Notebook for Students vs Creative Book Builder
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
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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.
Creative Book Builder
This app empowers users to create professional ebooks from scratch or existing content. It offers a wide range of layout options, powerful widgets for interactive elements, and multiple output formats including EPUB, HTML5, and PDF. Easily import content from various sources and utilize robust editing and sharing tools.
- Multiple EPUB layout options (Classic, Fixed Layout)
- Extensive widget library (Read Aloud, Quiz, Chart, etc.)
- Export to EPUB, HTML5, PDF, Audio, Photo & Video
- Import content from Blogger, WordPress, Google Docs, and cloud storage
- Direct image editing and element manipulation
- Cloud synchronization and backup features
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Creative Book Builder is a powerful, flexible, and professional ebook generation tool. No matter you create book from scratch or existing content, no matter your content is simple or complex, CBB enables you to build your own content in an efficient way. Comprehensive EPUB Generation * Create different kinds of layout for EPUB: Classic (re-flowable), Fixed Layout (WYSIWYG), Landscape, Portrait, and Square books. * All generated books should pass EPUB validation with EpubCheck and should be read in any EPUB readers. * Edit cover image and configure book information including book title, author, publisher, etc. * Change book style including font, indentation, direction (left-to-right, right-to-left or vertical text). * Add soundtrack, your own font, and custom stylesheet to the book. * Customize page size of fixed layout books. Powerful & Flexible Widgets * Besides title, paragraph, photos, videos, audio recording, markdown, and other basic elements, CBB offers a lot of powerful widgets: Read Aloud, Quiz, Slideshow, Table, Chart, Question, Equation (LaTeX), Drawing, Shapes, Checklist, Expandable Content, Screen Recording, Panorama, 360 Degree Image, QR Code, Online Image, Online Video, YouTube Video. * Popup footnotes and glossary can be defined and linked from content. * All widgets can be customizable. Multiple Output Format * Besides EPUB, CBB offers other types of output to maximize your content usage: HTML5, PDF, Audio, Photo & Video. * HTML5 books can be read in any browser on any platform without EPUB limitation, e.g. embed html code and iframe. HTML5 books can be hosted on Google Drive and exported as zip file for offline reading. Reuse Your Existing Content * Import your great content from Blogger, WordPress or RSS/Atom feed directly. * Convert your web apps generated by TouchAppCreator into books. * Specifically, Google Documents, Slides, Sheets, and Drawings can be imported into CBB as easy as possible. * Import any files from iCloud, Dropbox, Google Drive, OneDrive & FTP Server. * Smart Merge: define place holder and merge with different values. Editing Tools * Edit image directly (filters, add text, etc). * Cut, copy, and paste elements from page to page. * Lock element to avoid movement. * Find and replace string for elements. * Mark pages as draft version. * All paragraph, title, markdown & HTML elements are saved automatically. * Backup book to Dropbox automatically after generating book. * Synchronize books with iCloud. * Deleted books can be restored until the books are deleted permanently. * Navigate whole book while recording audio. * Edit two books at the same time by using multiple windows (iOS 13). Sharing Tools * Share page or whole book via iCloud, Dropbox, Google Drive, OneDrive, FTP Server & WebDAV Server. * Share book between devices via browser by using QR code. * Transfer book to desktop via iTunes File Sharing (USB without WiFi). * Batch upload your books to cloud services.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Notebook for Students at Free against Creative Book Builder's $5.99. Notebook for Students also leads on update cadence (fortnightly vs every 3 months). Creative Book Builder's advantage is review sentiment (62% vs 20%) and in-app purchases (none vs 2). On ads 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
Notebook for Students is free to download; Creative Book Builder costs $5.99 up front. Notebook for Students sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Creative Book Builder asks for nothing beyond the download.
Notebook for Students ships an update fortnightly, Creative Book Builder every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on September 1, 2026 and September 21, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Notebook for Students | Creative Book Builder |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $5.99 |
| Rating | — | 3.9 (16 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 20.0% of reviews | 62.3% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | — | 16 — better |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Every 3 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 15.6 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 6 MB | 33 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Alteru Inc. | Tiger Ng |
Customer experience
Notebook for Students
Creative Book Builder
In-app purchases
Notebook for Students
- Notesbook for Students Unlimited$4.99
- Notebook for Students New Unlimited$4.99
Creative Book Builder
No in-app purchases
Questions
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