Split Notes vs Notepad
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Split Notes
A versatile text editor that allows for split-screen viewing in both vertical and horizontal orientations, along with tabbed interfaces. It offers automatic saving, folder management, and advanced search capabilities. Users can also synchronize scrolling between panes and export notes to CSV.
- Split-screen editing (vertical/horizontal)
- Tabbed interface
- Synchronized scrolling
- Automatic saving
- Folder management
- Character and regex search
- Export to CSV
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This is a simple notepad which can switch between vertical and horizontal screen division, tab use screen. You can synchronize the scrolling of each text view by enabling the magnet button. Notes is saved automatically. Others - Folder management. - Character search, regular expression search. - Undo/Redo - Character count display. - Change font size. - Export to CSV file. - Backup/Restore with iCloud.
Notepad
A straightforward writing application that allows for easy note-taking and sentence composition. It offers robust editing tools like undo/redo and a keyboard toolbar for efficient text manipulation. The app is designed for one-handed operation and includes features for organizing notes with folders and backups.
- Note and folder management
- Undo/Redo editing
- Keyboard toolbar for text manipulation
- One-handed operation design
- Startup lock with iOS authentication
- Dark mode support
- iCloud backup
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This is a simple notepad app that has useful features not only to take notes but also to write sentences. Mistakes of editing can be fixed easily by undo/redo feature. If you want to restore a note to previous content, you will be able to restore from update history. On keyboard toolbar, There is convenient features such as moving cursor up/down/left/right and select/copy/cut/paste. In addition, This app is made to make it easy to operate with one hand. ------ This is a notepad app that implements convenient features while being careful not to impair the simple operation feeling. The features of this app is below. Notes management features: - Manage notes by folders - Sort notes and folders freely - Manage update and delete history of notes Notes editing features: - Store a note at real time - Change font size while viewing a note - Show character, word, line count - Link text to other app such as Email and SNS - keyboard toolbar --> Select/Copy/Cut/Paste --> Move cursor up/down/left/right by one character --> Move cursor to start or end of note --> Move cursor to start or end of line --> Undo and Redo of editing Other features: - Startup lock - Use iOS authentication (Face ID, Touch ID, Passcode) - Mini note - Ancillary note when creating notes - Change color setting to dark mode - Export and Import backup files - iCloud backup
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Notepad at none against Split Notes's 1. Notepad also leads on update cadence (monthly vs every 4 months) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 16.0). On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume 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. Split Notes sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Notepad asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for Split Notes against 4.8 for Notepad. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 11 and 22 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 83% of Split Notes's written reviews are positive against 79% of Notepad's.
Split Notes ships an update every 4 months, Notepad monthly. The most recent releases landed on September 15, 2026 and September 17, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Split Notes | Notepad |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (11 ratings) — better | 4.8 (22 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 83.3% of reviews — better | 78.9% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 11 | 22 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Monthly — better |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Ad-supported — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 20 MB | 16 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | KAZUTERU YOKOI | Makoto Yamabayashi |
Customer experience
Split Notes
Notepad
In-app purchases
Split Notes
- Remove ads$1.99
Notepad
No in-app purchases
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