Comparison

SCRIBZEE® vs Counter

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.

About

Counter

Features
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Counter turns a shared habit into something you can see. A group agrees on a theme - Sport, Reading, Chores - and lists the specific things worth counting inside it. Every time you actually do one, you open the app and tap once. Your number goes up. Everyone else in the group sees it move. That is the whole app. A PICTURE, NOT A LIST Your group is drawn as a graph: the theme in the middle, the things you count around it, and the people counting them further out. The number sits on the line between a person and the thing they did. You can see at a glance who has been running and who has not been near the pool since March. NO SCORES, NO RANKING, NO STREAKS There is no leaderboard and nothing to lose. Miss a week and nothing breaks, nothing turns red, nothing nags you. The only social pressure is the visible fact that someone else's number went up today and yours did not. That turns out to be enough. COUNTS ONLY GO UP A tap is a fact about something you did, so it cannot be edited away. Tap by mistake and there is a brief window to undo it - after that the number stands. Nobody can quietly tidy their history. INVITATION ONLY Counter is not open to sign-ups. Three existing members must each spend an invitation on the same person before that person can join, and everyone starts with three invitations that refill slowly. It grows at the speed of people actually vouching for each other. This is deliberate. It means everyone you count alongside arrived through someone you already trust, and it is why there is no blocking, no reporting queue and no feed full of strangers. EMOJI, NOT PHOTOGRAPHS Every theme, every activity and every person is an emoji you pick yourself. There are no photo uploads, so there is nothing to moderate and nothing of yours sitting on a server being scanned. WHAT WE KEEP Your name, your email address, your emoji and your counts. Nothing is sold, nothing is shared with advertisers, and there is no tracking of any kind. You can delete your account and everything in it from inside the app, in two taps from the profile screen.

Screenshots

SCRIBZEE®4 screens
Counter4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: SCRIBZEE® at 13.0 against Counter's 15.0. 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.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
SCRIBZEE® versus Counter: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSCRIBZEE®Counter
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.8 (178 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews53.4% of reviews—
Number of ratings178 — better—
Update frequencyMonthly—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS13.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size136 MB34 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperHamelin SASArtem Bahniuk

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

Counter

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

SCRIBZEE®

No in-app purchases

None

Counter

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is SCRIBZEE® free?
SCRIBZEE® is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Counter free?
Counter is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do SCRIBZEE® or Counter have ads?
Neither SCRIBZEE® nor Counter shows ads.

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