Inkflow Visual Notebook vs Wren
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/
Wren
Transform your handwritten notes into study materials. This app uses AI to generate summaries, practice questions, flashcards, and mind maps from your lecture notes. It also includes a calendar for tracking deadlines and scheduling study sessions.
- AI-generated summaries
- Practice questions from notes
- Flashcard creation
- Mind map generation
- Specialized sticky types (code, graphs, flowcharts)
- Integrated calendar with deadline tracking
- Search by meaning, not just keywords
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You write the question. Wren's AI writes the answer back in neat handwriting, right on your page. It adds step-by-step math solves, function graphs, mind maps, tables, flowcharts and timelines in clean ink. On iPad, write a request with Apple Pencil, pause, and tap Keep. Or ask Study Buddy and tap Add to note. Most AI talks back in a chat window. Wren talks back in handwriting, on the same page you're taking notes on. Stuck at 11pm on a problem you can't crack? Write it on your board and ask. Wren writes the answer right next to your work, by hand: the graph, the steps, the mind map. No chat window. No copy and paste. Just your board, filling in. ONE ENDLESS WHITEBOARD Open a whiteboard note and you get one board with no pages and no edges. Work a problem in one corner. Sketch a cell in another. Zoom out and the whole topic sits on one screen. Want structure instead? Wren also has Notebooks with real pages and Documents for typed work. INK, NOT CARDS Wren's AI writes with real pen strokes, the same kind of ink you write with. It can put any of these on your board: • A few lines of text, like a definition or a short explanation • Graphs of the function you are working on • Diagrams and flowcharts • Mind maps that branch out from one idea • Timelines, from cell division to the Cold War • Checklists for what to do next • Formulas • Tables that line facts up side by side It all comes out in Wren's own neat hand, so it reads clearly next to your notes. THREE WAYS TO ASK Study Buddy. Open the chat, ask your question, and tap Add to note. The answer is written onto your page by hand. AI Tutor. Pin a Tutor answer you like, then add it to your page. It goes on as ink. Pen pause, on iPad. Write what you want with Apple Pencil, like "graph y = x^2 + 1" or "mind map the causes of World War I", then pause. A preview appears on your page. Keep it or discard it. YOU DECIDE WHAT STAYS On iPad, every pen pause starts as a preview. Tap Keep and it becomes ink on your board. Tap Discard and it is gone. Your board stays yours. ONE NIGHT AT THE BOARD 9pm, calculus. You write the function and ask for its graph. The curve shows up on the board next to your work. 10pm, biology. You ask Study Buddy for the stages of mitosis and tap Add to note. A timeline is written beside your sketch of the cell. 11pm, history. On iPad you write "mind map the causes of World War I" and pause your Apple Pencil. The preview shows the causes branching out. You keep it. Midnight, chemistry. You ask for a table comparing ionic and covalent bonds. It is written in neat rows, right on the board. Then you zoom out, and the whole night of studying is one board you can actually read. WRITE ON IPAD OR IPHONE On iPad, Wren works with Apple Pencil, with pressure and palm rejection, and pen pause is there whenever you stop to think. On iPhone, write with your finger and use Study Buddy's Add to note to bring answers onto your page. Your notes sync across your devices. WHY WE BUILT IT We're a brother and sister, both in college. We take notes every day, and we were tired of copying answers out of a chat window and into our notes. So we made the notes answer back. We are our own users, and Wren is the whiteboard we wanted. Wren is free to download. Some features are part of an optional subscription, billed to your Apple ID. It renews automatically unless you cancel at least 24 hours before the current period ends. You can manage or cancel it anytime in your App Store account settings. Terms of Use: https://www.getnotenest.com/terms Privacy Policy: https://www.getnotenest.com/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Wren at none against Inkflow Visual Notebook's shown. Wren also leads on update cadence (every 10 days vs every 5 months) and review sentiment (100% vs 71%). Inkflow Visual Notebook's advantage is ratings volume (1.9K vs 22). On price, in-app purchases, monetization model and device support 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 Wren sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Wren holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Inkflow Visual Notebook has 1.9K ratings behind it against 22, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 71% of Inkflow Visual Notebook's written reviews are positive against 100% of Wren's.
Inkflow Visual Notebook ships an update every 5 months, Wren every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on October 26, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Inkflow Visual Notebook | Wren |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (1.9K ratings) | 5.0 (22 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 71.1% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1.9K — better | 22 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months | Every 10 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 — better | 16.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 58 MB | 105 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Qrayon, LLC | NOTENEST LLC |
Customer experience
Inkflow Visual Notebook
Wren
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
Wren
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
Wren
- NoteNest Lite7 Days trial$4.991 Month
- NoteNest Founder7 Days trial$6.991 Month
- NoteNest Pro7 Days trial$9.991 Month
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- NoteNest Elite7 Days trial$14.991 Month
- NoteNest Pro Annual7 Days trial$71.991 Year
Questions
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