NovaNote vs Archium
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
NovaNote
This app merges your digital life and ideas with advanced rich text formatting, image and PDF attachments, and voice recording. Seamlessly integrate maps and calendars into your notes for effortless organization and task management.
- Rich text formatting
- Map integration
- Calendar integration
- Image and PDF attachments
- Voice recording
- Color-coded categories
- iCloud sync
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NovaNote is your space to write, organize, and create without interrupting the flow of your ideas. Take notes, create notebooks, add images, scans, drawings, PDFs, audio recordings, tasks, events, and locations: everything stays together in one simple, complete app designed to support your everyday work and creativity. With notebooks, you can organize pages and notes more naturally, keeping projects, study, work, and personal ideas separate and easy to find. Rich text tools let you format text, create lists, adjust alignment, and structure every note with clarity. NovaNote also helps you preserve context. Add locations to notes, connect calendar events, record multiple audio clips in a single note, import attachments, and turn images, scans, and drawings into resources that are always within reach. Attachments are a core part of the experience: add photos, PDFs, images, scans, and drawings, then edit, annotate, crop, and export them whenever you need. Color-coded categories make it easier to quickly find what matters. iCloud sync keeps your content updated across your Apple devices, while improvements to performance, zoom, gallery, scanner, and overall stability make the experience smoother and more reliable. NovaNote is built for anyone who wants functionality and creativity in one place: notes, ideas, documents, and memories, always with you.
Archium
Effortlessly scan, organize, and manage your documents with intelligent analysis and automatic filing. Quickly find what you need with powerful search and Siri integration. Streamline workflows using app shortcuts and automation.
- Scan and import documents
- Automatic document organization
- Intelligent search and indexing
- Siri integration for context-aware questions
- App Intents & Shortcuts for automation
- Secure on-device storage
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Archium: scan, organize & manage your documents. • Capture and manage everything effortlessly Import, scan, search, and share documents in seconds; all securely stored on your device. • Stay organized without the work Create smart Collections and let Archium automatically file documents where they belong. • Let automation do the busywork Use App Intents & Shortcuts to import attachments, sort documents, and streamline your workflows automatically. • Find what you need, instantly Intelligent analysis and indexing make every document easy to retrieve. • Ask questions, get answers, right in context Use Siri to ask about the document you’re viewing without leaving the app. • Search once, find everything Instantly search across all documents with powerful in-app search and full Spotlight support.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Archium at 5.0 against NovaNote's 4.0. Archium also leads on iOS requirement (18.0 vs 26.0). NovaNote's advantage is update cadence (every 9 days vs every 3 weeks) and device support (4 vs 2). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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.
Archium holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 1 respectively.
NovaNote ships an update every 9 days, Archium every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on July 8, 2026 and August 9, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | NovaNote | Archium |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (3 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 33.3% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 3 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 9 days — better | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 18.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 11 MB | 21 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Francesco Salvati | Daniel Bazzani |
Customer experience
NovaNote
Archium
In-app purchases
NovaNote
No in-app purchases
Archium
No in-app purchases









