Simple Blackboard vs myNotes
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Simple Blackboard
This app provides a digital canvas for drawing, sketching, and note-taking. It offers various tools like brushes, colors, shapes, and text, with options to load photos and record your creative process. Save your work, manage pages, and keep your last drawing accessible.
- Blackboard or whiteboard selection
- Adjustable brush sizes and colors
- Drawing of various shapes
- Text typing with adjustable font size
- Load photos onto the board
- Record video of drawing process
- Save drawings and manage pages
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This app allows you to draw on a simple blackboard (or whiteboard). You can use it for drawing, jotting down, illustrations, math calculations and etc. The key features are: - You can choose blackboard or whiteboard. - You have various brush sizes and huge number of paint colors. - You can draw various shapes such as line, arrow, circle, oval, square, rectangle, triangle, and polygon. - You can type text with adjustable font size. - You can load photo to the board. - You can record video from your drawing screen with sound from your device microphone. - You can save your drawing to your device. - You can add or remove pages. - You can set your favourite paint colors and color opacity. - Your last drawing is always saved. - The device screen never goes off while you are using the app. The premium purchase removes all ads, enables adding text, loading photo, drawing shapes and grid, setting favorite paint colors, and paint color opacity.
myNotes
Create notes, sketches, and to-do lists on an expansive, customizable canvas. Easily export your creations as high-resolution images for sharing via email or messaging. Supports Apple Pencil and finger input for a seamless creative experience.
- Infinite canvas
- Apple Pencil & finger drawing
- Export as JPEG/PNG
- iCloud synchronization
- Customizable background
- Dark Mode
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It was never easier to create notes, sketches, todo lists, reminders or whatever comes to your mind. You can use the Apple Pencil or your fingers to create amazing notes on an almost infinite canvas. With the export function you can easily save your note as an image and use it wherever you like. Forwarding via email, messages, whatsapp, etc. is no problem either. FUNCTIONS AT A GLANCE: • Draw with Apple Pencil or your fingers • Almost infinite canvas size • Customize the canvas background • Export as JPEG or PNG (max. 8192 pixels x 8191 pixels) • Customize the image export settings • iCloud Synchronization • On iPad and iPhone • Autosave function • Fast positioning • Fast zoom • Toolbar is hideable • Dark Mode • and much more… Data protection is a top priority at myNotes. The data belongs to you. The app will not send any data to anyone, neither the developer nor any other third party or service. Except for the data exchange between your devices through your iCloud, but this function is deactivatable. You have full control over your data and to whom it is sent. You can delete them at any time. QUESTIONS? Do you have any questions or feedback? Write a message to help.myTime@gmx.de! Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Simple Blackboard at 4.3 against myNotes's 2.3. Simple Blackboard also leads on ratings volume (137 vs 4). myNotes's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 9 months). On price, in-app purchases, monetization model 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
Both are free to download. Simple Blackboard sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and myNotes sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Simple Blackboard holds the better App Store score, 4.3 against 2.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Simple Blackboard has 137 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 50% of Simple Blackboard's written reviews are positive against 76% of myNotes's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Simple Blackboard ships an update every 9 months, myNotes every 3 weeks. Both last shipped on September 29, 2026.
| Parameter | Simple Blackboard | myNotes |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (137 ratings) — better | 2.3 (4 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews | 75.8% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 137 — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Every 9 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| 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 | 15.6 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 4 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Bita Sobhani | Heiner Gerdes |
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Simple Blackboard
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In-app purchases
Simple Blackboard
- Premium$2.99
myNotes
- Small Coffee$0.99
- Medium Coffee$3.99
- Pro Version$3.99
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- Large Coffee$4.99
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