Notepad vs Nested Folder Notes
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Notepad
Capture thoughts, pictures, voice memos, and checklists with this smart notepad. Organize and quickly find all your information, including secure storage for logins and passwords. Features include reminders, backup options, and printing capabilities.
- Capture thoughts, pictures, and voice records
- Create and manage checklists
- Secure storage for logins and passwords
- Organize notes with categories and colors
- Quick search and recent notes list
- Backup, restore, and print notes
- Birthday reminders
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Smart notepad makes it easy to capture your thought, pictures, voice records, checklist, birthdays, logins, and passwords. You can easily organize it and find it quickly later. The notepad helps you to keep all information with you. Smart notepad is very powerful but simple and easy to use. Main features: - Add notes - Add existing pictures to notes - Take photos and add to notes - Add voice records and listen to at any time - Add checklists - Add and remember birthdays - Secure storage for logins and passwords - Encoding with RSA and DES algorithms - Categories for notes - Colors for categories - A quick search for any data - Recent notes list - Restore removed notes from trash folder - Sorting notes by different fields - Birthdays reminder - Quick buttons to create notes - Quick copy data to memory - Password on application startup - Restore password to the email - Backup/restore data - Print notes - Share notes Supported languages: English, Russian, Spanish, Hindi, Portuguese, Indonesian, German, Bengali, French, Italian, Vietnamese, Chinese Simplified If you have any ideas for improvement just contact us by softser06@gmail.com Permissions Notice Camera: This is used to attach images to notes Microphone: This is used to attach voice records to notes Storage: This is used to backup/restore all notes Terms of Use (EULA) - https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula Privacy Policy - https://sites.google.com/prod/view/softser/home/notepad (Ages 10+)
Nested Folder Notes
Organize your thoughts and ideas with unlimited folders and subfolders. Create text notes, checklists, or add images. This ad-free app offers flexible date management and a powerful search function for easy retrieval.
- Unlimited subfolders
- Text notes
- Checklists
- Image attachments
- Customizable folder icons and colors
- Full-text search
- Offline access
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Organize your notes and sort them into any number of folders and subfolders. Create checklists or add your own pictures. With the notes app Folino, you have all your notes under control. Sorting by creation date: Notes can now be sorted not only by the modification date, but also by the creation date. Customizable date display: Choose whether you want to display the creation date or the modification date in your notes. These new features make the app ideal for use as a diary or journal - and some users are already using it for exactly that! They were very happy about the update because it makes capturing and browsing through memories even easier. Try it out and enjoy even more flexible and clearer note management! What else can the app do? - without advertising - Made in Germany - Made for YOU Text Notes Create as many text notes as you want. Pictures Add your own pictures to your notes. (in-app purchase as one-time payment) Checklists Create checklists and tick off completed entries or rearrange them as you wish. Folder Create your own note structure. You can create as many folders and sub-folders as you want. The number is not limited. Icons and color selection for folders There are many different symbols to choose from for the folders. You can also customize the color. (in-app purchase as one-time payment) Search function A quick full-text search enables you to find all notes, checklists and folders. Pin it You can pin very important things so that they are always at the top of the list. Favorites A separate favorites list for notes and folders enables quick access to marked notes. History With a separate list for the most recently edited notes, you can quickly pick up where you left off. Move Notes can be moved to other folders quickly and easily. Recycle bin Deleted notes are kept in the recycle bin and can be restored if desired. Offline The app can be used offline without an internet connection. Backup A manual file backup allows you to export and import your notes. Dark Mode The app supports the dark mode of your smartphone (dark theme). Add lock Folders and notes, as well as the entire app, can be locked with a PIN. Ad-free The app is and will be ad-free. Promised! For support, you are welcome to purchase one of the additional functions via in-app purchase.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Nested Folder Notes at none against Notepad's shown. Nested Folder Notes also leads on update cadence (fortnightly vs every 6 weeks) and review sentiment (90% vs 79%). Notepad's advantage is iOS requirement (15.0 vs 18.0). On price, rating, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Notepad sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $0.99 per month and Nested Folder Notes sells 7 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Notepad against 5.0 for Nested Folder Notes. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Nested Folder Notes has 12 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 79% of Notepad's written reviews are positive against 90% of Nested Folder Notes's.
Notepad ships an update every 6 weeks, Nested Folder Notes fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on August 16, 2026 and August 27, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Notepad | Nested Folder Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) | 5.0 (12 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 78.9% of reviews | 90.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 12 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 84 MB | 46 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | siarhei yatsuk | Tobias Schiek |
Customer experience
Notepad
Nested Folder Notes
In-app purchases
Notepad
- Full access monthly$0.991 Month
Nested Folder Notes
- Style AddOn$0.99
- Donation$0.99
- Images AddOn$1.99
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- Donation$1.99
- Donation$2.99
- Donation$3.99
- Premium$6.99









