Comparison

Bow Note vs Papery

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Shrine bowing etiquette explanation
  • Bow angle measurement
  • Standard Japanese usage guide
  • Cultural insights for Japan visitors
  • O-mikuji fortune telling
Features
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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

About

Papery

Features
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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.

Screenshots

Bow Note4 screens
Papery4 screens

Verdict

The call

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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Papery sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Bow Note asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard3 real differences · 6 level
Bow Note versus Papery: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBow NotePapery
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 14 months—
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationAd-supported—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, Mac
Requires iOS13.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size60 MB3 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPlus Inc. (Japan)莎 邱

In-app purchases

None

Bow Note

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Papery

One-time2
  • 14-Day TrialFree
  • Paper$9.99

Questions

Is Bow Note free?
Bow Note is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Papery free?
Papery is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Bow Note or Papery have ads?
Bow Note shows ads; Papery does not.

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