Zealous Notes vs CanvasGraph
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Zealous Notes
Organize your thoughts with a versatile note-taking application. Link related notes, embed various media files directly, and enhance your text with markup tools. Features include searchable PDFs, video playback, and audio transcription.
- Stackable and linked notes
- Inline PDF, video, and audio embedding
- Searchable and mark-upable PDFs
- Audio transcription
- Hashtag organization
- Marker mode with zoom
- Calendar event linking
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A lot like the Notes app you're used to, plus some added features: • Open several notes as a stack. - related notes can be linked together. • Subdivide your notes into Sections • PDFs, Video & Audio files attach inline, alongside your notes' other contents. - PDFs can be zoomed, scrolled, searched & marked-up. - Videos can play picture-in-picture or full-screen - Voice Notes audio files can be transcribed (with your permission) • Keep related notes together: - embed related notes as attachments - assign relatable #hashtags to your notes • Marker Mode - mark anywhere inside or outside of your notes - link markup with your highlighted or underlined text. - zoom-in for more precise drawings. • Link notes to your Calendar events (with your permission) • Case sensitive Find/Replace/Replace-All • Multiple Line-Spacing options See the included `Getting Started` guide for more, including several additional features available from within the app's Settings.
CanvasGraph
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Tracking what happens in your life can be reliable, easy, and fun. Use emojis created by users or draw your own. Track and verify your daily events and changes in a convenient way. Share your sketches with the community.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: CanvasGraph at Free against Zealous Notes's $4.99. CanvasGraph also leads on iOS requirement (12.0 vs 26.0). On update cadence, ads, in-app purchases 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
CanvasGraph is free to download; Zealous Notes costs $4.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Zealous Notes ships an update every 8 days, CanvasGraph every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on October 10, 2026 and October 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Zealous Notes | CanvasGraph |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $4.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.3 (3 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 3 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 8 days — better | Every 10 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 265 MB | 61 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Jason Browning | Natalia Swierczyna |
In-app purchases
Zealous Notes
No in-app purchases
CanvasGraph
No in-app purchases
