Comparison

Notes and Folders vs DocSnap.

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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.

About

DocSnap.

This app is a powerful document scanner that captures and organizes anything from papers to whiteboards. It offers advanced editing tools and creates clean PDFs, all while keeping your data private and offline on your device.

Highlights
  • Auto edge detection and perspective correction
  • Batch scanning for multi-page documents
  • Smart auto-naming and color-coded folders
  • Search across all documents
  • Merge scans into one PDF
  • Add signatures to PDFs
  • Export and share via iOS Share Sheet
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DocSnap. is the document scanner that just works — and never asks for a subscription. Scan anything. Documents, whiteboards, handwritten notes, books — DocSnap. captures them all with Apple's advanced edge detection and auto-enhancement. Every scan becomes a clean, organized PDF in seconds. YOUR DOCUMENTS, YOUR DEVICE Everything stays on your iPhone. No cloud uploads, no accounts, no tracking. DocSnap. works completely offline because your documents are nobody's business but yours. SCAN SMARTER • Auto edge detection and perspective correction • 4 scan presets: Document, Whiteboard, Notes, Book • Batch scanning for multi-page documents • Auto-enhance with contrast, sharpness, and noise reduction • Grayscale mode for clean B&W output ORGANIZE INSTANTLY • Smart auto-naming by document type • Color-coded folders to keep everything sorted • Search across all your documents • Grid and list views POWERFUL PDF TOOLS • Merge multiple scans into one PDF • Reorder, rotate, and delete pages • Add signatures • Adjustable quality settings (Low to Original) • Export and share via the iOS Share Sheet THE UNDER5 PROMISE No subscriptions. No ads. No tracking. Ever. Try DocSnap. free for 7 days with full access to every feature. If you love it, own it forever for just $4.99. That's it. No recurring charges, no upsells, no nonsense. Built with zero third-party dependencies — pure Apple frameworks only. Your data never leaves your device.

Screenshots

Notes and Folders4 screens
DocSnap.4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: DocSnap. at none against Notes and Folders's shown. DocSnap. also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.5). Notes and Folders's advantage is ratings volume (304 vs 1). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Notes and Folders sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and DocSnap. sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

DocSnap. 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 304 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Notes and Folders versus DocSnap.: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterNotes and FoldersDocSnap.
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (304 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews80.4% of reviews—
Number of ratings304 — better1
Update frequencyFortnightly—
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS18.018.0
Further details — not scored
Size17 MB5 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperKinkumaDesignCoreLift LLC

Customer experience

Notes and Folders

All ratings304 ratings
Positive87.5%
Neutral5.9%
Negative6.6%
Written reviews97 reviews
Positive80.4%
Neutral12.4%
Negative7.2%

DocSnap.

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Notes and Folders

One-time1
  • Remove Ads$3.99
1 purchases

DocSnap.

One-time1
  • DocSnap. Lifetime$4.99

Questions

Is Notes and Folders free?
Notes and Folders is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is DocSnap. free?
DocSnap. is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Notes and Folders or DocSnap.?
DocSnap. is rated higher. Notes and Folders averages 4.5 out of 5 from 304 ratings, while DocSnap. averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Notes and Folders or DocSnap. have ads?
Notes and Folders shows ads; DocSnap. does not.

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