Comparison

Notepad vs Tastik

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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+)

About

Tastik

Organize tasks, ideas, projects, and habits with a flexible and smart list application. Create custom lists, track quantities, manage budgets, and visualize projects with Kanban boards. Access and update lists instantly via home screen widgets.

Highlights
  • Customizable checklists
  • Quantity tracking with steppers
  • Budget and expense management
  • Kanban project boards
  • Interactive home screen widgets
  • Plain text list export
  • iCloud syncing
Features
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Tastik is the quiet companion to your reminder app. It's for the lists that don't belong on a calendar, the things you want to track, not be nagged about. No due dates, no red badges, no pressure. Just clarity. Make a checklist, tally quantities, plan a budget, or run a kanban board, all in one calm, beautifully simple app. ONE APP, EVERY KIND OF LIST • Checklists for groceries, packing, errands and everyday to-dos • Stepper lists that tally quantities with a tap • Calculator lists that total values as you go • Kanban boards to move things across stages • Multi lists that mix item types in one place START FROM A TEMPLATE Begin with a ready-made template for groceries, packing, workouts, budgets and more, then make it yours. Give every list its own icon, color and tags so everything stays easy to find. SMART QUICK ADD Type something like "milk, a dozen eggs, 2 coffee 8.90" and Tastik turns it into structured items, each with its own title, quantity and price. Powered by Apple Intelligence, it runs entirely on-device, fast and private. No connection required, and it always falls back to plain text when you want it. DETAILS THAT MATTER • Add quantities, prices and notes to any item • Automatic totals so you always know the sum • Sort, group and complete items the way you like • Swipe, context menus and bulk actions to fly through edits • Keyboard shortcuts to move even faster ON YOUR HOME SCREEN Beautiful widgets put your lists on the Home Screen, Lock Screen and StandBy. Check off items and quick-add new ones right from the widget, without opening the app. Add items hands-free with Siri and Shortcuts too. SYNCED AND SHARED Your lists sync across iPhone and iPad with iCloud, and you can share a list with family or friends so everyone stays in sync. Download Tastik and keep every kind of list in one calm place.

Screenshots

Notepad4 screens
Tastik4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Tastik at none against Notepad's shown. Tastik also leads on update cadence (every 3 days vs every 6 weeks) and review sentiment (100% vs 80%). Notepad's advantage is iOS requirement (15.0 vs 26.0). On price, rating, ratings volume and in-app purchases 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. Notepad sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $0.99 per month and Tastik 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 — 5.0 for Notepad against 5.0 for Tastik. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 1 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 80% of Notepad's written reviews are positive against 100% of Tastik's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Notepad ships an update every 6 weeks, Tastik every 3 days. Both last shipped on November 3, 2026.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Notepad versus Tastik: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterNotepadTastik
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews80.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings2 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeksEvery 3 days — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size84 MB22 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developersiarhei yatsukFabio Luiz Fiorita Pontes

Customer experience

Notepad

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews20 reviews
Positive80.0%
Neutral5.0%
Negative15.0%

Tastik

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Notepad

Subscriptions1
  • Full access monthly$0.991 Month
1 purchases

Tastik

One-time1
  • Tastik Pro$7.99

Questions

Is Notepad free?
Notepad is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Tastik free?
Tastik is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Notepad or Tastik?
Notepad and Tastik are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 2 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Notepad or Tastik have ads?
Notepad shows ads; Tastik does not.
Which is updated more often, Notepad or Tastik?
Notepad ships an update every 6 weeks, and Tastik every 3 days. Most recently, Notepad was updated on November 3, 2026 and Tastik on November 3, 2026.

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