BluLines vs Notes and Folders
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
BluLines
Organize your thoughts with a versatile plain text notes app. Attach photos, documents, and voice recordings to your notes. Create smart folders, set reminders, and secure your data with a passcode.
- Note attachments (photos, docs, voice, video)
- Folder organization and groups
- To-do list functionality for folders
- Passcode lock for security
- Customizable themes and fonts
- Smart auto-folders with filters
- Note export to iCloud Drive
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Feature rich plain text notes app with folders organisation: + Note attachments: photos, documents, voice recordings, drawings, video links. + Folder Groups + Turn folder into a to-do list + Passcode lock + Themes + Reminders • Auto Folders: create smarter folders with filters to find your notes quicker with one tap. • Folder name highlighting: make your important folders stand out • Individual folder sort modes • Turn folders into todo lists • Note Locate, finds the first note starting with the first letter or phrase in a folder • Individual note font, choose from all the available iOS fonts. • Text highlighting including Bold, Italics, Underline, Strike text functions • Export a note to iCloud Drive with attachments and rich text format (RTF) with highlighting. • Set note as reminder and go back to the note from the reminder. + Note attachments: photos, documents, voice recordings, drawings, video links. + Folder Groups + Turn folder into a to-do list + Passcode lock + Themes + Reminders
Notes and Folders
Organize your thoughts and memories with this app. Create folders for notes, attach photos, and even keep a dated diary. Secure your entries with password protection and access them easily with widgets and search functionality.
- Organize notes with folders and subfolders
- Attach photos to notes
- Dated diary entries
- Password lock (Passcode, Touch ID, Face ID)
- Widgets for quick access
- Search notes
- Backup to Dropbox, PC, or Mac
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Over 240,000 downloads worldwide! Notes and Folders is a simple notepad that lets you organize notes and photos with folders. You can also lock your notes with a passcode. FOLDERS - Organize your notes with folders - Create folders inside folders NOTES - Attach multiple photos to a note - Character count - Auto-save while editing - Editing buttons: copy & paste, undo, select, and arrow keys - Built-in web browser to add text and screenshots of web pages to your notes DIARY - Write a diary entry for any date - Read a whole month of entries at once OTHERS - Widget - Passcode lock (Face ID and Touch ID supported) - Search notes - Share notes to other apps - Save text and images from other apps (Share Extension) - Theme colors - Adjustable text size - iPad support - Backup with Dropbox - Backup with a computer URL SCHEME notesandfolders:// BACKUP You can back up your notes with Dropbox, or with a computer (Finder on Mac, or the Apple Devices app or iTunes on Windows). For details, see FAQ > "About Backup" in the app's settings. ADS This app shows banner ads, and a full-screen ad only once a day (every 24 hours). Ads are not shown after purchasing ad removal.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Notes and Folders at 80% against BluLines's 22%. Notes and Folders also leads on rating (4.5 vs 3.7). BluLines's advantage is update cadence (every 9 days vs every 3 weeks) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 18.0). On price, ratings volume, 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
Both are free to download. BluLines sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Notes and Folders sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Notes and Folders holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 3.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 315 and 302 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 22% of BluLines's written reviews are positive against 80% of Notes and Folders's.
BluLines ships an update every 9 days, Notes and Folders every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 22, 2026 and October 21, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | BluLines | Notes and Folders |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.7 (315 ratings) | 4.5 (302 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 22.2% of reviews | 80.4% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 315 — better | 302 |
| Update frequency | Every 9 days — better | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 11 MB | 17 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | RIEU Limited | KinkumaDesign |
Customer experience
BluLines
Notes and Folders
Bugs and requests
BluLines
Reported bugs
4 issues- Notes randomly disappearing after updates
- Inability to access or recover lost notes
- Sync issues between devices
- Passcode not working as expected
Requested features
4 requests- Add rich text formatting options
- Improve backup and restore functionality
- Implement better search and filtering
- Allow locking of individual notes
Notes and Folders
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
BluLines
- Remove Ads$14.99
Notes and Folders
- Remove Ads$3.99
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