Mental Note for iPad ๛ vs EasyOCR.Me
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Mental Note for iPad ๛
This app transforms your iPad into a versatile digital notepad. Seamlessly combine text, drawings, pictures, and voice recordings on a single page. Capture ideas in any format and share them easily.
- Combine text, pictures, audio, and drawings
- Freehand sketching with multiple colors
- Organize notes with tags
- Password protect private notes
- Export notes in PDF, text, and other formats
- 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". Mental Note for iPad brings the future closer with an even bigger sketchpad for you to capture your ideas on. Turn your iPad into a digital notepad. Combine pictures, 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 pictures, 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 pictures, dictate, add text, sketch on anything. Ideas clarified. Creativity captured. FEATURES - Draw with your finger using multiple colours and widths on top of pictures, text, or anywhere else on the page. Zoom in to sketch fine details. - Choose a picture from your album and add it to the page. - Add audio to the page by recording with the built-in 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. THIS VERSION IS OPTIMIZED FOR iPad. FOR iPhone, PLEASE SEE Mental Note - the digital notepad. Read more: www.zymbiotic.com X @zymbiotic facebook.com/zymbiotic
EasyOCR.Me
Convert images and PDF documents into editable text. Supports multiple file types and languages, with options to edit and export in various formats. Process multiple files simultaneously for efficient digitization.
- OCR images and PDFs to text
- Supports multiple file types (JPEG, PNG, WebP, PDF)
- Processes multiple files simultaneously
- Automatic word and letter detection
- Supports 6 languages
- Exports to Word, PDF, HTML, and Plain Text
- In-app editor for generated pages
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EasyOCR.me is a new app, that allows you to OCR (images to text recognition) any image or PDF document into text, supporting 6 languages! Select any amount of images or PDF documents and they will be digitized into text, ready to be edited and exported into 4 different formats. -> Select any amount of images (jpeg, png, webp) or PDF files to process and merge them together! -> Automatic words and letter detection to text! -> Support of 6 languages including English, Spanish, Japanese, Chinese Traditional and Simplified plus Korean! -> 4 Export formats: Microsoft Word, PDF, HTML and Plain Text -> Edit or delete generated pages for your final document in the editor. Convert your images and PDF documents to text, for FREE, NOW!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: EasyOCR.Me at Free against Mental Note for iPad ๛'s $4.99. EasyOCR.Me also leads on rating (5.0 vs 2.7) and in-app purchases (none vs 3). Mental Note for iPad ๛'s advantage is ads (none vs shown) and ratings volume (6 vs 2).
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
EasyOCR.Me is free to download; Mental Note for iPad ๛ costs $4.99 up front. Mental Note for iPad ๛ sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. EasyOCR.Me asks for nothing beyond the download.
EasyOCR.Me holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 2.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 6 and 2 respectively.
Mental Note for iPad ๛ ships an update every 5 months, EasyOCR.Me every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Mental Note for iPad ๛ | EasyOCR.Me |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $4.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 2.7 (6 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 51.7% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 6 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months | Every 6 weeks — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Ad-supported — better |
| Devices | iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 11.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 17 MB | 45 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Zymbiotic Technologies | Ipsilon Developments Inc |
Customer experience
Mental Note for iPad ๛
EasyOCR.Me
In-app purchases
Mental Note for iPad ๛
- Paper Customization feature$2.99
- Straight Line Drawing feature$3.99
- Dark Mode Override feature$3.99
EasyOCR.Me
No in-app purchases
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