Comparison

Microsoft OneNote vs Q4 Go

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

Q4 Go

This app helps capital markets professionals manage investor relationships and prepare for meetings. It provides instant access to past engagement activities, meeting notes, and contact information, syncing seamlessly with a desktop account. Discover new opportunities with access to a vast database of investment firms and contacts.

Highlights
  • Instant access to past investor engagement activities
  • Log and manage meeting notes and next steps
  • Prioritize investor engagements
  • Automatic sync with desktop account
  • Search global investment firms and contacts
  • 360-degree view of capital markets profile
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Proactively nurture capital markets relationships with ease, put past investor engagement activities always at your fingertips and never be left unprepared for a meeting on the road again with Q4 Go. Q4 Go is the mobile iteration of the Q4 Investor Relations CRM, designed to help IR professionals get the only 360 degree view of their capital markets profile. With Q4 Go, you can: Quickly prep for meetings through instant access to past investor engagement activities Never lose meeting notes by seamlessly logging and managing next steps or questions Effectively prioritize investor engagements through managing and updating contact list Never waste time logging duplicative tasks or activities with automatic sync to your Q4 Desktop account Uncover new opportunities through seamless institution, fund or contact profile search from Q4’s database of 190,000 global investment firm/ funds and 387,000 global investor contacts Please note: A subscription to Q4 Desktop is required to login About Q4 Inc, Q4 Inc. (TSX: QFOR) is a leading capital markets communications platform that is transforming the way publicly traded companies, investors and investment banks make decisions to efficiently discover, communicate and engage with each other. The Q4 end-to-end technology platform facilitates interactions across the capital markets through its IR website products, virtual events solutions, capital markets CRM, shareholder and market analytics tools. The firm is a trusted partner to more than 2,650 public companies globally including many of the most respected brands in the world. Q4 is based in Toronto, with offices in New York and London. Learn more at q4inc.com.

Screenshots

Microsoft OneNote4 screens
Q4 Go4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Microsoft OneNote at 4.7 against Q4 Go's 1.0. Microsoft OneNote also leads on update cadence (weekly vs every 4 months) and ratings volume (1.1M vs 2). Q4 Go's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 3) and iOS requirement (14.0 vs 18.0). On price, ads 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

Both are free to download. Microsoft OneNote sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. Q4 Go asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Microsoft OneNote holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 1.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Microsoft OneNote has 1.1M ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Microsoft OneNote ships an update weekly, Q4 Go every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on October 26, 2026 and October 22, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 4 level
Microsoft OneNote versus Q4 Go: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMicrosoft OneNoteQ4 Go
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (1.1M ratings) — better1.0 (2 ratings)
Positive reviews44.5% of reviews—
Number of ratings1.1M — better2
Update frequencyWeekly — betterEvery 4 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases — betterSubscription
Best chart rank#128 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, Vision Pro — betteriPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS18.014.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size411 MB14 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperMicrosoft CorporationQ4 Web Systems Inc.

Customer experience

Microsoft OneNote

All ratings1,068,859 ratings
Positive93.5%
Neutral2.7%
Negative3.8%
Written reviews2,769 reviews
Positive44.5%
Neutral12.0%
Negative43.5%

Q4 Go

All ratings1 ratings
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

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

Q4 Go

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

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
None

Q4 Go

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Microsoft OneNote free?
Microsoft OneNote is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Q4 Go free?
Q4 Go is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Microsoft OneNote or Q4 Go?
Microsoft OneNote is rated higher. Microsoft OneNote averages 4.7 out of 5 from 1.1M ratings, while Q4 Go averages 1.0 from 2 ratings.
Do Microsoft OneNote or Q4 Go have ads?
Neither Microsoft OneNote nor Q4 Go shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Microsoft OneNote or Q4 Go?
Microsoft OneNote ships an update weekly, and Q4 Go every 4 months. Most recently, Microsoft OneNote was updated on October 26, 2026 and Q4 Go on October 22, 2026.

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