Comparison

Notes vs Safe Notes

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

Head to head
About

Notes

This app combines a notepad, to-do list, and memo functionality into a single, intuitive interface. Easily create notes from text, voice, or images, and organize them with reminders and sorting options. Secure your data and transfer it to new devices.

Highlights
  • 3-in-1 notepad, to-do list, and memos
  • Create notes from photos, images, and voice
  • Set notifications and reminders
  • Sort notes by urgency, category, due date, color
  • Secure notes with a security code
  • Data transfer to new devices
Features
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Notes: notepad and lists is a convenient app that helps you make notes and keep lists. Why should you choose Notes: notepad and lists? - 3 in 1 Replace your to-do list, notepad and memos with this simple, all-in-one app. - Easy to use Notes: notepad and lists is an extremely simple and intuitive app. No instructions or tutorial necessary. - Fast Create a note or a list in literally seconds - the perfect way to jot down important information. A notepad, diary and to-do list that suits your face-paced lifestyle. - Multiple formats Create notes from photos, images, and voice messages, and make your to-do list or shopping list. Use it on the go, or even behind the wheel - all you have to do is record your message or take a photo. - Editing You can edit your notes, or add comments, attachments, details and notifications at any time. - Planning Notes: notepad and lists also works as a to-do list: you can set notifications and reminders (one off or repeated) for each note, and the easy-to-use calendar system helps you keep track of deadlines. - Sorting You can sort your notes by urgency, category, due date, and color, so searching through your content is quick and easy. - Security Notes: notepad and lists lets you protect your personal data with a short security-code, meaning only you can access your notes and lists. - Transfer your info If you get a new device, you won't lose your information - registered users can restore their data.

About

Safe Notes

Securely store and organize your thoughts, plans, and sensitive information with a password-protected notepad. Create text notes, checklists, add images and audio, and convert content to PDF for easy sharing. Access your data offline and enjoy automatic backups.

Highlights
  • Password protection
  • Offline access
  • Convert notes to PDF
  • Add photos and audio
  • Organize with tags
  • To-do lists
  • Automatic backup
Features
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Safe Notes is a password-protected notepad that's safe, smart, easy to use and free! Safe Notes gives you a complete and simple notepad to create text notes and checklists. It saves your inspirations, plans, ideas, contacts, passwords, sensitive information, lists or anything you want to organize or remember and keep them private and yet available. You can use Safe Notes as a digital notebook or diary and add pictures, taking them with camera or your gallery. You can keep notes of lectures, business meetings and interviews or if you need quickly transfer URLs, code snippets and email addresses. It is easy to create reminders and to organize data in lists. With the checklist you can plan your day with to do list, make tasks list and tick the completed ones. Safe Notes is intuitive and versatile. You can organise notes using tags to manage your schedules and notes. You can add title to your notes, instead of just the first line of the note and convert text into a checkbox list or vice versa. Safe Notes now allows you to convert your notes and lists to PDF. You can then normally view, store, transfer or share your PDF files. Safe Notes provides safe access using a simple pin number. It stores all your data on the device instead of uploading your personal information on external database. Easy to use with a clean interface, it’s the app that you’re missing on your phone and it is free. Download Safe Notes now. Key features: * Password protection. Protect your notes and checklist with password and lock the whole notepad app with your PIN. * Offline access. Access your notes even without internet connection. * Autosave. The notepad will save your notes automatically while you edit them. * Use your Fingerprint to quickly unlock the app. * Convert your notes and images into PDF * Quickly share your PDF * Automatic Backup (NEW FEATURE) * Backup and Restore (NEW FEATURE) * Tags. Organise your notes and to do list with labels to find them easily. * Search function. Easy search notes and filter tags. * Preferred Notes. Set note importance. * ToDo lists. * Fast memo. Import text data directly from another source. Copy and paste from your phone to your note. * Simple and intuitive user experience. Create. Edit. Delete. * Photo support. Add photos and images to your secure notes. * Audio notes support. Add audio notes to your secure notes. * Text To Speech support * Colours. Use colours to categorise notes by importance, tags or subject or just make your notepad more fun. * Reminders. Set a reminder for your note or for your to do lists and you'll receive a protected local notification: For your privacy, the actual text of the reminder is visible only inside the app! * Tick the completed tasks. * Share. Send and share individual note to yourself or another contact if you need. * Unlimited text size. * Possibility to set a reminder for Notes and ToDo lists and receive a notification to help you remember things! * Multi languages. * Off-line security. You are the only one that knows your password and everything that you write and save it is stored only on your phone instead of app and database. You don't have to trust any other third-party as nobody else have access to it. Nothing is stored online where someone could potentially read it. 100% privacy protection. * Support: HELP will help you to work with notes, checklist and tags. Also you can always contact us if you have some questions. * Free (Safe Notes is a free app and ads supported).

Screenshots

Notes4 screens
Safe Notes4 screens

Verdict

The call

Notes and Safe Notes both sit at 4.8 stars, but that hides the real split: 100% of Safe Notes's written reviews are positive against 79% of Notes's. Safe Notes also leads on iOS requirement (11.0 vs 13.0). Notes's advantage is ratings volume (680 vs 22). On price, rating, update cadence and 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

Both are free to download. Notes sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Safe Notes sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.8 for Notes against 4.9 for Safe Notes. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Notes has 680 ratings behind it against 22, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 79% of Notes's written reviews are positive against 100% of Safe Notes's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly monthly. Both last shipped on November 3, 2026.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Notes versus Safe Notes: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterNotesSafe Notes
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (680 ratings)4.9 (22 ratings) — better
Positive reviews78.5% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings680 — better22
Update frequencyMonthlyMonthly
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS13.011.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size109 MB165 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperOrange DogMarco Troncone

Customer experience

Notes

All ratings654 ratings
Positive96.2%
Neutral1.8%
Negative2.0%
Written reviews107 reviews
Positive78.5%
Neutral7.5%
Negative14.0%

Safe Notes

All ratings22 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

Notes

Reported bugs

1 issue
  • Unexpected ads appearing after recent updates for paid subscribers

Requested features

3 requests
  • More engaging task motivation features
  • Clearer documentation on note persistence
  • Improved customer support interface

Safe Notes

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Notes

One-time1
  • Disable ads$9.99
1 purchases

Safe Notes

One-time1
  • Remove ads$2.99

Questions

Is Notes free?
Notes is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Safe Notes free?
Safe Notes is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Notes or Safe Notes?
Safe Notes is rated higher. Notes averages 4.8 out of 5 from 680 ratings, while Safe Notes averages 4.9 from 22 ratings.
Do Notes or Safe Notes have ads?
Both Notes and Safe Notes show ads.
Which is updated more often, Notes or Safe Notes?
Notes ships an update monthly, and Safe Notes monthly. Most recently, Notes was updated on November 3, 2026 and Safe Notes on November 3, 2026.

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