PPNote vs Quick Notes & Draft
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
PPNote
Organize your thoughts and web links efficiently. Collect information from other apps, create custom notes with categories and subcategories, and easily manage your content with favorite and hidden options. Streamline your workflow with quick actions for moving and tagging notes.
- Collect notes and links from other apps
- Automatic categorization by URL
- Manual note creation with categories/subcategories
- Favorite and hide notes
- Quick actions for moving and tagging
- Organize with categories, subcategories, and tags
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PPNote helps you better manage your notes. 1. Collect from other apps. - You can collect information from other apps(like Safari, Chrome, etc) to PPNote through Share button. - When it's a web page, the note will be automatically categorized by URL. 2. Create note in PPNote. - You can manually create note either in category or in sub category. If there is no category yet. Please create one. 3. Favorite a Note. - You can favorite a note from context menu. - Favorite notes always show on the top. Easier for you to View. - You can view all the favorite notes in [Notes] tab. 4. Hide a Note. - You can hide a note from context menu. - Hidden notes are not shown by default. You can view them by tapping the [Show hidden notes] button. - You can view all the hidden notes in [More] tab. 5. Quick Action in Context Menu. - Quickly move note to other category/sub category. - Quickly add or remove tag for a note. - More actions. 6. Organize Notes. - Use category, sub category and tag to organize notes better.
Quick Notes & Draft
Capture thoughts, links, and to-do lists effortlessly. Organize your notes with hashtags for easy retrieval and set reminders with a single click. Export your notes to Apple Files or other locations.
- Auto-paste copied text
- Hashtag organization
- Export notes to files
- Convert notes to reminders
- Contribute to app translation
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nanonote - Write freely and organize with #hashtags to filter your notes. People use Nanonote for saving links, creating to-do lists, daily journaling, tracking expenses, and more. Features: - Copy text from any app and just open the nanonote it will automatically paste it in the input box. So just copy from anywhere and enjoy the magic - While writing notes adds Hashtags to organise notes for future use. - Export Note: You can export all your note to a file, save them on Apple files or wherever you want. (Setting > Export Note) - Improved reminder: With one click you can convert your note to a reminder. In the current version, you can choose when to set an alert (Long press on any note to start Reminder) - Contribution to app translation: Currently we support Chinese & English, from now on anyone can contribute to app translation (Setting > App translation)
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Quick Notes & Draft at 4.6 against PPNote's 3.5. Quick Notes & Draft also leads on update cadence (fortnightly vs every 7 months) and ratings volume (247 vs 2). PPNote's advantage is ads (none vs shown). On price, in-app purchases, 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
Both are free to download. PPNote sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Quick Notes & Draft sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Quick Notes & Draft holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 3.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Quick Notes & Draft has 247 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 40% of PPNote's written reviews are positive against 56% of Quick Notes & Draft's.
PPNote ships an update every 7 months, Quick Notes & Draft fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on September 25, 2026 and September 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | PPNote | Quick Notes & Draft |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.5 (2 ratings) | 4.6 (247 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 40.0% of reviews | 55.6% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 247 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 7 months | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 14.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 2 MB | 38 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 金鹏 王 | Santu Dey |
Customer experience
PPNote
Quick Notes & Draft
Bugs and requests
PPNote
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Quick Notes & Draft
Reported bugs
17 issues- Entry box doesn't work, especially after clicking tags or expanding notes
- App crashes frequently, especially when saving or deleting notes
- Notes disappear or are deleted unexpectedly
- Scan feature not working or its availability is unclear
- Hashtag functionality is broken (doesn't update, doesn't work with non-English)
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- Premium purchase button is hidden below the screen on iPhone SE
- Ads are still shown after purchasing premium
- App crashes upon opening or after adding the first note
- Welcome note cannot be deleted
- App crashes when trying to upgrade to premium
- Entry box shows paste function but no keyboard
- Scan function doesn't work
- App crashes when saving or deleting a note
- App crashes when opening
- Premium notifications continue after purchase
- Button for upgrade doesn't fit screen on iPhone SE
- Graphic displayed too big on iPhone SE 2016, making upgrade button untappable
Requested features
15 requests- Add passcode lock for security
- Add folders with passcodes
- Add widgets
- Add photo support
- More colorful interface options
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- Add a calculation feature (auto plus/minus)
- Support for multi-language hashtags
- Improve hashtag management system (view all tags)
- Apple Watch support
- Portuguese language support
- Add swipe gestures for actions
- Selection option for multiple notes (delete, share)
- Clearer description of Pro features
- Add keyboard shortcuts for saving
- Ability to delete the welcome note
In-app purchases
PPNote
- [More Features]$1.99
Quick Notes & Draft
- nanonote Premium$2.99
