Comparison

Notes n More vs Fairy PDF Reader

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

Head to head
About

Notes n More

Organize daily tasks, rich notes, voice memos, and freehand scribbles in one app. Save internet files, pictures, and videos, all synchronized with iCloud. Group related items into collections for efficient management of projects, trips, or events.

Highlights
  • Daily task management
  • Richly formatted notes
  • Voice memo recording
  • Freehand scribbles and annotations
  • Save internet files and web pages
  • Organize with collections
  • iCloud synchronization
Features
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Stream of thoughts in your mind? Quickly chat them out with notes, scribbles, capture any photos or record voice memos in a familiar chat like interface. Quick Notes ------------ Write down your thoughts like typing a chat message. Expand on these later with a full editor. Scribble Something ------------------- Draw with your finger or Pencil and jot it down before you lose your thought. Capture a Photo ---------------- Remind yourself of the surroundings that brought the thought in your mind with a quick photo capture. Speak it -------- Quickly capture voice memos or record the conversation that spurred the thought. Better yet, start a voice memo and jot down notes, capture photos or scribble while the voice memo gets recorded. Categorize ----------- Categorize your streams easily. Keep it Synced --------------- Anything you capture is stored in your private iCloud account not accessible to the app developer.

About

Fairy PDF Reader

This app offers a comprehensive PDF reading experience on iOS devices, mimicking desktop functionality. It includes advanced features like keyboard support, smart zoom, dark mode, and translation saving to enhance document interaction and learning.

Highlights
  • Full keyboard support
  • Smart zoom & lock
  • Dark mode with color inversion
  • Table of contents search
  • Translate & save words
  • Import from cloud services & zip files
  • Organize files in folders
Features
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Fairy PDF Reader is a PDF reader that’s aims to provide you with the best reading experience on your iOS device. I created it for myself at first, and then continued to add features to it to make it more useful. It features full keyboard support for almost anything, including turning pages, opening & closing documents, finding stuff on the PDF document, importing PDF files and more. It tries to imitate the desktop PDF reading experience on your iPad or iPhone for you to take it anywhere you go. Fairy PDF Reader has many other nifty features:- - It remembers the last book you opened, and allows you to continue reading it whenever you want. If the app was closed for whatever reason, the next time you open it, it will reopen the last PDF document where you stopped. This is quite useful in case you own an old iOS device with a low amount of memory. - Zoom & Lock feature:- A lot of PDF books tend to have large margins. The zoom & lock feature makes it easier to zoom in & take advantage of your iPad or iPhone screen real-estate. Once the zoom level is locked, you won’t be able to zoom in or out again until you unlock it again. Fairy PDF Reader will remember the last zoom setting you did separately for each book in your library, and it remembers it for both portrait & landscape modes separately. Other PDF readers allow you to zoom in to view your documents, but they make to harder to turn pages or maintain the page's position on the screen. - Dark Mode support, with the ability to invert the PDF colors to further relief your eyes. - Shows the PDF book table of content, with a search box to find the part you are looking for - The PDF Documents list is sorted based on the last book you opened, making it easier to open one of the last few books you read - Supports importing files from Zip files. If there are multiple PDF files inside the Zip, Fairy PDF Reader will import all of them. - Import PDF files from common cloud services. Like Dropbox or OneDrive. - Stores all the words you translated:- With the Translate & Save feature, any word you translate will be stored automatically, you can view these words and copy them for revision at any time you want to. This can quite helpful to expand your vocabulary or learning new languages. - Share PDF files from other applications:- You can export any PDF file you open in Safari or other apps & they will be directly imported to Fairy PDF Reader. - Find text in the documents you’re currently reading. - Organize files in folders, and copy or move them between them. - Search for books in the current folder. Fairy PDF Reader has a convenient text matching that makes this easier. - Smart tap detection:- Touching the lower part of the page won’t turn the page, this was added so you won’t turn the page by mistake while reading. The same goes to showing the options bar, you can easily hide it by tapping anywhere on the screen, but you need to tap on the upper part of the screen to show it, so you will unlikely show it by mistake. Unselecting text is also easy, just tap anywhere on the screen, and the selection will be gone. Generally speaking, taps & gestures are designed so that they won't interfere with one another, or interfere with you while you're focused on your book. - Go to any page quickly using the pages navigator, you can either type the page number you want or move the slider, or you can simply tap on the left or right arrows to go to the next or previous page. - Scroll To Top disabled:- While in landscape mode, you can't go to the beginning of the PDF document by tapping on the title bar, which is a common feature in iOS. This was done since it's easy to trigger that feature by mistake. The "Go To Page" dialog is there to help you get to the beginning of the book if you like. You can also read the full documentation of the app on my website:- https://Tech-Fairy.com/fairy-pdf-reader-user-manual-how-to-use-fairy-pdf-reader-to-get-the-best-pdf-reading-experience/

Screenshots

Notes n More4 screens
Fairy PDF Reader4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Fairy PDF Reader at 100% against Notes n More's 41%. Fairy PDF Reader also leads on rating (5.0 vs 2.5) and in-app purchases (none vs 1). Notes n More's advantage is price (Free vs $4.99). On ratings volume, update cadence, 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

Notes n More is free to download; Fairy PDF Reader costs $4.99 up front. Notes n More sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Fairy PDF Reader asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Fairy PDF Reader holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 2.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 3 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 41% of Notes n More's written reviews are positive against 100% of Fairy PDF Reader's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Notes n More ships an update every 5 weeks, Fairy PDF Reader every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Notes n More versus Fairy PDF Reader: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterNotes n MoreFairy PDF Reader
PriceFree — better$4.99
Rating2.5 (2 ratings)5.0 (3 ratings) — better
Positive reviews41.5% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings23 — better
Update frequencyEvery 5 weeks — betterEvery 2 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree — betterPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.014.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size10 MB27 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperAashish PatilMohannad Daghistany

Customer experience

Notes n More

All ratings2 ratings
Positive0.0%
Neutral50.0%
Negative50.0%
Written reviews94 reviews
Positive41.5%
Neutral14.9%
Negative43.6%

Fairy PDF Reader

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Notes n More

One-time1
  • Notes n More$1.99
None

Fairy PDF Reader

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Notes n More free?
Notes n More is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Fairy PDF Reader free?
Fairy PDF Reader costs $4.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Notes n More or Fairy PDF Reader?
Fairy PDF Reader is rated higher. Notes n More averages 2.5 out of 5 from 2 ratings, while Fairy PDF Reader averages 5.0 from 3 ratings.
Do Notes n More or Fairy PDF Reader have ads?
Neither Notes n More nor Fairy PDF Reader shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Notes n More or Fairy PDF Reader?
Notes n More ships an update every 5 weeks, and Fairy PDF Reader every 2 months. Most recently, Notes n More was updated on November 6, 2026 and Fairy PDF Reader on November 3, 2026.

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