Comparison

Notepad vs Singularity Codex

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

Singularity Codex

Features
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The only person worth messaging is you. Singularity Codex is a private chat with yourself — a note-to-self app, a journal and a personal archive in one conversation. Text yourself a thought. Send yourself a photo, a voice note, a link, a PDF. It lands where you left it, in the order you had it, and it stays there. No folders to choose. No titles to write. No account to create. You already message yourself. Everyone does: the chat with just you in it, the email to your own address, the notes app you never open twice. Codex is what that habit deserves — a codex of your own life, written a line at a time and kept for good. SEND YOURSELF ANYTHING • Notes, thoughts, ideas, lists — type and send • Photos and videos from your library, or straight from the camera • Voice messages, transcribed on your iPhone so you can search what you said • Links, with a preview card instead of a bare address • PDFs and documents from Files • Anything from any app, through the share sheet • Hands-free with Siri and Shortcuts: "Send to Codex" • Reply to an old message to carry a thought forward • Star, pin, copy, or select many at once REMINDERS WRITTEN IN YOUR OWN WORDS Write "Call the dentist tomorrow at 10" and Codex offers the reminder. One tap and it is set — no form, no date picker, no second app. It understands English, Turkish, German, French and Spanish. The Now tab gathers what matters today: overdue, due today, tasks, pinned messages, what you just saved, and what you wrote on this day. YOUR PERSONAL HISTORY, DRAWN The Codex tab turns your archive into a history you can read. Every year you have kept becomes twelve calendars, shaded by how much you wrote. Tap any day and read yourself back. Collections build themselves — starred, pinned, reminders, tasks, links, photos, videos, voice, files — and on-device labels such as Idea, Task, Work, Personal, Memory and Event sort your messages without you ever filing a thing. Now and then, Codex shows you what you wrote a week, a month or a year ago. TODAY: WHAT YOU CHOSE TO READ Follow a site's feed, a podcast, a YouTube channel, a Mastodon or Bluesky account, a subreddit. Posts arrive newest first, grouped by day — no algorithm, no ranking, nothing promoted. Mute a word, hide someone, or keep a post in your archive with one tap. FIND ANYTHING IN A SECOND Search every message, link title, file name and voice transcript at once, then narrow it to photos, links, voice, files or ideas. PRIVATE BY ARCHITECTURE, NOT BY PROMISE • No account. No sign-up. No login. • No analytics, no tracking, no ads, no third-party SDKs • No server of ours — there is nowhere for your archive to be sent • Labels are worked out on your iPhone and never leave it • Voice is transcribed on the device, or not at all • App Store privacy label: Data Not Collected ICLOUD, ONLY IF YOU WANT IT Turn on sync and your archive — messages, photos, recordings and documents — lives in your own private iCloud database and appears on your other iPhones. We have no access to it. With Advanced Data Protection on, it is end-to-end encrypted. AN ARCHIVE YOU CAN LEAVE WITH Export everything, any time: your messages as JSON and as plain text, with every photo, recording and document, in one zip that opens without this app. Save any photo or video back to your library in a tap. MAKE IT YOURS Five color themes, light and dark appearance, and the whole app in five languages. ONE PRICE. NO SUBSCRIPTION. Try everything free for 14 days. When the trial ends, your archive stays readable, searchable and exportable — forever, at no cost. Adding new messages takes one purchase, once. No subscription, no renewals, no ads. Your thoughts are not content. Your archive is not a product. Start your codex.

Screenshots

Notepad4 screens
Singularity Codex4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Singularity Codex at none against Notepad's shown. Notepad's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 26.0). On price 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 Singularity Codex sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Notepad versus Singularity Codex: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterNotepadSingularity Codex
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews78.9% of reviews—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeks—
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size84 MB5 MB
Age rating4+17+
Developersiarhei yatsukBURAK KADAN

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Notepad

Subscriptions1
  • Full access monthly$0.991 Month
2 purchases

Singularity Codex

One-time2
  • 14-day TrialFree
  • Codex, for good$12.99

Questions

Is Notepad free?
Notepad is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Singularity Codex free?
Singularity Codex is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Notepad or Singularity Codex have ads?
Notepad shows ads; Singularity Codex does not.

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