Simple Notes vs Notepad
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Simple Notes
A powerful yet simple note-taking application offering cross-device syncing, customizable themes, and robust security features. It allows users to set reminders, highlight text, and even save notes as images.
- Cross-device syncing (Dropbox/iCloud)
- Zoomable font sizes
- Searchable highlighted text
- Note reminders
- Password protection (AES 256-bit)
- Shake to undo/redo
- Customizable themes and fonts
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Simple, Clean and Easy to Use, Yet Powerful and Loaded with Features. Key Features: --------------------- - One universal app for all your IOS Devices. - Sync your notes with Dropbox and/or iCloud. - Zoom in or out on any note to get the ideal font size suitable for your vision. - Highlight words and search terms inside your notes. - Set reminders to your notes to read them later. - Save text as an image to your camera roll. - Use Password Protection with Advanced Encryption Standard (AES 256-bit) to secure data and to protect your notes from prying eyes. - Shake your device to undo or redo: delete, creating, editing, restoring and more. - 9 font styles with five font colors. - Sort your notes chronologically or alphabetically. - Choose from six different color themes to modify your notes to suit your taste. - The ability to AirPrint your notes. - Auto Paste: when you run the app it will save text that you copied (Text in the Clipboard) automatically as a note. - Night Mode that makes reading in the dark easier on your eyes. - And much more..
Notepad
Capture thoughts, pictures, voice notes, and checklists with this powerful yet simple notepad. Securely store logins and passwords, organize with categories, and easily find information with quick search. Includes reminders and backup options.
- Capture thoughts, pictures, and voice records
- Create and manage checklists
- Secure storage for logins and passwords
- Organize notes with categories and colors
- Quick search functionality
- Backup and restore data
- Password protection for app startup
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Smart notepad makes it easy to capture your thought, pictures, voice records, checklist, birthdays, logins, and passwords. You can easily organize it and find it quickly later. The notepad helps you to keep all information with you. Smart notepad is very powerful but simple and easy to use. Main features: - Add notes - Add existing pictures to notes - Take photos and add to notes - Add voice records and listen to at any time - Add checklists - Add and remember birthdays - Secure storage for logins and passwords - Encoding with RSA and DES algorithms - Categories for notes - Colors for categories - A quick search for any data - Recent notes list - Restore removed notes from trash folder - Sorting notes by different fields - Birthdays reminder - Quick buttons to create notes - Quick copy data to memory - Password on application startup - Restore password to the email - Backup/restore data - Print notes - Share notes Supported languages: English, Russian, Spanish, Hindi, Portuguese, Indonesian, German, Bengali, French, Italian, Vietnamese, Chinese Simplified If you have any ideas for improvement just contact us by softser06@gmail.com Permissions Notice Camera: This is used to attach images to notes Microphone: This is used to attach voice records to notes Storage: This is used to backup/restore all notes (Ages 10+)
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Notepad at 5.0 against Simple Notes's 4.0. Notepad also leads on review sentiment (91% vs 82%). Simple Notes's advantage is price ($2.99 vs $6.99) and ratings volume (39 vs 2). On update cadence, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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
Simple Notes costs $2.99 and Notepad $6.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Notepad holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Simple Notes has 39 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 82% of Simple Notes's written reviews are positive against 91% of Notepad's.
Simple Notes ships an update every 2 months, Notepad every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 21, 2026 and August 16, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Simple Notes | Notepad |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $2.99 — better | $6.99 |
| Rating | 4.0 (39 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 82.0% of reviews | 90.9% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 39 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 6 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 25 MB | 79 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Sadah Software Solutions, LLC | siarhei yatsuk |
Customer experience
Simple Notes
Notepad
In-app purchases
Simple Notes
No in-app purchases
Notepad
No in-app purchases
