Lock Your Notes vs Save Notes
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Lock Your Notes
Securely store your private and secret notes with multiple locking options. Organize your thoughts with unlimited notes, customizable fonts, and emoji support. Keep your sensitive information safe from unauthorized access.
- Unlimited note creation
- Three lock types (password, PIN, dot-lock)
- Customizable fonts
- Emoji support
- Organize with lists
- Retina display support
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Keep your most valuable, private, and secret notes away from prying eyes. Keep them all totally secret and safe and choose between three different kinds of locks. KEY FEATURES: • Create unlimited number of notes • Choose between three different fonts (Helvetica, Marker Felt, Noteworthy) • Make and organize lists • Support for Emoji Emoticons • Three locks included (Alphabetical password, PIN code, Android-Style Dot-Lock) • Full Retina display • And much, much more!
Save Notes
Securely store your private notes with password protection. Keep personal information safe from unauthorized access on your iPhone or iPod touch. Ensure your thoughts and data remain confidential.
- Password protect notes
- Secure personal information
- Private note storage
- Reliable and safe lock
- Optimized for iPhone 6/6 Plus
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Want a privacy for your private - Notes ?? . . With "Save Notes - Free !!!" you can save all your private, secure notes. Nobody will be able to access without knowing your secret password! PRIVACY Your Notes belong to you and not everybody who uses your iPhone, iPod touch or iPad should be able to read them. With "Save Notes - Free!!!" nobody except you will be able to read your Notes. -Optimized for iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus -Password protect all your Notes. Safeguard your Notes here from your GF/BF from your parents from people spying on you from your friends from everyone who tend to tinkle with your phone Download this app today ! 100% reliable, safe and secure lock for your Notes.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Save Notes at none against Lock Your Notes's 1. Save Notes also leads on rating (4.0 vs 3.8). Lock Your Notes's advantage is review sentiment (66% vs 33%) and ratings volume (708 vs 41). On price, update cadence, ads 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. Lock Your Notes sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Save Notes asks for nothing beyond the download.
Save Notes holds the better App Store score, 4.0 against 3.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Lock Your Notes has 708 ratings behind it against 41, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 66% of Lock Your Notes's written reviews are positive against 33% of Save Notes's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Lock Your Notes ships an update every 28 months, Save Notes every 24 months. The most recent releases landed on October 4, 2026 and October 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Lock Your Notes | Save Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.8 (708 ratings) | 4.0 (41 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 66.4% of reviews — better | 33.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 708 — better | 41 |
| Update frequency | Every 28 months | Every 24 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 2 MB | 12 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | One Wave AB | Abhay Vala |
Customer experience
Lock Your Notes
Save Notes
Bugs and requests
Lock Your Notes
Reported bugs
4 issues- App crashes after iOS 11 update
- Unable to enter passcode on some devices
- Notes disappearing or getting jumbled
- Keyboard issues when typing long notes
Requested features
5 requests- Cloud backup option
- Ability to delete notes
- Search and sort notes
- Font size and style options
- Fingerprint/biometric unlock
Save Notes
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Lock Your Notes
- Full Version$0.99
Save Notes
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is Lock Your Notes free?
Is Save Notes free?
Which has better reviews, Lock Your Notes or Save Notes?
Do Lock Your Notes or Save Notes have ads?
Which is updated more often, Lock Your Notes or Save Notes?
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