NOTE'd vs Note Box (Minimalistic Notes)
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
NOTE'd
This app provides a simple and beautiful way to create and organize notes. It allows users to attach photos, voice memos, and map locations to their entries, and offers various design styles for notepads. Notes can be categorized, bookmarked, and protected with a password.
- Customizable notepad designs
- Attach photos, maps, and voice memos
- Categorize and bookmark notes
- Password protection for notes
- Dropbox backup and restore
- Lock screen notes
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Simple, Easy and Beautiful! Now, make your own handy and well-favored notepad with NOTE'd NOTE'd sort notepads for use you want and save every minute of you whenever. The idea flashed into your head, the beautiful scenery before your eyes, the music ringing in your ears and here at your feet. Do note'd the everything. * Try NOTE'd like this - Write brief memo, diary - Wishlist when go supermarket - travel notes for the memory of your trip - Voice memo when can't type - Both location of famous restaurants and pictures of delicious foods, guidebook for famous restaurants - Photo album with pictures and stories * NOTE'd provides many useful features. - Notepad design of various style - Attach photo, map and voice memo - Make notepads into categories - Easy and handy bookmark - Unity view for every memos, bookmarked memos - Labeling for the lastest memo - Watch, Listen now memos and attachments - Support proverb, famous saying (Please make a blank memo) - Notes for Lock Screen - Sharing to Twitter, Facebook - Send E-mail and Text Message - Password protection (start-up screen and for each notepad) - Backup/Restore with Dropbox - Sort Notepads with Drag&Drop Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy policy: http://suxxexx.net/noted/privacy.html
Note Box (Minimalistic Notes)
A minimalist note-taking app with a sticky-note interface for quick organization. Use color-coding to categorize information and simple markdown editing for content. Ideal for keeping important tasks and ideas visible and accessible.
- Sticky-note interface
- Color-coded organization
- Simple markdown editing
- iCloud Syncing
- iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch support
- Lock screen to-do list
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Welcome to Note Box, the quick and simple way to take your notes. The sticky-note style interface is easy to understand and puts what's important right in front of your eyes. The colors let you quickly organize your information without overdoing it. NoteBox keeps it simple so you can stay focused. This app has been used to: - Write books. The color coding of notes allowed a user to mark whether or not his chapters have been completed! - Keep track of what is important to users - Put a to do list as the background of your lock screen. This feature makes your to-do list super accessible while keeping your lock screen looking gorgeous! Features: - Simple markdown editing - Beautiful, easy to use interface - iCloud Syncing - iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch support. - Supports iOS 11 and iOS 10.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Note Box (Minimalistic Notes) at none against NOTE'd's shown. Note Box (Minimalistic Notes) also leads on device support (4 vs 2). NOTE'd's advantage is ratings volume (354 vs 30) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 14.0). On price, rating, review sentiment and update cadence 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. NOTE'd sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month and Note Box (Minimalistic Notes) sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 3.3 for NOTE'd against 3.2 for Note Box (Minimalistic Notes). That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: NOTE'd has 354 ratings behind it against 30, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 43% of NOTE'd's written reviews are positive against 49% of Note Box (Minimalistic Notes)'s.
NOTE'd ships an update every 6 weeks, Note Box (Minimalistic Notes) every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 6, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | NOTE'd | Note Box (Minimalistic Notes) |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.3 (354 ratings) — better | 3.2 (30 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 43.0% of reviews | 48.8% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 354 — better | 30 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks — better | Every 3 months |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 14.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 59 MB | 16 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Dong Wook Kim | Mumick Mobile LLC |
Customer experience
NOTE'd
Note Box (Minimalistic Notes)
User reviews
NOTE'd
From 354 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Organized note-taking
- 🔒 Password protection
- 📸 Ability to attach photos
- 🎨 Customizable notebook designs
Room to improve
- 💰 Premium features require subscription
- 🗑️ Inability to delete or rename notebooks
- 🔍 Lack of search functionality
- 🔀 Notes not sortable within notebooks
- 🐛 App crashes and data loss issues
Note Box (Minimalistic Notes)
From 30 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Simple and minimalistic design
- 🎨 Attractive and aesthetic interface
- ✅ Does what it's meant to do
- 🚀 Fast and easy to use
- 💡 Great for jotting quick notes
Room to improve
- 🐛 Data loss and deletion issues
- 🐛 Notes disappearing or getting deleted
- 🐛 Duplication of notes
- 🐛 Overwriting of notes
- 🐛 App crashing or not opening
Bugs and requests
NOTE'd
Reported bugs
3 issues- App crashes when trying to open notes
- Backup and restore functionality not working
- Inconsistent behavior when editing notes
Requested features
5 requests- Ability to customize notebook covers
- Landscape mode support
- Syncing across devices
- More text formatting options
- Sorting and searching notes
Note Box (Minimalistic Notes)
Reported bugs
36 issues- Duplicates most recent note and overwrites second most recent
- Occasionally lose an entry or creates a second version
- Unable to open notes after an update
- Notes disappear after reaching a certain number
- Deletes information on its own
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- Changes information from the way it was set up
- Grocery list makes a double copy and erases another note
- All four notes become the same, original notes are gone
- Notes erase or display in double
- Notes disappear after saving or 2 seconds after
- Apparent complete disappearance of created notes
- Deletes and duplicates notes
- Spontaneously deletes notes
- Copies and spams one note multiple times, overwriting others
- App stopped saving new notes
- Changes disappear after closing and reopening the app
- Background color changes with phone orientation
- Deleted notes reappear
- Slow on iPad Air 2 after update
- Cannot open last notes after update
- Need iPhone present to read synced notes on Apple Watch
- Disappears when closing the app
- Cannot read or edit notes in landscape view
- Glitch enlarges notes to fit only one at a time
- Not syncing with Watch OS 3
- Syncing to iWatch appears slow or requires reboot
- Program doesn't work with iPhone off or out of range
- No iCloud safety back-up
- Lost all notes in a phone update despite prior backup
- Doesn't sync well with iWatch
- Changes to notes don't appear on watch without reinstalling watch app
- Works only in landscape on iPads
- Cannot delete a note
- Cannot mark a note as priority
- Constantly crashes when trying to delete notes
- Cannot see typed content when it exceeds one page
Requested features
15 requests- Folders for organization
- Undo functionality
- Home screen widget
- Notification widget
- Option to leave notes unsorted
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- Scroll bars or automatic stretching for blocks
- More color options
- Ability to manage multiple topics
- Ability to scroll lengthy notes
- Tutorial or help menu
- Portrait mode on iPad
- Sync directly with laptops
- Add to notes using dictation on iWatch
- Force touch to refresh watch app notes list
- Sorting by Title/Date/Color
In-app purchases
NOTE'd
- Premium Monthly14 Days trial$1.991 Month
- Pro Yearly1 Month trial$19.991 Year
Note Box (Minimalistic Notes)
- Notebox Premium$0.99
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