Comparison

Scribble Storm Notes vs BigPaper

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Scribble Storm Notes

This app provides a boundless digital workspace for creatives to brainstorm and organize ideas through drawing and visual mapping. It offers customizable tools and dynamic navigation to support your creative process from broad sketches to intricate details.

Highlights
  • Maximal Canvas for limitless creativity
  • Dynamic Bookmarks to save idea states
  • Idea Mapping with fluid drawing tools
  • Visual Navigation with a minimap
  • Customizable brushes, colors, and backgrounds
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Scribble Storm is a companion for your creative journey, that combines powerful drawing tools with a simple UI that stays out of your way while you create. Visionary’s aren’t inspired by dry text and dusty flow charts. Whether you’re a designer, artist, or visionary thinker, Scribble Storm offers you the perfect space to scale to your imagination. Key Features: - Maximal Canvas: Zoom, pan, and scroll through an expansive digital workspace that lets your creativity flow without limits. - Dynamic Bookmarks: Drop bookmarks on areas of interest across your canvas. Each bookmark saves your specific window into your vector notes, allowing you to return to your ideas exactly as you left them. - Idea Mapping: Effortlessly organize your thoughts with fluid, intuitive drawing tools. Scribble Storm adapts to the scale of your project—from broad sketches to intricate details. - Visual Navigation: Our minimap ensures you can always find your way back, offering a bird’s-eye view of your entire canvas. - Customizable Tools: Tailor your toolkit with custom brushes, colors, and grids and backgrounds, making each project distinctively yours. Ride the Horizon of Your Mind. Transform the way you brainstorm. Download Scribble Storm today and start a creative revolution right at your fingertips.

About

BigPaper

This app offers an infinite canvas for note-taking, PDF annotation, and mind mapping. Import various document formats and add text, handwriting, tables, and more. Efficiently organize and edit content without page limitations.

Highlights
  • Infinite canvas for freeform note-taking
  • Import and annotate PDFs and other documents
  • Mind mapping with element connections
  • Handwriting and drawing tools with Smart Shapes
  • Table creation and linking
  • Multi-format document import and export
  • Screenshot mode for quick content capture
Features
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BigPaper is a borderless note taking application. You can import and expand PDFs and other formats in BigPaper and freely take notes in an infinite canvas without being limited by the edges of the document. You can use BigPaper on both iPhone and iPad for efficient editing with iCloud data sync. Whether it's annotating PDFs, making handbooks, or creating mind maps, BigPaper is ready to go. BigPaper's features include multi-format document import, text input, handwriting, mind mapping, tables, scanned documents, free edge screenshots, containers, folder management, search for handwriting and text, etc. We welcome every rating, and we will read every piece of feedback and take notes to incorporate it in future updates. Your 5-star review will encourage us to continue to upgrade BigPaper and introduce new features. —— Introduction of functions —— 「Infinite canvas, freeform add elements」 Canvas can be zoomed and moved for editing. Add documents in multiple formats such as PDF, as well as multiple types of elements such as tables, text, drawings, handwriting, pictures, stickers, paper, scanned documents, and more. These elements can be scaled and rotated. 「Mind Mapping - Easily connect ideas」 Innovative mind mapping mode. Connect elements on the page (text, pictures, tables, etc.) to quickly generate mind maps from inspiration. Also support the step-by-step enlargement of the idea by expanding the mind map. 「Type anywhere」 Customize the font, size and color of the text. To-do list, bullets can be added to the text. 「Brush Tool - Handwritten and Drawings」 Customize brush presets including color, transparency, tip size. Full-screen drawing, freely annotated documents that are not limited by the edges of the document. Smart Shapes: Hold a stylus or fingertip after drawing a graphic on the screen, intelligently recognize and generate the perfect shape. 「Create Table」 Easy create forms. Add row, add column, move row, move column. Tables can be linked to mind maps. 「Import and Export」 Imported document formats: PDF, Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Pages, Keynote, Numbers, etc. Expand all pages of the document to easily read and highlight all the content. Select text in the document to copy. Export PDF, export image, and BigPaper format. WYSIWYG, everything can be displayed in the exported document. 「Reading Mode」 Customize the "scrolling direction" to realize the classic reading mode. 「Screenshot Mode - Quickly capture key points」 In screenshot mode, you can continuously select areas to take screenshots, these screenshots will be added to the canvas immediately, and can continue to be edited and added to the mind map. 「Stickers, Paper Templates」 The themes of stickers include weather, three-dimensional geometry, music, etc., saving creation time and improving note-taking efficiency. Use stickers and paper stencils in combination to create beautiful manuscripts. 「Multiple Selection Tool - Efficient Editing」 You can freely select an area on the canvas using the multi-selection tool. The selected content as a whole can be resized, rotated, moved, deleted, and exported.Draw borders to take screenshots freely. 「Manage files with folders」 You can create folders to manage files. Easy personalization includes folder editing, file moving, sticking to the top, and more. 「iCloud Sync」 Continue to create notes on different devices and capture inspiration anytime, anywhere. 「Scan」 Scan documents, OCR text recognition(Available in English, Chinese, French, Italian, German, Portuguese and Spanish.) 「Search and Jump Locations」 Search for handwriting, text, text in documents. Also: OCR text recognition results of scanned documents and recognition of text in pictures. Contact us and send feedback: bp_10happy@hotmail.com

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Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Scribble Storm Notes at 4.5 against BigPaper's 4.0. Scribble Storm Notes also leads on review sentiment (50% vs 27%). BigPaper's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 5 days vs every 6 weeks). On price, ratings volume, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Scribble Storm Notes sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and BigPaper sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Scribble Storm Notes holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 14 and 17 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 50% of Scribble Storm Notes's written reviews are positive against 27% of BigPaper's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Scribble Storm Notes ships an update every 6 weeks, BigPaper every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 4, 2026 and September 29, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Scribble Storm Notes versus BigPaper: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterScribble Storm NotesBigPaper
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (14 ratings) — better4.0 (17 ratings)
Positive reviews50.0% of reviews — better26.7% of reviews
Number of ratings1417 — better
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeksEvery 5 days — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPadiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS17.016.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size22 MB253 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDamien Bell10happy Technology Development(Dalian) Co.,Ltd.

Customer experience

Scribble Storm Notes

All ratings14 ratings
Positive85.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative14.3%
Written reviews6 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral33.3%
Negative16.7%

BigPaper

All ratings17 ratings
Positive64.7%
Neutral29.4%
Negative5.9%
Written reviews15 reviews
Positive26.7%
Neutral46.7%
Negative26.7%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Scribble Storm Notes

One-time1
  • Unlock Everything!$4.99
1 purchases

BigPaper

One-time1
  • BigPaper - Full Version Unlock$8.99

Questions

Is Scribble Storm Notes free?
Scribble Storm Notes is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is BigPaper free?
BigPaper is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Scribble Storm Notes or BigPaper?
Scribble Storm Notes is rated higher. Scribble Storm Notes averages 4.5 out of 5 from 14 ratings, while BigPaper averages 4.0 from 17 ratings.
Do Scribble Storm Notes or BigPaper have ads?
Scribble Storm Notes shows ads; BigPaper does not.
Which is updated more often, Scribble Storm Notes or BigPaper?
Scribble Storm Notes ships an update every 6 weeks, and BigPaper every 5 days. Most recently, Scribble Storm Notes was updated on October 4, 2026 and BigPaper on September 29, 2026.

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