Comparison

Scribes PRO vs Telic

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

Telic

This all-in-one productivity app simplifies your life by integrating tasks, habits, reminders, AI, calendars, and Gantt charts. Your data is stored privately on your Google Drive, ensuring security and accessibility.

Highlights
  • Tasks management
  • Habit tracking
  • Reminders
  • AI integration
  • Calendar
  • Gantt charts
  • Private data storage on Google Drive
Features
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Telic - Productivity made simple. That's the slogan, but what does it really mean? It means you're getting Tasks, Habits, Reminders, AI, Calendar, Gantt charts, Profile Statistics & more in a single app. But there's more! Because Telic stores your data on your Google Drive, it isn't sent to any data centers and remains private! Pricing Telic is now 100% free. As a fellow human and hater of subscriptions, I believe powerful productivity tools should be accessible to everyone. There are no paywalls, no subscriptions, and no hidden fees. The entire app is yours to use forever. Terms & Conditions - https://telic.dev/tos Privacy Policy - https://telic.dev/privacy-policy

Screenshots

Scribes PRO4 screens
Telic4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Telic at 100% against Scribes PRO's 20%. Telic also leads on price (Free vs $2.99) and rating (4.7 vs 2.0). On ads and in-app purchases 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

Telic 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

Telic holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 2.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 3 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 20% of Scribes PRO's written reviews are positive against 100% of Telic's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

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

Scorecard8 real differences · 2 level
Scribes PRO versus Telic: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterScribes PROTelic
Price$2.99Free — better
Rating2.0 (1 ratings)4.7 (3 ratings) — better
Positive reviews20.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings13 — better
Update frequencyEvery 38 monthsFortnightly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better
Requires iOS18.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size7 MB76 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperGianluca NataliniPetr Bina

Customer experience

Scribes PRO

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

Telic

All ratings3 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

Telic

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Scribes PRO free?
Scribes PRO costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Telic free?
Telic is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Scribes PRO or Telic?
Telic is rated higher. Scribes PRO averages 2.0 out of 5 from 1 ratings, while Telic averages 4.7 from 3 ratings.
Do Scribes PRO or Telic have ads?
Neither Scribes PRO nor Telic shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Scribes PRO or Telic?
Scribes PRO ships an update every 38 months, and Telic fortnightly. Most recently, Scribes PRO was updated on September 7, 2026 and Telic on September 14, 2026.

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