BluLines vs Justnote
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
Justnote
This privacy-focused note-taking app uses Web3 technology for end-to-end encryption, ensuring only you can access your notes. It offers a rich text editor and syncs across all your devices. An optional subscription unlocks advanced features and supports the developer.
- End-to-end encryption
- Cross-device sync
- Rich text editor
- Web3 technology integration
- Account and data control
- Optional subscription for extra features
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Your privacy-focused note-taking app. Justnote helps you take notes easily anytime on any device. Powered by Stacks technology, all your saved notes are encrypted, and only you can decrypt them and see the content inside. Justnote is a simple note-taking app, yet powerful enough. Our WYSIWYG-rich text editor has features like bold, underline, font color, and background color. You can take notes easily and quickly. Justnote is your quick note-taking app for your to-do lists, reminders, shopping lists, memos, thoughts, etc. Justnote is ubiquitous. You can use Justnote on any of your devices. All your notes are synced across your devices automatically. Powered by Web3 technology from Stacks: • Your account is cryptographically generated; only you, with your Secret Key, can control it. Your account cannot be locked, banned, or deleted by anyone, as your Secret Key is required to access and modify your account. • Everything is encrypted; only you, with your Secret Key, can see the content inside. No one can see the content inside your data, so it cannot be used to create targeted ads. If your data is stolen, no information is leaked. • Your data lives in a data server of your choice; only you, with your Secret Key, can change it. You can manage your data and set permissions directly, as you can host your own data server or choose any data server provider. Bring back control of your account and data one note at a time with Justnote, powered by Web3 technology from Stacks, to ensure your privacy cannot be compromised. Not only that, Justnote doesn't be evil; Justnote can't be. Justnote offers one simple no-tricks subscription plan to support us and unlock all extra features: - Tags - Lock lists & notes - More font sizes - Dark appearance - Custom date format - Section by month - Pin to the top It's our intention to never show advertisements, and we don't rent, sell, or share your information with other companies. Our optional paid subscription is the only way we make money. Please support us and unlock all extra features. Terms of Service: https://justnote.cc/#terms Privacy Policy: https://justnote.cc/#privacy Support: https://justnote.cc/#support
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Justnote at none against BluLines's shown. Justnote also leads on review sentiment (50% vs 22%). BluLines's advantage is ratings volume (315 vs 5) and rating (3.7 vs 3.4). On price, in-app purchases, monetization model 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
Both are free to download. BluLines sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Justnote sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $4.99 per year. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
BluLines holds the better App Store score, 3.7 against 3.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: BluLines has 315 ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 22% of BluLines's written reviews are positive against 50% of Justnote's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
BluLines ships an update every 9 days, Justnote monthly. The most recent releases landed on September 22, 2026 and June 1, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | BluLines | Justnote |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.7 (315 ratings) — better | 3.4 (5 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 22.2% of reviews | 50.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 315 — better | 5 |
| Update frequency | Every 9 days — better | Monthly |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 15.5 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 11 MB | 50 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | RIEU Limited | STX APPS COMPANY LIMITED |
Customer experience
BluLines
Justnote
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
Justnote
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
BluLines
- Remove Ads$14.99
Justnote
- Supporter14 Days trial$4.991 Year
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