Scribes PRO vs Time Records
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Scribes PRO
This app offers a versatile digital notebook for handwritten notes, freehand drawing, and text editing. It supports audio recording, image import, and technical drawing tools with grid options. Securely archive your notebooks and print them wirelessly.
- Handwritten note-taking with customizable pens
- Freehand drawing with grid and technical tools
- Integrated text editor with font and angle options
- High-quality stereo audio recording
- Image import and annotation
- Secure, password-protected archive
- Wireless printing support
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Do you need a notebook with lines or squares with endless pages where you can take your freehand notes in the same way and with the same speed as when you use the pen? Need a few sheets of white paper for freehand drawing and then enter the text written with the keyboard and being able to choose font, color, size and angle of the text? Do you want to photograph transparencies of a presentation in real time and add notes or highlight parts? Do you need to record audio while taking notes of lectures on the book with an infinite number of pages? Need a secure archive (password protected) to save countless notebooks? Want to listen a recorded university lecture and add or correct the notes taken during the lesson? In your notes you have to add computer-aided technical drawings by exporting them ex. from FingerCAD and writing notes on the CAD design or using CAD technical drawing tools like lines, rectangles, circles with the drawing grid option activated? Need to print the pages of your notebook when You come back to home (using the new technology of wireless printing "AirPrint" or PDF)? Do you think that writing with a pen is faster than writing with the keyboard? "Scribes" is the right application for You! Write mode: - Writing handwritten text (the same way as you use a pen/highlighter on a notebook, with the stroke, the color, the transparency “ALPHA” that you want - dotted lines with ALPHA = 0) - Writing text using the integrated text editor of Scribes (you can use different fonts, different angles, different sizes and colors on the same page or on different pages of the notebook) Drawing mode: - Draw free-hand using many colors/transparency and the brush size you want (both on notebook lines/squares and on white sheets) - Enable or disable the drawing grid: enable the grid together with the line, circle, rectangle drawing tools (with optional color fill) for simple technical drawings (disable the grid to write some freehand notes on the technical drawings or use the text editor of Scribes to insert for example measurements) - Filter for wrist touch Multimedia Support: - Record high quality stereo audio with 32Bit 44Khz, infinite recording time (on .caf file) in the background (while recording, you can take notes on notebook) - Import images in the pages of the notebook in real-time, taken by camera and stored in the photo albums of the device (you can import many images, for each page of the book, on which you can write notes) - Listen the audio recordings with the built-in player of Scribes - Photo camera support (acquire the photo camera's images directly from Scribes software) Navigation: - Fast book pages change - Animated zoom pinching the screen with two fingers - Animated pan dragging two fingers on the screen - Reset pan and zoom settings: full zoom out pinching the screen with two fingers or by pressing and holding down two fingers on the screen Management of books stored in the "Scribes Archive": - Archive of notebooks (you can save / copy an infinite number of notebooks in the archive) - Add books (file sharing, copy) - Sharing books with other apps - Rename notebooks - Delete notebooks - Duplicate notebooks Sharing books and audio files recorded with: - Dropbox (remote storage systems, cloud) - Apple FILE - AirDrop - Open In - iTunes File Sharing - email - tapeRecorder app Print: - AirPrint - PDF App type: - UNIVERSAL APP (you pay only once and runs on all your devices) * www.ngcybit.it Scribes PRO Quick Users Guide is available at URL: http://www.ngcybit.it/iTunesApp/scribes/scribes-pro-quick-users-guide.html *
Time Records
This app helps you identify and utilize free time for personal activities. It tracks how you spend your day, visualize your time commitments, and offers a beautiful, comfortable design for managing your schedule.
- Identify and utilize free time
- Track daily time spent
- Visualize time commitments
- Connects with Apple Calendar
- Timer and stopwatch recording
- Beautiful and comfortable design
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Make time in your busy life for the things that make you happy :) ■ It is especially recommended for the following people ■ - People who have things they want to do, but often spend the day being lazy and feeling bad about it. - People who want to find some free time in their busy lives to spend MeTime. - People who want to know how they spend their time in their daily lives. - People who want to visualize the amount of time they put in. ■An application that allows you to manage and record your daily time■ - Connects with Apple calendar app to find free time in the day. - The schedule in the calendar app is directly used to record time. - Decide the end of the time at the beginning and concentrate on the timer. - Stopwatch recording is also possible. - Beautiful and comfortable design No more trying to keep a journal, no more taking time at night to look back and remember what you've done! ■Let's make a record of the time we spend in our days.■ - A graph showing the amount of time I spent each day studying, spending time with my family, work,etc. - You can see the time spent per calendar and the number of active days per period. ■Premium features■ - No limit to the number of calendars you can track. - No limit on the duration of calendar data.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Time Records at Free against Scribes PRO's $2.99. Time Records also leads on review sentiment (50% vs 20%) and update cadence (every 2 days vs every 38 months). Scribes PRO's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 3) and iOS requirement (18.0 vs 26.0). On ads 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
Time Records is free to download; Scribes PRO costs $2.99 up front. Time Records sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.49 per month. Scribes PRO asks for nothing beyond the download.
Scribes PRO ships an update every 38 months, Time Records every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 9, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Scribes PRO | Time Records |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $2.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 2.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 20.0% of reviews | 50.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 38 months | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | Freemium — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 7 MB | 15 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Gianluca Natalini | Gaku Sakai |
Customer experience
Scribes PRO
Time Records
In-app purchases
Scribes PRO
No in-app purchases
Time Records
- Premium Monthly Plan$2.491 Month
- Premium Yearly14 Days trial$18.991 Year
- MeTime2 LifeTime Plan$3.99









