Comparison

@Mirror vs Colored Note

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

Head to head
About

@Mirror

This app transforms your device into a handy mirror, perfect for quick touch-ups, styling, or checking details. It offers digital zoom, image freezing, and a night mode for use in low light. You can also capture, edit, and share your photos.

Highlights
  • Front camera mirror
  • Digital zoom (1x to 8x)
  • Image freezing
  • Night Mode
  • Photo capture and editing
  • Social media sharing
  • Video tips
Features
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Be always ready and breath-taking with the help of your iPhone and iPad! With its front camera you will always have a pocket mirror at hand and even the possibility to take a closer look on any small detail with the digital zoom included in @Mirror. The @Mirror will help you in your everyday life providing a great tool for putting make-up on, styling your hair or just for taking a sly look at yourself from time to time, even in the dark thanks to the Night Mode. Its digital zoom has an impressive detail and you can also freeze the image increasing its resolution. In addition, you can also capture, save and publish images of yourself with a single touch. Just check it out, you will love it and it’s free! @Mirror includes: - An easy to use mirror using the front camera of your iPhone and iPad. - The highest level of image quality. - A variable zoom from 1x to 8x. - The option to freeze the image to capture a detail. - A very useful Night Mode to use the @Mirror in the complete darkness (Pro Version). - Image captures can be sent to the Camera Roll, sent by email and published to Twitter, Facebook and Sina Weibo with a single touch. - A sliding bar and pinching control for the zoom. - Plenty of videos with tips on how to improve your look. - The possibility to easily draw over your photos and edit them. - Integration with @Drive to store your photos and drawings, you can also use @Drive to view your stored pictures and drawings as a gallery. - Rotatable interface to adapt to all situations. - A shaking control to reset the status of the App or to go back to the main screen. - A design thought to memorize and adapt to your preferences. - The possibility to upgrade to a Pro, ad free version of the App with an In-App Purchase. - It is available in various languages, including: English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Japanese, Chinese and Catalan. Contact: mobile@evolutive.co Website: https://evolutive.co/

About

Colored Note

Capture your thoughts, ideas, and experiences with a versatile diary and notepad. Add photos, color-code entries, and organize with tags for easy retrieval. Share your notes with friends or keep them private with passcode protection.

Highlights
  • Add photos to notes
  • Color-code notes for organization
  • Assign tags for searching
  • Sort notes as desired
  • Share notes with friends
  • Secure notes with a passcode
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Color Note is a diary and notepad just for everyone! Record interesting thoughts, inspires ideas, inspirational quotes, recent experience, write notes about life, share your thoughts and mood with your friends. Or just write memos. PHOTOS You can add some images to your note. COLORS You can mark your note with a color. The color can be used for searching. TAGS You can assign one or more tags to a note. The tags can be used for searching. ORGANIZE Sort your note as you want. SHARE YOUR NOTE WITH YOUR FRIENDS Send it to your friends or publish in social networks! SAFETY You can restrict access to your notes with a passcode. AND You can delete a note by swiping it to the left.

Screenshots

@Mirror4 screens
Colored Note3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Colored Note at none against @Mirror's 1. Colored Note also leads on update cadence (weekly vs every 2 months). @Mirror's advantage is review sentiment (64% vs 53%) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 18.0). On price, rating, ratings volume and ads 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. @Mirror sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Colored Note asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.6 for @Mirror against 4.7 for Colored Note. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 8.2K and 5K respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 64% of @Mirror's written reviews are positive against 53% of Colored Note's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

@Mirror ships an update every 2 months, Colored Note weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 1, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
@Mirror versus Colored Note: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
Parameter@MirrorColored Note
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (8.2K ratings)4.7 (5K ratings) — better
Positive reviews63.8% of reviews — better53.4% of reviews
Number of ratings8.2K — better5K
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS11.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size110 MB32 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperEvolutive Apps S.L.Veniamin Gribkov

Customer experience

@Mirror

All ratings8,178 ratings
Positive90.6%
Neutral5.2%
Negative4.2%
Written reviews930 reviews
Positive63.8%
Neutral10.3%
Negative25.9%

Colored Note

All ratings5,004 ratings
Positive92.7%
Neutral3.0%
Negative4.3%
Written reviews440 reviews
Positive53.4%
Neutral10.5%
Negative36.1%

User reviews

@Mirror

From 8.2K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Great mirror app
  • 🚀 Convenient and easy to use
  • 💡 Useful for quick checks before meetings/events
  • 👍 Clear and reliable reflection
  • 👍 Handy to have on the go

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Occasional crashes or bugs
  • 🔋 Drains battery life
  • 📢 Too many ads/upgrade prompts
  • 🔍 Low image quality/resolution

Colored Note

From 5K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Easy to use
  • 🎨 Variety of colors and fonts
  • 📝 Helpful for note-taking
  • 🌟 Great app overall

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Occasional crashes or data loss
  • 🔍 Difficulty finding or organizing notes
  • 🔒 Lack of security features (e.g., password protection)
  • 🔧 Issues with recent updates

Bugs and requests

@Mirror

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Upgrade not working as expected
  • App freezes or closes unexpectedly
  • Compatibility issues with newer iOS versions

Requested features

4 requests
  • Improve image quality and clarity
  • Add night/low-light mode
  • Allow deleting/managing saved photos
  • Reduce ads and upgrade prompts

Colored Note

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Notes disappearing or not saving properly
  • Cursor jumping or text selection issues
  • Glitches with recent app updates

Requested features

4 requests
  • Add checklist/to-do list functionality
  • Improve note sorting and search options
  • Implement password protection or biometric security
  • Provide more font and customization options

In-app purchases

1 purchases

@Mirror

One-time1
  • @Mirror Pro version$3.99
None

Colored Note

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is @Mirror free?
@Mirror is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Colored Note free?
Colored Note is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, @Mirror or Colored Note?
Colored Note is rated higher. @Mirror averages 4.6 out of 5 from 8.2K ratings, while Colored Note averages 4.7 from 5K ratings.
Do @Mirror or Colored Note have ads?
Neither @Mirror nor Colored Note shows ads.
Which is updated more often, @Mirror or Colored Note?
@Mirror ships an update every 2 months, and Colored Note weekly. Most recently, @Mirror was updated on November 3, 2026 and Colored Note on November 1, 2026.

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