My Notes vs Notebooks
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
My Notes
A straightforward notes application designed to help you jot down ideas and organize them easily. Features colored tags for categorization, filtering, pinning important notes, and sorting options. Offers enhanced security with offline storage and optional biometric authentication.
- Organize notes with colored tags
- Filter notes by tags
- Pin important notes for quick access
- Sort notes by date or title
- Offline storage for enhanced security
- Biometric authentication (Touch ID/Face ID)
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Tired of finding the perfect notes app for yourself? Try My Notes! A simple notes application designed just for you. With its straightforward and uncomplicated user interface, you can become a master notes-taker in seconds! The aim of My Notes is to encourage people to take notes, jot down ideas, and, in general, write stuff. Let's talk about the features of My Notes. - With My Notes, you can create notes that are organised the way you like them. Choose from one of the five existing coloured tags and categorise your notes. You can also change the tags using the context menu. - Tags can be used to filter your notes. View all the notes you have typed, or just the notes with which the selected filter is associated. - Important notes can be pinned to the top of the list for quicker access - Notes can be sorted either by Date or by Title in ascending as well as descending order - My notes is secure as it does not have access to the internet. All your notes are stored on your device, and nothing is uploaded to any server. - If you want even more security, you can turn on biometric authentication (Touch ID or Face ID) form the quick settings menu. This way, only you have access to your notes. The best part about this application is that it is completely free! So, there is no reason for not trying out My Notes.
Notebooks
Organize your thoughts and ideas with a digital notebook. Create multiple notebooks, customize covers, and protect them with passwords. Easily search, attach images, and convert notes to PDF.
- Multiple customizable notebooks
- Password protection
- Page titles and bookmarking
- Freehand drawing
- Image attachments
- PDF conversion
- Google Drive backup
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Take notes and even attach your free hand drawing, everything in style and completely without papers! Create multiple notebooks for every subject and avoid messing up your notes. Notebooks is the only application you will ever need for all your note making needs. Designed with flexibility and ease of use in mind, taking notes is now at it simplest with our application. With multiple colors and custom title for each notebook cover, you will enjoy creating a notebook for every subject you want. Notebooks is a must have application for students, business men and for anyone using their phones and tablets for taking notes. Features: 1. Create multiple notebooks. 2. Customizable cover, title, number of pages for every notebook. 3. Password protected. 4. Set a title for every page. 5. Instant search within each notebook. 6. Attach image files. 7. Bookmark a page. 8. Create your own free hand drawing. 9. Easily find your entries. 10. Set theme for each notebook. 11. Convert the entire Notebook to PDF with attachments. (Currently supports English only) 12. Backup/Restore. (***Option available in the menu of the Notebooks screen. Some devices will not have the hardware menu button on the device, in that case 'long press' the 'All Apps' button to get the menu on the app***) 13. Backup to Google Drive FAQs: http://www.droidveda.com/faq/faq_notebooks.html How to use? 1. Use '+' mark in the home screen to create new books. 2. Long tap on any book to edit/delete the book. 3. Use 'Password' option to set/reset the password. 4. On the Page tap on Page Header to set the Title for the page. 5. Make use of different editing options provided at the bottom of the page.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: My Notes at 3.0 against Notebooks's 1.5. My Notes also leads on ads (none vs shown) and monetization model (free vs ad-supported). Notebooks's advantage is ratings volume (12 vs 2). On price, in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
My Notes holds the better App Store score, 3.0 against 1.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Notebooks has 12 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.
| Parameter | My Notes | Notebooks |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.0 (2 ratings) — better | 1.5 (12 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 15.4% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 12 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | — |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Ad-supported |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.2 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 2 MB | 46 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Rishik Dev | Droid-Veda LLP |
Customer experience
My Notes
Notebooks
In-app purchases
My Notes
No in-app purchases
Notebooks
No in-app purchases








