BluLines vs Steno paper
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
Steno paper
This app provides a digital notebook for quick and easy handwriting notes. It offers various color pencils, an eraser, and options to create, open, save, and clear your notes.
- Handwriting notes
- Color pencils
- Eraser tool
- New note creation
- Save and open notes
- Clear notes
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A handwriting notes book that make you take notes easily and quickly. Ten kinds of color pencil. Functions: New, Open, Save, Eraser, Clear.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: BluLines at 3.7 against Steno paper's 2.0. BluLines also leads on update cadence (every 9 days vs every 2 months) and ratings volume (316 vs 1). 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
Both are free to download. BluLines sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Steno paper sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
BluLines holds the better App Store score, 3.7 against 2.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: BluLines has 316 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 22% of BluLines's written reviews are positive against 0% of Steno paper's.
BluLines ships an update every 9 days, Steno paper every 2 months. Both last shipped on November 1, 2026.
| Parameter | BluLines | Steno paper |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.7 (316 ratings) — better | 2.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 22.2% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 316 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 9 days — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 14.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 11 MB | 8 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | RIEU Limited | 丽娜 夏 |
Customer experience
BluLines
Steno paper
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
Steno paper
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
BluLines
- Remove Ads$14.99
Steno paper
- You will pay to remove ads.$0.99
