Comparison

WebShelf vs InkSpace

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

Head to head
About

WebShelf

Organize your digital life by creating custom libraries, shelves, and books to store online or offline pages. Easily arrange content and secure your collections with a password.

Highlights
  • Customizable libraries, shelves, and books
  • Store online and offline pages
  • Drag-and-drop arrangement of content
  • Password protection for collections
  • Organize research and personal interests
Features
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WebShelf allows you to organize your online experience in a way that works best for you. You can create libraries, with a bookcase containing one or more shelves. Each of these bookshelves contains books, which in turn contain pages (either online or offline*). You can fully customize libraries, shelves, books and pages with the names and descriptions you like. For example, you might create a book called recipes, which contains your favorite desserts, main dishes and so forth. WebShelf is also there if you want to research topics, such as how to start a small business. You can quickly build books about how to apply for a license, obtain certifications, connect utilities and so forth. WebShelf also allows you to customize the order of items in your libraries with shelves, books and pages easy to arrange as you please. So, you can organize your collection however you'd like, at any time. And speaking of which, each user can have their own library to collect information and it can be locked with a password, if you prefer, to avoid the possibility of someone modifying your collection of pages. * Please note that offline pages may not always appear exactly as the online version due to dynamic content used by some web pages.

About

InkSpace

This digital notebook app offers complete creative freedom for note-taking, brainstorming, sketching, and journaling. Customize notebooks with various templates, page styles, and colors. Organize and access notes seamlessly across devices, with offline functionality.

Highlights
  • Unlimited custom notebooks
  • Write, draw, and sketch with stylus support
  • Insert custom shapes, text, and media
  • Searchable tags and bookmarks
  • Sync across all devices
  • Offline functionality
Features
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The all-in-one notebook for handwriting, typing, PDFs, math, diagrams, and more. Built for students who want to learn faster and professionals who want to work smarter. Take handwritten notes, mark up PDFs, solve equations, and record lectures, all in one organized space that keeps your work together and in sync across your devices. Write and draw naturally Capture notes in your own handwriting with smooth, responsive ink. Prefer to type? Switch to the keyboard anytime, with a full font picker and control over size, color, bold, italic, underline, and alignment. Add horizontal and vertical rulers to keep everything precise. Choose the perfect page Start on college ruled, wide ruled, graph, dotted, or blank paper in A4, A5, B5, or custom sizes, portrait or landscape. Personalize everything with custom notebook and page colors, backgrounds, and tints. Templates for every purpose Jump into ready-made template packs for real life: • Planner templates for daily planning and scheduling • Journal templates for reflection and journaling • Fitness templates for workouts and tracking • Teaching templates for lesson planning and classes • Finance and trading templates for money and markets • Handwriting and calendar templates for practice and organization Or build and save your own so your favorite layouts are always one tap away. Study and remember more Turn any subject into a quiz set, a deck of flip cards you can shuffle, grade, and drill yourself with until it sticks. Perfect for exam prep, vocabulary, and quick daily review. Find anything instantly InkSpace reads your handwriting and makes it searchable. Search across every notebook to surface handwritten notes, typed text, sticky notes, code, lists, and tags in seconds. Spotlight finds notes right from the Home Screen, and Siri Shortcuts let you create, open, and search notes hands-free. Work smarter with rich, interactive objects Drop live tools onto your page and move them anywhere: • Math equations with automatic formatting from everyday notation • Calculator with named variables, unit and currency conversion, and financial functions like PMT, FV, and PV • Charts with a built-in data editor and multiple chart types • Function graphs for visualizing equations • Code blocks with syntax highlighting for Swift, Python, JavaScript, Java, C++, and many more • Audio recordings to capture lectures and meetings alongside your notes • Images, maps, and 3D models embedded directly on your pages • Tables and grids with fully editable cells and real formulas • Checklists and lists with bullets, numbers, and checkboxes • Sticky notes and shapes to structure and highlight your thinking Build diagrams and connect ideas Create flowcharts, mind maps, and org-style diagrams by linking shapes, text, and sticky notes with connectors and arrows. Explore without limits using infinite zoom and fractal canvas modes that give you endless room to think. Write papers that are ready to hand in Draft a full essay with proper margins, then let InkSpace build your entire bibliography from your sources in APA, MLA, or Chicago style. Export to PDF or Word, formatted and ready to submit. Organize everything your way Group your notebooks, papers, and quiz sets together into backpacks. Bookmark notebooks and pages, tag pages for fast filtering, connect notes with cross-notebook page links that preview inline, and add hyperlinks to jump anywhere. Import PDFs to reference, attach files, and export pages to share. Sync securely with iCloud Your notebooks stay up to date on every device with iCloud, so your notes are always with you. Perfect for • Students: lecture notes, study guides, math and science homework, searchable revision, recorded classes, quiz sets, and notebooks for every subject • Professionals: meeting notes, project planning, diagrams, referenced PDFs, quick calculations, and reusable templates

Screenshots

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Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: InkSpace at Free against WebShelf's $0.99. InkSpace also leads on update cadence (every 10 days vs every 29 months) and ratings volume (10 vs 2). WebShelf's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 6) and rating (5.0 vs 4.6). On review sentiment, ads, monetization model and device support 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

InkSpace is free to download; WebShelf costs $0.99 up front. InkSpace sells 6 one-off in-app purchases. WebShelf asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

WebShelf holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: InkSpace has 10 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

WebShelf ships an update every 29 months, InkSpace every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on October 12, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
WebShelf versus InkSpace: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterWebShelfInkSpace
Price$0.99Free — better
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better4.6 (10 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings210 — better
Update frequencyEvery 29 monthsEvery 10 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaidPaid
DevicesiPadiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS12.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size9 MB67 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperSteven SipeTyler Sherman

Customer experience

WebShelf

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

InkSpace

All ratings10 ratings
Positive90.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative10.0%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

WebShelf

No in-app purchases

6 purchases

InkSpace

One-time6
  • Fitness Pack$0.99
  • Finance Pack$0.99
  • Handwriting Pack$0.99
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  • Planner Pack$0.99
  • Teaching Pack$0.99
  • Journal Pack$0.99

Questions

Is WebShelf free?
WebShelf costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is InkSpace free?
InkSpace is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, WebShelf or InkSpace?
WebShelf is rated higher. WebShelf averages 5.0 out of 5 from 2 ratings, while InkSpace averages 4.6 from 10 ratings.
Do WebShelf or InkSpace have ads?
Neither WebShelf nor InkSpace shows ads.
Which is updated more often, WebShelf or InkSpace?
WebShelf ships an update every 29 months, and InkSpace every 10 days. Most recently, WebShelf was updated on October 12, 2026 and InkSpace on October 8, 2026.

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