Comparison

SCRIBZEE® vs WhenWorks

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

Head to head
About

SCRIBZEE®

Securely access all your handwritten notes from any device, anytime. This app offers high-quality scans that are automatically enhanced for clarity and readability. Organize, share, and even convert notes to PDF for easy distribution.

Highlights
  • Secure cloud access for notes
  • High-quality automatic scanning
  • Cross-device synchronization
  • Note organization by subject/project
  • Share notes via social media/messaging
  • Convert notes to PDF
  • Revision progress tracking
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ACCESS ALL YOUR HANDWRITTEN NOTES SECURELY, WHEN AND WHERE YOU NEED THEM, on your smartphone, tablet or laptop. Already more than a million people are using SCRIBZEE®. ◆ WITH SCRIBZEE® YOUR HANDWRITTEN NOTES ARE ACCESSIBLE EVERYWHERE, EVEN WHEN YOU DON’T HAVE YOUR NOTEBOOK WITH YOU ◆ Whether you’re a student or a professional on a business trip, it’s great to be able to access all your handwritten notes without having to carry your notes or notebooks around with you. With SCRIBZEE®, access your notes anywhere and at any time via the smartphone app, even in flight mode, or alternatively on a tablet, PC or Mac with SCRIBZEE® Online (www.scribzee.com). ◆ A HIGH-QUALITY SCAN EVERY TIME, BETTER THAN USING YOUR SMARTPHONE CAMERA ◆ Capturing your notes with your smartphone camera is a possibility. However, the result doesn’t often come up to expectations. The pages are crooked, slightly blurry and badly framed. Your notes get mixed up with your photos, they take up storage space and are not multipage. With SCRIBZEE® and your compatible HAMELIN product, your scan is automatically enhanced by the app, so you get a high-quality result every time: • Accurate framing of the page content, • Vertical and horizontal re-framing of the image, • Optimisation of the contrast and brightness levels Your scanned notes are always clear and fully readable, shareable, enrichable and printable. ◆ SCRIBZEE® FOR LEARNING ◆ Are you in the habit of forgetting your notebook? Have you ever misplaced study cards or had them torn to pieces by your puppy? SCRIBZEE® protects your notes so you can study wherever and whenever you need to on your smartphone. Do you wake up in the morning with study cards strewn all over your bed? Organise your notes by subject in SCRIBZEE® and study in bed using your smartphone. Fed up of seeing more pics of your notes or study cards on your smartphone than photos of your friends? Store your notes in SCRIBZEE® and free up your photo gallery for more important things. Got a friend in need? With SCRIBZEE® share your class notes or study cards with one click (Twitter, Messenger, What’s App). Have you written out so many study cards you don’t know where to start revising? With SCRIBZEE® assign a status (red, orange, green) to each card and keep track of your revision progress. ◆ SCRIBZEE® FOR BUSINESS ◆ Does your job involve long-term projects? Save and access all your notes in SCRIBZEE®. Do you manage lots of different projects? Archive your notes by subject, client or project name and find everything you need with SCRIBZEE®’s search function. Do you frequently attend meetings then need to send out the meeting notes quickly? With SCRIBZEE® no more typing out handwritten notes, just convert to PDF and share instantly. Do you find your notes or meeting minutes easily get mixed up? Keep your notes under control access them faster by linking them to the appointments in your calendar. ◆ SCRIBZEE® IS ALSO ◆ • A free app. • Exclusively available with your favourite HAMELIN notebook. • Includes dedicated, unlimited free cloud storage space. • Totally secure. Your notes are encrypted and only readable by you. • Allows you to create automatic reminders for your important notes. • Add photos from your smartphone to enrich your handwritten notes. • And much more. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

WhenWorks

Features
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Stop texting "does Thursday work?" to twelve people. WhenWorks finds the time everyone is free, without the back-and-forth in group chats. No polls. No links. No sharing your calendar with strangers. Three taps and everyone's in. — HOW IT WORKS — 1. Create an event. Name it. Pick a date range. Invite your people. 2. Each person's calendar is read on their own device. Only free/busy windows are shared — never event names, descriptions, or attendees. 3. The group sees overlapping free times, votes, and the best time wins. That's it. You'll never write "does anyone do Saturday?" again. — BUILT FOR FRIENDS, NOT MEETINGS — WhenWorks is for the dinners, the weekends away, the family catch-ups, the footy team trips, the hen's nights, the book clubs, the cousins flying in. Up to 100 people per event. It's not for booking 1:1 sales calls. (Use Calendly.) It's not for company all-hands. (Use Outlook.) It's for the plans that matter — the social ones. — PRIVATE BY ARCHITECTURE — Your calendar data never leaves your phone. Not to our servers. Not to anyone. Ever. We built WhenWorks on Apple's CloudKit and EventKit, so the only thing that ever syncs through the cloud is whether you're free at a given time — never the events themselves. We can't read your calendar even if we wanted to. We don't. No analytics SDKs. No third-party trackers. No advertising. Sign in with Apple, and that's the only identifier we ever see. — FEATURES — • Reads your calendar locally — Apple, Google, Outlook, Exchange (anything synced to iOS) • Or skip calendar access entirely and mark your free times by hand • Multi-timezone support — auto-converts for friends overseas • Ranked-choice voting — first / second / third • Beautiful confirmation screen with one-tap "Add to Calendar" • Invite by share link, QR code, or 6-character code • Per-event member roles (lead vs. member) • Local notifications — never marketing, only event updates — WHAT'S COMING — WhenWorks is free at launch with no limits other than the 100-person ceiling. A paid "Pro" tier will arrive later for groups of 9 or more, and everything you create today will keep working. We'll always be transparent about what changes and when.

Screenshots

SCRIBZEE®4 screens
WhenWorks4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: WhenWorks at every 2 days against SCRIBZEE®'s monthly. SCRIBZEE®'s advantage is iOS requirement (15.0 vs 18.6). On price, ads, in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

SCRIBZEE® ships an update monthly, WhenWorks every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 20, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
SCRIBZEE® versus WhenWorks: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSCRIBZEE®WhenWorks
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.8 (180 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews53.4% of reviews—
Number of ratings180 — better—
Update frequencyMonthlyEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.0 — better18.6
Further details — not scored
Size157 MB3 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperHamelin SASMarc Ravida

Bugs and requests

SCRIBZEE®

Reported bugs

5 issues
  • App fails to open or get stuck on loading screen
  • Issues with account creation and password reset
  • Scanned notes not saving or disappearing
  • Inconsistent behavior when scanning multiple pages
  • Compatibility problems with certain device models

Requested features

5 requests
  • Add sub-folder support for better organization
  • Improve handwriting recognition accuracy
  • Implement a more user-friendly interface
  • Allow scanning of non-proprietary notebooks
  • Integrate with popular note-taking apps

WhenWorks

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

SCRIBZEE®

No in-app purchases

None

WhenWorks

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is SCRIBZEE® free?
SCRIBZEE® is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is WhenWorks free?
WhenWorks is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do SCRIBZEE® or WhenWorks have ads?
Neither SCRIBZEE® nor WhenWorks shows ads.
Which is updated more often, SCRIBZEE® or WhenWorks?
SCRIBZEE® ships an update monthly, and WhenWorks every 2 days. Most recently, SCRIBZEE® was updated on October 20, 2026 and WhenWorks on October 7, 2026.

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