MyNotePad vs Standard Notes
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
MyNotePad
This app offers a streamlined note-taking experience with intuitive gestures. Customize your notes with different fonts and paper styles, and easily navigate between them. It's designed for simplicity and on-the-go use.
- Gesture-based navigation
- Pinch-to-zoom for font size
- Customizable fonts
- Customizable paper styles
- Easy page turning
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Writing notes on your iPhone should be simple. There should be fewer buttons and more natural gestures. You shouldn't have to deal with "Marker Felt" font or yellow-lined paper. TextPad was built from the ground up to be easy to use and as "finger friendly" as possible. Want to change the font size? Just pinch-to-zoom! Want to key the keyboard out of the way? Push it off of the screen! Want to go to another note? Turn the page with a flick of your finger! TextPad was built to be the best way for you to take notes on the go.
Standard Notes
Securely capture and sync your thoughts across all devices with end-to-end encryption. This app offers a simple, lasting place for all your notes, from personal thoughts to sensitive information, with robust privacy features.
- End-to-end encryption
- Cross-device syncing
- Offline access
- Passcode and biometric lock
- Tagging system
- Open-source code
- Optional productivity editors and themes
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Standard Notes is a private and secure end-to-end encrypted notes app. It allows you to write and sync your notes across all your devices, including your iPhone, iPad, Mac, and web browser. Private means your notes are end-to-end encrypted, so only you can read your notes. Even we can't read the contents of your notes. Simple means it does one job and does it well. Standard Notes is a safe and lasting place for your life's work. Our focus is making it easy to write notes wherever you are and syncing them with encryption to all your devices. Our users love us for: • Personal Notes • Tasks & Todos • Passwords & Keys • Code & Technical Procedures • Private Journal • Meeting Notes • Cross-platform Scratchpad • Books, Recipes, & Movies • Health & Fitness Log Standard Notes comes free with: • Seamless sync across all your devices, with easy to use applications on iPhone, iPad, Mac, web browsers, and other platforms. • Offline access, so you can access your downloaded notes even without a connection. • No limit on number of devices. • No limit on number of notes. • Passcode lock protection, along with Touch ID and Face ID protection. • A tagging system to organize your notes (like #work, #ideas, #passwords, #crypto). • The ability to pin, lock, protect, and move notes to trash, which allows you to recover deleted notes until the trash is emptied. Standard Notes is completely open-source, which means when we say your notes are encrypted with industry-leading XChaCha-20 encryption, and that only you can read your notes, you don't have to take our word for it. Our code is open to the world to audit. We made Standard Notes simple because longevity is important to us. We want to make sure we're here, protecting your notes, for the next hundred years. You shouldn't have to find a new notes app every year. To sustain our development, we offer optional paid subscriptions which give you access to powerful tools like: • Productivity editors (like Markdown, Code, Spreadsheets) • Beautiful themes (like Midnight, Focus, Solarized Dark) • Powerful cloud tools including daily backups of your encrypted data delivered to your email inbox every day, or backed up to your cloud provider (like Dropbox and Google Drive). We're always happy to talk, whether it be a question, thought, or issue. Please feel free to email us any time at help@standardnotes.com. When you take the time to send us a message, we'll be sure to do the same. EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: MyNotePad at none against Standard Notes's 1. MyNotePad also leads on review sentiment (83% vs 64%) and iOS requirement (10.0 vs 15.1). Standard Notes's advantage is update cadence (every 5 weeks vs every 13 months). On price, rating, ratings volume and ads 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
Both are free to download. Standard Notes sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $119.99 per year. MyNotePad asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.7 for MyNotePad against 4.7 for Standard Notes. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1.6K and 3.8K respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 83% of MyNotePad's written reviews are positive against 64% of Standard Notes's.
MyNotePad ships an update every 13 months, Standard Notes every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 13, 2026 and October 12, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | MyNotePad | Standard Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (1.6K ratings) | 4.7 (3.8K ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 82.5% of reviews — better | 64.1% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1.6K | 3.8K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 13 months | Every 5 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 10.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 4 MB | 92 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Daniel Amitay | Standard Notes Ltd. |
Customer experience
MyNotePad
Standard Notes
User reviews
MyNotePad
From 1.6K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Useful app
- 👍 Easy to customize
- 👍 Simple and easy to use
- 👍 Clean and minimalist design
- 👍 Great for note-taking
Room to improve
- 🐛 Note deletion issues
- 🔒 Lack of backup/sync options
- 🔒 No passcode/security feature
- 🐛 Keyboard issues with dark mode
- 🐛 Spell check problems
Standard Notes
From 3.8K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Fast and reliable sync
- 🔒 Excellent privacy and security
- 👍 Simple and intuitive interface
- 📚 Great for organizing notes
- 💻 Cross-platform availability
Room to improve
- 🐛 Occasional bugs and crashes
- 🔑 Frustrating login/authentication issues
- 💰 Expensive premium subscription
- 📱 Limited features in free version
- 🖍️ Lack of formatting options
Bugs and requests
MyNotePad
Reported bugs
4 issues- Note deletion issues
- Keyboard issues with dark mode
- Spell check problems
- Compatibility issues with new iOS updates
Requested features
6 requests- Ability to organize notes into folders
- Support for formatting (bold, italic, underline)
- Backup and sync options
- Passcode/security feature
- Improved spell check
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- Ability to list notes in alphabetical order
Standard Notes
Reported bugs
4 issues- Notes disappearing or getting deleted unexpectedly
- Sync issues between devices
- Keyboard and UI bugs on mobile
- Compatibility problems with older iOS versions
Requested features
5 requests- Add support for images and attachments
- Implement a more robust search function
- Introduce a dark mode option
- Allow for better note organization (folders, nested tags)
- Add undo/redo functionality
In-app purchases
MyNotePad
No in-app purchases
Standard Notes
- Professional Plan7 Days trial$119.991 Year
Questions
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