Comparison

Meeting Notepad vs Notebook

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

Notebook

Capture your thoughts, ideas, and tasks with a versatile digital notebook. Create rich notes with text, files, audio, and video. Organize content visually, collaborate in real-time, and access everything across your devices.

Highlights
  • Rich note creation with text, files, audio, and video
  • Checklist creation for task management
  • Bookmark collection and offline reading
  • Kanban-style note organization
  • Real-time collaboration and sharing
  • AI-powered journaling suggestions
  • Cross-device and cloud synchronization
Features
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Zoho Notebook is a free, ad-free note-taking app for students, teams and researchers: capture, find and reuse what you write down — typed notes, Apple Pencil handwriting, voice recordings with AI transcription, checklists, files and document scans in one note. Syncs across iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch and other devices. WHAT PEOPLE USE NOTEBOOK FOR 1. MEETING AND LECTURE NOTES Record with audio or video cards; Notebook AI turns it into searchable text with timestamps, so you jump straight to the decision instead of replaying it. Structured minutes with title, participants, decisions and action points sit in the note beside your highlights. Record screen and self at once; longer videos get chapters. 2. STUDY AND RESEARCH Record lectures and search the transcript weeks later. Scan textbooks and business cards, handwrite and sketch with Apple Pencil, use OCR to find text inside photos and handwritten notes, so nothing you captured becomes unfindable. A long note becomes an AI mind map before an exam. 3. DAILY TO-DOS AND JOURNALING Dedicated checklist cards keep tasks beside your notes, and recurring reminders keep them on schedule. Journaling prompts come from your own activity, easier to keep than a blank page. 4. FILES, SCANS, AND SAVED READING Add PDFs, Word docs and spreadsheets with file cards. Articles, videos, recipes and how-tos become Smart Cards, formatted automatically, readable offline and ad-free. Group it all into nested collections. QUESTIONS PEOPLE ASK Is it free? Yes, with 2GB of free storage and no ads. Notebook Pro adds more storage, longer notes, larger attachments, Email-In to save emails as notes, premium covers, and custom recurring reminders. Can I move my notes from Evernote, Google Keep, or OneNote? Yes, with dedicated migration tools; it arrives organized. Is my data private? Notes are encrypted in transit and at rest. We never sell your data and never show ads. Lock notes or notebooks with a password, Touch ID or Face ID; previews stay hidden until unlocked. Does it work offline? Yes. Create, edit and read offline, then pick up on another device once it syncs to the cloud. What can Notebook AI do? Transcribe audio and video, build mind maps, summarize and simplify, fix grammar, set tone (casual, professional, friendly, direct, or confident), translate into any language, draft notes, checklists, tables, code or a template from a prompt, and suggest tags. Notebook AI is a separate add-on. Does it use on-device AI and Siri? Yes. An on-device Knowledge Graph links ideas across notebooks and answers questions from your own notes. Siri creates and updates notes by voice with the app closed, and On-Screen Awareness summarizes what's on screen without switching apps. Can I share with non-users? Yes. @mention people to collaborate in real time, or publish a public note or video by link. MORE INSIDE - Search by title, content, tag, collaborator, or notebook; filter by any card type, contact, or link; search within one note; sort by date or relevance, with auto-suggestions and recent searches, offline and across languages - iPhone: text-search audio notes, share via iMessage, dictate with Siri, recent notes from the Notification Bar, SharePlay in calls - iPad: drag and drop, split view, slide over, multiple windows, Stage Manager - Apple Watch: record audio, scribble notes, check off lists, add photo notes, record in one tap from a watch face complication - VoiceOver and a dark interface - Roll back to any of a note's last 10 versions Subscriptions auto-renew unless cancelled and are charged to your Apple Account. Prices vary by location. Manage in your account settings. Privacy - https://www.zoho.com/privacy.html Terms - https://www.zoho.com/terms.html

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Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Notebook at 4.7 against Meeting Notepad's 2.7. Notebook also leads on update cadence (every 6 days vs every 4 months) and ratings volume (24K vs 3). Meeting Notepad's advantage is review sentiment (80% vs 64%) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 16.0). On price, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Meeting Notepad sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Notebook sells 7 in-app purchases, starting at $2.49 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Notebook holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 2.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Notebook has 24K 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 64% of Notebook'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, Notebook every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on October 10, 2026 and October 17, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Meeting Notepad versus Notebook: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMeeting NotepadNotebook
PriceFreeFree
Rating2.7 (3 ratings)4.7 (24K ratings) — better
Positive reviews80.0% of reviews — better64.3% of reviews
Number of ratings324K — better
Update frequencyEvery 4 monthsEvery 6 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPadiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS11.0 — better16.0
Further details — not scored
Size12 MB220 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperNathan PelesZoho Corporation

Customer experience

Meeting Notepad

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

Notebook

All ratings23,850 ratings
Positive93.2%
Neutral3.1%
Negative3.7%
Written reviews608 reviews
Positive64.3%
Neutral10.5%
Negative25.2%

Bugs and requests

Meeting Notepad

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

Notebook

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Notes disappearing or getting corrupted
  • Freezing and crashing issues
  • Inconsistent behavior when editing notes
  • Syncing problems across devices

Requested features

5 requests
  • Improved sorting and reordering options for notes
  • Enhanced search capabilities
  • Ability to export notes in various formats
  • More customization options for notebook covers
  • Integration with other productivity apps

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Meeting Notepad

One-time1
  • Unlimited Meeting Notes$1.99
7 purchases

Notebook

Subscriptions7
  • Notebook Pro$2.491 Month
  • Notebook Pro Plus$3.991 Month
  • Notebook AI$4.991 Month
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  • Notebook Personal$14.991 Year
  • Notebook Pro2 variants$24.991 Year
  • Notebook Pro Plus$39.991 Year
  • Notebook AI$49.991 Year

Questions

Is Meeting Notepad free?
Meeting Notepad is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Notebook free?
Notebook is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Meeting Notepad or Notebook?
Notebook is rated higher. Meeting Notepad averages 2.7 out of 5 from 3 ratings, while Notebook averages 4.7 from 24K ratings.
Do Meeting Notepad or Notebook have ads?
Neither Meeting Notepad nor Notebook shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Meeting Notepad or Notebook?
Meeting Notepad ships an update every 4 months, and Notebook every 6 days. Most recently, Meeting Notepad was updated on October 10, 2026 and Notebook on October 17, 2026.

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