Bütton View vs Freenotes®
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
Freenotes®
This AI-powered digital notepad transforms your device into an intelligent workspace. It offers handwriting recognition, PDF annotation, and AI assistance for summarizing documents, answering questions, and aiding in study. Organize notes, sketch ideas, and sync across devices for a seamless paperless experience.
- AI Summaries and Chat with PDFs
- AI Homework and Study Helper
- Handwritten Note Organization
- OCR Search and PDF Annotation
- Infinite Canvas and Shape Recognition
- Active Recall Tape and Flashcards
- Picture-in-Picture Video Note-Taking
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Freenotes: Freedom to write, organize, and shine Transform your iPad into a powerful AI-driven digital notepad. Freenotes is an all-in-one workspace designed for students and professionals who want the natural feel of handwriting with the power of artificial intelligence. Whether you are annotating a complex PDF, planning your week, or recording a lecture, Freenotes helps you stay organized with seamless, free-form experience. AI Summary Quickly find key points and action items from long recordings or documents. AI Chat with PDF Ask questions directly to your imported files to get instant answers. AI Homework Helper Take a screenshot or upload a document (PDF or photo) to instantly get answers. AI Study Companion Clarify concepts, define terms, and check your handwritten notes for accuracy, turning passive review into active recall. Organize Notes Categorize and organize your notes by projects, courses, or topics, automating the organization of your note library. Quick Search via OCR Search through your handwritten scripts easily using accurate text recognition. PDF Annotation Highlight, underline, and add comments to documents with custom pen styles. Infinite Canvas Sketch ideas or mind map on a whiteboard that expands as you work. Apple Pencil Pro Support Experience low-latency writing that feels like real paper. Shape Recognition Turn rough drawings into clean, perfect geometric shapes for diagrams. Hyperlink Support Navigate through digital planners using clickable internal and external links. Active Recall Tape Hide specific parts of your notes to test your memory and study better. Paper Templates Access various backgrounds including grid, Cornell, and dotted paper. Flashcards Build study sets directly from your pages to help with exam prep. Seamless Video Learning Use Picture-in-Picture (PiP) to take notes while watching online videos (YouTube, lecture recordings), and instantly capture relevant screenshots directly into your notes. iCloud & Google Drive Sync Securely back up your digital notebook to access your data anywhere. Who is Freenotes For? Students: Create study guides, annotate lecture slides, and use the "Active Recall" tape tool for exam prep. Professionals: Record meetings, organize projects into folders, and sign PDF documents on the go. Creatives: Sketch ideas on an infinite whiteboard and export high-quality files to share with your team. Join over 1 million happy users transitioning to a smarter, paperless future. Try Freenotes today and experience the next era of AI note-taking. Privacy Policy: https://www.freenotetech.com/policy/ Terms of Service: https://www.freenotetech.com/terms/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Freenotes® at weekly against Bütton View's every 2 months. Freenotes® also leads on ratings volume (63K vs 5). Bütton View's advantage is monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases) and review sentiment (68% vs 60%). On price, rating, ads and in-app purchases 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. Bütton View sells 2 one-off in-app purchases and Freenotes® sells 18 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per 7 days. 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 Bütton View against 4.7 for Freenotes®. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Freenotes® has 63K ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 68% of Bütton View's written reviews are positive against 60% of Freenotes®'s.
Bütton View ships an update every 2 months, Freenotes® weekly. The most recent releases landed on September 24, 2026 and October 14, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Bütton View | Freenotes® |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (5 ratings) | 4.7 (63K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 68.4% of reviews — better | 59.5% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 5 | 63K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 15.5 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 11 MB | 711 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Beta Software | Free Notes AI Note Taker LTD |
Customer experience
Bütton View
Freenotes®
Bugs and requests
Bütton View
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Freenotes®
Reported bugs
3 issues- Occasional freezing or lagging when writing/drawing
- Issues with the shape recognition tool not working as expected
- Problems with the eraser tool not functioning properly
Requested features
5 requests- Add handwriting recognition and search functionality
- Improve iCloud sync and backup capabilities
- Expand pen/pencil customization options
- Implement support for external links and clickable content
- Introduce features for easier notebook organization and splitting
In-app purchases
Bütton View
- Purchase issue Amuletto$0.99
- Purchase issue Harf$0.99
Freenotes®
- Freenotes Weekly Plus Member$1.997 Days
- Freenotes Weekly Pro Member$6.997 Days
- Premium Freenotes AI Weekly7 Days trial$6.997 Days
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- Freenotes Yearly Plus Member$9.991 Year
- Freenotes Yearly Plus Member1 Year trial2 variants$9.991 Year
- Monthly Pro Member Promotion1 Month trial$19.991 Month
- Freenotes Monthly Pro Member$19.991 Month
- Premium Freenotes AI Monthly1 Month trial$19.991 Month
- Freenotes Yearly Pro Member1 Year trial$39.991 Year
- Yearly Pro Member Discount1 Year trial$39.991 Year
- Freenotes Yearly Pro Member$39.991 Year
- Marketplace Content$1.99
- Marketplace Content$2.99
- Marketplace Content$3.99
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- Marketplace Content$9.99
- Marketplace Content$10.99
- Freenotes Remove Ads$29.99
- Freenotes Plus Member Lifetime$29.99









