Comparison

Notepad vs HaruSync

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

HaruSync

Features
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Big goals begin with a small step today. HaruSync is a daily planner that brings your goals, calendar, to-do list, journal and notes together. Plan your studies, work and personal life, take action, then look back on what you did. Know what to do today • See today’s and tomorrow’s events, tasks and goal progress on your dashboard • Organize events in a calendar with recurring schedules and reminders • Give tasks a planned date and a separate due date • Set priorities, track status and arrange today’s tasks in your preferred order Connect goals to action • Plan daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly and yearly goals • Link events and tasks to a goal and follow your progress • Focus on one task with a stopwatch, timer or Pomodoro session Keep the story behind your plans • Write journal entries with moods and up to five photos • Create several notes on the same day and attach images or files • Find records again with search, filters and favorites • Keep important dates close with countdowns and day counters Plan together, check at a glance • Invite friends to share a planner • View your selected planner with home-screen widgets • Use layouts for phones and tablets, light and dark modes, and 13 languages • Use HaruSync in your browser with the web version. ----- One basic planner is free. Additional planners are unlocked with purchased Credits. Sharing and active-goal limits depend on your subscription; full reports require Basic or above. Check the app for purchase prices and terms. ----- • Terms of Service: https://harusync.pearrolls.com/legal/terms-of-service • Privacy Policy: https://harusync.pearrolls.com/legal/privacy-policy

Screenshots

Notepad4 screens
HaruSync4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: HaruSync at none against Notepad's shown. HaruSync also leads on update cadence (weekly vs every 6 weeks). On price, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement 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 HaruSync sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Notepad ships an update every 6 weeks, HaruSync weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 18, 2026 and October 21, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Notepad versus HaruSync: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterNotepadHaruSync
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews80.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeksWeekly — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.0 — better15.6
Further details — not scored
Size84 MB154 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developersiarhei yatsukPearrolls

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Notepad

Subscriptions1
  • Full access monthly$0.991 Month
3 purchases

HaruSync

Subscriptions2
  • Basic Monthly$2.991 Month
  • Basic Yearly$29.991 Year
One-time1
  • Purchase credit$0.99

Questions

Is Notepad free?
Notepad is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is HaruSync free?
HaruSync is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Notepad or HaruSync have ads?
Notepad shows ads; HaruSync does not.
Which is updated more often, Notepad or HaruSync?
Notepad ships an update every 6 weeks, and HaruSync weekly. Most recently, Notepad was updated on October 18, 2026 and HaruSync on October 21, 2026.

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