Comparison

Minute Notes vs Tearpad

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

Tearpad

Features
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I kept opening my notes app to jot down one quick thing and getting hit with folders, tags, and a pile of old notes I forgot to delete. I just wanted a pad of paper. So I made one. Tearpad opens straight to today's page. Cursor's already blinking, so you just write. There's no title to fill in, nothing to file, no place to put it. When tomorrow rolls around, it turns to a clean page on its own. Yesterday's is one swipe back, curling away like a real notebook. That's really the whole thing. It's for the notes you'd scribble on a sticky and throw out later. A phone number, a grocery list, the two things you have to do before lunch. Stuff that doesn't need a filing system. What you get: • Opens to today every single time • A fresh page shows up on its own, so you're never staring at last week's leftovers • Swipe to flip back through your old pages • Checklists, bullets, and numbered lists, right there in the text • A few paper colors, textures, and typefaces if you want to make it yours • No account, no sign in, nothing to set up If you like it, there's one optional purchase that unlocks the extras. It's a one time thing. I'm not going to charge you every month for a notepad.

Screenshots

Minute Notes4 screens
Tearpad3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Minute Notes at none against Tearpad's 1. Tearpad's advantage is update cadence (daily vs every 40 months). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price Ā· Rating Ā· Positive reviews Ā· Number of ratings Ā· Update frequency Ā· Ads Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Monetization Ā· Best chart rank Ā· Devices Ā· Requires iOS

CostPrice Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Ads Ā· Monetization

Both are free to download. Tearpad sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Minute Notes asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Minute Notes ships an update every 40 months, Tearpad daily. The most recent releases landed on September 14, 2026 and September 19, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences Ā· 4 level
Minute Notes versus Tearpad: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMinute NotesTearpad
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 40 monthsDaily — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size4 MB1 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDmitriy MotorinJoshua Hutchins

In-app purchases

None

Minute Notes

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Tearpad

One-time1
  • Support Tier$0.99

Questions

Is Minute Notes free?
Minute Notes is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Tearpad free?
Tearpad is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Minute Notes or Tearpad have ads?
Neither Minute Notes nor Tearpad shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Minute Notes or Tearpad?
Minute Notes ships an update every 40 months, and Tearpad daily. Most recently, Minute Notes was updated on September 14, 2026 and Tearpad on September 19, 2026.

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