Comparison

Notes Writer vs My Bites App

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

Head to head
About

Notes Writer

This app is a comprehensive note-taking and PDF editing solution for mobile devices. It allows users to write, format, and organize notes, annotate PDFs, fill forms, and scan documents. The app offers advanced editing tools, powerful search, and seamless sharing and export options.

Highlights
  • Write and format notes
  • Annotate PDFs and fill forms
  • Organize with unlimited notebooks
  • Powerful full-text search
  • Document scanning
  • Sync with cloud services
  • Export to multiple formats
Features
Read full description

Every note. Every format. Unlimited Digital Notebooks. Like paper, but better. Take lecture notes, prepare for exams and develop your research. Bring the same tools to manuscripts, interviews, lesson plans, meetings and creative projects. Notes Writer keeps your work together on iPad, iPhone and compatible Apple silicon Macs. Designed for students and anyone who wants to learn, create and stay organized—including teachers, writers, journalists, doctors, architects, illustrators, mathematicians, researchers and business professionals. WRITE & CAPTURE • Handwriting, sketching & painting Take handwritten notes with Apple Pencil, type a document or explore a concept through drawing. Use dedicated sketching, watercolor and oil painting tools for illustrations and creative work. • PDF annotation Review lecture slides, medical literature and professional reports. Highlight PDFs, add comments, images and shapes, fill forms and sign documents. Keep your annotations beside the source material. • Recording & transcription Record lectures, business meetings and interviews, transcribe the audio and search the transcript for the detail you need. Add recordings to PDF notes and whiteboards, then listen back at your own pace. STUDY & RESEARCH • Courses, manuscripts & research projects Choose an optional project tree to arrange topics, sources and drafts in a Study Project. Use the Binder for structure, the Corkboard to plan sections and compilation to assemble a document or ebook. • Whiteboards, diagrams & outlines Create whiteboards with notes, images, recordings and tables. Build flowcharts and diagrams to explain a process, compare findings or plan a lesson or project. Use Outline Notes when your ideas need a hierarchy. • Flashcards & review Create flashcards with text, handwriting and images, or generate them from notes and PDFs with optional AI tools. Review with spaced repetition, answer by typing or speaking, and track your progress. MATH & SCIENCE • Calculations, Python & charts Math Notebooks combine written reasoning, symbolic calculations and Python cells. Plot results, explore a model and present your data in editable Chart documents. • LaTeX & technical PDFs Write technical papers in LaTeX and compile them to PDF with a preview of the result. For plans and technical drawings, set a scale and measure distances, perimeters and areas directly on the PDF. ORGANIZE & SHARE • Notebooks, folders & templates Create and customize folders, subfolders and notebooks. Choose names, covers and paper templates that suit each course or project. Scan handouts, search your collection and manage documents with sorting, moving and grouping tools. • Documents side by side Open documents in tabs and work with your reading and draft side by side. Create a study planner, lesson plan, research journal or manuscript within the same library. • Formats for your work Work across PDF, Microsoft Word (DOCX), EPUB, RTF, Markdown, plain text (TXT), HTML, LaTeX and OPML outlines. Edit formatted documents, read ebooks and export supported documents as PDF, DOCX, RTF, HTML or EPUB. Export options vary by document type. • Sync, backup & privacy Sync with iCloud and work with Dropbox and Google Drive files through the Files app, with changes synced by your provider. Set up automatic document backups, use autosave and recovery, and protect the app and folders with a passcode. OPTIONAL AI ASSISTANT Ask questions about your notes and documents, simplify an explanation, summarize a reading or refine your writing. Use translation, grammar and tone tools when they help. Review every suggestion and decide what belongs in your work. Start a notebook. Study, create and work your way. Privacy Policy http://www.noteswriter.com/Kairoos_Privacy_Policy.html Terms of Use https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

My Bites App

This app helps businesses communicate important information to employees through engaging, social media-style content. It ensures employees see, understand, and interact with updates via short videos and quizzes, providing companies with detailed analytics on engagement and comprehension.

Highlights
  • Social media-savvy communication
  • Video and quiz-based updates
  • Cross-platform integration (Messenger, WhatsApp, Slack, Skype)
  • Employee engagement tracking
  • Content comprehension analytics
  • Media-based training units
Features
Read full description

Bites allows you to communicate business-critical information using social media savvy. With Bites, employees actually see your update, engage with it, and the company has full visibility into who viewed each piece of content and how well they understood it. - See your update: Your employees get a quick video (or any other content) on the apps they’re ALREADY using. (Messenger, WhatsApp, Slack, Skype etc) - Engage with it: Your employees get video/content that is supercharged - the video is followed by a quick summary and quiz - and it is in the language of now (short video, quizzes etc). - Full visibility: you get complete analytics on who viewed the content, confirmation that they understood it, and whether they had any questions or comments. Training frontline employees doesn’t have to be a headache. We let you train your employees with media-based training units. It’s simple, engaging and really effective.

Screenshots

Notes Writer4 screens
My Bites App4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: My Bites App at 100% against Notes Writer's 45%. My Bites App also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.5) and in-app purchases (none vs 9). Notes Writer's advantage is ratings volume (7.3K vs 1) and update cadence (every 4 days vs every 3 weeks). On price, ads and device support 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. Notes Writer sells 8 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per 7 days. My Bites App asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

My Bites App holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Notes Writer has 7.3K ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 45% of Notes Writer's written reviews are positive against 100% of My Bites App's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Notes Writer ships an update every 4 days, My Bites App every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Notes Writer versus My Bites App: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterNotes WriterMy Bites App
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (7.3K ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews45.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings7.3K — better1
Update frequencyEvery 4 days — betterEvery 3 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS26.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size660 MB147 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperKairoos Solutions SLBites Learning ltd

Customer experience

Notes Writer

All ratings7,332 ratings
Positive86.8%
Neutral5.1%
Negative8.1%
Written reviews963 reviews
Positive45.0%
Neutral15.1%
Negative40.0%

My Bites App

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

Notes Writer

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Notes randomly disappearing or getting corrupted
  • Inability to recover deleted documents
  • Unexpected behavior when adding/deleting pages
  • Syncing issues and broken links between documents

Requested features

4 requests
  • Add more brushes and pen customization options
  • Improve the clipping/selection tool
  • Implement OCR and handwriting search
  • Provide a Mac version

My Bites App

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

8 purchases

Notes Writer

Subscriptions3
  • Weekly$1.997 Days
  • Notes Writer Unlock All and AI3 Days trial$3.991 Month
  • Notes Writer Unlock All and AI3 Days trial$14.991 Year
One-time5
  • Full Version Unlock Pro$3.99
  • Full Version Unlock Pro$4.99
  • Full Version Unlock Pro2 variants$5.99
Show 2 more
  • Full Version Unlock Pro$6.99
  • Lifetime Pro Full Unlock$14.99
None

My Bites App

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Notes Writer free?
Notes Writer is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is My Bites App free?
My Bites App is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Notes Writer or My Bites App?
My Bites App is rated higher. Notes Writer averages 4.5 out of 5 from 7.3K ratings, while My Bites App averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Notes Writer or My Bites App have ads?
Neither Notes Writer nor My Bites App shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Notes Writer or My Bites App?
Notes Writer ships an update every 4 days, and My Bites App every 3 weeks. Most recently, Notes Writer was updated on October 31, 2026 and My Bites App on October 24, 2026.

Other comparisons