Paper vs Bütton View
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Paper
This app offers an immersive sketching experience with intuitive tools and gesture-based controls. Easily create collages, paintings, and drawings without distracting menus. Organize your creations into journals and sync them across devices.
- Intuitive sketching tools
- Gesture-based controls
- Photo collage creation
- Layer-free editing
- Journal organization
- Cross-device syncing
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Over 30 million people set their ideas free with Paper®, the award-winning immersive sketching app. SKETCH WITH CONFIDENCE Paper’s perfectly-tuned tools make it easy to sketch, collage, paint, draw—wherever your thoughts take you. Wave goodbye to distracting menus and let natural gestures guide you, keeping you in your creative flow. GET CREATIVE (WITHOUT THE MESS) Add multiple photos to a single page and cut, stick, move, and fix without the fuss of complex layers. From mood boards to storyboards, pull in inspiration from anywhere and get your ideas moving. YOUR IDEAS, YOUR WAY Wherever and however you get your ideas, it’s never been easier to put them on Paper. Organize pages into beautiful journals and sync them across your devices, ready to pick up where you left off. CREATE LIKE A PRO Take creativity to the next level and subscribe to Paper Pro for more tools, features, and journals. Subscription is optional and you can cancel anytime. To upgrade, simply visit the Paper Pro section in your Settings menu. * Payment will be charged to your iTunes Account once you confirm the purchase. * Your subscription will automatically renew at the end of your subscription period. To opt out, you must turn off auto-renew at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. * Manage changes to your subscription in the iTunes Account Settings. * Any unused portion of a free trial will be forfeited when you purchase a Paper Pro subscription. Love Paper? Leave us a review! Thanks to your comments, reviews, and tweets we can continue to evolve Paper with you in mind. Questions? Shoot us an email at support@wetransfer.com. Terms of Service: https://paper.bywetransfer.com/terms Privacy Policy: https://paper.bywetransfer.com/privacy Patents: https://paper.bywetransfer.com/legal/patents
Bütton View
Preview and showcase your magazine designs with this companion app for a design system. Create professional layouts without coding and share them easily with clients.
- Preview magazine designs
- Showcase designs to clients
- Companion app for BüttonPublish
- Design without coding
- Easy client sharing
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Welcome to the editorial of tomorrow! BüttonView is the app that goes along with BüttonPublish system. You can use it to preview your designs or show them to your clients. Download the plugin and start designing your magazines without coding today.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is monetization model: Bütton View at free against Paper's free with in-app purchases. Bütton View also leads on review sentiment (68% vs 44%). Paper's advantage is ratings volume (72K vs 5). On price, rating, update cadence 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
Both are free to download. Paper sells 13 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per 7 days and Bütton View sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.6 for Paper against 4.6 for Bütton View. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Paper has 72K ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 44% of Paper's written reviews are positive against 68% of Bütton View's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 19, 2026 and October 11, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Paper | Bütton View |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (72K ratings) | 4.6 (5 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 43.8% of reviews | 68.4% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 72K — better | 5 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 168 MB | 11 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Evernote Corporation | Beta Software |
Customer experience
Paper
Bütton View
Bugs and requests
Paper
Reported bugs
5 issues- Pages disappearing or getting corrupted
- Unreliable cloud sync and data loss
- Erratic scrolling and navigation issues
- Inconsistent behavior of drawing tools
- Compatibility problems with Apple Pencil
Requested features
6 requests- Add text editing and formatting options
- Improve palm rejection and precision
- Implement layers and advanced compositing
- Allow more customization of journal pages
- Bring back popular features from older versions
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- Provide a one-time purchase option
Bütton View
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Paper
- Paper Pro$4.997 Days
- Paper Pro7 Days trial$4.997 Days
- Paper Pro$7.996 Months
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- Paper Pro$9.997 Days
- Paper Pro7 Days trial$9.997 Days
- Paper Pro$11.991 Year
- Paper Pro$69.991 Year
- Paper Pro7 Days trial$69.991 Year
- Paper Pro$99.991 Year
- Paper Pro7 Days trial$99.991 Year
- Paper Credit$1.99
- Paper Credit Bundle$7.99
- Paper Credit Bundle$12.99
Bütton View
- Purchase issue Amuletto$0.99
- Purchase issue Harf$0.99
