Comparison

Scribes PRO vs Yesterdays

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

Yesterdays

This app helps you privately record and recall your thoughts, feelings, and important moments. It offers secure on-device storage or iCloud syncing, with options to add photos and audio. Features include reminders, tagging, and a randomized memory retrieval function.

Highlights
  • Private by design storage
  • Automatic iCloud syncing
  • Add photos and audio
  • Face ID/Touch ID protection
  • Randomized memory retrieval
  • Home screen widget
  • Weekly writing reminders
  • Tagging and CSV import/export
Features
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Hi! Yesterdays is a simple, privacy-centric memory tracker. Use it to write down and remember those sayings, thoughts, or feelings you might otherwise forget. - Private by Design: All your data is either stored on device or in a private iCloud container if you've got an Apple ID. - Simple: No bloat. Fast. Just write and remember. - Synced Automatically: No account creation needed. If you're signed in with the same Apple ID on multiple iOS devices, everything will just sync. - Photos & Audio: add them to your memories, or don't! The choice is yours. - Face ID / Touch ID: add some extra protection from prying eyes. - Randomized Nostalgia Trip: At the press of a button, view five random memories from your collection. - Widget: Show a random memory on your home screen, shuffled every so often. - Writing Reminders: get nudged to jot down a memory every week (ish). - Tags: Tag your memories to find them easily later and easily keep track of people, ages, dates, or themes - Import: Bring your previous memories with you via CSV import. Share text, photos, or audio into Yesterdays via the system share sheet. - Export anytime: Take your memories with you in the form of a very compatible .csv file. Individually share memory text, photos, or audio as well. - Premium users can customize the font and app icon. Give it a try and store 10 memories for free. Want to store more? Subscribe to Yesterdays Premium for a low yearly cost. All memories are accessible even if you unsubscribe later on. We take privacy seriously. Really. We don't track anything about you. Check out full information here: https://yesterdays.app/privacy Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Scribes PRO4 screens
Yesterdays4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Yesterdays at 89% against Scribes PRO's 20%. Yesterdays also leads on price (Free vs $2.99) and rating (4.6 vs 2.0). Scribes PRO's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1). On ads, device support 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

Yesterdays is free to download; Scribes PRO costs $2.99 up front. Yesterdays sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $4.99 per year. Scribes PRO asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Yesterdays holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 2.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Yesterdays has 15 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 20% of Scribes PRO's written reviews are positive against 89% of Yesterdays's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Scribes PRO ships an update every 38 months, Yesterdays weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 9, 2026 and October 20, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Scribes PRO versus Yesterdays: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterScribes PROYesterdays
Price$2.99Free — better
Rating2.0 (1 ratings)4.6 (15 ratings) — better
Positive reviews20.0% of reviews88.9% of reviews — better
Number of ratings115 — better
Update frequencyEvery 38 monthsWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaidFreemium — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS18.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size7 MB18 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperGianluca NataliniHere & Co.

Customer experience

Scribes PRO

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

Yesterdays

All ratings13 ratings
Positive92.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative7.7%
Written reviews9 reviews
Positive88.9%
Neutral0.0%
Negative11.1%

In-app purchases

None

Scribes PRO

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Yesterdays

Subscriptions1
  • Premium (Yearly)$4.991 Year

Questions

Is Scribes PRO free?
Scribes PRO costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Yesterdays free?
Yesterdays is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Scribes PRO or Yesterdays?
Yesterdays is rated higher. Scribes PRO averages 2.0 out of 5 from 1 ratings, while Yesterdays averages 4.6 from 15 ratings.
Do Scribes PRO or Yesterdays have ads?
Neither Scribes PRO nor Yesterdays shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Scribes PRO or Yesterdays?
Scribes PRO ships an update every 38 months, and Yesterdays weekly. Most recently, Scribes PRO was updated on October 9, 2026 and Yesterdays on October 20, 2026.

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