Inkflow Visual Notebook vs Miary
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Inkflow Visual Notebook
This app offers a fluid digital writing and sketching experience, allowing users to easily capture, resize, and reorganize ideas. It supports high-resolution zooming for detailed work and integrates text, photos, and custom paper backgrounds. Users can share their creations in various formats.
- Fluid digital ink for writing and sketching
- Resize and reorganize content with touch gestures
- High-resolution zoom for precision detail
- Insert text, photos, and custom paper backgrounds
- Export to PDF, JPEG, and PNG
- Inkport for scanning real-world notes
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Inkflow is a note-taking and brainstorming experience unlike any other! Capture your ideas as easily as with pen and paper, then resize and reorganize them with your fingers. DIGITAL WRITING DONE RIGHT Inkflow's ink feels like a really smooth fountain pen. Great for expressive writing or sketching. Effortlessly scale or move anything you select. This will change the way you think about ink: Jot down a list of concepts then rearrange them to fit into the bigger picture. literally move your thoughts around the page, and assemble big ideas with your fingers. This works great for brainstorming and planning. It's also perfect for prototyping layouts, sketching, and drawing. FULL RESOLUTION ZOOM Zoom and pan with two fingers. Inkflow's ink stays sharp no matter how much you zoom in, so you can add fine details at full quality. It's also lightning fast and lag free. This allows writing and drawing with incredible precision, with or without a stylus. TEXT, PHOTOS, and PAPER BACKGROUNDS TOO Insert text boxes and photos anywhere on the page and resize them seamlessly with the ink. You can also choose from a selection of different stationery. EASILY CREATE and SHARE Inkflow let's you export your books to PDF, high-resolution JPEG, and share them via Twitter, Email, or with other Apps. TRY INKFLOW FOR FREE Rather than just read about Inkflow, go ahead and try it out: We've decided to make the Basic Edition of Inkflow completely FREE. The Basic Edition is a full featured note-taking and sketching app. It comes with the Fountain Pen with black ink, photos, and a standard set of 5 popular fonts for text. Books max out at 20 pages each, but you can create as many as you like. If you're looking for more, there is... INKFLOW PLUS Upgrade instantly at any time to the Plus Edition to get: - Inkport - Dozens of premium stationery designs - iCloud sync - A customizable, full color palette, - Pencil, Eraser, and Paint Brush tools, - The Write-Behind Highlighter tool, - Rotate, Cut, Copy, Paste Ink, and Page Management, - Export as PNG with transparent backgrounds, - Notebooks with unlimited pages, - Custom paper backgrounds, - An additional 50+ fonts, - And more! The Plus Edition lets you do even more things such as: Painting, cartooning, page layouts, and brainstorming in full color. Learn more in the in-App Quickstart Guide. INKPORT: COPY AND PASTE FROM THE REAL WORLD Only Inkflow Plus includes the revolutionary Inkport tool. Inkport uses your iPad's camera to instantly convert your written notes and sketches into Inkflow's native vector ink. Easily pull in materials from multiple sources and go from paper to iPad without missing a beat. Inkport is going to change the way you use paper in your workflow. Universal App for iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch: Upgrade once and get Inkflow Plus on all your compatible devices connected to your iTunes account! EDUCATORS: Inkflow Plus is also available as a standalone App, and qualifies for Apple's Volume Purchase Program. A PLATFORM FOR CREATIVITY We strongly believe that the iPad is not just a consumption device. It's a creativity device. Check out our whole range of creativity Apps on our website. Keep on creating! Terms of use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy policy: https://www.qrayon.com/home/privacy/
Miary
This app provides a beautiful and distraction-free space for daily journaling, mood tracking, and memory keeping. Personalize your entries with numerous themes, fonts, and the ability to add photos and videos. It offers insights into how activities affect your mood and includes gratitude prompts to foster positivity.
- 100+ color themes and gradients
- Mood and activity tracking
- Miary Insights for mood analysis
- Soothing nature sounds
- Markdown editor for text formatting
- Gratitude prompts and inspirational thoughts
- Secure iCloud backup and sync
- Add photos, videos, and geotags
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- "I've had the app for only twenty minutes and I'm loving it so much." - "I literally downloaded every single diary app in the app store and this one by far stood out because of its fierce focus on the fundamental task. I downloaded it for - to write. I write a lot more than I expected which makes me super happy. Great job!" Miary is a beautiful diary and journal app. We use diary every day to record our daily life journey, once in a lifetime moments, our memories, experiences, major milestones, it has to be subtle, delightful, and gorgeous. Miary makes diary writing an effortless and enjoyable experience. Miary has a lot of features like: Many Color Themes - Miary comes with 100+ beautiful color themes and gradients to choose from. You can personalize Miary with any color of your choice and truly make it yours. Mood tracking and activity tracking - Whatever you are feeling today whether you are happy about a major milestone or sad about something, easily select and track your mood. You can also choose several activities that you did throughout your day like reading books, running, shopping, business trip or anything else. Miary Insights - Get to know how different activities affect your mood. Soothing Sounds - Listen to soothing nature sounds like rain, forest, river, birds & ocean to increase your focus while you write your diary. Clean and Minimal UI - Write your daily diary and journal with our clean, beautiful and distraction-free interface. Dark Mode - You can use Dark Mode to reduce the strain on your eyes and also to save your battery. Fonts - Choose from 50+ different fonts to customize your diary as you wish. Format text beautifully with a powerful markdown editor - Easily format text like bold, italic, and strikethrough with our easy to use markdown editor. Gratitude Prompts & Inspirational Thoughts - Receive new gratitude prompts and inspirational thoughts daily. Easy and Secure backup and sync - Always keep your diary and journal secured and protected by automatic backup to iCloud. - Easily sync across multiple devices - FaceID / TouchID protection Easily add photos and videos - Add unlimited photos and videos to your diary and journal entries to keep your memories. Geotag your diary/journal entries - Add location to your journal entries and view them on the map. Fully Accessible - Miary fully supports accessibility features like VoiceOver, Dynamic Type, Reduce Motion, etc. Writing a diary also has several health benefits like: - Increasing focus and concentration - Happier mind and Healthier body - Manage stress and anxieties Miary also helps you to be grateful and think more positively with daily inspirational quotes and gratitude prompts. Basic usage of the app is and always will be free. Some extra features may be unlocked by subscribing to Miary Premium. MIARY PREMIUM FEATURES: - 100+ beautiful color themes and gradients - Advanced search with multiple filters - Format text beautifully - Add custom tags to your diary entries - Add unlimited photos and videos - 50+ fonts - Soothing sounds - Gratitude prompts Miary offers an auto-renewing monthly subscription at $0.99, an auto-renewing yearly subscription at $8.99 and a lifetime purchase at $18.99. Monthly and yearly plans offer a 7-day free trial. This price is in US Dollars (USD). Pricing in other currencies and countries may vary and actual charges may be converted to your local currency depending on the country of residence. The subscription automatically renews unless turned off in your iTunes Account at least 24 hours before the end of the current subscription period. Your iTunes account will be charged when the purchase is confirmed. Read more about our Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy here: https://miary.app/ios/privacy_terms.html We are always there for you! - If you are facing any issues or have questions, please feel free to email us. Hope you enjoy using our app as much as we do! :)
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Miary at none against Inkflow Visual Notebook's shown. Miary also leads on update cadence (every 5 days vs every 5 months) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.6). Inkflow Visual Notebook's advantage is ratings volume (1.9K vs 44) and review sentiment (71% vs 52%). On price, rating, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Inkflow Visual Notebook sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month and Miary sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. 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 Inkflow Visual Notebook against 4.6 for Miary. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Inkflow Visual Notebook has 1.9K ratings behind it against 44, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 71% of Inkflow Visual Notebook's written reviews are positive against 52% of Miary's.
Inkflow Visual Notebook ships an update every 5 months, Miary every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 21, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Inkflow Visual Notebook | Miary |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (1.9K ratings) | 4.6 (44 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 71.1% of reviews — better | 52.4% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1.9K — better | 44 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 58 MB | 62 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Qrayon, LLC | Akash Jain |
Customer experience
Inkflow Visual Notebook
Miary
Bugs and requests
Inkflow Visual Notebook
Reported bugs
4 issues- Frequent crashes and data loss
- Unreliable auto-save and syncing
- Compatibility issues with newer devices/OS
- Pen/input lag and inconsistent responsiveness
Requested features
5 requests- Add more pen/brush options and customization
- Implement layers and advanced drawing tools
- Improve page management (insert, delete, reorder)
- Integrate cloud sync and cross-device access
- Add password protection and locking features
Miary
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Inkflow Visual Notebook
- Inkflow Plus Monthly Subscription7 Days trial$1.991 Month
- Inkflow Plus Annual Subscription7 Days trial$12.991 Year
- Inkflow Plus$19.99
Miary
- Monthly Subscription7 Days trial$0.991 Month
- Yearly Subscription7 Days trial$9.991 Year
- Lifetime Purchase$9.99
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