Inkflow Plus Visual Notebook vs ALE OpenTouch Conversation for iPad
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Inkflow Plus Visual Notebook
This app acts as a visual notebook, allowing users to capture handwritten notes and sketches that can be easily rearranged and reorganized. It offers a smooth writing experience, full-resolution zoom, and the ability to import real-world content using your device's camera.
- Handwritten notes and sketches
- Rearrange and reorganize content
- Smooth, pen-like ink feel
- Full resolution zoom and pan
- Import from camera (Inkport)
- Insert text and photos
- Export to PDF and JPEG
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Visual Thinkers Rejoice! Inkflow works like a word-processor for visual thinking. Capture your ideas as easily as with pen and paper, then arrange and reorganize them with your fingers! INKFLOW PLUS This is the full featured Plus Edition of Inkflow. It is the same as the in-app purchase from the basic edition Inkflow. Please download this only if you haven't already upgraded in-App. 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. 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. 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 paper backgrounds. 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. PLUS FEATURES This edition includes the full set of expanded features, including: - Inkport - iCloud sync - Dozens of beautiful stationery designs - Multiple grid, dotted, lined, and hex paper templates - A customizable, full color palette, - Pencil, Eraser, and Paint Brush tools, - Rotate, Cut, Copy, Paste Ink, - Page Management, - Notebooks with unlimited pages, - An additional 50+ fonts on the iPad, - Custom paper backgrounds, - And more! Universal App for iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch: Upgrade once and get Inkflow Plus on all your compatible devices connected to your iTunes account! GREAT FOR CLASS We built a standalone Plus Edition mainly so that Educational institutions can take advantage of the volume purchase program (check with your school's Apple rep for details). A PLATFORM FOR CREATIVITY We strongly believe that the iPad is not just a consumption device. It's a creativity device. Thanks for supporting us in our journey of building Creative Apps like Inkflow. We hope you enjoy it!
ALE OpenTouch Conversation for iPad
This business communication app enables seamless voice and video calls, conferences, and multimedia collaboration. It allows users to manage calls, view contact presence, share desktops, and annotate documents. The app requires connectivity to an Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise OpenTouch system.
- Voice and video calls/conferences
- Contact presence availability
- Document annotation
- Desktop sharing
- Call routing profiles
- Rapid Session Shift
- Voicemail management
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The OpenTouch® Communications Suite from Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise transforms enterprise communications into collaborative conversations and business services. OpenTouch Conversation brings the essential elements of the OpenTouch Communications Suite to life, supporting seamless interaction across multiple media, devices, and participants, all within the same conversation. Using OpenTouch™ Conversation for iPad you can: * Place, answer, and manage voice and video calls and conferences using the enterprise dialing plan—call anywhere using device contacts, corporate directory, or OpenTouch contacts * View contact presence availability and escalate from a simple two-party chat session to a multimedia collaboration event * View and annotate presentations, PDFs, and bitmap images * View shared desktops * Manage your "reachability" preferences using call-routing profiles * Use Rapid Session Shift and move voice and video calls between iPad, iPhone, Android, and the PC * Listen to and manage your voice mail messages * Schedule meetings using pre-defined meeting profiles PLEASE NOTE that this application requires connectivity to an Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise OpenTouch system. If you need help, contact your IT department. LOCALIZATION Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish , Turkish. DEVICE WHITE LIST The Device White List for OpenTouch Conversation Software Clients (doc reference 8AL90822AAAA ed18) is hosted on Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise Business Portal under the Technical Documentation Library. Please, consult regularly our Business Portal in order to be informed about the latest inputs including Technical Communications and Release Notes. More information available on http://enterprise.alcatel-lucent.com By using this application you agree with the terms of the accompanying user license agreement (EULA).
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: ALE OpenTouch Conversation for iPad at Free against Inkflow Plus Visual Notebook's $19.99. ALE OpenTouch Conversation for iPad also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 77%) and rating (5.0 vs 4.7). Inkflow Plus Visual Notebook's advantage is ratings volume (707 vs 1) and chart position (#159 vs unranked). On update cadence, 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
ALE OpenTouch Conversation for iPad is free to download; Inkflow Plus Visual Notebook costs $19.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
ALE OpenTouch Conversation for iPad holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Inkflow Plus Visual Notebook has 707 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 77% of Inkflow Plus Visual Notebook's written reviews are positive against 100% of ALE OpenTouch Conversation for iPad's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 17, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Inkflow Plus Visual Notebook | ALE OpenTouch Conversation for iPad |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $19.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.7 (707 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 77.3% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 707 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Best chart rank | #159 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 7.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 52 MB | 61 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Qrayon, LLC | ALE International |
Customer experience
Inkflow Plus Visual Notebook
ALE OpenTouch Conversation for iPad
Bugs and requests
Inkflow Plus Visual Notebook
Reported bugs
5 issues- Frequent crashes
- Pages randomly deleted
- Inability to save work
- Zooming issues
- Disappearing toolbar icons
Requested features
5 requests- Undo/redo functionality
- Ability to organize notebooks and pages
- More paper templates and background options
- Geometric shape tools
- Handwriting to text conversion
ALE OpenTouch Conversation for iPad
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Inkflow Plus Visual Notebook
No in-app purchases
ALE OpenTouch Conversation for iPad
No in-app purchases
Questions
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