WinkNotes vs Metion
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
WinkNotes
This app combines note-taking with spaced repetition for effective learning. Organize your thoughts, create flashcards, and review material efficiently using memory curves and customizable study plans. Supports rich text, drawing, and offline voice reading.
- Columnar note-taking with key points
- Spaced repetition for memory learning
- Rich text formatting and drawing
- Ebbinghaus memory curve study plans
- Marker memory for fill-in-the-blanks
- Offline voice reading aloud
- iCloud sync across devices
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“WinkNotes” are an ideal combination of note taking, knowledge organization, and memory learning. Taking detailed notes, but can't always find the key points? You take serious notes, but your mind is empty when you recall them? The fragmented knowledge is getting more and more, and there is no way to organize and summarize it? Preparing for the exams, but do not know how to review? All kinds of troubles, "WinkNotes" help you solve. "WinkNotes" innovatively adopts the form of columnar notes, integrating the complete notes with key points, distilled thinking and other information, using the interval memory to help users review, thus improving the efficiency of memory learning. You can use WinkNotes on iPhone, iPad, and Mac, and sync content in the cloud with your iCloud account. Powerful note taking features - Ideal mix of graphics and text. - Rich text formatting: title, bold, underline, strikethrough, super/subscript, list, indent, split line. - Colorful notes: add rich colors to the text and retain the original text color even when copied in. - Markdown compatible: Focus on taking quick notes of content, copied content automatically converts Markdown tags to rich text style. - Write and scribble: Draw with your finger or on a compatible iPad with the Apple Pencil. Flexible filtering, searching and organizing - Organize by memory status: new notes, in memory, and remembered content at a glance. - Filter by category: customize categories, set different colors and filter - Real-time search: Quickly search for keywords and display results in the current list. - Combined search: The above filtering and searching methods can be freely combined for fast, multi-latitude search. Efficient learning and review - Ebbinghaus Memory Curve: Automatically arrange study and review plan according to the memory law. - Customized next memory time: Flexible selection of memory stages and next memory time. - Detailed memory record: Each memory record of all devices will be combined and recorded. - Marker memory: Mark out key words with markers, which can be used for masking memory and fill-in-the-blank practice. - Offline voice reading aloud: support real-time offline reading aloud in 30+ languages with customizable reading language and speed. - Drafting paper : Using draft paper with Apple Pencil in iPad helps you quickly practice mimeographing or doing questions. Subscribe to WinkNotes PRO to unlock all features - iCloud sync: Sync all data on iPhone, iPad, Mac. - Advanced card packs: Unlock unlimited card decks, number of cards created, customize card deck cover art, use card pack grouping for organization. - Voice reading: Unlock unlimited number of pronunciation readings in 30+ languages. - Get regular updates. - Etc. 1 Service name: WinkNotes PRO membership continuous annual package 2 After you purchase an automatic subscription, your iTunes account will be charged 24 hours before the subscription period expires, and the subscription will be renewed for one more subscription period after a successful charge. 3 To cancel your subscription, please manually open "Settings" -> "iTunes Store and App Store" -> "Apple ID" on your Apple phone and select "View Apple ID". Select "View Apple ID", enter the "Account Settings" page, click "Subscriptions", and select WinkNotes PRO membership to cancel your subscription. If you do not close your subscription at least 24 hours prior to the end of the subscription period, you will be deemed to have agreed to continue your license and the subscription will automatically renew. Privacy https://www.appnice.cn/privacy.htm Member Service Agreement (User Agreement) / terms of use https://www.appnice.cn/useragreement.html For assistance Please write to: winkcard@qq.com
Metion
This notebook tool prioritizes a superior writing experience using Markdown. It allows you to build knowledge bases, connect notes as networks, and offers a distraction-free Zen Mode. Data is stored freely in plain text files with built-in Git support for synchronization and version history.
- Markdown support
- Knowledge base creation
- Networked notes
- Zen Mode writing
- Open filesystem storage
- Built-in Git sync
- History versioning
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Metion is a notebook tool that focuses on the writing experience, uses Markdown as basic text syntax. ## Build Your Own Knowledge Base Metion 2.0 brings a new feature named "Knowledge Base", the plain text syntax, then becomes mindmap trees, or connected as a network... ## The Writing Experience is So Important Our goal is to create a great writing experience, specially for iPadOS, although it's not easy. Metion provides a relatively complete keyboard shortcuts support. After a keyboard connected, both iPad and iPhone can archive a huge improvement in writing experience. We also have redesigned the "Zen Mode" on iPad, a more focusing writing mode. It is very very beautiful, choosing a suitable background image, selecting the white noise you like in Zen Mode, and the irrelevant UI elements are hidden. Writing is a pleasure, writing is talking to the world, writing is your Zen. ## Data Freedom, Open Filesystem, Git Built-in Metion based on the open filesystem, no need to create another new format for storing data. An article is a plain text file, and the images in the article are also under a certain folder. Data freedom and open filesystems allow us to synchronize data across devices using iCloud or Git. If you have a higher requirement for data security, you can also make a backup very quickly by copying the entire folder (working directory). One more thing, Metion has a built-in support named "history version" that provides a little more reliability for your documents. **Also, if you know how to use Git, you can try Git to sync. Yes! We have the powerful Git as a built-in feature! ** ## Optimized for iPad Pro, Also for iPhone We tried the best to make Metion optimized for iPad Pro, when writing on iPad Pro by Metion, the iPad is a really more productive device. Metion is also optimized for the iPhone too. In recent years, most of the new iPhones have notch at the top of screen. Metion does not simply avoid the safe area, but makes a lot of technical efforts to apply every pixel on the screen as far as possible. If using the visual theme of "Dark", the notch sometimes look like disappeared, like the next generation of full-screen phone comes. ## The Exporting of Metion If using Metion to export as PDF, we suggest the theme of PDF can be set as "Printer" in Settings Panel. If there is a real printer connected in current local network, just print directly, it will be pretty when words on the real paper. Document in Metion can be exported as image, which is optimized for mobile device (iPhone). We can set text and QR-Code signature at the end of exported image. Send it to friends through some social Apps. The beautiful layout of text can highlight the value of your words. Metion can analyze the structure of current article automatically, then export it as "Mindmap" with one tap only. - - - - - - - - - - Privacy Policy: http://markeditor.com/privacy-policy.html Terms of Use: http://markeditor.com/page/terms.md
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: WinkNotes at 4.8 against Metion's 4.3. WinkNotes also leads on review sentiment (78% vs 60%) and update cadence (weekly vs every 2 weeks). Metion's advantage is iOS requirement (14.0 vs 16.0). On price, ratings volume, ads 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
Both are free to download. WinkNotes sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month and Metion sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
WinkNotes holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 128 and 46 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 78% of WinkNotes's written reviews are positive against 60% of Metion's.
WinkNotes ships an update weekly, Metion every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 20, 2026 and September 21, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | WinkNotes | Metion |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (128 ratings) — better | 4.3 (46 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 77.8% of reviews — better | 60.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 128 — better | 46 |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Every 2 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 14.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 67 MB | 96 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Detailsoft Co., Ltd. | Hangzhou Quanduan Technology Co., Ltd. |
Customer experience
WinkNotes
Metion
Bugs and requests
WinkNotes
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Metion
Reported bugs
19 issues- Git sync not working
- iCloud folder cannot be specified
- Writing statistics not visible or crashing
- Custom file sorting not working
- New file creation bug (text pushed up)
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- Hyperlinks only work with connected keyboard
- Help documentation partially translated
- PDF export formatting issues
- App crashes when submitting bugs
- iPhone gets hot and requires restart
- App launches inconsistently, crashes, slow to switch folders
- Undo function not supported, causes crash
- App crashes on startup
- Cannot open old documents (free version limit)
- English input lacks auto-capitalization and spell check
- Soft keyboard shortcut bar disappears
- Character input issues causing extra spaces
- Zen mode background color setting causes crashes
- App crashes when trying to set Zen mode background
Requested features
35 requests- Optimize for phone usage
- Add Windows version
- Improve Git sync functionality
- Allow specifying iCloud folder
- Restore writing statistics feature
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- Fix custom file sorting
- Fix new file creation bugs
- Improve hyperlink functionality on iPhone
- Add Undo functionality
- Fix app crashes on startup
- Allow opening old documents
- Improve English input (auto-capitalization, spell check)
- Fix disappearing shortcut bar
- Increase font size limit
- Allow changing Zen mode background and text color
- Fix PDF export formatting
- Improve Russian translation
- Simplify interface navigation
- Improve interface glitchiness
- Support existing markdown folders
- Add more font choices
- Fix character input issues
- Increase maximum character limit
- Add Dropbox or other cloud drive sync
- Add password lock feature
- Improve line spacing in Zen mode
- Combine markdown preview and writing like Bear
- Add floating TOC
- Add dedicated preview button
- Option to dilate interface scale
- Add statistics for daily word count
- Improve Zen mode text color
- Add support for Chinese-to-English conversion
- Add file system for recording information like Windows with graphical display and tags
- Add statistics for word count
In-app purchases
WinkNotes
- Monthly Subscription (Events)$1.991 Month
- Annual Full Access(Events)7 Days trial$6.991 Year
- Annual Full Access7 Days trial$9.991 Year
- Special edition$14.99
- Lifetime Full Access$19.99
Metion
- 订阅公众号图片上传中转3 Days trial$0.991 Month
- Subscribe Pro Extensions3 Days trial$6.991 Year
- Standard Edition (iOS+iPadOS)$17.99









