AxNote vs Whiteboard Infinite PDF Canvas
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
AxNote
This app offers an intelligent canvas for note-taking, allowing users to generate summaries from text, handwriting, and audio recordings. It supports image annotation, data visualization with tables and charts, and handwriting conversion to typed text. Designed for Apple Pencil, it provides flexible layouts and on-device AI features.
- AI-powered summaries from text, handwriting, and audio
- Audio transcription and topic exploration
- Image and PDF annotation
- Data visualization with tables and charts
- Handwriting to typed text conversion
- Apple Pencil integration
- Customizable layouts
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AxNote is an intelligent canvas that thinks with you. Generate summaries from your notes and audio recordings with Apple Intelligence. Explore topics in recordings and jump to where they're discussed. Create flashcards from your notes with a single tap. Handwrite your notes and convert it to typed text. Drag and drop images, and instantly annotate on a blank canvas, lined, or grid paper. Snap perfect shapes. Create beautiful tables and charts to visualize your data. AxNote is a next-level digital note-taking experience. FEATURES Magic Summary: Generate summaries of your text, handwriting, or audio recordings using a device that supports Apple Intelligence. Summaries are perfect for catching up with meetings, revision, and for creating flashcards. Magic Summary cards can also be converted to a PDF or plain text for use in your favorite flashcard platform. Ask About Topics: Magic Summary automatically finds key topics discussed in your audio recordings and gives you summaries of those topics. You can also ask specific questions about the contents of your recording and Magic Summary will give you an answer using your recording as the source of truth. Jump To Topic: Instantly skip to the part of a recording where a specific topic is discussed with Magic Summary. No more manually scrubbing through hours of lectures or meetings. Audio Transcription: AxNote features fast, accurate audio transcription that runs directly on your device and supports languages other than English. Audio transcriptions can be added to your note or shared with others. Images, PDFs, Tables, and Charts: Drag and drop images and PDFs anywhere in a note. Images can be annotated directly over using a markup tool. Create simple tables with CSV support and link them with charts to create beautiful data visualizations. Images, tables, and charts live right alongside your handwriting and typed text. AxNote also supports Image Playground, so you can turn a prompt into an image and add it to your note (requires a device with Apple Intelligence enabled). Made for Pencil: AxNote is the perfect companion for Apple Pencil. With support for tilt and pressure sensitivity, shape snapping, Apple Pencil Hover, and handwriting-to-text, it's the only app you need to turn your ideas into beautiful ink. Layouts: Transform your iPad or iPhone into a real notebook with a selection of preset Layouts, including lined, grid, dot grid paper, and a freeform canvas. Customize your layouts with specific measurements for line and grid spacing and colors. Bookmarks: Pin what matters most in your notes. You can access your bookmarks from anywhere in a note, allowing you to jump within (and between) pages for quick access to important content. Privacy and Flexibility: With AxNote, you're in control of your data and where it's stored. Save your documents in your preferred cloud storage provider with the Files app or keep them on your device. AxNote's AI features also run directly on your Apple Intelligence-supported device, so your notes are never sent to an online service for processing or AI model training. Offline Support: AxNote's AI features (including Magic Summary and Audio Transcription) don't need an internet connection after initial setup, so you can work even when you're off the grid. --- AxNote+ - Unlimited pages - Unlimited Magic Summary usage - Customize Layouts These features are available with a one-time in-app purchase to AxNote+. Please read the Terms of Service at animantlabs.com/axnote/terms --- Need help? Please visit support.animantlabs.com/axnote Terms of Service: animantlabs.com/axnote/terms
Whiteboard Infinite PDF Canvas
This app provides an expansive digital canvas for sketching, diagramming, and note-taking. Seamlessly integrate text, images, and even live websites to connect your ideas. Export your creations as PDFs or present them directly from your device.
- Infinite canvas
- Drawing and writing tools
- Sticky notes and tables
- Diagram connectors
- PDF import and markup
- Audio recording and transcription
- AI Assistant
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Whiteboard gives your ideas an endless canvas on iPad and iPhone. Sketch with Apple Pencil or your finger, add sticky notes, connect your thoughts into clear diagrams, then present your board or share it as a PDF. Use it to brainstorm, plan a project, teach a lesson or map out a process. A CANVAS WITHOUT EDGES Draw, write and move in any direction on a board that grows with your ideas. Choose a dotted, squared or lined background on white, cream, gray, blue or green paper. The minimap shows where you are on a large board, and Find and Replace searches every sticky note, table and text box. DRAW AND WRITE NATURALLY Use Apple Pencil with pressure and tilt, or a compatible stylus or your finger. Choose from pens, markers, pencils, crayons, watercolor and more, and duplicate your favorite tools with their own colors and widths. Switch tools with a double-tap or squeeze of Apple Pencil, turn handwriting into typed text with Scribble, and add text boxes and shapes. STICKY NOTES, TABLES AND MORE Add sticky notes in any color, tables, photos, files, links and live websites. Scan documents or printed text with your camera, insert symbols, stamps and clipart, or create images with Image Playground. CONNECT YOUR IDEAS Select an item and tap one of its handles to add a connected item, then just start typing. Choose straight, elbow or arc connectors with arrows, labels and line jumps. Drop an item onto a connector to place it in between. Turn on Flow to send animated dots along your connectors and bring a process to life. Paste Mermaid code to turn text into a diagram. GRAPHS FOR MATH AND SCIENCE Add a coordinate graph in one tap, plot functions and inequalities, and work on it with Apple Pencil. Your ink moves and resizes with the graph. ARRANGE WITH EASE Drag to select many items at once, then align, distribute and group them. Lock items in place, copy and paste them between boards, and undo any change. RECORD THE CONVERSATION Record audio right on the board: a lecture, a meeting or your own explanation. Pause and continue, skip back 15 seconds and generate a transcript, so the recording stays next to the ideas it explains. PRESENT YOUR BOARD Save views of your board as scenes and present them full screen, one after another. Guide your audience with the laser pointer, and show your board on an external display while you control it from your iPad. WRITE ON PDFs Import PDFs and write on them with Apple Pencil. Highlight passages, add comments and sign documents, or place a PDF on a board next to your notes. AI ASSISTANT AND TEXT NOTES Use the AI Assistant to brainstorm ideas, break a goal into tasks or plan a presentation. It can also write, solve math, explain, rewrite, correct and translate text. When words come first, create a formatted Text Note. ORGANIZE, SYNC AND PROTECT Keep boards in unlimited folders and subfolders, and open several at once in tabs. iCloud keeps your work in sync across iPhone and iPad, and your boards are also in the Files app. Lock the app or individual folders with a passcode or Face ID, and rely on automatic backups. Export a board as a PDF, as an image of the current view or as an editable board file. Designed for iOS 26 and the new iOS 27, with dark mode, keyboard shortcuts and support for iPhone Duo. From a quick sketch to a finished presentation, Whiteboard keeps all your ideas in one place. Privacy Policy http://www.noteswriter.com/Kairoos_Privacy_Policy.html EULA https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Whiteboard Infinite PDF Canvas at 4.9 against AxNote's 4.3. Whiteboard Infinite PDF Canvas also leads on update cadence (every 11 days vs every 6 weeks). AxNote's advantage is monetization model (free vs freemium) and device support (4 vs 2). 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. AxNote sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Whiteboard Infinite PDF Canvas sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Whiteboard Infinite PDF Canvas holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 7 and 19 respectively.
AxNote ships an update every 6 weeks, Whiteboard Infinite PDF Canvas every 11 days. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | AxNote | Whiteboard Infinite PDF Canvas |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (7 ratings) | 4.9 (19 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 7 | 19 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Every 11 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Vision Pro — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 9 MB | 381 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Jonathan Benjamin | Kairoos Solutions SL |
Customer experience
AxNote
Whiteboard Infinite PDF Canvas
In-app purchases
AxNote
- AxNote+$24.99
Whiteboard Infinite PDF Canvas
- Unlock All Features and AI3 Days trial$3.991 Month
- Whiteboard Annual3 Days trial$14.991 Year
- Full Pro Unlock$14.99
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