WeNote vs Private Secret Notebook
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
WeNote
This app helps you organize your life with color-coded notes, to-do lists, and a calendar. It offers features like reminders, voice recording, and secure note locking. Work offline without an internet connection and sync securely to iCloud.
- Create color notes and to-do lists
- Organize with labels and colors
- Attach photos and voice recordings
- Secure note locking with PIN or fingerprint
- Calendar with holiday support
- Sync notes to iCloud
- Export notes to PDF
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# Simple notepad & memo. Take notes, shopping list, to-do list, calendar, reminder WeNote - Notes,To-do,Calendar is a simple and awesome note taking app. You can create color notes, to do lists, shopping lists, reminders, and calendars quickly. Users love WeNote® as their life organizer, work planner, or study note app. Note taking with WeNote® is easier than any other notepad, memo app. When you write down memos, emails, phone numbers, messages, cooking recipes, diary, journal, shopping lists, and to do list, you will realize this is a good notes taking app. WeNote® is a privacy-focused notepad. WeNote® can work offline perfectly, even without an Internet connection. No login is required. Lock notes and to do list via PIN, pattern, password, or fingerprint, to protect confidential information. # How to Take a Note? WeNote® can act as a simple word processing app. You can type unlimited characters. After saving the note, you can pin it to the top screen, check off, password lock, share or delete through the menu. # How to Make Todo List or Shopping List? In to-do list mode, you can add an unlimited checklist. Arrange their order with a simple tap and move. When finishing with an item, you can perform a simple tap to strikethrough it. # Features • Create color notes and todo list • Organize memo using label & color • Labels designed as tabs, to let you swipe between notes at blazing fast speed • Attach photos and images into notebook • Voice recording allows hands-free note taking. You can add unlimited voice recordings into notepad • Pin important notes to the top. You will not miss out on any important thing • Place a sticky note widget on your Home Screen. View and access your note directly from Home Screen • Secure lock notes and keep them private • The completed to-do list will move to the bottom of the checklist • Customize notes via various fonts, viewing modes, sorting modes • 13 different app color themes to make notebook looks great • Unlimited notes color choices • Reminders memo and calendar • Powerful notes reminder. Notepad able to repeat daily, weekly, monthly, yearly, and highly customizable. Never miss anything from the notebook • Show holidays on the calendar notes, which supports up to 250 countries, 3,680 states & provinces • Secure sync to iCloud. Never lose any notes • Local backup and restore to keep notes safe • Share notes to email, SMS, social networking & messaging apps • Undo/ redo enables mistake correction during note typing • Convert URL and phone number to clickable links • Export notes to PDF • Search notes and todo list, instantly # Color Notes This notebook can categorize notes into different colors. Manage notes with 12 pre-defined beautiful colors. WeNote® also provides an unlimited favorite color. # Notes Category WeNote® allows you to categorize notes by creating labels. Labels can display as Tabs. # Calendar Memo This notepad has a calendar. You can write a memo and create a reminder in the calendar. Due to its remarkable easy-to-use built-in calendar, you can use WeNote® as agenda planner and family organizer. Either plan next trip itinerary or schedule business meetings. # Secure Lock to Keep Notebook Private This notepad can secure lock and keep notes private. Either lock a note or lock the entire app to keep the notebook safe. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Private Secret Notebook
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PrivateSecretNotebook is designed to be a memorable day, even the most ordinary. Recording is different every day, and what's even better is: You can create different notebooks to manage various diaries, and you can set passwords for different notebooks to distinguish between private and public diaries. Different notebooks, different passwords. While protecting your privacy, you can also share data that can be made public. Simplify operations, remove complicated features, and focus on taking notes. Quickly search for notebooks, notes, and categories. Automatically count the number of notes in each notebook. View notes with two dates, all dates, this year date, this month date, and current day date. Organize and manage your notes with notebooks. View the notes associated with each notebook. Customize notebooks Custom categories You can share the content of your notes You can choose to turn on the APP password Optional app themes: Dark theme, Light theme You can switch the language and restart the app to take effect. The time of each day is slowly passing, so hurry up and record it and seize the moment! Now it's time to start using PrivateSecretNotebook to record the moments of your life, your moments, and your daily moods.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: WeNote at Free against Private Secret Notebook's $4.99. WeNote also leads on update cadence (every 3 days vs every 8 days). Private Secret Notebook's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 10) and ads (none vs shown). On 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
WeNote is free to download; Private Secret Notebook costs $4.99 up front. WeNote sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Private Secret Notebook asks for nothing beyond the download.
WeNote ships an update every 3 days, Private Secret Notebook every 8 days. The most recent releases landed on November 7, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | WeNote | Private Secret Notebook |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $4.99 |
| Rating | 4.8 (1K ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 86.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1K — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 days — better | Every 8 days |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 11.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 35 MB | 64 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Yan Cheng Cheok | 永文 胡 |
Bugs and requests
WeNote
Reported bugs
3 issues- Repeated prompts for reviews
- Checklist items not updating properly
- Reminders not always triggering
Requested features
4 requests- Add undo/redo functionality
- Improve calendar integration to show note details
- Provide more font and formatting options
- Allow sharing and collaboration on notes
Private Secret Notebook
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
WeNote
- Ad-free$2.991 Month
- WeNote Premium Monthly Deal$2.991 Month
- WeNote Premium Monthly7 Days trial$4.991 Month
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- WeNote Premium Yearly Deal$24.991 Year
- WeNote Premium Yearly7 Days trial$49.991 Year
- Sticky note$7.99
- Color$7.99
- Label$7.99
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- Cloud sync$14.99
- Combo$34.99
Private Secret Notebook
No in-app purchases
Questions
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