Word Count Notes vs Documentally
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Word Count Notes
This simple note-taking app includes a word and character counter, making it ideal for drafting social media posts, reports, or speeches. It offers cloud import/export, PDF creation, printing, text-to-speech, and dark mode.
- Word and character counting
- Cloud import/export (iCloud, Dropbox)
- PDF creation
- Printing functionality
- Text-to-speech
- Dark mode
- Local backups
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Write, count, and keep moving. Word Count Notes is a simple writing app that shows word and character counts as you type. Use it for essays, college applications, reports, stories, speeches, social media posts, captions, AI prompts, or any text with a length limit. WHAT YOU GET • Live word and character counts, with or without spaces • A simple, distraction-free editor • Multiple notes for different drafts • Fonts, text sizes, and color themes • Face ID and Touch ID app lock • Local backups and ZIP export of all your notes • PDF creation, saving pages as images, and printing • Text-to-speech playback • Dark mode Your notes are saved only on your device (there is no cloud sync). Local backups keep earlier versions you can look back at, and ZIP export lets you keep a copy elsewhere. Open the app and start writing in seconds. No account or setup is needed. Available on iPhone, iPad, and Mac.
Documentally
This app provides comprehensive text analysis, including word, character, sentence, line, paragraph, and byte counts. It offers advanced customization for counting, version history, document protection with a PIN, and various sorting and formatting options. Export your work in .txt format and work offline.
- Multiple text count metrics (words, characters, sentences, lines, paragraphs, bytes)
- Customizable word count based on language and encoding
- Unlimited version history with undo/redo
- Secure Safe Folder with PIN protection
- Document search and sorting options
- Adjustable font size and text formatting
- Offline functionality
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In addition to "Word count", it also provides counts for "Characters", "Sentences", "Lines", "Paragraphs", and "Bytes". This app is especially handy when you need to adhere to specific word or character limits, such as for reports, essays, columns, speech scripts, novels, and more. SELECT WORD COUNT FEATURE You can customize the word count feature based on the text by switching languages. You can also configure text encoding, punctuation, and more. UNLIMITED VERSION HISTORY Track changes made to your documents and undo anything you choose. PROTECT YOUR DOCUMENTS WITH SAFE FOLDER You can hide documents in your Safe folder and control access with a PIN. Screenshots of the Safe folder can’t be taken. FIND YOUR DOCUMENTS Please enter keywords in the search bar to locate your documents. SORT OPTIONS You can sort your notes alphabetically, numerically, or by date. ADJUST FONT SIZE You have the option to change the font size for better visibility on your screen. Word Count: Counts the number of words as you type • Example 1: "Word Count in Documents" -> 4 • Example 2: "I'm you." -> 2 • Example 3: "Do you live in real-time???" -> 5 Character Count: Displays the total number of characters as you type • Example 1: "Green" -> 5 • Example 2: "Word Counter in Documents" -> 25 • Example 3: "I am a pencil." -> 14 Here are the main functions: • Count the "number of bytes" as you write. • Create new documents or edit existing files. • Working, with or without Internet. • Export your work in .txt format. • Undo / Redo your notes' input. • Delete your notes whenever you like. • You can print. However, your document may appear differently in the preview window. Instead, you can use "Print as Image". • The character limit for input is determined by your smartphone device; the app does not impose any limits. Settings: • Sort by: Name / Last modified / Last opened / Date trashed / Items / Characters / Words / Sentences / Lines / Paragraphs / Bytes • Font size: 12.0 - 40.0 • Font: Noto Sans / Open Sans / Roboto / Oswald / Courier Prime / Red Rose / M PLUS 1 / M PLUS 1p / M PLUS 1 Code / M PLUS 2 / M PLUS Rounded 1c / Sawarabi Gothic / Hina Mincho / Klee One / Kaisei HarunoUmi / Kaisei Tokumin / Kaisei Opti / Kaisei Decol / RocknRoll One / DotGothic16 / Zen Kurenaido / Zen Kaku Gothic New / Zen Maru Gothic / Zen Antique / Sunflower / Gothic A1 / Gowun Dodum / Gowun Batang / Song Myung / Poor Story / Hahmlet / IBM Plex Sans KR / Stylish • Bold text: ON / OFF • Italic text: ON / OFF • Underline: None / Solid / Double / Dotted / Dashed / Wavy • Letter spacing: -1.0 - 10.0 • Word spacing: -2.0 - 10.0 • Line spacing: 1.0 - 3.0 • Language: English / Japanese / Korean / Indonesian • Count line breaks: ON / OFF • Count spaces and tabs: ON / OFF • Punctuation marks • Text encoding: EUC-JP / ISO-2022-JP / ISO-2022-JP-1 / ISO-2022-JP-2 / Shift_JIS / ISO-8859-1 / ISO-8859-2 / ISO-8859-3 / ISO-8859-4 / ISO-8859-5 / ISO-8859-6 / ISO-8859-7 / ISO-8859-8 / ISO-8859-9 / ISO-8859-10 / ISO-8859-13 / ISO-8859-14 / ISO-8859-15 / UTF-7 / UTF-8 / UTF-16 / UTF-16BE / UTF-16LE / UTF-32 / UTF-32BE / UTF-32LE / US-ASCII / EUC-KR / ISO-2022-KR / windows-1250 / windows-1251 / windows-1252 / windows-1253 / windows-1254 / windows-1255 / windows-1256 / windows-1257 / windows-1258 Terms of Use: https://note.com/documentally/n/n0f4e75fd9170 Privacy Policy: https://note.com/documentally/n/n11df06d7073e
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Word Count Notes at 4.8 against Documentally's 3.7. Word Count Notes also leads on ratings volume (1.1K vs 3) and device support (4 vs 2). Documentally's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs every 3 weeks). On price, review sentiment, 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
Both are free to download. Word Count Notes sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Documentally sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Word Count Notes holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 3.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Word Count Notes has 1.1K ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 82% of Word Count Notes's written reviews are positive against 75% of Documentally's.
Word Count Notes ships an update every 3 weeks, Documentally weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 12, 2026 and September 21, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Word Count Notes | Documentally |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (1.1K ratings) — better | 3.7 (3 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 82.5% of reviews — better | 75.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1.1K — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Weekly — better |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 15 MB | 37 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | DRIP PRODUCTS LIMITED LIABILITY CO. | Yoshinori Tsuchiya |
Customer experience
Word Count Notes
Documentally
Bugs and requests
Word Count Notes
Reported bugs
3 issues- App freezing/crashing after iOS 14 update
- Deleted notes not permanently removed
- Imported fonts not displaying correctly
Requested features
4 requests- Folder/tagging system for notes
- Sync across devices
- Grammar/spell check
- Highlight/select text for word count
Documentally
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Word Count Notes
- Premium Upgrade$7.99
Documentally
- 1 Week Plan$0.997 Days
- 1 Month Plan$1.991 Month
- 6 Months Plan$9.996 Months
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- Annual Plan$17.991 Year
- Lifetime Plan$29.99
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