Quick Note vs Nota
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Quick Note
Capture ideas instantly with a fast, focused notepad that syncs across your devices. Enjoy rich text formatting, organized folders, and quick search. A Pro version offers unlimited notes and customization.
- Instant note capture
- Rich text formatting
- Folder organization
- iCloud sync
- Menu bar integration
- Customizable settings
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Your notes in your pocket, and on your Mac. Jot something down on your iPhone and it's waiting on your Mac before you sit down. Quick Note is a fast, focused notepad with rich text, folders, and instant search. iCloud sync keeps every note current across iPhone, iPad, and Mac. ■ QUICK TO CAPTURE Open the app and start typing. No launch screen. No login. Just your note. ■ RICH TEXT ABOVE THE KEYBOARD A formatting bar sits right on top of the keyboard, so styling never interrupts your typing. • Headings, Bold, Italics, Strikethrough • Highlight and named links • Bullet, Dashed, Numbered, and Checklists ■ ORGANIZE YOUR WAY • Folders — group related notes together • Favorites — keep your most-used notes at the top • Note colors — tell topics apart at a glance • Search — find any note by title or content in an instant • Trash — deleted notes stay recoverable ■ SYNCS WITH YOUR MAC On the Mac, Quick Note lives in the menu bar and floats above your work. Everything you write on iPhone shows up there, and everything you write there shows up here — automatically, over iCloud. ■ SET UP THE WAY YOU LIKE • Pick a default note color, or let it be random • Sort your notes the way you think • Spell checking as you type • Adjustable text size Quick Note Pro unlocks unlimited notes, folders, and every note color. It's a one-time purchase — never a subscription — and it covers iPhone, iPad, and Mac together. Questions or feedback? k.suryawanshi@gmail.com
Nota
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Nota is a canvas notebook. Write by hand, type, draw diagrams and annotate PDFs — all on the same page, all saved to your device as you go. HANDWRITING THAT BECOMES TEXT Ink with a pen or your finger. Pause, and what you just wrote turns into an editable text box. Recognition runs entirely on your device, so your writing never leaves it. English, Chinese, Malay and Tamil. A CANVAS, NOT A PAGE OF LINES • Pen, highlighter and eraser, with a press-and-hold straight-line snap • An endless canvas, or real pages: Letter and A4 through A7, portrait or landscape • Blank, ruled or grid paper in six colours • Pinch to zoom, drag to pan, undo and redo across everything TEXT THAT THINKS IN MARKDOWN Type # for a heading, - for a bullet, [] for a checkbox, > for a quote. Bold, italic, size, colour, alignment, font and rotation, all from one ribbon. DIAGRAMS, NOT DOODLES More than 80 shapes across Standard, Flowchart, Containers and UML — class, use case, state and sequence. Connectors snap to ports and keep following a shape when you move or rotate it, with arrowheads, labels and UML relationship presets. PDFs IN, PDFs OUT Import a PDF and every page becomes a page you can write on. Reorder, duplicate, insert or delete pages. Export the whole note, the current page or a range as a PDF or as PNG images, then share it or save it to Files. ORGANISED, AND OFFLINE Nested folders with cover images and a breadcrumb browser. Everything works with no connection at all — notes are written to your device the moment you stop typing. No analytics, no ads. NOTA PRO • Google Drive backup and sync — every note, folder, image and PDF page, in a folder you own • Automatic background sync, or Sync now on any single note • Your whole library back on any device you sign in on • Signatures — draw or type one, style its ink, rule and footer, then place it on any page • A library of up to three saved signatures, ready on every device Everything else is free, with no time limit. Terms of Use: https://nota-solution.quantyr.co/terms Privacy Policy: https://nota-solution.quantyr.co/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Nota at 15.5 against Quick Note's 18. On price, ads, in-app purchases 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. Quick Note sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Nota sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
| Parameter | Quick Note | Nota |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 85.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 3 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 18 | 15.5 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 17 MB | 74 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Kauntey Suryawanshi | NANDAPRIAN RAJASEKARAN |
In-app purchases
Quick Note
- Quick Note Pro$12.99
Nota
- Nota Pro Monthly$0.991 Month
- Nota Pro Monthly$9.991 Year









