Julia Lyrics vs Songwriting Notebook
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Julia Lyrics
Manage and store your song lyrics with ease. This app allows you to create, view, and organize your lyrics, with options for custom colors and fonts. It also provides automatic and manual backup to iCloud, ensuring your lyrics are always accessible.
- Store lyrics offline
- Easy song navigation
- Search and reorder lyrics
- Create custom playlists
- Auto and manual iCloud backup
- Backup lyrics as .txt files
- Customizable colors and fonts
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- Keep your lyrics always with you - Navigate easily between songs - Search and reorder - Create playlists - Auto and manual backup to your iCloud storage - Backup lyrics also in .txt format - Choose your custom colors and fonts
Songwriting Notebook
Capture song ideas, write lyrics with chords, and record audio clips all in one place. This tool helps organize your creative process and offers advanced features like a rhyming dictionary and sharing capabilities on desktop.
- Capture song ideas, lyrics, and audio
- Add chords with one-click
- Create songs from scratch or seed ideas
- Rhyming dictionary and thesaurus (desktop)
- Share songs with collaborators (desktop)
- PDF download (desktop)
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Designed specifically for songwriters, this app combines the best of note taking and voice memos apps into a single, easy-to-use songwriting notebook that helps you capture ideas, write songs, and stay organized. - Write songs and quickly add chords with one-click over your lyrics - Easily capture ideas in the form of song ideas, lyrics, and audio clips - One-click create and write songs from scratch or from one of your seed ideas For more songwriting tips, follow @songwriting_notebook on TikTok. Free plan allows you to create 3 free songs and unlimited song seeds Paid plan ($3.99/month or $39.99/year) allows users to create unlimited songs and seeds The desktop version of the Songwriting Notebook has even more features and is included in your plan. Access at my.moosiko.com on a desktop, features include: - Ability to share songs with bandmates, co-writers, or friends - Drum backing tracks - Rhyming dictionary and thesaurus - PDF Download - Song Ownership Protection Certificate - Tips, prompts, and resources for beginner songwriters Have questions? Email help@moosiko.com. Who is Moosiko? Moosiko is a music tech company that helps thousands of students learn guitar and ukulele in schools with our online practice platform. Our Songwriting Notebook is our second product designed to help songwriters. Learn more at moosiko.com. Privacy Policy: https://moosiko.com/app-privacy-policy EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Songwriting Notebook at 3.2 against Julia Lyrics's 2.8. Julia Lyrics's advantage is review sentiment (67% vs 50%). On price, ratings volume, 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
Both are free to download. Julia Lyrics sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Songwriting Notebook sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Songwriting Notebook holds the better App Store score, 3.2 against 2.8. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 6 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 67% of Julia Lyrics's written reviews are positive against 50% of Songwriting Notebook's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Julia Lyrics ships an update every 6 weeks, Songwriting Notebook every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Julia Lyrics | Songwriting Notebook |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.8 (4 ratings) | 3.2 (6 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 66.7% of reviews — better | 50.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 4 | 6 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 16 MB | 7 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Andriy Pohorilko | Moosiko Inc. |
Customer experience
Julia Lyrics
Songwriting Notebook
In-app purchases
Julia Lyrics
- Full version$2.99
Songwriting Notebook
- Premium Member$3.991 Month
- Premium Member$38.991 Year
