Comparison

Scribes PRO vs Organizly

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

Organizly

Manage tasks, projects, and notes efficiently. Organize your work by grouping tasks into projects and pin important notes for quick access. Supports iCloud sync and dark mode for a seamless experience.

Highlights
  • Task management
  • Project organization
  • Note-taking
  • iCloud sync
  • Dark mode
Features
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Everything has a place. Organizly is a simple personal organizer for tasks, projects, and notes. Use it as a task manager, a to-do list, a home for notes, or all three. Capture it. Put it somewhere. Move on. Add a task before you forget it. Keep related things together in projects. Save notes you want to find again. Add due dates and reminders when they are useful, or leave them out when they are not. From a quick grocery list to an ongoing personal project, everything stays easy to add and easy to find. ○ Made for Everyday Life Organizly gives work tasks, trips, ideas, wishlists, packing lists, personal projects, and everyday responsibilities a clear place to live. Put something in Organizly, then stop holding it in your head. ○ Simple by Design • Create unlimited tasks, projects, and notes • Start from ready-made lists for packing, groceries, or moving • Add due dates and reminders • Find what you need with search, in the app or from Spotlight • Keep everything in sync with iCloud • Use Quick Add from the Lock Screen, Control Center, or Action Button • Save text, links, and text files from any app with the share sheet • Bring your lists over from the Reminders app • Undo accidental changes ○ On Apple Watch See what's next, check off tasks, and add tasks and notes by dictation, right from your wrist. You can also start a new task or note from Control Center on your watch. ○ On iPad A sidebar keeps every place one tap away, and tasks and notes open beside your list, so the next one is always in view. ○ More with Organizly+ Organizly+ adds more ways to automate and personalize your experience, with recurring tasks, Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets, Apple Watch complications, Siri and Shortcuts, custom project colors, and project templates. Choose a monthly or yearly subscription. The core Organizly experience remains free. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. A subscription renews automatically unless it is cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel your subscription in your Apple Account settings. Terms of Use: https://organizly.org/terms Privacy Policy: https://organizly.org/privacy Get it out of your head. Put it in its place.

Screenshots

Scribes PRO4 screens
Organizly4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Organizly at 100% against Scribes PRO's 20%. Organizly also leads on price (Free vs $2.99) and rating (4.5 vs 2.0). On ratings volume, ads, in-app purchases and iOS requirement 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

Organizly is free to download; Scribes PRO costs $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Organizly holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 2.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 2 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 20% of Scribes PRO's written reviews are positive against 100% of Organizly's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Scribes PRO ships an update every 38 months, Organizly every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on October 9, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Scribes PRO versus Organizly: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterScribes PROOrganizly
Price$2.99Free — better
Rating2.0 (1 ratings)4.5 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews20.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings12 — better
Update frequencyEvery 38 monthsEvery 10 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS18.018.0
Further details — not scored
Size7 MB21 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperGianluca NataliniYeajean Cho

Customer experience

Scribes PRO

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

Organizly

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Scribes PRO

No in-app purchases

None

Organizly

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Scribes PRO free?
Scribes PRO costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Organizly free?
Organizly is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Scribes PRO or Organizly?
Organizly is rated higher. Scribes PRO averages 2.0 out of 5 from 1 ratings, while Organizly averages 4.5 from 2 ratings.
Do Scribes PRO or Organizly have ads?
Neither Scribes PRO nor Organizly shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Scribes PRO or Organizly?
Scribes PRO ships an update every 38 months, and Organizly every 10 days. Most recently, Scribes PRO was updated on October 9, 2026 and Organizly on October 25, 2026.

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