Comparison

Minute Notes vs Tertiary NotePad

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

Head to head
About

Minute Notes

Features
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Capture a thought before it disappears. Minute Notes is a focused notepad for writing, finding, and exporting plain-text notes without an account. Open the app, create a note with one tap, and keep typing. FAST FROM THE FIRST NOTE • Create a note with one tap • Search across titles and note text • Pin important notes to the top • Export any note as portable plain text with the system share sheet • Use a native split layout built for both iPhone and iPad PRIVATE BY DESIGN Your notes are stored on this device. Minute Notes has no account, no ads, no analytics SDK, and no cloud or upload service. You choose where an exported note goes. Minute Notes is deliberately small: a clear place to capture an idea, find it again, and move it somewhere else when you are ready.

About

Tertiary NotePad

Features
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NotePad is a clean, native iPad note-taking app built for Apple Pencil. It feels like a paper notebook with the power of digital ink. - Handwriting with pressure and tilt, low latency, and palm rejection - the Pencil draws while a finger scrolls and two fingers zoom. - GoodNotes-style tool bar: pen, highlighter, erasers, color dropdown and widths. - White paper or blackboard templates, applied across the whole notebook. - Shapes and flowcharts (process, decision, start/end, connectors) with editable vector overlays; connectors re-route when you move a node. - Type directly into sticky notes and flowchart nodes (multi-line, with background colors). - Lasso to move, delete or copy multiple strokes; recolor and edit shapes. - Import PDFs and annotate them; export pages or whole notebooks to PDF/PNG/JPG. - Organize with nested notebooks and tags, and search inside your handwriting. - Record voice memos per notebook. - Everything syncs across your devices with iCloud. Powered by Tertiary Infotech Academy Pte Ltd.

Screenshots

Minute Notes4 screens
Tertiary NotePad2 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Tertiary NotePad at daily against Minute Notes's every 40 months. 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Minute Notes ships an update every 40 months, Tertiary NotePad daily. The most recent releases landed on October 1, 2026 and October 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 5 level
Minute Notes versus Tertiary NotePad: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMinute NotesTertiary NotePad
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 40 monthsDaily — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size4 MB3 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDmitriy MotorinAlfred Ang

In-app purchases

None

Minute Notes

No in-app purchases

None

Tertiary NotePad

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Minute Notes free?
Minute Notes is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Tertiary NotePad free?
Tertiary NotePad is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Minute Notes or Tertiary NotePad have ads?
Neither Minute Notes nor Tertiary NotePad shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Minute Notes or Tertiary NotePad?
Minute Notes ships an update every 40 months, and Tertiary NotePad daily. Most recently, Minute Notes was updated on October 1, 2026 and Tertiary NotePad on October 6, 2026.

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