Comparison

Chapters vs Noted Note

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Chapters

A private journaling app that requires no account and keeps your entries secure. Access all your past notes anytime, synced across all your iOS devices via iCloud.

Highlights
  • Private journaling
  • No account required
  • iCloud syncing
  • Cross-device access
  • Secure entries
Features
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Chapters is your safe space to express yourself freely. No account is required, there are no in-app purchases, and your entries stay private – we never analyze or track what you write. Whether you're writing a personal journal or taking notes in class, you can access all your past notes at any time, like turning pages in your notebook. Moreover, all your entries are synced to iCloud, allowing you to access them from any iOS device.

About

Noted Note

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noted. is a little paper notebook for your iPhone. Type, and your words appear in handwriting on paper with a bit of grain. No folders to manage, no toolbars to learn. Just a page and a pen. WRITING • Four hands: scrawl, the house hand, which inks itself stroke by stroke as you type, plus marker, looseleaf and rafikki • Four pens: ballpoint, marker, fountain and pencil • Change the hand or pen for a selection, or for just what you type next; settings picks the hand new notes start in • Plain, lined, squared or dotted paper, chosen note by note CROSSING OUT • Delete more than a few letters and they are scratched out in ink instead of vanishing; a quick typo fix still simply deletes • Keep the scratch-out, or let it go DOODLES AND PHOTOS • Draw with your finger and put the doodle on the page • Add photos from your library: as the full photo, as a cutout with the background removed, as a cutout with a white border, or held on with a binder clip or a paper clip • Move doodles and photos around the page YOUR NOTES • Every note on one wall, most recently written first, grouped by day • Search what your notes say (crossed-out words are left out) • Hold a note to crumple it up PAPERS AND SOUNDS • Cream paper by day and charcoal at night, following your iPhone • Five more papers: charcoal, spring, terracotta, violet and sea • Soft pencil sounds when you cross out, crumple a note, or pick a paper, pen or hand, with a loudness control, or turn them off ON IPHONE DUO • Closed, the outside screen is your notebook's cover, with windows cut through it to your latest page • Open it, and your notes become a book: turn the pages, with a soft page-turn sound • Tap a page and write right on it with the keyboard • A handwritten index of your notes, with dates • Eight covers: bottle green, charcoal, ink navy, rust, burgundy, kraft, and two cloth covers, breakfast and horses • Lined, squared, dotted or plain pages; blue, black or sepia ink; turn the pages or scroll • Warm, faded paper after dark LANGUAGES • noted. speaks English, Danish, German, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, and Simplified and Traditional Chinese • The handwriting writes all of them. The four hands and the self-inking scrawl are for the Latin alphabet; Cyrillic, Japanese, Korean and Chinese each have a handwriting face of their own FREE, AND THE WHOLE DRAWER Free to use, with no time limit: the scrawl, the ballpoint, cream paper (charcoal at night), scratch-outs, doodles, photos, search, sounds and the whole iPhone Duo notebook. One optional purchase, the whole drawer, adds: • the five more papers • every pen: marker, fountain and pencil • every hand: marker, looseleaf and rafikki • iCloud sync, so your notes follow you to your other iPhones One payment, kept forever. No subscription. Restore it any time from the purchase page. PRIVATE Your notes stay on your device. No accounts, no tracking, no analytics. Turn on iCloud sync and they go to your own iCloud account, and nowhere else. Privacy Policy: https://walnut-burst-160.notion.site/Noted-Note-Privacy-Policy-3a93971e7add8199a7e4d91c688d6069 Terms of Use: https://walnut-burst-160.notion.site/Noted-Note-Terms-of-Use-3a93971e7add80428a0fdaad90470a72 Apple Standard EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Chapters4 screens
Noted Note4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Noted Note at Free against Chapters's $2.99. Chapters's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and update cadence (every 10 days vs every 2 months). On ads 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Noted Note is free to download; Chapters costs $2.99 up front. Noted Note sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Chapters asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Chapters ships an update every 10 days, Noted Note every 2 months. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.

Scorecard4 real differences · 5 level
Chapters versus Noted Note: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterChaptersNoted Note
Price$2.99Free — better
Rating4.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 10 days — betterEvery 2 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaid—
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS16.0 — better26.5
Further details — not scored
Size1 MB61 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperStanislav StasiukJerry Munyoka Nkongolo

In-app purchases

None

Chapters

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Noted Note

One-time1
  • the whole drawer$2.99

Questions

Is Chapters free?
Chapters costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Noted Note free?
Noted Note is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Chapters or Noted Note have ads?
Neither Chapters nor Noted Note shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Chapters or Noted Note?
Chapters ships an update every 10 days, and Noted Note every 2 months. Most recently, Chapters was updated on October 24, 2026 and Noted Note on October 24, 2026.

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