Notepad vs Mo Diary
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Notepad
Capture thoughts, pictures, voice notes, and checklists with this powerful yet simple notepad. Securely store logins and passwords, organize with categories, and easily find information with quick search. Includes reminders and backup options.
- Capture thoughts, pictures, and voice records
- Create and manage checklists
- Secure storage for logins and passwords
- Organize notes with categories and colors
- Quick search functionality
- Backup and restore data
- Password protection for app startup
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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 (Ages 10+)
Mo Diary
This app helps you record and organize your life's moments. Save important events, notes, and memories with the ability to add photos, filter, and search entries. A premium version offers advanced features like PDF export and password protection.
- Store and organize notes and memories
- Add images to entries
- Filter and search entries by date or text
- Auto-saving of content
- Password and biometric login
- iCloud data synchronization
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Mo Diary is your personal diary. LIST OF RECORDS. Store important events, notes, memories in one place. CONTROL. Delete entries or add them to "Favorites" with one touch (swipe). FILTERING BY DATE. By default, Mo Diary displays the records of the current month. If necessary, you can set the desired period and view the records included in it. FILTERING YOUR FAVORITE. Set a filter for entries that have been added to "Favorite". SEARCH. Mo Diary will find the necessary entries by text or title. AUTO SAVING. Create and edit records without losing content. PICTURE. Add an image or photo to your significant moments. Available to change, delete, view the added images. DATE OF RECORDING. In Mo Diary, you can set any recording date. DISPLAY SETTINGS. Choose a convenient interface option for your posts - it is possible to turn off the display of the title and / or image. WITHOUT ADVERTISING. The PREMIUM VERSION is available with a one-time purchase. Functionality of the premium version: REMOTE RECORDS. Access to deleted records for the last 30 days with the ability to restore the selected record / all records. PDF-FORMAT. Convert the selected record or all records to PDF format. PASSWORD LOGIN. Set the code to enter the application (in addition, by default, TouchID / FaceID login is available, if this option is activated on the device, it can be disabled). ICloud POSSIBILITIES. Data synchronization is possible if on the old and new devices: 1) Internet connection is provided 2) iCloud Drive option is active 3) iCloud option is active for Mo Diary app 4) iCloud has free storage 5) the same Apple ID is used 6) the "Sync with iCloud" option is activated in the application
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Mo Diary at Free against Notepad's $6.99. Mo Diary also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 91%) and ratings volume (7 vs 2). Notepad's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and update cadence (every 6 weeks vs every 7 months). On rating, ads, 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
Mo Diary is free to download; Notepad costs $6.99 up front. Mo Diary sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Notepad asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Notepad against 5.0 for Mo Diary. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 7 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 91% of Notepad's written reviews are positive against 100% of Mo Diary's.
Notepad ships an update every 6 weeks, Mo Diary every 7 months. The most recent releases landed on October 4, 2026 and October 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Notepad | Mo Diary |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $6.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) | 5.0 (7 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 90.9% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 7 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks — better | Every 7 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | Free with in-app purchases — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 79 MB | 26 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | siarhei yatsuk | Sergey Krivorotko |
Customer experience
Notepad
Mo Diary
In-app purchases
Notepad
No in-app purchases
Mo Diary
- Premium version$2.99
