Comparison

Noteflow vs Bracketly

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

Head to head
About

Noteflow

This app offers a digital notebook experience designed to replace pen and paper. It allows for note-taking, PDF annotation, sketching, and freeform idea capture with vector ink that scales without quality loss. Seamlessly integrate real-world content and organize your thoughts digitally.

Highlights
  • Digital notebook replacement for pen and paper
  • Annotate PDFs and sketch freely
  • Convert real-world images to vector ink
  • Fluid editing without traditional layers
  • Drag-and-drop integration with iOS
  • Cloud storage synchronization
Features
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Noteflow is designed to replace pen and paper. It is a modern digital notebook that lets you get the most from your iPad and iPhone. Use it for taking notes, annotating PDFs, sketching and doodling, plus a whole lot more: Copy and paste from the real world: Use Inkport gen 2 to snap a picture of a whiteboard or writing and convert it into Noteflow's native vector ink. No special paper needed. Then resize, re-color, or edit as if you wrote it in Noteflow. Create layered drawings without layers: Use the highlighter tool to color and shade behind existing ink. Use Color-Select to separate and edit individual colors. It's a much more fluid and natural editing experience than with layers. Use the straight-line tool with a grid for fast and intuitive wireframes and drafting. Drag-and-drop, cloud-storage, and more: Noteflow natively integrates with iOS's file system and drag-and-drop capabilities. Drop photos and text into Noteflow, and drag your drawings into other apps. Store your files locally or sync with the cloud service of your choice. Make Noteflow a seamless part of your workflow, the way you like. SPACE FOR YOUR IDEAS TO ROAM Our vision for Noteflow is simple: to be digital pen and paper. The magic of pen and paper is in their versatility. They are useful for so many things, but particularly for the freeform capture of ideas. Noteflow expands upon this quality. You can naturally do all the things you normally do with pen and paper: take notes in meetings or class, and jot down flashes of inspirations on the go. And you can take that to a whole new level: One of Noteflow’s best uses is for "thinking on digital paper": quickly capture key ideas and concepts, then move and organize them on the screen. Noteflow's vector ink engine lets you scale and edit your work without any loss of quality. Your words and drawings remain tack sharp when zoomed in, giving you a huge effective working canvas even on a single page. There are analogues in the physical world, such as sketchnotes or everyday working on a white board, but being able to fluidly edit and move your ideas around the page is something you can only do digitally. When you represent the ideas in your head with your own personal scribbles on the screen, it effectively becomes an extension of your mind - giving you more room to think. We've designed every part of Noteflow to let you intuitively capture and work on your ideas the way you like. Whether it's dropping in existing information, quickly sketching concepts, or assembling polished presentations for others. EVALUATE NOTEFLOW RISK FREE Rather than just read about Noteflow, go ahead and try it out: We've decided to make the Basic Edition completely FREE. The Basic Edition is a full featured note-taking and sketching app. It comes with the Fountain Pen with black ink, photos, and a standard set of 5 popular fonts for text. Books max out at 20 pages each, but you can create as many as you like. NOTEFLOW+ Upgrade instantly at any time to get: + Inkport + Import and annotate PDFs + A customizable, full color palette, + The Marker, Write-Behind Highlighter and Straight Line tools. + Rotate, Cut, Copy, Paste Ink, and Page Management, + Notebooks with unlimited pages, + Page backgrounds and sizes, + An additional 50+ fonts, + And more! Learn more in the in-app Quickstart Guide. DIGITAL TOOLS FOR A DIGITAL AGE I hope you'll find Noteflow a useful part of your workflow, and that you'll discover new ways to do things with it that weren't easy before. We're very proud of the work we've put into Noteflow, but we're also just seen the beginning of what's possible with powerful new digital platforms like the iPad. Our goal is to push these platforms to their limits to craft useful tools. Tools that can help us think a little more clearly, communicate a bit more effectively, and connect with other in new and enriching ways. Thanks for joining us on this journey! -- The App Makers @ Qrayon.

About

Bracketly

Features
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Need a printable tournament bracket for a ping-pong night, a gaming tournament, a chess club or an office pool? Bracketly turns a list of names into a clean single-elimination bracket PDF in seconds — no spreadsheet, no drawing lines by hand. Type a title, paste or type your players one per line (or as a comma-separated list), choose whether to shuffle the seeds, and create. Print it, share it, or post it on the wall. • 2 TO 32 PLAYERS — any number in between. Bracketly sizes the bracket to 2, 4, 8, 16 or 32 slots and shows how many byes you'll get before you create it. • CLASSIC SEEDING — top seeds are placed apart (1 vs last, 2 vs second-to-last), and byes go to the top seeds and advance automatically to round two. • SHUFFLE OR KEEP YOUR ORDER — randomize the draw, or keep your list order as the seed order. • LABELED ROUNDS — round headers (Round of 16, Quarterfinals, Semifinals, Final) and a Champion slot at the end. • PDF AND IMAGE — a landscape US Letter PDF for printing, plus an image for group chats and screens. Honest scope: single elimination only — no double elimination, round robin or consolation brackets. The bracket is a printable sheet: you fill in the winners by hand as matches finish; scores are not tracked in the app. Everything is made on your iPhone. Nothing is uploaded, and no account is needed. Try it free — 3 brackets. A one-time $4.99 purchase unlocks unlimited brackets. No subscription, no ads. Questions: overlapmarr@gmail.com

Screenshots

Noteflow4 screens
Bracketly3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Noteflow at none against Bracketly's 1. Noteflow also leads on device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (12.4 vs 16.0). Bracketly's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs every 6 weeks). On price and ads 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. Bracketly sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Noteflow asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Noteflow ships an update every 6 weeks, Bracketly weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 10, 2026 and October 11, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Noteflow versus Bracketly: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterNoteflowBracketly
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.2 (182 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews46.7% of reviews—
Number of ratings182 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeksWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS12.4 — better16.0
Further details — not scored
Size14 MB1 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperQrayon, LLCJhomar Maravillas

In-app purchases

None

Noteflow

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Bracketly

One-time1
  • Unlock Unlimited$4.99

Questions

Is Noteflow free?
Noteflow is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Bracketly free?
Bracketly is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Noteflow or Bracketly have ads?
Neither Noteflow nor Bracketly shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Noteflow or Bracketly?
Noteflow ships an update every 6 weeks, and Bracketly weekly. Most recently, Noteflow was updated on October 10, 2026 and Bracketly on October 11, 2026.

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