Comparison

Absolute Board Calendar vs QuickNotes X Pro

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

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About

Absolute Board Calendar

This app allows users to plan their day and take notes through drawing and handwriting. It offers unlimited pages for daily entries and organizes them chronologically, providing a unique and convenient way to manage your life.

Highlights
  • Drawing and handwriting daily planning
  • Unlimited pages for notes and ideas
  • Calendar from 1900 to 2043
  • Customizable holidays
  • Solar and lunar date conversion
  • Unlimited board size
  • Email drawing snapshots
Features
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Absolute Board Calendar is the first functional app derived from Absolute Board which is the best quality drawing and handwriting App in AppStore. ## Absolute Board ## * April 2011 - "New & Noteworthy" (Productivity) application on the American App Store * * April 2011 - "What's Hot" (Productivity) application on the American App Store * * April 2011 - "Staff Favorites" (All) application on the Korean App Store * * April 2011 - "No. 1 Free App" (Productivity) application on the Korean App Store * Our new app 'Absolute Board Calendar' is innovating functional app beyond other calendar app. Just keep your everyday life through drawing & handwriting. You can draw & write unlimited quantity of pages in a day. Absolute Board Calendar provide you sorting pages day by day. It's so simple and convenience. Through the high speed and quick response that you're already experiencing in Absolute Board, Now you can create your own genuine diary and idea note organized daily. With Absolute Board Calendar, make your powerful functional calendar which was never existed before. ▶ Drawing &handwriting type daily planning + idea note (Unlimited quantity) ▶ Calendar from 1900 to 2043 with presenting solar & lunar date. ▶ Customized holiday setting ▶ Converting solar - lunar date of special day ▶ Day count ▶ Unlimited board size ▶ Unlimited color choice for pen & background ▶ Path traceable eraser ▶ Ability to email snapshot of your drawing ▶ Zooming in/out & moving with two fingers ▶ Undo/Redo functions ▶ Import a Photo ▶ Print Snapshot (Air Print)

About

QuickNotes X Pro

Organize your thoughts with a versatile note-taking app. Create and manage notebooks with custom templates, import and annotate PDFs, and leverage professional tools for precise writing and drawing. Secure private notebooks with password or biometric locks.

Highlights
  • Organize notes into notebooks and folders
  • Import and annotate PDF documents
  • Accurate drawing engine with professional tools
  • Multimedia note creation with drag & drop
  • Password and biometric protection for notebooks
  • Export notes as PNG or PDF
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- ORGANIZE YOUR NOTES - Create notebooks to organize your notes. Choose between a selection of paper templates and covers, and choose between vertical or horizontal layout to fit your note-taking needs. You can also rearrange your notebooks and create folders for them for maximum flexibility. - IMPORT & EDIT YOUR PDFs - With QuickNotes X you can import your PDF documents inside an existing notebook or in a new one, and you can edit them using all the tools QuickNotes X offers. Markup, annotate, highlight, insert images and text and more. You can also export these pages as a new PDF to share you edits. - ACCURATE NOTE-TAKING - QuickNotes X has a new accurate drawing engine that never loses detail, even after zooming or moving around the page. It also has the tools necessary to take perfect professional notes, all in one place. - DRAG & DROP SUPPORT - With QuickNotes X, you can easily create multi-media notes: use an image as a background, or import images from your library or from the web with an in-app tool or by using drag & drop from another window. In addition, these images are always resizable and movable, so that you can edit them whenever you want - PROFESSIONAL TOOLS - To create perfect notes, you need the right tools. This is why QuickNotes X has everything you need, from Pen and Highlighter to the Eraser, so that no mistakes are irreversible. Select the perfect line width and opacity to further customize your style, and choose the color you need from a hand-picked selection or by using the new HSV picker. You can even import a color from an image using the unique RealityPicker! - LOCK YOUR PRIVATE NOTEBOOKS - Want to restrict access to a specific notebook? Just set up a password when you create it or long press on its cover to lock it. And when you need to add some pages to it, just enter the password again or use Touch ID or Face ID to unlock it. - TYPE INSTEAD OF WRITING - With the new Text Tool you can add Text Boxes to your notes to type instead of writing. Want a different text style? Choose the font, size and color you like, underline or set to bold important things: now typing and writing notes is easier with QuickNotes X. - EXPORT TO EDIT ON OTHER DEVICES - You can export individual notes or entire notebooks as a QuickNotes X Document, which can be imported on another device to continue editing your notes. If you export your notebooks they will retain all properties, such as background and aspect ratio, so that if you reimport them they will look exactly as you expect. - SEAMLESS SHARING - Export your note as a PNG image or PDF, with the option to export the whole notebook in a single PDF document. Then, open it in your favorite app or share it with Mail, all with a few taps. - USE YOUR STYLUS - Have a Bluetooth stylus? No problem! QuickNotes X support a variety of styluses, from the Apple Pencil (1st & 2nd Generation)* to Adonit Jot, so that you can take notes while resting your palm on the screen, just like on paper. - OPTIMIZED FOR iOS 13 & 14 - With iOS 13 and 14, QuickNotes X is better than ever! A new, more modern look and support for Dark Mode makes taking notes with QuickNotes X a new experience. - BUT THERE IS MORE! - ⊱ Quickly change page by double-tapping on the edge of the screen ⊱ See all your notebook pages at a glance while taking notes with the new "Notes List" feature ⊱ Create a new page while writing with the dedicated button or by double-tapping on the edge of the screen ⊱ Unlimited undo-redo while writing (before leaving the page) ⊱ Clear your page with a single tap ⊱ Change your notebook template while writing thanks to the dedicated button ⊱ Rapidly delete notes and notebooks with just a long press ⊱ Option to reset all content (Notebooks and Notes) and preferences ⊱ Lightweight: all the features of a professional drawing app with less than 20MB of space ⊱ Localized in English, Italian and French. QuickNotes X Pro: note-taking, made easy. *Only on selected iPad models

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QuickNotes X Pro4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: QuickNotes X Pro at 4.6 against Absolute Board Calendar's 3.6. QuickNotes X Pro also leads on update cadence (monthly vs every 2 months) and ratings volume (38 vs 8). Absolute Board Calendar's advantage is price ($2.99 vs $5.99) and review sentiment (74% vs 63%). On ads, in-app purchases and iOS requirement 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

Absolute Board Calendar costs $2.99 and QuickNotes X Pro $5.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

QuickNotes X Pro holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 3.6. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 8 and 38 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 74% of Absolute Board Calendar's written reviews are positive against 63% of QuickNotes X Pro's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Absolute Board Calendar ships an update every 2 months, QuickNotes X Pro monthly. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 11, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Absolute Board Calendar versus QuickNotes X Pro: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAbsolute Board CalendarQuickNotes X Pro
Price$2.99 — better$5.99
Rating3.6 (8 ratings)4.6 (38 ratings) — better
Positive reviews74.1% of reviews — better62.5% of reviews
Number of ratings838 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsMonthly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree — betterPaid
DevicesiPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS12.011.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size8 MB39 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperHyeoseong HwangAlessandro Sassi

Customer experience

Absolute Board Calendar

All ratings8 ratings
Positive62.5%
Neutral0.0%
Negative37.5%
Written reviews54 reviews
Positive74.1%
Neutral16.7%
Negative9.3%

QuickNotes X Pro

All ratings38 ratings
Positive89.5%
Neutral5.3%
Negative5.3%
Written reviews8 reviews
Positive62.5%
Neutral12.5%
Negative25.0%

In-app purchases

None

Absolute Board Calendar

No in-app purchases

None

QuickNotes X Pro

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Absolute Board Calendar free?
Absolute Board Calendar costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is QuickNotes X Pro free?
QuickNotes X Pro costs $5.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Absolute Board Calendar or QuickNotes X Pro?
QuickNotes X Pro is rated higher. Absolute Board Calendar averages 3.6 out of 5 from 8 ratings, while QuickNotes X Pro averages 4.6 from 38 ratings.
Do Absolute Board Calendar or QuickNotes X Pro have ads?
Neither Absolute Board Calendar nor QuickNotes X Pro shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Absolute Board Calendar or QuickNotes X Pro?
Absolute Board Calendar ships an update every 2 months, and QuickNotes X Pro monthly. Most recently, Absolute Board Calendar was updated on November 1, 2026 and QuickNotes X Pro on November 11, 2026.

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