BundleNote. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Notes and Folders has 303 ratings behind it against 54, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 80% and 80% positive.
Notes and Folders ships an update every 3 weeks, BundleNote every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and October 27, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Notes and Folders | BundleNote |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (303 ratings) | 4.6 (54 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 80.4% of reviews — better | 80.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 303 — better | 54 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 3 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 | 11.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 17 MB | 62 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | KinkumaDesign | Shibapp LLC |
Customer experience
Notes and Folders
BundleNote
In-app purchases
Notes and Folders
- Remove Ads$3.99
BundleNote
- BundleNote PRO$7.99
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