Qards vs Blekk | Notes
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Qards
Organize your thoughts and prepare for presentations with digital note cards. Create, edit, and arrange cards within decks, then swipe through them in full-screen. Your notes sync automatically across all your devices.
- Create and edit decks of note cards
- Arrange note cards within decks
- Full-screen card swiping
- Automatic cross-device syncing
- Organize everyday thoughts
- Prepare for speeches and presentations
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Create Note Cards for your everyday thoughts, or write down keywords and cues for your next speech. Structure your Note Cards in decks and swipe through them in full-screen. Qards is the perfect tool when you want to make notes for your next speech or presentation! With Qards you can: - Create and edit decks of Note Cards. - Edit and order a deck's Note Cards as you please. - Swipe through a deck of Note Cards in full-screen. And all your Note Cards are of course automatically synced and made available across your devices!
Blekk | Notes
This app offers a simple, elegant notebook, task tracker, and journal. It provides a fresh page for each day on a single scroll, with easy search and offline functionality. Multiple notebooks, PIN locking, and sharing options are available.
- Daily fresh pages on a single scroll
- Task tracking with checkboxes
- Searchable notes and tags
- Multiple notebooks with custom pens
- PIN-locked notebooks
- Offline functionality
- Shareable notebooks
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Blekk is your notebook, task tracker, journal, and scratchpad - simple, elegant, and focused. One fresh page for each day, all on a single scroll. Not every note needs a formal notetaking app. Blekk is for the things you jot down but don't always know where to stash. There is nothing to set up and nothing to organise. Open it and today is waiting for you. Write, and it saves as you type. Late nights stay on one page: the day turns over at 5 AM, not midnight. Type a task and it becomes one, with a checkbox. Yesterday fades behind today, every past day stays in the scroll, and anything you've ever written is a search away - your words, your tags, the themes rising in your writing. The past stays reachable, without pulling focus from today. Blekk is a quiet place to write anything and everything. Welcome. Also: • Keep more than one notebook, each with its own pen and ink - one for work, one for the garden, one for the book you keep meaning to write • Lock any notebook with a PIN • Choose warm cream or stone paper; night ink comes on after dark • Share a notebook with your team, then return to a personal space that stays separate • Works fully offline; sign in and your words follow you everywhere, encrypted at rest • Export everything as plain markdown, any time - your notes are yours, and reading them is never paywalled • No AI. No feeds. No streaks. No distractions. Free for 30 days with everything on. After that, the basic plan keeps one writing device, with reads and export everywhere, forever. Blekk Plus adds unlimited notebooks and writing from every device. Teams bring shared notebooks with per-seat billing. Blekk Plus and Teams are auto-renewable subscriptions, billed through your Apple ID. Payment is charged at confirmation of purchase; the subscription renews automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period, and can be managed or cancelled in your Apple ID account settings. Privacy policy: https://blekk.app/privacy Terms of use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Qards at none against Blekk | Notes's 2. Qards also leads on ratings volume (18 vs 1). Blekk | Notes's advantage is update cadence (every 5 days vs every 4 months) and rating (5.0 vs 4.6). On price, review sentiment, ads and iOS requirement 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. Blekk | Notes sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Qards asks for nothing beyond the download.
Blekk | Notes holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Qards has 18 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.
Qards ships an update every 4 months, Blekk | Notes every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Qards | Blekk | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (18 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 18 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPod, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 4 MB | 14 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Thomas Asheim Smedmann | Jamie Druitt |
Customer experience
Qards
Blekk | Notes
In-app purchases
Qards
No in-app purchases
Blekk | Notes
- Blekk Plus Monthly$3.991 Month
- Blekk Plus Annual$34.991 Year









