Comparison

Notes for Apple Watch vs Palette Library

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

Head to head
About

Notes for Apple Watch

Effortlessly create, view, and manage all your notes directly on your Apple Watch. Syncs seamlessly with your iPhone and iPad, offering intuitive organization with color themes and efficient input methods.

Highlights
  • Compose notes on Apple Watch
  • Browse, view, and edit notes
  • Automatic syncing across devices
  • Color themes for organization
  • FlickType Keyboard support
Features
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Compose and manage all your notes directly on Apple Watch. • Browse, view, edit, and compose notes with a highly intuitive interface optimized for your wrist. • Automatically sync all your notes between your iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch. • Organize your notes with a variety of color themes for easy categorization. • Supports FlickType Keyboard for even more efficient note-taking on the go. Take your notes, anywhere! --------------------- Terms of Service: https://bit.ly/NotesTerms

About

Palette Library

This app is a comprehensive color toolkit for designers, developers, and artists. It allows users to sample colors from images, websites, and the camera, organize them into palettes, and export them in various formats. It also offers color intelligence features like harmonies, contrast checking, and color blindness simulation.

Highlights
  • Sample colors from images, camera, and websites
  • Organize colors into unlimited palettes
  • Generate color harmonies and tints/shades
  • WCAG 2.1 contrast checking
  • Color blindness simulation
  • Export palettes in multiple formats (PNG, JSON, CSS, ASE)
  • iCloud sync across devices
Features
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Palette Library is the all-in-one color toolkit for designers, developers, and artists. Pick colors from any image, capture them from websites with the Safari extension, and organize them into beautiful palettes — all on your iPhone or iPad. PICK COLORS FROM ANYWHERE • Sample colors from your photo library, camera, or any image with a precision magnifier loupe • Automatically extract dominant and highlight colors using perceptual clustering • Generate color harmonies — complementary, triadic, tetradic, and analogous — with one tap SAFARI EXTENSION • Capture colors directly from any website without leaving Safari • Sample element colors (backgrounds, text, borders) or individual pixels from images • Extract full page palettes automatically, grouped by domain • Review captures in a dedicated Inbox and save to your palettes ORGANIZE & EDIT PALETTES • Create unlimited palettes with unlimited colors • Drag to reorder colors and palettes • Add notes and custom names to any color • Search palettes instantly with live filtering • Select, copy, and manage colors in bulk COLOR INTELLIGENCE • Automatic color naming from a dataset of 1,500+ names with multiple naming schemes including XKCD • WCAG 2.1 contrast checking against white and black backgrounds with AA and AAA pass/fail ratings • Color blindness simulation for protanopia, deuteranopia, and tritanopia • Generate tints, shades, tones, and full ramps in perceptually uniform LAB color space EVERY FORMAT YOU NEED • View and copy colors as HEX, RGB, CMYK, HSL, HSV, CSS RGB, or CSS HSL • One-tap copy to clipboard with haptic feedback EXPORT FOR ANY WORKFLOW • PNG and JPEG images in grid, horizontal strip, or vertical strip layouts • JSON, CSV, and CSS custom properties • Tailwind CSS configuration • W3C Design Tokens • Adobe Swatch Exchange (.ase) for Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign • GIMP Palette (.gpl) SYNC & SHARE • iCloud sync keeps your palettes updated across all your devices automatically • Share palettes via AirDrop, Messages, or email using the .palettelibrary file format • Import palettes shared by others with one tap • Works fully offline and syncs when connected ACCESSIBILITY & DESIGN • Full VoiceOver support • Dynamic Type for comfortable reading at any text size • Clean, intuitive interface designed for fast workflows PRIVACY FIRST All color processing happens on your device. No data is collected or sent to external servers. iCloud sync uses your private iCloud container. Whether you're building a brand, designing an interface, choosing paint for a canvas, or developing a website, Palette Library gives you professional color tools in one app.

Screenshots

Notes for Apple Watch4 screens
Palette Library4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Palette Library at 100% against Notes for Apple Watch's 40%. Palette Library also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.3) and in-app purchases (none vs 2). Notes for Apple Watch's advantage is price (Free vs $4.99) and update cadence (weekly vs every 3 months). On 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

Notes for Apple Watch is free to download; Palette Library costs $4.99 up front. Notes for Apple Watch sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Palette Library asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Palette Library holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Notes for Apple Watch has 2.8K ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 40% of Notes for Apple Watch's written reviews are positive against 100% of Palette Library's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Notes for Apple Watch ships an update weekly, Palette Library every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 18, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard9 real differences · 1 level
Notes for Apple Watch versus Palette Library: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterNotes for Apple WatchPalette Library
PriceFree — better$4.99
Rating4.3 (2.8K ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews40.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings2.8K — better1
Update frequencyWeekly — betterEvery 3 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases — betterPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS14.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size17 MB11 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperKpaw, LLCZehavi Works LLC

Customer experience

Notes for Apple Watch

All ratings2,714 ratings
Positive80.8%
Neutral4.8%
Negative14.4%
Written reviews205 reviews
Positive40.0%
Neutral8.3%
Negative51.7%

Palette Library

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

Bugs and requests

Notes for Apple Watch

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Notes not syncing properly between devices
  • App freezing and becoming unresponsive on Apple Watch
  • Keyboard issues causing typing difficulties

Requested features

4 requests
  • Add ability to edit notes from Apple Watch
  • Implement a one-time purchase option instead of subscription
  • Improve syncing reliability and speed
  • Add more keyboard features (delete word, number pad, etc.)

Palette Library

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Notes for Apple Watch

Subscriptions2
  • Premium3 Days trial$3.991 Month
  • Premium3 Days trial$5.991 Month
None

Palette Library

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Notes for Apple Watch free?
Notes for Apple Watch is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Palette Library free?
Palette Library costs $4.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Notes for Apple Watch or Palette Library?
Palette Library is rated higher. Notes for Apple Watch averages 4.3 out of 5 from 2.8K ratings, while Palette Library averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Notes for Apple Watch or Palette Library have ads?
Neither Notes for Apple Watch nor Palette Library shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Notes for Apple Watch or Palette Library?
Notes for Apple Watch ships an update weekly, and Palette Library every 3 months. Most recently, Notes for Apple Watch was updated on October 29, 2026 and Palette Library on October 18, 2026.

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