Comparison

BluLines vs NOTE'd

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

NOTE'd

This app provides a simple and beautiful way to create and organize notes. It allows users to attach photos, voice memos, and map locations to their entries, and offers various design styles for notepads. Notes can be categorized, bookmarked, and protected with a password.

Highlights
  • Customizable notepad designs
  • Attach photos, maps, and voice memos
  • Categorize and bookmark notes
  • Password protection for notes
  • Dropbox backup and restore
  • Lock screen notes
Features
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Simple, Easy and Beautiful! Now, make your own handy and well-favored notepad with NOTE'd NOTE'd sort notepads for use you want and save every minute of you whenever. The idea flashed into your head, the beautiful scenery before your eyes, the music ringing in your ears and here at your feet. Do note'd the everything. * Try NOTE'd like this - Write brief memo, diary - Wishlist when go supermarket - travel notes for the memory of your trip - Voice memo when can't type - Both location of famous restaurants and pictures of delicious foods, guidebook for famous restaurants - Photo album with pictures and stories * NOTE'd provides many useful features. - Notepad design of various style - Attach photo, map and voice memo - Make notepads into categories - Easy and handy bookmark - Unity view for every memos, bookmarked memos - Labeling for the lastest memo - Watch, Listen now memos and attachments - Support proverb, famous saying (Please make a blank memo) - Notes for Lock Screen - Sharing to Twitter, Facebook - Send E-mail and Text Message - Password protection (start-up screen and for each notepad) - Backup/Restore with Dropbox - Sort Notepads with Drag&Drop Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy policy: http://suxxexx.net/noted/privacy.html

Screenshots

BluLines4 screens
NOTE'd4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: BluLines at 3.7 against NOTE'd's 3.3. BluLines also leads on update cadence (every 9 days vs every 6 weeks). NOTE'd's advantage is review sentiment (43% vs 22%) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.0). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. BluLines sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and NOTE'd 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

BluLines holds the better App Store score, 3.7 against 3.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 315 and 354 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 22% of BluLines's written reviews are positive against 43% of NOTE'd'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, NOTE'd every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 22, 2026 and September 28, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
BluLines versus NOTE'd: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBluLinesNOTE'd
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.7 (315 ratings) — better3.3 (354 ratings)
Positive reviews22.2% of reviews43.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings315354 — better
Update frequencyEvery 9 days — betterEvery 6 weeks
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS15.012.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size11 MB59 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperRIEU LimitedDong Wook Kim

Customer experience

BluLines

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

NOTE'd

All ratings354 ratings
Positive51.7%
Neutral12.7%
Negative35.6%
Written reviews293 reviews
Positive43.0%
Neutral18.4%
Negative38.6%

User reviews

BluLines

From 315 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Great app for organizing notes
  • 📁 Useful folder and subfolder structure
  • 💻 Syncs well across devices
  • 🎨 Customizable themes and fonts

Room to improve

  • 🔍 Difficult to search for specific notes
  • 🔒 Password protection issues
  • 🐛 Frequent crashes and data loss
  • 💰 Expensive paid features
  • 📢 Intrusive and unskippable ads

NOTE'd

From 354 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Organized note-taking
  • 🔒 Password protection
  • 📸 Ability to attach photos
  • 🎨 Customizable notebook designs

Room to improve

  • 💰 Premium features require subscription
  • 🗑️ Inability to delete or rename notebooks
  • 🔍 Lack of search functionality
  • 🔀 Notes not sortable within notebooks
  • 🐛 App crashes and data loss issues

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

NOTE'd

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • App crashes when trying to open notes
  • Backup and restore functionality not working
  • Inconsistent behavior when editing notes

Requested features

5 requests
  • Ability to customize notebook covers
  • Landscape mode support
  • Syncing across devices
  • More text formatting options
  • Sorting and searching notes

In-app purchases

1 purchases

BluLines

One-time1
  • Remove Ads$14.99
2 purchases

NOTE'd

Subscriptions2
  • Premium Monthly14 Days trial$1.991 Month
  • Pro Yearly1 Month trial$19.991 Year

Questions

Is BluLines free?
BluLines is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is NOTE'd free?
NOTE'd is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, BluLines or NOTE'd?
BluLines is rated higher. BluLines averages 3.7 out of 5 from 315 ratings, while NOTE'd averages 3.3 from 354 ratings.
Do BluLines or NOTE'd have ads?
Both BluLines and NOTE'd show ads.
Which is updated more often, BluLines or NOTE'd?
BluLines ships an update every 9 days, and NOTE'd every 6 weeks. Most recently, BluLines was updated on September 22, 2026 and NOTE'd on September 28, 2026.

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