Find that Book vs Handwritten Digital Notes
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Find that Book
This app helps you catalog and locate your books, comics, CDs, or DVDs. It uses OCR, Siri dictation, or keyboard input to keyword your collection, allowing for easy searching. You can also export and import your database between devices.
- OCR and Siri dictation for keyword entry
- Searchable database of your collection
- Photo capture of books and bookcases
- Proximity spelling search feature
- Database export and import
- Contextual help icon
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You've got plenty of books in various bookcases and you stopped trying to sort them? This App will help you find them! Once and for all take photos of your books by bundles and keyword them (titles, authors) using: - highly efficient character recognition, - Siri dictation, - or simply the device's keyboard. You will then be able to search this database and finally locate your books with ease! By the way, this also works with comics, CDs or DVDs... Features: - Take photos of your bookcases as a base for positioning your books - Take photos of your books by bundles - Keyword them by character recognition, Siri dictation or plain keyboard - Character recognition is available in English, French, German and Italian - Search for keywords (with proximity spelling feature) - Export and import your database between your devices - A contextual help icon will always be available
Handwritten Digital Notes
Capture thoughts, journal memories, and organize study notes with a variety of writing and creative tools. Personalize pages with stationery, stickers, and photos. Sync across devices and secure individual notebooks.
- Handwriting and typing tools
- Customizable page stationery
- Photo and sticker integration
- Keepsake jar for saving pages
- Folder and tag organization
- iCloud syncing
- PDF annotation
- Notebook locking
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A little space for your thoughts. A beautiful home for your memories. Digital Notes brings writing, journaling, and creative note-taking together on your iPhone and iPad. Capture a quick idea, decorate a diary page, organize study notes, or keep a moment you want to remember. Make every page yours with cozy stationery, lined paper, grids, and more. Write with Apple Pencil or your finger, or type with a choice of fonts, sizes, and colors. Add photos and cute stickers, then move, resize, and rotate them to create a page that feels like you. Save meaningful pages in your keepsake jar. Watch your paper fold and tuck itself inside, then open it whenever you want to revisit that memory. Choose a sage, rose, or lavender jar to match your mood. Keep your notebooks together on one simple Home screen. Use folders, tags, favorites, and search to find what you need. Archive older notebooks and restore notes from Trash when you change your mind. Keep your notes close with iCloud syncing. Sync notebooks, photos, stickers, and audio recordings across your iPhone and iPad using the same iCloud account. Syncing is on by default, and you can manage it anytime in Settings. Your notes stay available locally for offline writing. With Digital Notes, you can: - Draw and highlight with handwriting tools. - Turn typed text into pages with handwritten fonts in Studio. - Import PDFs and annotate them. - Scan paper documents on supported devices. - Attach audio recordings to your notebooks. - Share notebooks as PDFs or individual pages as images. - Export and restore notebook backups. - Lock individual notebooks with Face ID, Touch ID, or your device passcode. Locked contents require authentication to open; titles remain visible. From everyday lists to letters to yourself, Digital Notes gives your thoughts a place to belong. Privacy Policy: https://digitalhole.github.io/DHPrivacy.html Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Find that Book at none against Handwritten Digital Notes's shown. Find that Book also leads on iOS requirement (14.1 vs 17.0). Handwritten Digital Notes's advantage is update cadence (every 8 days vs every 19 months). On price, review sentiment, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Find that Book sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Handwritten Digital Notes sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Find that Book ships an update every 19 months, Handwritten Digital Notes every 8 days. The most recent releases landed on October 12, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Find that Book | Handwritten Digital Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.5 (2 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 19 months | Every 8 days — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 14.1 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 5 MB | 32 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | +4 |
| Developer | Xavier Ackaouy | Arima Jain |
Customer experience
Find that Book
Handwritten Digital Notes
In-app purchases
Find that Book
- Unlimited$0.99
Handwritten Digital Notes
- Unlock All Features$4.99
Questions
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