Comparison

Microsoft OneNote vs Note To Self Mail

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

Head to head
About

Microsoft OneNote

Capture thoughts, ideas, and plans in a digital notepad. Organize, search, and secure your notes, memos, and sketches. Sync across devices for access anywhere, anytime. Collaborate with others on shared notepads.

Highlights
  • Capture thoughts and ideas
  • Digital sketchbook
  • Organize and search notes
  • Sync notes via OneDrive
  • Collaborate on shared notepads
  • Handwritten notes and drawings
Features
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Supercharge your productivity with OneNote. Organize thoughts and ideas, and simplify planning important moments with your digital note-taking. Smart notes on your phone can sync across all your devices with Microsoft OneNote. Combine the power of digital ink with the natural feel of a pen to help you sketch out your inspirations. Take smart notes and capture every detail with voice transcription. Our writing tools make it easy to capture your notes, review your content later, and access AI studying. Take smart notes, share writing ideas, organize note-taking, and collaborate on your creative ideas and writing - all with Microsoft OneNote. ONENOTE APP FEATURES: AI-POWERED COPILOT NOTEBOOKS • Make sense of your files with AI chat • Summarize meetings, classes, and discussions easily from your notes • Listen to audio overviews, created directly from the notes you take AI NOTE-TAKING WITH HOMEPAGE AND QUICK CAPTURE • Streamlined writing: Find notes from your connected accounts in one place to easily create, find, & act on your notes. Now with Samsung Notes integration. • AI workflows with Copilot: Capture text, voice, ink or images to your notepad with Quick Capture • Smart notes: Capture smart notes in ink. Click the pen button & write down thoughts • Write smart notes, draw & clip things from the web to add to your writing notebook SCAN PICTURES & EXTRACT TEXT FROM WRITING • Note-Taking Scanner: Scan documents, pictures, or files to extract writing • Capture images to extract text from documents & more • Apply different filters to change colors, add ink, crop images & more SMART NOTES & AUDIO TRANSCRIPTION • Voice smart notes: Take accurate notes with voice dictation • Click the Mic button to record, then click it again to end recording & save the file • Dictate smart notes in 27 languages (note some languages are in preview) & use Auto-Punctutation to format NOTE-TAKING THAT HELPS YOU ACHIEVE MORE • Organize writing using to-do lists, follow-up items, marks for what’s important & custom labels • Use OneNote as a notebook, journal or a notepad for work or AI studying • Notepad badge hovers on screen & lets you quickly write your thoughts down any time • NEW Sticky notes - Make quick memos & note-taking COLLABORATE WRITING & SHARE SMART NOTES • Write meeting notes, brainstorm projects, & draw attention to important points • Take notes & save ideas across your favorite devices, no matter what device your team likes to use BETTER TOGETHER WITH MICROSOFT OFFICE • OneNote is part of the Office family & works great with your favorite apps, such as Excel or Word, to help you do more Write notes, save ideas & keep up with your to-do list with Microsoft OneNote. APP REQUIREMENTS: OneNote is free on iPhone and many other devices. Get started today! Download OneNote and sign in with your Microsoft Account or the account assigned to you by your work or school. Monthly Microsoft 365 subscriptions purchased from the app will be charged to your App Store account and will automatically renew within 24 hours prior to the end of the current subscription period unless auto-renewal is disabled beforehand. You can manage your subscriptions in your App Store account settings. This app is provided by either Microsoft or a third-party app publisher and is subject to a separate privacy statement and terms and conditions. Data provided through the use of this store and this app may be accessible to Microsoft or the third-party app publisher, as applicable, and transferred to, stored, and processed in the United States or any other country where Microsoft or the app publisher and their affiliates or service providers maintain facilities. Please refer to the Microsoft Software License Terms for Microsoft 365. See “License Agreement” link under Information. By installing the app, you agree to these terms and conditions.

About

Note To Self Mail

Quickly capture your thoughts and send them directly to your inbox. This app integrates with popular to-do list applications, streamlining your workflow by sending notes via email. It offers basic note-taking with advanced features available in the pro version.

Highlights
  • Send notes directly to inbox
  • Integrates with Trello, Evernote, etc.
  • Attach photos (pro)
  • Create sketches (pro)
  • Attach audio notes (pro)
  • Scan documents (pro)
Features
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"Note To Self Mail" is the fastest app for your notes. You can send your notes directly into your inbox, fast and without much effort and detours. "Note To Self Mail" was designed to support mail import for your favorite todo apps like Trello, Evernote, Wunderlist, Any.do, Todoist and many more. The app is not intended to manage your notes, but it offers everything you expect from a note app: - Writing notes - Attaching photos or files (pro version) - Creating sketches (pro version) - Attach audio notes (pro version) - Scan documents (Pro-Version) To make things easier and more flexible: you can use different e-mail addresses as recipients and connect to your own e-mail account for sending. Suggestions or feedback? support@note2selfmail.app Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Microsoft OneNote4 screens
Note To Self Mail3 screens

Verdict

The call

Microsoft OneNote and Note To Self Mail both sit at 4.7 stars, but that hides the real split: 90% of Note To Self Mail's written reviews are positive against 45% of Microsoft OneNote's. Note To Self Mail also leads on iOS requirement (12.0 vs 18.0). Microsoft OneNote's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs every 6 weeks) and ratings volume (1.1M vs 374). On price, rating, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Microsoft OneNote sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month and Note To Self Mail sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per year. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.7 for Microsoft OneNote against 4.8 for Note To Self Mail. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Microsoft OneNote has 1.1M ratings behind it against 374, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 45% of Microsoft OneNote's written reviews are positive against 90% of Note To Self Mail's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Microsoft OneNote ships an update weekly, Note To Self Mail every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 25, 2026 and September 20, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 6 level
Microsoft OneNote versus Note To Self Mail: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMicrosoft OneNoteNote To Self Mail
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (1.1M ratings)4.8 (374 ratings) — better
Positive reviews44.8% of reviews90.2% of reviews — better
Number of ratings1.1M — better374
Update frequencyWeekly — betterEvery 6 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
Best chart rank#71 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, Vision Pro — betteriPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS18.012.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size404 MB85 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMicrosoft CorporationMathias Lipowski

Customer experience

Microsoft OneNote

All ratings1,064,189 ratings
Positive93.5%
Neutral2.7%
Negative3.7%
Written reviews2,678 reviews
Positive44.8%
Neutral12.1%
Negative43.1%

Note To Self Mail

All ratings374 ratings
Positive96.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative3.7%
Written reviews122 reviews
Positive90.2%
Neutral1.6%
Negative8.2%

User reviews

Microsoft OneNote

From 1.1M App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Simple, works well
  • 👍 Great for planning
  • 👍 Powerful note-taking app
  • 👍 Invaluable tool for note taking
  • 👍 Used for years, couldn't be without this app

Room to improve

  • 🔨 Could be better
  • 🔨 Formatting issues on mobile app
  • 🔨 Buggy widget, no dark app icon
  • 🐛 Glitchy, crashes often
  • 🐛 Terrible sync speeds

Note To Self Mail

From 374 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Extremely fast and quick to use
  • 👍 Simple and intuitive interface
  • ⚙️ Highly customizable settings and options
  • 🔒 Secure SMTP-based email delivery
  • 📧 Seamless email integration with multiple accounts

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Google OAuth authentication issues
  • 🔐 Requires SMTP server configuration (technical barrier)
  • ⚠️ Occasional reliability issues after extended use
  • 📱 Limited Apple Watch support
  • 🌐 Browser sharing functionality sometimes fails

Bugs and requests

Microsoft OneNote

Reported bugs

9 issues
  • Cursor positioning is erratic
  • Search function does not work well
  • Ink to text conversion missing on iPad
  • Syncing issues, notes not syncing properly across devices
  • Crashing, freezing, and performance issues
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  • Scrolling issues, page jumping to top unexpectedly
  • Eraser tool deletes more than intended
  • Formatting issues when importing/exporting
  • Inconsistent behavior between desktop and mobile versions

Requested features

11 requests
  • Native Markdown support and merged cell support
  • Ruler, ability to choose or create notebook covers
  • Ability to password protect app or individual notebooks
  • Option to open on last opened page instead of Home
  • Ability to turn note into task that appears on To Do and Planner
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  • Search for tags, more Evernote-like search features
  • Ability to select text using 3D Touch
  • Option to limit page to A4 size with framing
  • Pencil feature like Notes app for drawing
  • Ability to delete notebooks
  • Ability to delete notes from Apple devices

Note To Self Mail

Reported bugs

7 issues
  • Google OAuth doesn't work properly
  • Messages stuck in outbox with Google authentication
  • App stops working after several weeks of use
  • Safari share extension crashes or fails silently
  • Browser sharing shows grey rectangle and fails
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  • Music playback stops when sending notes
  • Exchange server incompatibility

Requested features

8 requests
  • Scheduled/delayed send functionality
  • Apple Watch native app
  • Document scanning with PDF export
  • YouTube title preservation in sharing
  • iOS 26 UI updates
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  • Improved browser extension performance
  • Pop-up interface option instead of full screen
  • Better Exchange server support

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Microsoft OneNote

Subscriptions3
  • Microsoft 365 Personal1 Month trial$9.991 Month
  • Microsoft 365 Personal$11.991 Month
  • Microsoft 365 Family$12.991 Month
3 purchases

Note To Self Mail

Subscriptions1
  • Buy me a coffee$4.991 Year
One-time2
  • Pro Version$4.99
  • Buy me a coffee$4.99

Questions

Is Microsoft OneNote free?
Microsoft OneNote is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Note To Self Mail free?
Note To Self Mail is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Microsoft OneNote or Note To Self Mail?
Note To Self Mail is rated higher. Microsoft OneNote averages 4.7 out of 5 from 1.1M ratings, while Note To Self Mail averages 4.8 from 374 ratings.
Do Microsoft OneNote or Note To Self Mail have ads?
Neither Microsoft OneNote nor Note To Self Mail shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Microsoft OneNote or Note To Self Mail?
Microsoft OneNote ships an update weekly, and Note To Self Mail every 6 weeks. Most recently, Microsoft OneNote was updated on September 25, 2026 and Note To Self Mail on September 20, 2026.

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