Comparison

Beesy vs ZoomNotes Lite

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

Head to head
About

Beesy

This AI-powered app helps teams boost productivity by consolidating data from various tools. It streamlines meeting notes, task management, project tracking, and team collaboration, saving users time and preventing information loss.

Highlights
  • AI-powered smart assistant
  • Meeting notes and minutes
  • Task and to-do list management
  • Project and activity tracking
  • Team collaboration and management
  • Automated reporting
  • Integration with Microsoft tools
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Beesy is an all-in-one collaborative solution, AI powered, to help teams improve their daily productivity. Beesy consolidates all your data from all your usual tools to plan, organise, collaborate and track your work and teamwork in one single place "This application is perfect for managers, project managers and salespeople. " - Mac4ever "Beesy, the smart organization on iPad. " - Macworld.com "The application that makes meetings effective and participants smile. " - Locita "The essential application you need to have in your tablet! " - iPhonote "Beesy is a real tool in the quest for operational excellence. "F. Bidarra, Construction Manager, Eiffage Construction. "With Beesy, my sales people earn 1 appointment a day. "E. Goncalves, Customer Experience Manager, Renault Switzerland MEETING MANAGEMENT – TASK MANAGEMENT – ACTIVITY & PROJECT MANAGEMENT – TEAMWORK – PEOPLE MANAGEMENT – ACTIVITY REPORTING SAVE ONE DAY PER WEEK TO FOCUS ON THE ESSENTIAL & INCREASE YOUR TEAMWORK Every day Beesy helps you to: 1) manage your To-Do List and your projects 2) take your meeting notes for Effective meeting 3) follow-up of your Team member’ action plans 4) manage your goals and projects 5) follow-up of your important emails to avoid getting lost in the information overload 6) Drive your recurring meetings and their action plan progress 7) Professional and automated meeting minutes in less than 1 min 8) Complete reporting on all your activity to visualize your activity in a glance 9) Supercharge your Microsoft Tools with our Microsoft integration 10) 100% reusable information: sorted, stored, shared and synchronized between all members of your team > you save time and you no longer lose any information In option you can use Beesy AI powered Smart assistant available from all your daily tools (instant messaging: Microsoft Teams, Skype, Slack; emails: Gmail, Outlook or even Siri) . Exchange with your Beesy smart assistant in natural language to : • Create notes and actions • Delegate tasks • Create projects • Access and manage your information without having to connect to your Beesy app, directly from emails, instant messaging (Microsoft Teams, Skype, Slack...) and even in mobility with Siri • Generate automated MOM and automated reports on all your activity: action plan synthesis, individual point, project synthesis... Beesy is designed for anyone who manages a large number of actions every day and needs to manage their follow-up: sales teams, technical teams, managers, project managers... Join the 60 000+ users who save time every day with Beesy. In addition, Beesy adds a number of features to help you be more efficient at taking notes and managing your To-Do: - Add audio recordings and bullets to your notes - Add photos to your notes from your library or by taking a photo - Summary of actions - Choice of report language by Note - Additional on-demand To-Do filtering in each view - Dual-Touch Drag&Drop to easily change the context of a task: for contacts, meetings, topics and projects - CSV export for external analysis - Drawing function, access to a web page or plans + Possibility to draw and write on your captures of web pages or plans - Access your iCal calendar, Outlook in Beesy and possibility to create a note associated with a meeting. Beesy will identify participants and link your notes to your calendar - Importing contacts from the iPad address book - Pincode protection - Compatibility with hardware keyboards If you like the application, don't forget to recommend it! In case of problems, contact us using our website under support (we have no way to contact you via your comments on the AppStore).

About

ZoomNotes Lite

This app allows for handwritten notes and sketches on various digital documents, including PDFs and Office files. It offers unlimited zooming, customizable paper styles, and extensive sharing options. Additional features and pen types are available through in-app purchases.

Highlights
  • Unlimited zoom and panning
  • Handwritten notes and sketches
  • Markup PDFs and Office documents
  • Customizable paper sizes and styles
  • Extensive document sharing options
  • Digital planning with calendar integration
Features
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ZoomNotes Lite is an iPad/iPhone visual note-taking app. It lets you quickly make handwritten notes and sketches on virtual paper, on PDF files, on MS Word, Excel and Powerpoint docs (via GoogleDrive), and over images. Uniquely, it also lets you zoom in and out without arbitrary limits, an invaluable feature for this type of app. It has a free fully functioning pen (although you will be able to try the pens too), and more available as in-app purchases. It has unlimited paper sizes/styles, unlimited colours and line thicknesses, and a large range of ways to share its documents making ZoomNotes the most versatile handwriting/drawing app. ZoomNotes Desktop for Mac now also available. ZoomNotes is much more than a replacement for your trusted paper notebook! Compatible with any capacitive stylus pen (although fingers work well too). Here some reviews of the app store of the full version- The best note taking app available! ***** by MarkNance – Version 7.1.4 – Jul 6, 2016 Don’t be put off by all its features! ***** by Stevearcher – Version 7.1.3 – May 24, 2016 Most complete Note app I’ve tried ***** by ItsDartstx – Version 7.1.3 – Apr 20, 2016 Most effective note taking app ***** by John25642 – Version 7.1.3 – Jul 7, 2016 Full featured and innovative ***** by music-major – Version 7.1.3 – May 15, 2016 Hands(writing)-down, best notepad replacement out there. ***** by Jed123zz – Version 7.1.3 – Mar 23, 2016 Free features include: -1 Pen type - Felt tip. -Huge Zoom Range and Whiteboard page style -Rotatable views -Split screen mode (edit 2 documents at once) -Digital planning with links, which can also show events and reminders from the Calendar and Reminder apps -Write over PDF file -Write over MS Word, Powerpoint and Excel files (via GoogleDrive) -Calendar events/reminders :add events linked to your documents, possibly with alarms. The URL in the event links back to the document in ZoomNotes. -Typed text- limited to a single font, fills and borders -Regular shapes and arrows -Symbol library -Select, scale, rotate and shift -Cut, copy, paste (including between documents, pages and other apps) -Write over pdf files (markup) -Configurable paper types -Intuitive folder interface for documents -Sharing as PDF files, images, videos or ZoomNotes documents (via email, iTunes, clipboard, Dropbox, Twitter and Evernote) -In app printing -VGA compatible for use with projectors, monitors and AirPlay -Universal app - iPhone and iPad -iCloud support -Geo-located documents; documents can be optionally geo-located and viewed as pins on a map. -Layers let you control what is visible on a page, also options for 'master layers' which show on all pages. In app purchases features include: -7 extra Pen types, including Italic, Gel, Nib, Pencil and Watercolour. -Sub-pages (pages within pages within...) -Typed text- fully configurable fonts, colours, fills and borders -Unlimited colours and line styles -Bookmarks with animated playback -Insert images from camera or photo library -Insert web pages -Insert videos from camera or photo library -Edit inserted images, including masking and cropping -Record and playback sounds, including import and export of caf files - Handwriting recognition (14 different languages). Please note that the full version of ZoomNotes is equivalent to the Lite version with all the in-app purchases. There are lots more details including some videos of the app in action at www.zoom-notes.com Please remember to leave us a review. If you wish, you can send us feedback directly, we reply to every email sent to support@zoom-notes.com. If you experience any problems or bugs in the app, please email us your device information, which iOS version you are running to support@zoom-notes.com and we will fix it asap. Twitter - @zoomnotes

Screenshots

ZoomNotes Lite4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: ZoomNotes Lite at every 3 weeks against Beesy's every 6 weeks. ZoomNotes Lite also leads on device support (3 vs 1) and ratings volume (214 vs 64). Beesy's advantage is iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.6). On price, rating, review sentiment and ads 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

Both are free to download. Beesy sells 5 one-off in-app purchases and ZoomNotes Lite sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.2 for Beesy against 4.2 for ZoomNotes Lite. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 64 and 214 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 67% of Beesy's written reviews are positive against 72% of ZoomNotes Lite's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Beesy ships an update every 6 weeks, ZoomNotes Lite every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and October 17, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Beesy versus ZoomNotes Lite: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBeesyZoomNotes Lite
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.2 (64 ratings)4.2 (214 ratings)
Positive reviews66.7% of reviews72.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings64214 — better
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeksEvery 3 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS12.0 — better15.6
Further details — not scored
Size73 MB151 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperBeesAppsDeliverance Software Ltd

Customer experience

Beesy

All ratings64 ratings
Positive79.7%
Neutral7.8%
Negative12.5%
Written reviews183 reviews
Positive66.7%
Neutral6.6%
Negative26.8%

ZoomNotes Lite

All ratings214 ratings
Positive77.6%
Neutral9.8%
Negative12.6%
Written reviews329 reviews
Positive72.0%
Neutral8.5%
Negative19.5%

User reviews

Beesy

From 64 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Efficient meeting management
  • 👍 Useful for project tracking
  • 👍 Integrates with calendar
  • 👍 Generates professional meeting minutes
  • 👍 Responsive support team

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Crashes and bugs
  • 🤔 Steep learning curve
  • 🤔 Confusing interface
  • 🤔 Limited customization options
  • 🤔 Lack of cloud sync and cross-device support

ZoomNotes Lite

From 214 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Versatile and feature-rich
  • 👍 Smooth handwriting experience
  • 💡 Powerful customization options
  • 🚀 Seamless PDF annotation
  • 👍 Reliable syncing and backup

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Occasional crashes and glitches
  • 👎 Confusing and outdated user interface
  • 🐛 Inconsistent pen and eraser behavior
  • 👎 Limited free version functionality

Bugs and requests

Beesy

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Frequent crashes and freezes
  • Inconsistent behavior across iOS versions
  • Issues with reminders and task syncing
  • Problems with importing contacts

Requested features

5 requests
  • Sync with Outlook, Google Calendar, and other services
  • Handwriting and voice note support
  • Ability to copy/reuse meeting templates
  • Better project and task management features
  • Export to PDF option

ZoomNotes Lite

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Syncing issues leading to document conflicts
  • Random lines and dots appearing on the page
  • Disappearing handwritten notes after saving
  • Inability to unlock paid features after purchase

Requested features

4 requests
  • Improved text editing and formatting
  • Easier organization with better folder management
  • More tutorials and documentation
  • Ability to recover accidentally deleted notes

In-app purchases

5 purchases

Beesy

One-time5
  • Reminders full synchronization$1.99
  • Import Documents$1.99
  • Export Reports to PDF$1.99
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  • Beesy.me Pro - Yearly Subscription$69.99
  • Beesy.me Sync - Yearly Subscription$69.99
10 purchases

ZoomNotes Lite

One-time10
  • Highlighter pen$0.99
  • Text$0.99
  • Images$0.99
Show 7 more
  • Bookmarks$0.99
  • Sounds$0.99
  • Sub-documents$0.99
  • Tables$0.99
  • Workspaces$1.99
  • All Pens$2.99
  • All features$7.99

Questions

Is Beesy free?
Beesy is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is ZoomNotes Lite free?
ZoomNotes Lite is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Beesy or ZoomNotes Lite?
Beesy and ZoomNotes Lite are both rated 4.2 out of 5 on the App Store, from 64 and 214 ratings respectively.
Do Beesy or ZoomNotes Lite have ads?
Neither Beesy nor ZoomNotes Lite shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Beesy or ZoomNotes Lite?
Beesy ships an update every 6 weeks, and ZoomNotes Lite every 3 weeks. Most recently, Beesy was updated on October 15, 2026 and ZoomNotes Lite on October 17, 2026.

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