Scratchnote vs Acidity
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Scratchnote
This utility app allows for rapid text writing, editing, and copying. It offers smart actions to quickly access links and calendar events, serving as an ideal temporary solution for various writing tasks.
- Quick text writing
- Text editing
- Copy text
- Smart actions for links
- Smart actions for calendar events
- Temporary writing solution
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Scratchnote is the perfect place to quickly write, edit, and copy text. Plus, use our smart actions to access links, calendar events, and more! Scratchnote is the perfect temporary solution for all your writing needs--start creating now!
Acidity
This utility extension for Safari provides quick access to archived versions of web pages. It allows users to manually navigate to archives or set up automatic redirection based on custom regex patterns.
- Access archived page versions
- Toolbar action for quick access
- Regex matching for automatic navigation
- Safari extension
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Acidity is a Safari extension for navigating to archived versions of pages. It allows for quick access to page archives through its toolbar action. It also allows for specifying regex matches for automatic navigation to archived versions of pages.
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Verdict
Scratchnote and Acidity both sit at 4.5 stars, but that hides the real split: 100% of Acidity's written reviews are positive against 67% of Scratchnote's. Acidity also leads on device support (4 vs 2). Scratchnote's advantage is update cadence (every 11 days vs every 4 months). On price, rating, ratings volume and ads 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.5 for Scratchnote against 4.6 for Acidity. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 11 and 9 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 67% of Scratchnote's written reviews are positive against 100% of Acidity's.
Scratchnote ships an update every 11 days, Acidity every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on June 25, 2026 and September 21, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Scratchnote | Acidity |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (11 ratings) | 4.6 (9 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 66.7% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 11 — better | 9 |
| Update frequency | Every 11 days — better | Every 4 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 2 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Magnus Jensen | Octalwise |
Customer experience
Scratchnote
Acidity
In-app purchases
Scratchnote
No in-app purchases
Acidity
No in-app purchases
