Comparison

Notebook for Students vs Nature Notes

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

Head to head
About

Notebook for Students

This app replaces traditional paper notebooks with a digital solution. It allows users to combine text, voice recordings, photos, and drawings on unlimited pages across multiple subject-specific notebooks. Notes can be exported as PDFs for easy sharing.

Highlights
  • Voice recording with notes
  • Picture and drawing integration
  • Multiple notebooks for subjects
  • Customizable paper styles and fonts
  • PDF export and email sharing
  • Intuitive page turning gestures
Features
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**Notebooks** is a student notebook app designed for school notes, handwriting, studying, and organizing subjects in one simple place. Create different notebooks for every class, such as Math, Science, English, History, Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Computer Science, Art, and more. Each notebook works like a real notebook: write page by page, swipe left and right to turn pages, and add new pages whenever you need more space. The main experience is handwriting. Use your finger or Apple Pencil to write notes, solve math problems, draw diagrams, sketch ideas, and organize classwork. Each page is fixed like a real paper notebook page, so your notes feel clean and structured instead of endless scrolling. Need typed notes? Use OCR to convert handwriting into editable text. Save the converted text with each page, copy it, search it later, or use it for studying. **Key Features:** * Create notebooks for different school subjects * Handwrite notes with Apple Pencil or finger * Swipe left and right to turn pages * Add, duplicate, and organize notebook pages * Use fixed notebook pages, not endless scrolling * Convert handwriting to text with OCR * Search notes by subject, page, or recognized text * Use paper styles like blank, lined, grid, dotted, or Cornell notes * Great for students, homework, class notes, study guides, and daily schoolwork Notebooks helps students keep every subject organized while making digital note-taking feel natural, simple, and close to writing in a real notebook.

About

Nature Notes

Record and share notes, photos, and audio from your outdoor adventures. Advanced tools allow for photo merging from other cameras and interactive map integration. Organize trips into multiple hikes and share them via email, web pages, or custom files.

Highlights
  • Record notes, photos, and audio
  • Merge photos from other cameras
  • Interactive Apple Maps integration
  • Organize trips into multiple hikes
  • Share via email, web pages, or files
  • GPS tracking and export (KML/GPX)
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NatureNotes allows you to record and share notes, photos, and audio recordings on any walk, tour, hike, or just a stroll around your neighborhood. If you are a serious photographer, advanced tools allow you to load pictures from another camera into the walk record. There are several options for sharing walks with friends or other NatureNotes users, including email, Web page creation, or sending a NatureNotes file to another user. Easy sharing: Take photos, save notes, and record audio on your Apple iPhone or iPad. The app offers powerful editing features to create a slideshow or Web folder that you can email to your friends or upload to a server. Interactive maps: Apple maps embedded in NatureNotes shows where you are at all times, as well as where you've been on your hike. Satellite view can show you the terrain with a data connection. If you repeat a hike you've taken before, you can use the interactive map to see where you are relative to your last hike. Organization: Divide your trip into multiple hikes, then put them under a single header. Combine the subsumed hikes into a single slideshow, email, or web folder for sharing. Creating multiple databases offers a system for organizing larger groups of walk records. Records can be copied directly to other databases for easy sorting and reorganization. Photo merging: Take photos with another camera and merge them directly into your NatureNotes recordings. A smart system using dates and timestamps places photos into their correct positions within previously-recorded records. Even without a recorded hike, create a new record from a set of location-encoded photographs, and see exactly where you took the photos, using the embedded Apple Maps features. If the photos contain captions from another photo-editing program, the captions will be copied into NatureNotes titles for immediate labelling within NatureNotes. All slideshow features and email or Web sharing features can then be used with the new records. Create a kml file for viewing the track in another tracking application, or a gpx file for loading a track with GPS data into photo editing applications. GPS tracking: NatureNotes provides detailed tracking data for your walks, regardless of whether you are in cellular range or not. Tracks can be exported as KML or GPX files for use in other applications. Duplication and backups: Take a complete set of records and copy them to another device, with a cable and computer, regardless of record sizes. In this way complete records can be shared or backed-up without loss of information or photographic resolution.

Screenshots

Notebook for Students3 screens
Nature Notes4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is monetization model: Nature Notes at free with in-app purchases against Notebook for Students's paid. Nature Notes also leads on iOS requirement (15.5 vs 17.0). On price, update cadence, ads 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Notebook for Students sells 2 one-off in-app purchases and Nature Notes sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on September 1, 2026 and August 8, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Notebook for Students versus Nature Notes: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterNotebook for StudentsNature Notes
PriceFreeFree
Rating—1.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews20.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings—1 — better
Update frequencyFortnightlyFortnightly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationPaidFree with in-app purchases — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.015.5 — better
Further details — not scored
Size6 MB172 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAlteru Inc.Kenneth Wahl

Customer experience

Notebook for Students

Written reviews30 reviews
Positive20.0%
Neutral6.7%
Negative73.3%

Nature Notes

All ratings1 ratings
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Notebook for Students

One-time2
  • Notesbook for Students Unlimited$4.99
  • Notebook for Students New Unlimited$4.99
1 purchases

Nature Notes

One-time1
  • English$4.99

Questions

Is Notebook for Students free?
Notebook for Students is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Nature Notes free?
Nature Notes is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Notebook for Students or Nature Notes have ads?
Neither Notebook for Students nor Nature Notes shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Notebook for Students or Nature Notes?
Notebook for Students ships an update fortnightly, and Nature Notes fortnightly. Most recently, Notebook for Students was updated on September 1, 2026 and Nature Notes on August 8, 2026.

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