Bow Note vs Papery
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Bow Note
Learn the proper etiquette for visiting Japanese shrines. This app explains the angles and usage of different bows, and even measures your bow angle using your device's gyroscope. Enhance your cultural understanding and make your shrine visits more meaningful.
- Shrine bowing etiquette explanation
- Bow angle measurement
- Standard Japanese usage guide
- Cultural insights for Japan visitors
- O-mikuji fortune telling
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Great for visiting shrines! You can even get o-mikuji! Recommended for the following people! ・Those who are scheduled to, or would like to visit Japan ・Those who would like to visit shrines ・Those who have an interest in Japanese culture There are a number of angles to the bows used when visiting shrines, (though they are not the kind that the gods will punish you for not following) and it will make your visit more smooth to know them beforehand, as well as surprise Japanese people when you know them better than they do. This app also has the ability to measure the angle of your bow(*), making it quite handy. (*You will need a gyroscope in your device.) It also has an explanation mode, which tells you the standard Japanese usage of each bow. ========Credit======== Music & Sound effects: MusMus Sound effects: Digital Gene
Papery
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Papery turns a PDF into a book you can leaf through like paper. It is built for scanned reference books and vocabulary books. FREE • A bookshelf with reading progress, and every open book as a tab • Search inside scanned books: pages are read on your device • Select, copy, look up and translate the words on a page • Pen, highlighter and text notes, saved inside the PDF itself • Finger holds, thumb-index tabs and dog-ears • Contents, overview grid, go to page, zoom, full-screen reading, light and dark • Reading statistics PAPER: ONE-TIME PURCHASE, FREE FOR 14 DAYS • Pages that bend and rustle as they turn, in four kinds of paper • Riffle through the book, or leaf through it by hand • Previews from the page edges, and every jump flips through the pages • Wear on the pages you read most, and paper colors Without Paper, pages turn at once, silently, on white paper. Everything else stays free. Buy Paper once for all your devices; Family Sharing is included. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account, no tracking, no data collected. Your marks live inside your PDF, so they travel with the file through iCloud Drive or anywhere else.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Bow Note at none against Papery's 2. Bow Note also leads on iOS requirement (13.0 vs 17.0). Papery's advantage is ads (none vs shown). On price 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. Papery sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Bow Note asks for nothing beyond the download.
| Parameter | Bow Note | Papery |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 14 months | — |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Mac |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 60 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Plus Inc. (Japan) | 莎 邱 |
In-app purchases
Bow Note
No in-app purchases
Papery
- 14-Day TrialFree
- Paper$9.99









