Comparison

MetaMoJi Note vs Notes Writer

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

Head to head
About

MetaMoJi Note

This app serves as a versatile note-taking and digital sketchbook, allowing users to capture ideas through writing, drawing, and voice memos. It also functions as a PDF annotation tool and digital scrapbook, supporting various pen styles and document import options.

Highlights
  • Advanced handwriting recognition
  • PDF and Office document annotation
  • High-resolution sketchbook with diverse pens
  • Voice memo recording and tagging
  • Cloud sync and storage
  • Password protection for notes
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MetaMoJi Note is a note and sketchbook app, PDF annotation tool, voice memo and digital scrapbook for your life. Capture your ideas anytime with quick voice recordings, advanced handwriting recognition and handwriting to text conversion(*), or annotate Office and PDF documents. (*) Requires purchase of mazec Handwriting Input Method for this functionality. Use the app as a high resolution sketchbook with a vast color wheel palette, pastel colors and advanced calligraphy pens. MetaMoJi Note is a virtual whiteboard for sketching, annotation, scrapbooking or digital mashup of notes and voice. MetaMoJi Note is the only note-taking app available across all major mobile platforms. Winner of multiple awards: Tabby Award for Best Personal Productivity App - Silver Stevie® Award for International Business - Finalist for Appy Award for Productivity - #1 Productivity App in Japan Key Features NEW – Gold Service is a premium add-on that allows you to make advanced use of the MetaMoJi Cloud and the app itself. It includes: - The Shared Drive capability allows co-editing of documents - Auto sync intervals to ensure your notes are always backed up - Additional storage for the MetaMoJi Cloud - Unlimited access to optional inks, premium items, papers and note styles - Customizing the navigation bar • Write, sketch or draw notes with a variety of pens, paper layouts and graphics, including calligraphy pens and inks • Grab your great ideas quickly with voice memos which you can tag to your visual content – convenient audio editing features allow you to index voice cues to any document or part of a document – even drawings, annotated graphics or PDF documents. • Scale your document up to a whiteboard or down to a sticky note while still maintaining 100% visual integrity • Import images, graphics and Microsoft Office files via Google Drive • Import a PDF file, mark it up as needed, and save it as another PDF file • Share creations by email or upload to Twitter, Facebook or Tumblr • Easy file storing and sharing via Google Drive, Evernote and Dropbox • Sync all folders to the MetaMoJi Cloud, a cloud service that allows you to save and manage your documents (up to 2GB for free) • Save drawings as individual JPEG graphics in the items library for later use • Interactively browse the web from within the app and mark up sites • MetaMoJi Note Lite is free to download and use. This version, MetaMoJi Note is a paid app, has the great features above, along with the following advanced capabilities: • Password protect your notes to ensure your information is kept safe • Advanced pen styles including highlighters, fountain pens and brushes • Enhanced Jump functions allow for you to assign visual points to easily navigate around complex compositions while you are presenting • Shapes tool provides editable shapes • Smart cropping tool vastly extends photo editing Here are some ways to use MetaMoJi Note for your personal and business life: • Generate quick notes and to-do lists, add voice memos and tag for easy retrieval later • Capture and markup website pages • Sketch drawings for illustrating lesson plans • Mark up and sign contracts and critical business documents in PDF form • Use as an interactive whiteboard to brainstorm and present during team meetings • PDF and photo annotation • Review/edit documents and share feedback through email • Draw a mind map or flowchart of ideas and assign audio files Learn more: More about MetaMoJi Note: http://noteanytime.com/en/quick_guide.html Support: http://noteanytime.com/en/support.html Twitter: https://twitter.com/noteanytime Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NoteAnytime

About

Notes Writer

This app combines handwriting, PDFs, voice recordings, and AI for note-taking, document annotation, and idea organization. It offers a paper-like writing experience with various tools and supports students, professionals, and writers with specialized features.

Highlights
  • Handwriting with Apple Pencil
  • PDF annotation and form filling
  • Voice recording and transcription
  • AI-powered writing assistance
  • Flashcard creation and spaced repetition
  • Quiz generation from notes
  • Document import and export
Features
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Notes Writer brings handwriting, PDFs, voice, documents and AI together on iPad and iPhone. Take notes in class, mark up a contract, record a meeting or plan a thesis, and keep it all in one place that is easy to search and share. HANDWRITING THAT FEELS LIKE PAPER • Write with Apple Pencil using pens, pencils, markers, fountain pens and watercolor brushes, and refine with the lasso, ruler and shapes. • Mix handwriting, typed text, images, stickers and audio on one page. • Choose blank, ruled, Cornell, planner, music or graph paper. • Search your handwriting, check its spelling, or convert it to text, math or LaTeX. • Tap your ink to hear what was said as you wrote it. FOR STUDENTS • Record lectures while you write, then search the transcript. • Hide key facts under Tape, reveal them one by one and turn them into flashcards. • Study flashcards with spaced repetition, reminders and a Home Screen widget. • Make a quiz from your notes, a topic or pasted text, and score yourself. • Circle a problem with Magic Lasso and ask AI to explain, solve or check it. • Find free open textbooks and keep each subject together in a Study Project. FOR PROFESSIONALS • Meeting Notes records and transcribes the meeting, enhances your notes and writes a summary with action items. • Mark up PDFs, fill forms, sign, measure plans and redact text. • Scan paper documents and recognize their text. • Present on an external display or with AirPlay, using a laser pointer. • Brainstorm on whiteboards with sticky notes, images and recordings. • Open Word, RTF, Markdown and plain text, and export to PDF, DOCX, RTF, HTML or EPUB. FOR WRITERS AND RESEARCHERS • Draft in rich text and keep your sources open in tabs. • Organize long projects in the Binder, plan on the Corkboard, save snapshots and compile a manuscript or ebook. • Write LaTeX papers with a live PDF preview. • Combine explanations, graphs, charts and Python cells in Math Notebooks. • Structure ideas as outlines and exchange them in OPML. AI THAT WORKS WITH YOUR NOTES • Rewrite, simplify, translate, or fix spelling and grammar. • Ask questions and get answers from your own notes, PDFs and transcripts. • Summarize a reading, a recording or a meeting. You decide what goes into your notes. YOUR NOTES, YOUR WAY • Import notes from other note-taking apps. • Sketch with graphite and charcoal, or paint with watercolor, oils and acrylics. • Share an iPad with separate profiles, each with its own notes and an optional passcode. • Keep folders with covers, and work with files in iCloud Drive, Dropbox, Google Drive and the Files app. • Autosave, recovery, backups and passcodes protect your work. Privacy Policy http://www.noteswriter.com/Kairoos_Privacy_Policy.html Terms of Use https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

MetaMoJi Note4 screens
Notes Writer4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Notes Writer at Free against MetaMoJi Note's $7.99. Notes Writer also leads on rating (4.5 vs 3.4) and update cadence (every 4 days vs every 2 months). MetaMoJi Note's advantage is review sentiment (78% vs 45%) and iOS requirement (7.0 vs 26.0). On ads, in-app purchases, monetization model 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

Notes Writer is free to download; MetaMoJi Note costs $7.99 up front. MetaMoJi Note sells 2 one-off in-app purchases and Notes Writer sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Notes Writer holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 3.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Notes Writer has 7.3K ratings behind it against 32, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 78% of MetaMoJi Note's written reviews are positive against 45% of Notes Writer's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

MetaMoJi Note ships an update every 2 months, Notes Writer every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on November 10, 2026 and November 12, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
MetaMoJi Note versus Notes Writer: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMetaMoJi NoteNotes Writer
Price$7.99Free — better
Rating3.4 (32 ratings)4.5 (7.3K ratings) — better
Positive reviews78.1% of reviews — better44.7% of reviews
Number of ratings327.3K — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 4 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS7.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size100 MB688 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMetaMoJi CorporationKairoos Solutions SL

Customer experience

MetaMoJi Note

All ratings31 ratings
Positive61.3%
Neutral3.2%
Negative35.5%
Written reviews708 reviews
Positive78.1%
Neutral6.6%
Negative15.3%

Notes Writer

All ratings7,339 ratings
Positive86.7%
Neutral5.1%
Negative8.2%
Written reviews968 reviews
Positive44.7%
Neutral15.1%
Negative40.2%

Bugs and requests

MetaMoJi Note

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

Notes Writer

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Notes randomly disappearing or getting corrupted
  • Inability to recover deleted documents
  • Unexpected behavior when adding/deleting pages
  • Syncing issues and broken links between documents

Requested features

4 requests
  • Add more brushes and pen customization options
  • Improve the clipping/selection tool
  • Implement OCR and handwriting search
  • Provide a Mac version

In-app purchases

2 purchases

MetaMoJi Note

One-time2
  • MetaMoJi Gold Service (1 month)$4.99
  • MetaMoJi Gold Service (12 months)$29.99
4 purchases

Notes Writer

Subscriptions3
  • Weekly$1.997 Days
  • Notes Writer Unlock All and AI3 Days trial$3.991 Month
  • Notes Writer Unlock All and AI3 Days trial$14.991 Year
One-time1
  • Lifetime Pro Full Unlock$14.99

Questions

Is MetaMoJi Note free?
MetaMoJi Note costs $7.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Is Notes Writer free?
Notes Writer is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, MetaMoJi Note or Notes Writer?
Notes Writer is rated higher. MetaMoJi Note averages 3.4 out of 5 from 32 ratings, while Notes Writer averages 4.5 from 7.3K ratings.
Do MetaMoJi Note or Notes Writer have ads?
Neither MetaMoJi Note nor Notes Writer shows ads.
Which is updated more often, MetaMoJi Note or Notes Writer?
MetaMoJi Note ships an update every 2 months, and Notes Writer every 4 days. Most recently, MetaMoJi Note was updated on November 10, 2026 and Notes Writer on November 12, 2026.

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