Comparison

Note Taker HD vs PrintHand Mobile Print Premium

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

Head to head
About

Note Taker HD

This app allows for versatile handwritten note-taking and PDF annotation on iPad and iPhone. It offers features like zoomed ink, shapes, typed text, and image insertion, with flexible organization and sharing options.

Highlights
  • Zoomed ink for detailed writing
  • PDF annotation capabilities
  • Insert photos and shapes
  • Typed text blocks
  • Organize with folders and tags
  • Export as PDF
Features
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Zoomed ink, PDF markup, photos, shapes, typed text, folders and tagging, extensive AirPlay control, and much more. The latest upgrade of one of the first note taking apps designed specifically for the Apple iPad and now also available for the Apple iPhone, Note Taker HD has long been known as a powerful and stable application for writing and organizing handwritten notes and diagrams. Note Taker HD can also be used to annotate PDF files. It can shrink your writing so you can easily fit a lot of text on a page. You can read the reduced-size "ink" as if you had written those letters with a very fine pen. It gives you solid functionality and control to produce the pages you need. Documents are flexibly organized by tags, date/time last modified, favorites, and more, with a scrolling list of thumbnail images of part of each page to help you find them later. You can email one or more pages as a single PDF file, "Open In" other apps, or, if your device supports it, print. Note Taker HD lets you create pages by writing on the screen with your finger or an iPad/iPhone-compatible stylus. You can either write directly on the page for large drawings, or have the "ink" you write shrunk down. You can write in large letters on the screen rather than trying to make tiny motions like a pencil. You just keep writing and Note Taker HD automatically adds new writing next to the old. To quickly correct mistakes, it has multi-level undo and redo buttons as well as an eraser -- just drag your finger over the page to erase the "ink" under it. You can zoom in and out on a page using the pinch gesture while viewing or editing. The Zoomed Editing window lets you see both a zoomed-out overview and a zoomed-in close-up writing area at the same time. You can use "Open In" in other apps send PDF files to Note Taker HD for annotation. Other features include: - Pages organized into documents and folders - Typed blocks of text with optional borders - 60+ highly customizable shapes - Insert and crop images from Photo Albums, Pasteboard, or the iPad/iPhone camera - Custom backgrounds from images or PDF pages - Free templates and clip art on the support web site - VGA/HDMI/AirPlay support with zoom, pan, and a moveable pointer - Wrist guard to avoid inadvertent touches - Layout variations better suited to some left-handed users - Optional fields in output footers like in a word processor - Extensive built-in help - Smooth and crisp ink on screen and in PDF output - Share editable copies of your documents with others - Backup to a single file for off-iPad/iPhone storage - Password protected folders - Support for the iOS Data Protection API - Support for languages written right-to-left - Full-screen preview mode - Automatic advance and auto-return in zoomed editing - Copy/Cut/Paste between pages, rotate/resize ink Note Taker HD was designed and programmed by Dan Bricklin, the same person who over 40 years ago came up with VisiCalc, the pioneering electronic spreadsheet that made working with numbers on a personal computer so easy. To see it in action, click on the Support link here or go directly to www.notetakerhd.com.

About

PrintHand Mobile Print Premium

Print documents, photos, web pages, and more from your mobile device to a wide range of printers. Supports WiFi, AirPrint, and even remote printing over the internet via a desktop app. Easily share content from any app for seamless printing.

Highlights
  • Print PDFs, photos, documents, web pages, and contacts
  • Share content from any app using the iOS Share menu
  • Print over WiFi to thousands of supported printer models
  • Print via AirPrint
  • Save output as PDF
  • Remote printing over the internet via desktop app
Features
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With PrintHand Mobile Print you can print PDFs, photos, documents, web pages, contacts and more! Easily share content to be printed from any other app using the standard iOS Share menu. Print over WiFi (thousands of printer models supported), AirPrint, save as PDF, and even over the internet via our desktop app. IMPORTANT Prior to purchasing the app we do recommend printing a test page from the free PrintHand Mobile Print app. If your printer is not supported, you can still print by sharing your printer through our desktop app (see instructions in the app). Please visit https://www.printhand.com/install.php to download the PrintHand Remote desktop software. FEATURES Using PrintHand you can print the following content: - PDFs; - Photos and images; - Office documents and keynotes; - Markdown and text files; - Web pages; - Contacts; - Content copied to clipboard (using Paste to Print); - Content shared from other apps using the Action button. You can print via: - Wi-Fi (using a Wi-Fi Direct printer or using a Wi-Fi router as a middleman); - PC or Mac (if your printer is shared using PrintHand Remote desktop client); - AirPrint; - Save as PDF; USING PRINTERS Printing on Nearby wireless printers Most of the Wi-Fi printers are detected automatically. PrintHand can print on such printers directly in case they are supported by the app. As long as your printer is available from a Windows or Mac computer, you can print via the PrintHand desktop app. To use it, please visit https://www.printhand.com/install.php to download the PrintHand desktop app. The mobile app will find printers shared via the PrintHand Remote desktop app automatically (see instructions in the app). However, please note that your printer should be connected to the same Wi-Fi network to which your mobile device is connected. Remote printing via the Internet Also, you can print on printers located anywhere in the world via the Internet. This will require the same PrintHand desktop software installed on the computer at the receiving end, and a PrintHand desktop account registered. Complimentary 100 pages for Remote Printing under the same account. You can read the Terms of Use here: https://printhand.com/terms.php

Screenshots

Note Taker HD4 screens
PrintHand Mobile Print Premium3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Note Taker HD at $4.99 against PrintHand Mobile Print Premium's $19.99. Note Taker HD also leads on review sentiment (84% vs 68%) and ratings volume (141 vs 15). PrintHand Mobile Print Premium's advantage is rating (4.4 vs 4.1) and update cadence (every 4 weeks vs every 4 months). On ads, in-app purchases, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Note Taker HD costs $4.99 and PrintHand Mobile Print Premium $19.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

PrintHand Mobile Print Premium holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 4.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Note Taker HD has 141 ratings behind it against 15, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 84% of Note Taker HD's written reviews are positive against 68% of PrintHand Mobile Print Premium's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Note Taker HD ships an update every 4 months, PrintHand Mobile Print Premium every 4 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 27, 2026 and October 23, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Note Taker HD versus PrintHand Mobile Print Premium: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterNote Taker HDPrintHand Mobile Print Premium
Price$4.99 — better$19.99
Rating4.1 (141 ratings)4.4 (15 ratings) — better
Positive reviews83.7% of reviews — better68.4% of reviews
Number of ratings141 — better15
Update frequencyEvery 4 monthsEvery 4 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size11 MB52 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperSoftware GardenDynamix Software

Customer experience

Note Taker HD

All ratings140 ratings
Positive73.6%
Neutral7.1%
Negative19.3%
Written reviews595 reviews
Positive83.7%
Neutral6.1%
Negative10.3%

PrintHand Mobile Print Premium

All ratings15 ratings
Positive86.7%
Neutral6.7%
Negative6.7%
Written reviews19 reviews
Positive68.4%
Neutral10.5%
Negative21.1%

Bugs and requests

Note Taker HD

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Crashes when exporting PDFs
  • Crashes when adding photos
  • Crashes and loses data
  • Exporting to email not working well

Requested features

9 requests
  • Evernote integration
  • Ability to scroll between pages
  • Ability to underline, bold or italicize typed text
  • Ability to group objects together
  • Voice recording and clip function
Show 4 more
  • Dropbox/iCloud sync and backup
  • Ability to convert handwriting to text
  • Folders and sub-folders for better organization
  • Ability to rotate objects

PrintHand Mobile Print Premium

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Note Taker HD

No in-app purchases

None

PrintHand Mobile Print Premium

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Note Taker HD free?
Note Taker HD costs $4.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is PrintHand Mobile Print Premium free?
PrintHand Mobile Print Premium costs $19.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Note Taker HD or PrintHand Mobile Print Premium?
PrintHand Mobile Print Premium is rated higher. Note Taker HD averages 4.1 out of 5 from 141 ratings, while PrintHand Mobile Print Premium averages 4.4 from 15 ratings.
Do Note Taker HD or PrintHand Mobile Print Premium have ads?
Neither Note Taker HD nor PrintHand Mobile Print Premium shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Note Taker HD or PrintHand Mobile Print Premium?
Note Taker HD ships an update every 4 months, and PrintHand Mobile Print Premium every 4 weeks. Most recently, Note Taker HD was updated on October 27, 2026 and PrintHand Mobile Print Premium on October 23, 2026.

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