DraftPad vs Simplio Notepad
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
DraftPad
A minimalist writing tool designed for quick drafting of messages, posts, or blog entries. It offers a clean interface without complex features, focusing on immediate text input and sharing. Easily export your text and track character counts.
- Plain text writing field
- Share/export text via iOS activity sheet
- Automatic history list for text restoration
- Adjustable font size and line spacing
- Character, word, and line counters
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DraftPad is a simple notepad which is like a single sheet of paper. You can use it to write a draft for messaging, posting, blogging, or any writing tasks. For the simplicity, DraftPad doesn't have features for filing multiple notes and decorating text elements. Instead, it is always ready to start jotting. DraftPad allows you to - Simply write and read on a plain field without any functional complexity or visual clutter. - Share or export your text via iOS standard activity sheet. - Restore previous text from the automatic History list. - Change font size and line spacing. - Helped by the counters for characters, words, and lines. Follow @draftpad on Twitter for staying in touch.
Simplio Notepad
A minimalist notepad designed for quick note-taking without unnecessary features. It offers a clean interface, essential editing tools, and home screen widgets for easy access. Notes are stored locally and can sync via iCloud.
- One-tap opening
- Fast text editor
- Markdown support
- Home Screen widgets
- iCloud sync
- Export as text/PDF
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A notepad that opens in one tap and then stays out of your way. If you have watched the notes app you used for years grow into a database with AI panels, sign-in screens and a sidebar of features you never asked for, Simplio Notepad is the calm alternative. It is a minimal notepad for jotting quick notes, drafting an email, capturing a meeting line or thinking out loud — no account to create, no cloud you cannot turn off, no friction between the thought and the page. Open the app and you are already in a fast text editor with the cursor blinking. Type, paste, or dictate. Markdown, simple lists and checkboxes are there when you need structure, pin and archive keep the important notes within reach, and search finds the half-remembered line in seconds. Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets surface today's note at a glance, so the scratchpad you started on the train is still one tap away when you sit down at the desk. Export any note as text or PDF when you need to hand it off to a document, an email or a colleague. The interface ships in 39 languages with full VoiceOver support, and the writing app stays deliberately quiet: no ads, no analytics, no engagement loops, no nudges trying to turn a notebook into a productivity system. A simple notepad for journalers, students, meeting note-takers and anyone who wants sticky notes, voice notes and markdown notes in one place that respects their time.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is monetization model: DraftPad at free against Simplio Notepad's subscription. DraftPad also leads on ratings volume (52 vs 3) and device support (3 vs 1). Simplio Notepad's advantage is rating (4.7 vs 4.3). 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Simplio Notepad holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: DraftPad has 52 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two.
DraftPad ships an update every 5 weeks, Simplio Notepad every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | DraftPad | Simplio Notepad |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (52 ratings) | 4.7 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 78.5% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 52 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Subscription |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 18.5 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 1 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Manabu Ueno | Bahattin Duran |
Customer experience
DraftPad
Simplio Notepad
Bugs and requests
DraftPad
Reported bugs
3 issues- Crashes when highlighting words
- Keyboard disappearing issue
- Unexpected file creation and growth
Requested features
5 requests- Add dark mode option
- Implement font and formatting options
- Allow creating and managing multiple documents
- Improve export and sharing capabilities
- Implement spell check and grammar assistance
Simplio Notepad
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
DraftPad
No in-app purchases
Simplio Notepad
No in-app purchases









