Comparison

Meeting Notepad vs Microsoft Whiteboard

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

Head to head
About

Meeting Notepad

Streamline your meeting note-taking process with this iPad app. Automatically pre-fill meeting details from your calendar and easily add action items. Generate and share professionally formatted minutes via email or print with a single click.

Highlights
  • Type meeting notes on iPad
  • Calendar appointment auto-fill
  • Copy previous meetings for new ones
  • Add action items with due dates
  • Email or print formatted minutes
  • Voice dictation for notes
  • Export notes to cloud storage
Features
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Take meeting minutes on your iPad, automatically pre-filled using your calendar appointments, and email or print them in one click with this time-saving meeting notes app. Say goodbye to wasting time at your desk typing up meeting notes! No more lugging a heavy laptop to every meeting! Now you can use your iPad to take meeting notes on the spot, no preparation required. At the end of the meeting, with the click of a button everyone will have professionally formatted meeting minutes delivered to their email inbox instantly. KEY FEATURES: - Type Meeting Notes On Your iPad Your iPad is now the perfect tool for meetings - take notes, including the meeting title, date, location and agenda. Save time by pre-filling it from your calendar appointment or by copying a previous meeting. Add action items to your meeting notes, each with a description, owner and due date. At the end of the meeting, email or print professionally formatted meeting minutes to all the attendees, automatically generated for you. - Add Meetings From Your Calendar, Automatically Pre-Filled For You Select any meeting from your calendar for a new meeting and it will be auto-filled with all relevant details, including the meeting title, date, room, list of attendees and agenda. - Got a Regular Meeting? Auto-Fill New Meetings By Copying a Previous Meeting Create a new meeting by copying any previous meeting's notes. The new meeting will be auto-filled from the previous meeting, updated with today's date and time. - Add Attendees From Your Address Book With Auto-Complete No need to type each person's full name - with Address Book auto-complete, just type in a few letters and you will be prompted with a list of suggested names to add to your meetings in one click. - Type Action Items With Due Dates Add action items to your meeting notes, each with a description, owner and due date. See overdue action items highlighted in read, and tick them off to mark items as completed. Set a reminder so you don't miss a due date. - Email Professionally Formatted Minutes to Meeting Attendees At the end of your meeting, click the Share icon to automatically generate professionally formatted meeting minutes and email them to all the meeting attendees. Need to re-send last week's meeting notes? It's easy - just open that meeting and click "Email" to re-send it. - Print Professionally Formatted Minutes Instantly Sometimes you need a hard copy print-out of your meeting notes - now you can have the best of both worlds. Type your notes on your iPad, then click "Print" to generate professionally formatted meeting minutes printed on any AirPrint-enabled printer. - Voice Dictation Tap the microphone button on your iPad keyboard to enable voice dictation, then talk and let your iPad do the typing for you. - Export Meeting Notes To Dropbox, Evernote, iBooks, AirDrop And More Export your meeting notes to your favourite document storage apps, including Dropbox, Evernote, iBooks, Kindle, Google Drive and SkyDrive. Send your meeting notes as a PDF to nearby iPhones and iPads using AirDrop. WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING: "It's exactly what I wanted for taking meeting minutes on my iPad." - Ruth B., Office Administrator "This app is such a time saver! I used to sit at my PC after each meeting to type up the minutes and email them manually. Now I just bring my iPad with me and email the minutes on the spot at the end of the meeting!" - Charlie S., Executive Assistant "This is in my Top 10 list of useful apps on my iPad. I attend lots of meetings with clients, so having a dedicated app for taking meeting notes on my iPad has been so useful. I can't believe used to type them in Notes before I found out about Meeting Notes!" - Jessica S., Sales Manager

About

Microsoft Whiteboard

This app offers a freeform digital canvas for individuals and teams to brainstorm, create, and collaborate visually. It supports touch, type, and pen input, allowing for seamless real-time teamwork from anywhere. Your work is automatically saved to the cloud for easy access across devices.

Highlights
  • Infinite freeform canvas
  • Real-time team collaboration
  • Touch, type, and pen support
  • Pre-built templates
  • Shapes and lines library
  • Sticky notes and notes grids
  • Automatic cloud saving
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Update : The App performance has been significantly improved & there are also a ton of other features which have been added. Check out the “What’s new” section for more details!! Microsoft Whiteboard provides a freeform intelligent canvas where individuals & teams alike can ideate, create, and collaborate visually via the cloud. Designed for touch, type & pen, it lets you write or draw as smoothly as you would with ink, you can even type in text, add sticky notes or notes grid to express your ideas & use reactions to visually communicate your thoughts. It enhances teamwork by allowing all team members to edit the canvas in real time, no matter where they are. Get started quickly by inserting a pre-built template or draw your own flowchart using our expansive shapes library. No matter what your use case, we have the right set of tools for you and all your work stays safe in the cloud, ready to be picked back up from another location or device. -- Create freely, work naturally – Microsoft Whiteboard provides an infinite canvas where imagination has room to grow: draw, type, add a sticky note or a notes grid, move them around – it’s all possible. The touch-first, pen-first interface frees your ideas from the keyboard, and the intelligent inking technology transforms your doodles into great-looking shapes and lines that can be copied, pasted and combined with other objects. Moreover, you can also, ink on your sticky notes & text boxes and magically see the ink get converted to text using Apple Scribble functionality (on iPads with Apple Pencil). --Collaborate in real time, wherever you are— Microsoft Whiteboard brings every member of a team together working from their own devices across the globe. On the Whiteboard canvas, you can also see what your teammates are doing in real time and start collaborating on the same area. It’s about getting everyone on the same page – or board. --Save automatically, resume seamlessly – Forget having to take photos of your whiteboards, or marking them with “Do Not Erase.” With Microsoft Whiteboard, your brainstorming sessions are saved automatically to the Microsoft cloud, so you can pick up where you left off, whenever – and wherever – inspiration strikes next. What’s new: • Improved App Performance & Reduction in crashes which has been a strong customer ask. • Modern look and feel: 1. Streamlined user experience - an unobtrusive app UI maximizes your canvas space. 2. Creation gallery - a highly discoverable, simple way of finding and using objects and features in the application. • Interactive content features: 3. 40+ customizable templates – get started quickly and collaborate, brainstorm, and ideate with brand new templates. 4. Shapes & Lines - Choose from an expansive library of shapes & lines to visually collaborate & ideate with your team members 5. Reactions - provide lightweight, contextual feedback with a set of fun reactions. • Inking features: 6. Apple Scribble – Ink on text boxes & sticky notes and see your ink strokes magically convert to text (on iPads with Apple pencil) 7. Ink arrows – smoothly draw single and double-sided arrows using ink to better facilitate diagramming. Dichiarazione di accessibilità: https://www.microsoft.com/it-it/accessibility/declarations

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Microsoft Whiteboard4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Meeting Notepad at 80% against Microsoft Whiteboard's 36%. Meeting Notepad also leads on iOS requirement (11.0 vs 17.0). Microsoft Whiteboard's advantage is rating (4.6 vs 2.7) and in-app purchases (none vs 1). On price, 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. Meeting Notepad sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Microsoft Whiteboard asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Microsoft Whiteboard holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 2.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Microsoft Whiteboard has 12K ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 80% of Meeting Notepad's written reviews are positive against 36% of Microsoft Whiteboard's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Meeting Notepad ships an update every 4 months, Microsoft Whiteboard every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 19, 2026 and October 22, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Meeting Notepad versus Microsoft Whiteboard: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMeeting NotepadMicrosoft Whiteboard
PriceFreeFree
Rating2.7 (3 ratings)4.6 (12K ratings) — better
Positive reviews80.0% of reviews — better36.1% of reviews
Number of ratings312K — better
Update frequencyEvery 4 monthsEvery 6 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPadiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS11.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size12 MB32 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperNathan PelesMicrosoft Corporation

Customer experience

Meeting Notepad

All ratings3 ratings
Positive33.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative66.7%
Written reviews35 reviews
Positive80.0%
Neutral5.7%
Negative14.3%

Microsoft Whiteboard

All ratings11,067 ratings
Positive89.5%
Neutral3.4%
Negative7.1%
Written reviews352 reviews
Positive36.1%
Neutral13.1%
Negative50.9%

Bugs and requests

Meeting Notepad

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

Microsoft Whiteboard

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Frequent crashes and freezes
  • Unsaved work loss
  • Unreliable sync and loading
  • Inconsistent behavior across devices

Requested features

6 requests
  • Add offline support
  • Improve palm rejection
  • Implement handwriting recognition
  • Allow font and color customization
  • Add locking/anchoring options
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  • Enhance sharing and export capabilities

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Meeting Notepad

One-time1
  • Unlimited Meeting Notes$1.99
None

Microsoft Whiteboard

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Meeting Notepad free?
Meeting Notepad is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Microsoft Whiteboard free?
Microsoft Whiteboard is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Meeting Notepad or Microsoft Whiteboard?
Microsoft Whiteboard is rated higher. Meeting Notepad averages 2.7 out of 5 from 3 ratings, while Microsoft Whiteboard averages 4.6 from 12K ratings.
Do Meeting Notepad or Microsoft Whiteboard have ads?
Neither Meeting Notepad nor Microsoft Whiteboard shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Meeting Notepad or Microsoft Whiteboard?
Meeting Notepad ships an update every 4 months, and Microsoft Whiteboard every 6 weeks. Most recently, Meeting Notepad was updated on October 19, 2026 and Microsoft Whiteboard on October 22, 2026.

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