Comparison

BluLines vs Take Rich Notes

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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

About

Take Rich Notes

Create rich notes by combining text, photos, sketches, and audio. Organize them into notebooks, set reminders, and add locations with directions. Work offline and sync seamlessly across devices.

Highlights
  • Combine text, photos, images, sketches, and audio
  • Create tables, to-do lists, and highlighted text
  • Organize notes into notebooks
  • Set reminders and locations with directions
  • Offline work and iCloud synchronization
  • Multiple templates for note creation
Features
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Do you need to integrate text, photos, images, sketches or audio? Would you like to create documents with style containing tables, to-do lists or highlighted text? Then Take Rich Notes can help you. ORGANIZE YOUR NOTES Create notes with ease choosing from multiple templates. Combine multiple sources of information – text, photos, images, sketches or audio. Create your own style – use tables, to-do lists or highlighted text. Be more organized – group notes concerning given topic into one notebook. Schedule REMINDER for note – to review or just to have a look on it. SET LOCATION for note – search location by name or address, or just swipe the map to the desired location. GET DIRECTIONS to that location. WORK OFFLINE You can still create, edit and delete notes when you do not have an Internet connection. Take Rich Notes will cache your changes and sync back to your iCloud account next time you are online. SYNCS SEAMLESSLY BETWEEN YOUR IPHONE, IPAD AND IPOD Take Rich Notes keeps your data in sync between your iPhone, iPad and iPod devices through iCloud. FREE & PREMIUM Take Rich Notes is provided free of charge for the basic functionalities. More features are included in the Premium plan available through monthly and yearly auto-renewable subscription. The Premium plan includes as follows: – Unlimited number of notes; – All predefined and custom templates; – All editing options, such as using tables; – Search in notes; – Ads free; – All predefined and custom notebooks; – All predefined and custom intervals to use for reminders; – Unlimited number of location’s directions; – All predefined and custom periods, including unlimited, for data history duration. Auto-Renewable Subscription payment will be charged to your iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase. Unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current period, your account will be charged for renewal within 24 hours prior to the end of the current period. Your account will be charged at the cost of the subscription plan you have chosen. You can cancel the auto-renew subscription at any time from the account settings on iTunes, but we are unable to issue refunds for any pay periods that have already been billed. Privacy policy: www.zigoros.com/privacy-policy Terms of use: www.zigoros.com/terms-and-conditions

Screenshots

BluLines4 screens
Take Rich Notes4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Take Rich Notes at 4.1 against BluLines's 3.7. Take Rich Notes also leads on iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.0). BluLines's advantage is update cadence (every 9 days vs every 7 months) and review sentiment (22% vs 0%). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. BluLines sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Take Rich Notes sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Take Rich Notes holds the better App Store score, 4.1 against 3.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: BluLines has 315 ratings behind it against 8, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 22% of BluLines's written reviews are positive against 0% of Take Rich Notes's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

BluLines ships an update every 9 days, Take Rich Notes every 7 months. The most recent releases landed on September 22, 2026 and July 30, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
BluLines versus Take Rich Notes: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBluLinesTake Rich Notes
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.7 (315 ratings)4.1 (8 ratings) — better
Positive reviews22.2% of reviews — better0.0% of reviews
Number of ratings315 — better8
Update frequencyEvery 9 days — betterEvery 7 months
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.013.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size11 MB22 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperRIEU LimitedZigoros EOOD

Customer experience

BluLines

All ratings315 ratings
Positive66.7%
Neutral7.0%
Negative26.3%
Written reviews297 reviews
Positive22.2%
Neutral10.1%
Negative67.7%

Take Rich Notes

All ratings8 ratings
Positive75.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative25.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

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

Take Rich Notes

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

1 purchases

BluLines

One-time1
  • Remove Ads$14.99
2 purchases

Take Rich Notes

Subscriptions2
  • Premium 1 Month7 Days trial$1.991 Month
  • Premium 1 Year1 Month trial$19.991 Year

Questions

Is BluLines free?
BluLines is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Take Rich Notes free?
Take Rich Notes is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, BluLines or Take Rich Notes?
Take Rich Notes is rated higher. BluLines averages 3.7 out of 5 from 315 ratings, while Take Rich Notes averages 4.1 from 8 ratings.
Do BluLines or Take Rich Notes have ads?
Both BluLines and Take Rich Notes show ads.
Which is updated more often, BluLines or Take Rich Notes?
BluLines ships an update every 9 days, and Take Rich Notes every 7 months. Most recently, BluLines was updated on September 22, 2026 and Take Rich Notes on July 30, 2026.

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