Comparison

Whitelines vs Kivra

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Whitelines

Effortlessly digitize your handwritten notes and drawings. The app automatically captures and cleans up your content, making it easy to save, edit, and share across various platforms.

Highlights
  • Capture notes automatically
  • Save and organize notes
  • Share notes digitally
  • Edit captured notes
  • Remove background from scans
  • Scan manual notes
Features
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Use Whitelines App when you want to: ・Capture your notes. ・Save your notes. ・Share your notes on Social Media, email, etc. ・Continue to work and edit your notes digitally. The Whitelines App will capture your notes automatically when it detects all four corner codes on your Whitelines Paper and adjust the image to make it useful to you. When using Whitelines Paper the app removes the background, so all that remains is your writing or drawing over a white background. Whitelines App is perfect when you want to: ・ Review your notes on the go before an exam. ・ Share notes from a class with a friend. ・ Include a handmade drawing in a presentation. ・ Post an illustration or note to Instagram. CAPTURE YOUR NOTES WITH WHITELINES APP 1. Tap the camera icon to enter capture mode. Whitelines App will capture your note automatically when it detects the full page (including all four corner codes), with the logo at the bottom of the page. Or, if you use other than Whitelines Paper tap the button to scan the note manually. Before scanning, choose between “Auto” or “Manual” to tell Whitelines App to remove the background automatically or to edit the image yourself. 2. If you have several pages of notes that you’d like to save as a stack, simply stay in the capture mode and continue to capture pages one at a time. Of course, you can also save your notes to existing stacks in the app. 3. Save, Use, Edit and Share the Notes Choose if you’d like to save your note locally on your phone, or if you’d like to share it–with yourself or with somebody else. You can share your note with any app that processes image files, such as WhatsApp, Instagram, OneDrive, OneNote, Google Drive, Evernote, Dropbox, Line, Facebook installed on your phone. Tick the boxes on the Whitelines Paper to email the note or save it to Dropbox or Evernote. SUPPORT If you need help with anything or have any questions about the app, feel free to read our FAQ. Is something not working as expected? Get in touch with us! We’d love to know where we have room for improvement. Your feedback is important, as it helps guide our future efforts. FEEDBACK Please give us your thoughts on Whitelines App, and let us know what we could do to make it better. It helps us develop the features you want. We’re already thinking about what our next step should be in order to best support your ideas and help you set them free. This update of the app is a step in our efforts to create a digital/analog interface for note-taking that will help you grow, learn the things you want to know, pass exams, and collaborate creatively. Contact us at support@whitelines.se ////////////////////////////////////////// WHITELINES LOVES TO SEE YOU GROW! We’re so happy that you’re here with us, with all your knowledge, all the thoughts that pass through your mind, and all the things you want to learn and do. If you like, we’d love to join you on your journey, and help you in every way we can. We want our white lines to support you in your quest for new knowledge, as you challenge past truths and look for creative solutions to problems. We want that because we believe in the innate genius of every human being, and in the power of collaboration. When human beings help and challenge each other, it makes the world a better place! The note on page one among the images above was made by Juliette Croce (Instagram: @julestudy) from the USA. The note on page two among the images above was made by Karin Verdoes (Instagram: @evabrittakarin) from Sweden.

About

Kivra

Organize all your important documents digitally, including letters, invoices, and receipts. Access your essential information anytime, anywhere, and reduce paper clutter. It's a secure and sustainable way to manage your personal and official paperwork.

Highlights
  • Digital document collection
  • Secure storage
  • Mobile BankID authentication
  • Sustainable alternative to paper
  • Upload personal documents
  • Receive from companies and authorities
Features
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Kivra is a place where you can collect your important stuff. Letters, invoices, receipts and more – things that you otherwise would keep in binders, trousers or piles of paper. You no longer have to look for insurance letters, warranty receipts or the dog’s vaccination certificate. Instead you can gather everything in the same place to make it available at all times, wherever you are. Kivra is a sustainable alternative to postal mail and receipts. And for each document that is being sent or received in Kivra we take one step in the right direction for the environment. Furthermore, with our upload service you can choose and upload what is important to you, everything stored safely behind Mobile BankID. Today, tens of thousands of private companies send letters and invoices digitally using Kivra. And several of Sweden’s regions and authorities are connected, ready to send tax returns, vaccination certificates, annual statements and other important stuff to you. You can also receive digital receipts from some of the country’s most popular store chains. We continuously develop Kivra, with new functionalities and more connected companies, so that you can collect everything in the same place. Kivra – a better place for your important stuff. Kivra's terms and privacy notice can be found here: https://kivra.se/en/about-us/about-kivra/terms

Screenshots

Whitelines4 screens
Kivra4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Kivra at 4.7 against Whitelines's 3.9. Kivra also leads on update cadence (every 10 days vs every 5 months) and ratings volume (3.8K vs 103). Whitelines's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 16.0). On price, review sentiment, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Kivra sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $1.99 per month. Whitelines asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Kivra holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 3.9. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Kivra has 3.8K ratings behind it against 103, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 59% of Whitelines's written reviews are positive against 58% of Kivra's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Whitelines ships an update every 5 months, Kivra every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on October 8, 2026 and October 15, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Whitelines versus Kivra: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterWhitelinesKivra
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.9 (103 ratings)4.7 (3.8K ratings) — better
Positive reviews59.2% of reviews — better57.7% of reviews
Number of ratings1033.8K — better
Update frequencyEvery 5 monthsEvery 10 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS12.0 — better16.0
Further details — not scored
Size40 MB153 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperWhitelinesKivra Sverige AB

Customer experience

Whitelines

All ratings103 ratings
Positive68.9%
Neutral6.8%
Negative24.3%
Written reviews184 reviews
Positive59.2%
Neutral10.9%
Negative29.9%

Kivra

All ratings3,781 ratings
Positive94.2%
Neutral2.3%
Negative3.5%
Written reviews26 reviews
Positive57.7%
Neutral19.2%
Negative23.1%

User reviews

Whitelines

From 103 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Fast scanning
  • 📁 Seamless integration with Evernote and Dropbox
  • 📝 Helps organize and digitize notes
  • 👍 User-friendly and intuitive app
  • ✨ Innovative concept of digital notebooks

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Scanning issues and app crashes
  • 🔧 Limited functionality compared to expectations
  • 💰 Expensive notebooks required
  • 🔍 Difficulty capturing pages with handwritten content near edges
  • 🌈 Poor handling of color and highlighting

Kivra

From 3.8K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Super
  • 👍 Best

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Fungerar inte
  • 🐛 I haven't been able to login to Kivra for at least 3 months
  • 🔍 Too many emails to tell document arrived
  • 🔍 Information på fakturor (OCR, BG osv) går inte kopiera utan måste skrivas av för hand
  • 🔍 Den inbyggda betallösningen använder autogiro, vilket är hyfsat kass då kommande betalningar som registrerats i Kivra inte syns i internetbanken ihop med andra kommande betalningar förrän en dag eller två innan pengarna ska dras

Bugs and requests

Whitelines

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Inconsistent scanning performance
  • App crashes and freezes
  • Issues with detecting page corners and edges
  • Problems with syncing and uploading notes

Requested features

5 requests
  • Manual capture and editing options
  • Ability to combine multiple pages into a single document
  • Integration with more cloud storage services
  • Improved organization and sharing features
  • Support for more paper sizes and formats

Kivra

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • After update can I not open receipts
  • Login screen freezes

Requested features

2 requests
  • English language view
  • Localization setting should be set to Swedish unless English is also supported

In-app purchases

None

Whitelines

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Kivra

Subscriptions1
  • Kivra Plus monthly6 Months trial$1.991 Month

Questions

Is Whitelines free?
Whitelines is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Kivra free?
Kivra is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Whitelines or Kivra?
Kivra is rated higher. Whitelines averages 3.9 out of 5 from 103 ratings, while Kivra averages 4.7 from 3.8K ratings.
Do Whitelines or Kivra have ads?
Neither Whitelines nor Kivra shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Whitelines or Kivra?
Whitelines ships an update every 5 months, and Kivra every 10 days. Most recently, Whitelines was updated on October 8, 2026 and Kivra on October 15, 2026.

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