Notebook for Students vs Book Writer
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.
Book Writer
Create interactive books with multimedia elements like photos, videos, and audio. Organize thoughts, design various book types, and share them digitally or through a paperbook publishing service. Ideal for educational, personal, or professional use.
- Multimedia book creation
- Add pictures, text, voice, video
- Interactive functions
- Drag-and-drop interface
- Share via Book World, Dropbox, Email
- Paperbook publishing service
- Educational institution discounts
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Take Note, Organize Thoughts, Make a Book. Share with the World. Make your own book with Book Writer. Anyone can easily make a book. Make an interactive book and enjoy making and reading the books you made! You can use it in school, work, and at home to make all types of books such as photo book, recipe book, diary, PR booklet, PDF documents, and etc. Making a multimedia book You can add pictures, text, voice recordings, songs, and videos on the page. You can use the camera to take pictures or videos and add them right on to the book. You can draw image and edit image using Pen Tool. Provides interactive functions such as item connection and auto play to make your book more fun. Easy and intuitive interface Children of all ages can easily use the interface. Use the Item Bar to add items to the page by drag&drop. All text are shown on the page in real time with the In-Page text editor that is provided. Use the Undo function to return to the previous work. Share your books You can share your book with others using Book World. Join the Book World and upload your book to Book World, and follow your favorite author. Books in Book World can be read on diverse smartphone, PC and Mac. You can share your book with Book Writer on Dropbox, iTunes or via E-mail. Read through iBooks The books made with Book Writer can be read through iBooks. You can read your book in Book Writer directly, or Book World web reader. Paperbook publish service You can publish your book to paperbook using Paperbook publish service. Published books can also be seen in Book World via smartphone, PC, Mac. In Class Book Writer is being used in many countries by thousands of people for educational use. Book Writer helps students to make a book by organizing their thoughts. With an intuitive interface, anyone can easily express and organize their thoughts. 50% discount for educational institutions. Use App Store Volume Purchase Program to purchase Book Writer. For more details - http://www.apple.com/itunes/education/ Main Functions Templates are provided to make books of different styles and formats. Choosing a layout style automatically relocates your items. Use drag & drop to easily add items. You can use the photos from Photo Library to add to the book, or can add pictures taken directly from camera. Pictures can be moved, the size can be adjusted, and you can rotate or crop the pictures by touching. Text box item can be added to the page to input text. Supports fonts and styles of various types. You can draw image and edit image using Pen Tool. You can add videos from your album or you can directly record videos with your camera to add them. Use recorder to record your voice and add to the book, or add music from Music Library to your book. Bring any music from Music Library to add as your background music. Use the auto play function to automatically play the media at the time you want. Item connection function is provided to connect your pictures or text to sound items. The Undo function allows you to return to your previous work. Use the Page Editor to add or delete pages or change the order of the page by using drag & drop. You can combine two books together. The completed book can be read in ‘Reading Mode’. Books that have been created can be shared via Book World, iTunes, E-mail, Dropbox, etc. Share your book with others using Book World. And can be read on many smartphone, PC, Mac. You can publish your book to paperbook using Paperbook publish service. Save your book as a PDF document or you can use AirPrint or use Export to print the books The standard E-book format, epub, is supported to read the made books with iBooks and you can register your books on iBookstore. Book Writer supports the fixed-layout format of iBooks. The fixed-layout format is not ideal for books with long text like novels. Online support is included. Please visit our homepage - http://goodeffect.com
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Notebook for Students at Free against Book Writer's $3.99. Notebook for Students also leads on update cadence (fortnightly vs every 2 months). Book Writer's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2) and review sentiment (39% vs 20%). On ads, monetization model 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
Notebook for Students is free to download; Book Writer costs $3.99 up front. Notebook for Students sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Book Writer asks for nothing beyond the download.
Notebook for Students ships an update fortnightly, Book Writer every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on September 1, 2026 and September 26, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Notebook for Students | Book Writer |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $3.99 |
| Rating | — | 3.9 (11 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 20.0% of reviews | 38.8% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | — | 11 — better |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 11.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 6 MB | 72 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Alteru Inc. | Good Effect |
Customer experience
Notebook for Students
Book Writer
Bugs and requests
Notebook for Students
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Book Writer
Reported bugs
18 issues- App crashes on startup or during use
- Crashes when attempting to email or share books
- Crashes when uploading photos
- Text editing fails or doesn't work
- Cannot delete images once placed
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- Two-finger expand/contract not functional
- Keyboard doesn't appear reliably
- App freezes during operation
- Email send feature doesn't work
- Layout in iBooks differs from app preview
- Image quality significantly reduced in exports
- Text boxes don't fill entire page
- Writing jumps to front page unexpectedly
- Retina display not rendering properly in exports
- App skips or stutters
- Slow performance and lag
- PDF conversion issues with errors
- Contact email address doesn't exist
Requested features
21 requests- Undo/redo functionality
- Bold, italic, underline text formatting
- Ability to import text from Pages or Word
- Dynamic text that resizes in iBooks
- PDF export capability
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- Video import and embedding
- Copy and paste text functionality
- Background music support
- Increased upload data size limits
- Page templates and backgrounds
- Text alignment guides and markers
- Handwriting input support
- Double-page spread layouts
- Photo editing tools (crop, resize)
- Text shadows and effects
- Hyperlink support
- Page numbers in books
- Better alignment tools
- More font and color options
- Voice recording integration
- Landscape two-page writing mode
In-app purchases
Notebook for Students
- Notesbook for Students Unlimited$4.99
- Notebook for Students New Unlimited$4.99
Book Writer
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is Notebook for Students free?
Is Book Writer free?
Do Notebook for Students or Book Writer have ads?
Which is updated more often, Notebook for Students or Book Writer?
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