Comparison

Scribes PRO vs Nautilus Remote

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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 *

About

Nautilus Remote

Control your Korg Nautilus synthesizer remotely using MIDI SysEx commands. Enhance studio or live setups with touchscreen haptics and a helpful second screen for editing, though it doesn't replace the original interface.

Highlights
  • Remote MIDI SysEx control
  • Korg Nautilus workstation support
  • Studio and live use
  • Touchscreen haptics
  • Second screen for editing
  • Covers relevant control pages
Features
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The Nautilus Remote offers remote control via MIDI (SysEx) of the Korg Nautilus workstation. Use it as a complementary control in studio or live situations where the original screen is not in reach, not visible enough or simply does not provide the haptics of an iPad touchscreen. The app covers a set of relevant pages to support you in a range of situations and serves as a helpful second screen even when it comes to in-depth editing, however it does not replace the Nautilus interface.

Screenshots

Scribes PRO4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Scribes PRO at $2.99 against Nautilus Remote's $21.99. Nautilus Remote's advantage is rating (3.3 vs 2.0) and review sentiment (50% vs 20%). On ads, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Scribes PRO costs $2.99 and Nautilus Remote $21.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Nautilus Remote holds the better App Store score, 3.3 against 2.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 4 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 20% of Scribes PRO's written reviews are positive against 50% of Nautilus Remote's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Scribes PRO ships an update every 38 months, Nautilus Remote weekly. The most recent releases landed on September 7, 2026 and September 14, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Scribes PRO versus Nautilus Remote: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterScribes PRONautilus Remote
Price$2.99 — better$21.99
Rating2.0 (1 ratings)3.3 (4 ratings) — better
Positive reviews20.0% of reviews50.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings14 — better
Update frequencyEvery 38 monthsWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPad
Requires iOS18.012.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size7 MB101 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperGianluca NataliniDaniel Luscher

Customer experience

Scribes PRO

All ratings1 ratings
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%
Written reviews5 reviews
Positive20.0%
Neutral20.0%
Negative60.0%

Nautilus Remote

All ratings4 ratings
Positive50.0%
Neutral25.0%
Negative25.0%
Written reviews8 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral37.5%
Negative12.5%

In-app purchases

None

Scribes PRO

No in-app purchases

None

Nautilus Remote

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Scribes PRO free?
Scribes PRO costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Nautilus Remote free?
Nautilus Remote costs $21.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Scribes PRO or Nautilus Remote?
Nautilus Remote is rated higher. Scribes PRO averages 2.0 out of 5 from 1 ratings, while Nautilus Remote averages 3.3 from 4 ratings.
Do Scribes PRO or Nautilus Remote have ads?
Neither Scribes PRO nor Nautilus Remote shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Scribes PRO or Nautilus Remote?
Scribes PRO ships an update every 38 months, and Nautilus Remote weekly. Most recently, Scribes PRO was updated on September 7, 2026 and Nautilus Remote on September 14, 2026.

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