uFocus vs NotePrints
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
uFocus
A distraction-free writing app designed for creative expression. It supports plain text files, offers advanced Markdown and Fountain syntax for various writing needs, and provides tools to enhance focus and productivity.
- Unobtrusive interface
- Text statistics
- MultiMarkdown support
- Fountain screenplay support
- Highlighting options
- Typewriter scrolling
- Customizable themes
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uFocus is a distraction-free writing environment that supports plain text files and allows you to keep them organized inside libraries. It allows everyone to express their creativity in the most simple way. • Unobtrusive interface: the navigation bar disappears while writing. • Swipe to show the sidebar. Here you can link your favorite libraries and quickly access your documents. • Show text statistics including character and word count and reading time. • MultiMarkdown: easily add headings, quotes, ordered and unordered lists, links, images, italics, bold, footnotes, citations, glossaries and acronyms. You can then export your documents to HTML or PDF. With CriticMarkup and Live Edit Mode you can easily mark removals, additions and substitutions, add highlghts and comments, and accept or reject them. • Fountain: create screenplays with the Markdown-inspired markup syntax and print or export them as PDF with industry-standard formatting. • Highlighting: you can stay even more focused by fading out all the text but the current sentence or paragraph. • Typewriter scrolling: automatically scrolls the text when you get on a new line. • Sound mode: experience the ultimate feeling of a typewriter. • No deletions mode: disable deletions and replacements if your greatest temptation is always to edit your text instead of writing. • Fullscreen: focus on your words and hide everything else. • Choose between three different editor widths, four font sizes and a light, dark, sepia or amber theme, or create your own theme. • Print single files or entire directory hierarchies. If you have any requests, suggestions or bug reports, you're welcome to visit the website through the Support link.
NotePrints
This app allows you to view, annotate, and create PDF documents with powerful markup tools. It handles large files and offers extensive zoom capabilities, along with drawing and text editing features. You can also manage files, extract pages, and share your work across devices.
- View and markup PDF files
- Support for large format and multi-page PDFs
- 300x zoom capability
- Vector graphics drawing engine
- Create new PDFs from camera or photos
- Add shapes, rich text, and hand drawings
- Cut, copy, and paste between documents
- File management and page manipulation
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Welcome NotePrints - Virtual paper done right! Leave your NotePrints all over your documents including large CAD drawings NotePrints can do: + View and add markups to PDF files NotePrints is naturally one of the fastest PDF viewers One touch activates powerful markup features + Work with large files and large format sheets NotePrints was built from the ground up for large format PDF files (36” x 48” and larger page sizes) and files with 1000's of pages + 300x Zoom Zoom way in to create and view small details Deepest zoom in the industry + Vector graphics drawing engine Graphics are always crisp retina quality at all zoom levels + Create PDFs Create new PDFs from camera or Photos or by choosing from blank or patterned virtual paper + Add shapes, photos and rich text Add straight lines, rectangles, ellipses and perfect squares and circles Add photos from camera or Photos Create rich text with many fonts, colors and formatting options + Draw by Hand Basic efficient vector drawing engine with many colors, line widths and line types to choose from + Cut, Copy, Paste Cut, Copy and Paste between pages and documents + Open locked PDFs View password protected PDF files + Desktop file management Create, move, copy, delete and rename files, folders and sub-folders + Add, Delete, Extract pages Add pages at any point in PDF Delete any pages from PDF Extract any pages to new PDF file + Transfer files Use iTunes sharing or DropBox to copy files to/from NotePrints Share and open PDF files with other apps with "Open in ..." support Open PDF email attachments directly into NotePrints Email files directly from NotePrints + Package Package all your edits and original PDF file into a proprietary NotePrints .npd file and transfer to your computer for backup or to another iPad or iPhone to continue editing
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: uFocus at Free against NotePrints's $0.99. uFocus also leads on review sentiment (91% vs 50%) and ratings volume (35 vs 1). NotePrints's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.7) and update cadence (every 9 days vs monthly). On ads, in-app purchases, monetization model and iOS requirement 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
uFocus is free to download; NotePrints costs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
NotePrints holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: uFocus has 35 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 91% of uFocus's written reviews are positive against 50% of NotePrints's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
uFocus ships an update monthly, NotePrints every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on October 8, 2026 and October 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | uFocus | NotePrints |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $0.99 |
| Rating | 4.7 (35 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 91.0% of reviews — better | 50.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 35 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Every 9 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac, Vision Pro — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 7 MB | 32 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Nicolas Kick | Scott Saia |
Customer experience
uFocus
NotePrints
In-app purchases
uFocus
No in-app purchases
NotePrints
No in-app purchases









