NoteEase vs touchnotesPro
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
NoteEase
This app digitizes handwritten notes and photos, allowing for easy annotation and organization. Capture, edit, and share your visual and text-based ideas across devices for a streamlined workflow.
- Convert photos to digital notes
- Annotate existing photos
- Type and format text notes
- Stylus support for drawing
- Organize and archive notes
- Sync and share across devices
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Say goodbye to the hassle of handwritten notes and photos cluttering your life. Welcome to NoteEase+, the ultimate note-taking app that simplifies your life. With NoteEase+, you can effortlessly document your notes, scribble, and annotate on photos or handwritten documents. Whether you're using a smartphone or tablet, NoteEase+ is your digital companion for efficient note-taking and organization. Key Features: Photo to Note: Instantly convert handwritten documents into digital notes by snapping a photo with your device. Photo Annotation: Easily add notes to existing photos from your gallery, creating a visual diary of your memories. Text Input: Type and format your notes with ease, making your text-based notes as beautiful as your handwriting. Stylus Support: Take full advantage of your iPad or tablet with Stylus Pen support. Scribble and draw directly on graphics. Organize and Archive: Efficiently manage your notes, grouping them with related images for a clutter-free experience. Accessibility: Access your notes and photos from any device, be it your smartphone or tablet. Sync and Share: Seamlessly sync and share your notes and images across your devices or with friends and colleagues. Say hello to a decluttered and organized life with NoteEase+. Capture and treasure your handwritten notes and photos digitally while enhancing your note-taking experience. Download NoteEase+ today and embark on a journey of efficient, digital note-taking. --「Paid subscription」-- ● Yearly member $29.99 ● Permanent member $49.99 ● Upon confirmation of purchase, you will be charged from your iTunes account. You can cancel the subscription for the next cycle at least 24 hours before the end of each cycle. The subscription will be automatically renewed within 24 hours after the end of each cycle. The subscribed cycle cannot be cancelled. ● Privacy Policy: http://static.rhinoxlab.com/html/privacy/10162157567636510032_en.html?appName=NoteEase ● Payment agreement: http://static.rhinoxlab.com/html/paymentagreement/general_en.html
touchnotesPro
This app combines handwriting, document annotation, and study tools for efficient note-taking. Import various file types, clip web content, and record lectures with real-time transcription. Organize ideas with mind maps and create flashcards for effective review.
- Handwriting and document annotation
- Import PDFs, Word, EPUB, and web content
- Speech and handwriting recognition
- AI-powered formula recognition
- Mind mapping for idea organization
- Flashcard creation for review
- Infinite canvas for freeform notes
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touchnotesPro brings handwriting, document annotation and study tools together in one note-taking app. Keep your learning materials in one place, organize key ideas, and create flashcards from important content for review. From capturing ideas to understanding and revisiting them, build a knowledge space of your own. Write, read and annotate Import PDF, PowerPoint, Word and EPUB files. Add annotations, write on the page and highlight key points as you read, keeping your thoughts alongside your materials. Bring your learning materials together Web clipping: import articles, reference materials and web pages into your notes. Extract key points and organize the content so you can do more with what you read. Online video: import online videos, take notes while watching, and capture video frames to save on your note pages. Keep key moments from a lesson alongside your own thoughts. Speech transcription (ASR): turn speech into editable text in real time. This feature supports Simplified Chinese and English only. Capture lectures, meetings, interviews and ideas in these supported languages, then revisit and organize the text afterward. AI-powered recognition and study tools Handwriting recognition (OCR): convert handwriting into editable text. This feature supports Simplified Chinese and English only, making handwritten notes in these languages easier to organize digitally. Formula recognition: recognize mathematical formulas in handwriting or images and convert them into editable formulas. Connect ideas and review what matters Mind maps: organize the key points in your notes into clear hierarchies. See how ideas connect and build a clearer understanding of the whole topic. Flashcards: create flashcards from important content and organize them with multiple tags. Bring the key points from your notes into your review routine. More ways to capture your ideas Infinite canvas: write, draw, insert images and arrange content without fixed page boundaries. Explore ideas, organize knowledge and plan projects on an open canvas. Live Notes: combine moving content with handwriting, images and stickers to capture travel, everyday moments and inspiration in a more expressive way. Continue across devices Sync your notes across devices so you can pick up your study, work and note-taking where you left off. Handwriting, documents, audio, web pages, video, mind maps and flashcards: bring them together to capture, organize, understand and review.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: NoteEase at 4.4 against touchnotesPro's 2.5. NoteEase also leads on ratings volume (67 vs 4) and review sentiment (42% vs 30%). touchnotesPro's advantage is monetization model (free vs subscription). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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. NoteEase sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $4.49 per year and touchnotesPro sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
NoteEase holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 2.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: NoteEase has 67 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 42% of NoteEase's written reviews are positive against 30% of touchnotesPro's.
NoteEase ships an update monthly, touchnotesPro every 3 weeks. Both last shipped on November 3, 2026.
| Parameter | NoteEase | touchnotesPro |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (67 ratings) — better | 2.5 (4 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 41.7% of reviews — better | 30.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 67 — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Subscription | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 14.1 — better | 16.2 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 113 MB | 667 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Hangzhou Jiadi Bozhong | 广东新空电子科技股份有限公司 |
Customer experience
NoteEase
touchnotesPro
In-app purchases
NoteEase
- Yearly member3 Days trial$4.491 Year
- Yearly member3 Days trial$29.991 Year
- Xnotes永久会员优惠价$3.99
- Permanent member$6.99
- Permanent member$49.99
touchnotesPro
- Basic Cloud Package$1.99
- Premium Cloud Package$1.99
- 享做笔记vip-1年$3.99
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- Premium Cloud Package$3.99
- 享做笔记vip-2年$4.99
- Basic Cloud Package$6.99
- Student Cloud Package$6.99
- Student Cloud Package$9.99
- vip$9.99
- Premium Cloud Package$14.99









