Lock Your Notes vs Color 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!
Color Notes
Capture thoughts and tasks with a digital notebook. Create, edit, and organize notes with customizable colors. Sync across devices to keep your ideas accessible anywhere, eliminating the need for physical notepads.
- Create, delete, and edit notes
- Organize with customizable colors
- Virtual online notebook
- To-do list functionality
- Cloud synchronization
- Multiple device support
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Color Notes is great for those quick notes! Just add a note to your online notebook and start saving your notes virtually. Truly a great tool for making to-do lists while on the go without using a notepad pen or paper. A US-based simple sticky notebook with a clean interface that's powerful enough to replace overly complicated, bloated note-taking apps, color note allows you to create, delete and edit notes with a variety of options and colors just like a traditional notepad or text notebook. Keep your sticky notes handy in the cloud with multiple device support. Term of use https://onlinenotebook.net/about-us.php Privacy Policy https://onlinenotebook.net/privacy.php
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Lock Your Notes at 66% against Color Notes's 14%. Color Notes's advantage is update cadence (every 6 weeks vs every 28 months) and rating (4.1 vs 3.8). On price, ratings volume, 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. Lock Your Notes sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Color Notes sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $7.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Color Notes holds the better App Store score, 4.1 against 3.8. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 708 and 640 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 66% of Lock Your Notes's written reviews are positive against 14% of Color 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, Color Notes every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 4, 2026 and October 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Lock Your Notes | Color Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.8 (708 ratings) | 4.1 (640 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 66.4% of reviews — better | 14.5% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 708 — better | 640 |
| Update frequency | Every 28 months | Every 6 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 — better | 15.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 2 MB | 62 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | One Wave AB | Hagens Media, LLC. |
Customer experience
Lock Your Notes
Color Notes
User reviews
Lock Your Notes
From 708 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Great app
- 🔒 Secure notes
- 👍 Simple and easy to use
- 💡 Variety of lock options
- 👍 Reliable and works well
Room to improve
- 🐛 Issues after iOS updates
- 🔍 Missing search/sort features
- 🗑️ Unable to delete notes
- 💻 Compatibility problems
- 🔑 Password recovery needed
Color Notes
From 640 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Simple and fast
- 📝 Great note-taking app
- 🎨 Useful color-coding
- 👍 Versatile and useful
Room to improve
- 🐛 Lost all notes after update
- 🐛 Syncing issues
- 🔍 Difficult to find old notes
- 💸 Too many ads
- 🔒 Unable to access account on new device
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
Color Notes
Reported bugs
3 issues- Losing all notes after updates
- Inability to access old notes
- Saving and syncing issues
Requested features
3 requests- Reminders feature
- Ability to print notes
- Better syncing across devices
In-app purchases
Lock Your Notes
- Full Version$0.99
Color Notes
- Remove Ads$7.991 Month
Questions
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