News, radios and more vs notes and bugs
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
News, radios and more
Organize your favorite news websites into a personalized library. Access and categorize content by topic and region, or create your own custom shelves. Get all your news in one place without visiting individual sites.
- Organize favorite websites
- Categorize by topic and region
- Create custom categories
- Access news from one place
- No need for individual website access
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Newspapers by Shelfy allows you to organize a library with your favorites websites. With this app you will access and organize at your way all the websites. The media are categorized by topics and region in different shelfs. You can also create new categories and reorder your library with other webs that you want. You will find all the information in one place without the need to access to each website individually and without installing other apps. The logos of each newspaper or magazine are the exclusive property of the same. Shelfy only use them in order to be recognized by readers who use the application, to access the information they want. The app logo is the exclusive property of Shelfy developers.
notes and bugs
A digital canvas for creative minds to organize ideas, plans, and doodles. Decorate pages with text, drawings, photos, and unique bug companions. Offers a cozy space for planning, scrapbooking, or journaling.
- Freeform note creation
- PDF import and annotation
- Customizable canvas with decorations
- Add multimedia content
- Drawing tools with various brushes
- Interactive bug companions
- Export as image or PDF
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Welcome to notes and bugs, your cozy little space for ideas, plans, doodles, and tiny bug companions. Create notes your way on a fully customizable canvas. Write, decorate, draw, rearrange, and make every page feel like your own small world. Features: • Create freeform notes, calendars, and document pages. • Import PDFs and decorate, highlight, draw, and write over every page. • Zoom into calendars and documents to plan or decorate with precision. • Add text, to-dos, photos, links, music, videos, GIFs, and documents. • Draw directly on your canvas with different brushes, colors, and sizes. • Decorate with washi tape, stickers, stamps, doodles, and tiny houses. • Add adorable bug companions or create your very own custom bug. • Move, resize, rotate, layer, and lock your creations freely. • Personalize each canvas with colors, textures, and backgrounds. • Keep a daily mood with your little bug profile and ask the magical bug yes-or-no questions. • Save and export your creations as images or PDFs. • Keep your notes stored locally and privately on your device. Whether you are planning your week, building a scrapbook, studying from a PDF, collecting inspiration, or creating a comforting corner for your thoughts, notes and bugs makes it feel a little more magical. Create a space that feels uniquely yours. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: News, radios and more at none against notes and bugs's 2. News, radios and more also leads on ratings volume (55 vs 1). notes and bugs's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 2 days vs every 6 months). On price, rating, review sentiment 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
Both are free to download. notes and bugs sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. News, radios and more asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for News, radios and more against 5.0 for notes and bugs. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: News, radios and more has 55 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
News, radios and more ships an update every 6 months, notes and bugs every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on November 7, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | News, radios and more | notes and bugs |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (55 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 55 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 months | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Ad-supported — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 — better | 17.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 91 MB | 8 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | MUNBEN SA | Zulmy Linda Loo Cordova |
Customer experience
News, radios and more
notes and bugs
In-app purchases
News, radios and more
No in-app purchases
notes and bugs
- notes and bugs - monthly$0.991 Month
- notes and bugs premium$6.99
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