whynote vs PPNote
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
whynote
Securely store sensitive information like passwords and credit card details. Protect your private notes with password, Touch ID, or Face ID. Export your notes as PDF files for easy sharing.
- Password, Touch ID, Face ID lock
- Rich text editor
- Individual note locking
- App-wide locking
- PDF export
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Write notes and keep the private ones private. whynote keeps everything on your iPhone: no account, no ads, no tracking. • Rich text: bold, italic, underline, strikethrough, lists and alignment • Lock notes with Face ID, Touch ID or your iPhone passcode • App Lock: lock the whole app when you leave it • Search your notes • Recently Deleted: restore notes you deleted by mistake • Share a note as text or export it as a PDF • Notes are encrypted on your iPhone by iOS Data Protection • No account, no ads, no analytics. Your notes leave your iPhone only when you share them. PREMIUM Locking notes, App Lock and PDF export are Premium features. Premium is one payment for 1 year of access. It does not renew automatically. Notes you already locked can always be opened and unlocked for free.
PPNote
Organize your thoughts and web links efficiently. Collect information from other apps, create custom notes with categories and subcategories, and easily manage your content with favorite and hidden options. Streamline your workflow with quick actions for moving and tagging notes.
- Collect notes and links from other apps
- Automatic categorization by URL
- Manual note creation with categories/subcategories
- Favorite and hide notes
- Quick actions for moving and tagging
- Organize with categories, subcategories, and tags
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PPNote helps you better manage your notes. 1. Collect from other apps. - You can collect information from other apps(like Safari, Chrome, etc) to PPNote through Share button. - When it's a web page, the note will be automatically categorized by URL. 2. Create note in PPNote. - You can manually create note either in category or in sub category. If there is no category yet. Please create one. 3. Favorite a Note. - You can favorite a note from context menu. - Favorite notes always show on the top. Easier for you to View. - You can view all the favorite notes in [Notes] tab. 4. Hide a Note. - You can hide a note from context menu. - Hidden notes are not shown by default. You can view them by tapping the [Show hidden notes] button. - You can view all the hidden notes in [More] tab. 5. Quick Action in Context Menu. - Quickly move note to other category/sub category. - Quickly add or remove tag for a note. - More actions. 6. Organize Notes. - Use category, sub category and tag to organize notes better.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: PPNote at 3.5 against whynote's 2.0. PPNote also leads on device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 26.0). whynote's advantage is update cadence (every 4 days vs every 7 months) and review sentiment (68% vs 40%). On price, ratings volume, 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. whynote sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and PPNote sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
PPNote holds the better App Store score, 3.5 against 2.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 2 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 68% of whynote's written reviews are positive against 40% of PPNote's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
whynote ships an update every 4 days, PPNote every 7 months. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | whynote | PPNote |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.0 (4 ratings) | 3.5 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 68.4% of reviews — better | 40.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 4 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days — better | Every 7 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 1 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Mehmet AKIN | 金鹏 王 |
Customer experience
whynote
PPNote
In-app purchases
whynote
- Premium whynote$9.99
PPNote
- [More Features]$1.99









