Comparison

Retain Archive vs Notepad

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

Head to head
About

Retain Archive

Access and manage archived business communications, including emails, social media, and mobile messages. Browse, search, and preview attachments from various platforms for case assessment and eDiscovery.

Highlights
  • Unified archiving of business communications
  • Access archived email, social media, and mobile data
  • Browse and search archived messages
  • Preview message attachments
  • View social media archives (WhatsApp, WeChat, LinkedIn, etc.)
Features
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Micro Focus Retain Unified Archiving provides unified archiving of all business communication including email, social media, and mobile communication data for case assessment, search, and eDiscovery. The Retain App provides users and administrators direct access to view, browse, search, and these business communications. • Access all the archived accounts you manage • Browse messages in the archived accounts • Preview message attachments • View archive social media messages from WhatsApp, WeChat, LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, SharePoint, and Instagram For more information about Retain Unified Archiving, see https://www.microfocus.com/products/retain-unified-archiving/.

About

Notepad

Capture thoughts, pictures, voice notes, and checklists with this powerful yet simple notepad. Securely store logins and passwords, organize with categories, and easily find information with quick search. Includes reminders and backup options.

Highlights
  • Capture thoughts, pictures, and voice records
  • Create and manage checklists
  • Secure storage for logins and passwords
  • Organize notes with categories and colors
  • Quick search functionality
  • Backup and restore data
  • Password protection for app startup
Features
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Smart notepad makes it easy to capture your thought, pictures, voice records, checklist, birthdays, logins, and passwords. You can easily organize it and find it quickly later. The notepad helps you to keep all information with you. Smart notepad is very powerful but simple and easy to use. Main features: - Add notes - Add existing pictures to notes - Take photos and add to notes - Add voice records and listen to at any time - Add checklists - Add and remember birthdays - Secure storage for logins and passwords - Encoding with RSA and DES algorithms - Categories for notes - Colors for categories - A quick search for any data - Recent notes list - Restore removed notes from trash folder - Sorting notes by different fields - Birthdays reminder - Quick buttons to create notes - Quick copy data to memory - Password on application startup - Restore password to the email - Backup/restore data - Print notes - Share notes Supported languages: English, Russian, Spanish, Hindi, Portuguese, Indonesian, German, Bengali, French, Italian, Vietnamese, Chinese Simplified If you have any ideas for improvement just contact us by softser06@gmail.com Permissions Notice Camera: This is used to attach images to notes Microphone: This is used to attach voice records to notes Storage: This is used to backup/restore all notes (Ages 10+)

Screenshots

Retain Archive4 screens
Notepad4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Retain Archive at Free against Notepad's $6.99. Retain Archive also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 92%). Notepad's advantage is update cadence (every 6 weeks vs every 3 months). On rating, ratings volume, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Retain Archive is free to download; Notepad costs $6.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Retain Archive against 5.0 for Notepad. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 2 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 100% of Retain Archive's written reviews are positive against 92% of Notepad's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Retain Archive ships an update every 3 months, Notepad every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 18, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Retain Archive versus Notepad: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRetain ArchiveNotepad
PriceFree — better$6.99
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews — better91.7% of reviews
Number of ratings12 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsEvery 6 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree — betterPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS14.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size8 MB79 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperOpenTextsiarhei yatsuk

Customer experience

Retain Archive

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Notepad

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews12 reviews
Positive91.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative8.3%

In-app purchases

None

Retain Archive

No in-app purchases

None

Notepad

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Retain Archive free?
Retain Archive is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Notepad free?
Notepad costs $6.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Retain Archive or Notepad?
Retain Archive and Notepad are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 2 ratings respectively.
Do Retain Archive or Notepad have ads?
Neither Retain Archive nor Notepad shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Retain Archive or Notepad?
Retain Archive ships an update every 3 months, and Notepad every 6 weeks. Most recently, Retain Archive was updated on October 18, 2026 and Notepad on October 24, 2026.

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