Mental Note Lite ๛ vs reteNoteLite
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Mental Note Lite ๛
This app transforms your device into a versatile digital notepad. Seamlessly combine text, drawings, photos, and voice recordings on a single page to capture ideas in rich detail. Organize, protect, and share your notes in various formats.
- Combine text, photos, audio, and drawings
- Finger drawing with multiple colors
- Organize notes with tags
- Password protect private notes
- Export notes to PDF, text, and more
- Share notes via email and cloud services
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"...a true notepad experience that may help you make a clean break from the pencil-and-paper era." -New York Times. Users describe Mental Note as "the only notepad app... that's actually better than, and as simple as, a pen and paper." It's "the future of note taking", and "a big sketchpad... [to] free associate and put stuff down in any format". Turn your iPhone into a digital notepad. Combine photographs, voice recordings, drawings and text - all on the same page, in any order you choose. An idea... a flash - a moment of genius. When a thought hits, and you have to remember it, why limit how you record it? The more context and sensory details you can capture, the clearer the idea can be put down. Use photographs, audio, sketching and text together on the same page... a digital page that can be shared with anyone. Mental Note allows you to capture ideas as they happen: use photographs, dictate, add text, sketch on anything. Ideas clarified. Creativity captured. FEATURES - Draw with your finger using multiple colours and widths on top of photographs, text, or anywhere else on the page. Zoom in to sketch fine details. - Take a photo or choose one from your album and add it to the page. - Add audio to the page by recording with your microphone. Continue to edit your note while recording. - Organize your notes using tags. - Password protect your private notes and flag your important ones. - Attach Calendar events to your notes. - Undo, redo anything in the note by shaking the device. - Delete note sections using the toolbar button or by swiping any note section. - Move a note section by swiping and then dragging it to its new location. - Length of a note is limited only by device memory. - Export in a variety of formats including PDF, text, Mental Note format, and more. Send using email, iCloud, Dropbox, and more. * Send a note in Mental Note format so the note may be imported into another person's Mental Note app. * Using email, export a complete note directly from Mental Note as either a PDF document or a picture (each audio recording is attached to the email as a separate file). You can also email just the text from your note. - Export your notes and backups to your iCloud and/or Dropbox account. - Share a note with your friends using most installed apps. - Map the location a note was created at (if location services are enabled). - Change the size and font of the text in your notes. - Change the color and background of your notes. - Numerous other configuration options. The Mental Note Lite digital notepad comes with space for four notes. Upgrade to the full version of Mental Note to create an unlimited number of notes. Read more: www.zymbiotic.com X @zymbiotic facebook.com/zymbiotic
reteNoteLite
Create visually appealing notes with custom colors and shapes. Link notes together on an unlimited canvas to map out ideas, organize thoughts, or use as a to-do list, mind map, or diary. This lite edition offers a simple yet effective way to enhance your thinking.
- Create notes with favorite colors and shapes
- Link notes together
- Unlimited canvas area
- Map out ideas and organize thoughts
- Use as to-do list, mind map, or diary
- Create simple tables and graphics
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reteNoteLite is a simple application. This is a ios application that you can create a note in a favorite colors and shapes. With reteNote, you can create a practical and beautiful note. By taking notes graphically, it will expand your thinking. reteNote make that help. reteNote will be simple from now on. *This is the Lite Edition of reteNote. Features -Create a note. -Link notes together. -Limitles area. You can -Map out your ideas, and organize your scattered thoughts. -Use this app as todo list, mind map, diary and the any type notepad by devising the color and shape. -Also create simple tables and graphics using a little idea. -Start on any position in a page anytime, anywhere.
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Verdict
Mental Note Lite ๛ and reteNoteLite both sit at 4.5 stars, but that hides the real split: 100% of reteNoteLite's written reviews are positive against 58% of Mental Note Lite ๛'s. reteNoteLite also leads on ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 6 weeks vs every 5 months). On price, rating, ratings volume and in-app purchases 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. Mental Note Lite ๛ sells 8 one-off in-app purchases and reteNoteLite sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.5 for Mental Note Lite ๛ against 4.5 for reteNoteLite. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 2 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 58% of Mental Note Lite ๛'s written reviews are positive against 100% of reteNoteLite's.
Mental Note Lite ๛ ships an update every 5 months, reteNoteLite every 6 weeks. Both last shipped on October 14, 2026.
| Parameter | Mental Note Lite ๛ | reteNoteLite |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (2 ratings) | 4.5 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 58.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months | Every 6 weeks — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 | 9.3 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 10 MB | 26 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Zymbiotic Technologies | Tokyo Cartographic CO.,LTD. |
Customer experience
Mental Note Lite ๛
reteNoteLite
In-app purchases
Mental Note Lite ๛
- Paper Customization feature$2.99
- 100 sheet refill pack$3.99
- Note Copying feature (includes free Note Linking feature)$3.99
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- Export to another app feature$3.99
- Password Protection feature$3.99
- Straight Line Drawing feature$3.99
- Dark Mode Override feature$3.99
- 250 sheet refill pack$4.99
reteNoteLite
- release the limit of Lite edition$0.99
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