Comparison

Zealous Notes vs My Notes

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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.

About

My Notes

Features
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My Notes: Voice, Diary & Memos app is developed to keep notes secure and accessible anytime, anywhere. Create your account or signing with google. Create your notes in your desired folder. If you want to save notes in some separate folder, you can easily create new folder. Save notes in desired folder. If there are some important things and you want to lock them, just add them to your secure folder. Create and remember your pin code set on secure folder and it will keep your notes secure and locked. If you delete some important notes and want to get them back, go to trash folder and recover these notes. Multiple notes formates available. You can use this app in daily life to align your routine tasks. Voice notes are important feature of this app. Just create your voice note, record your voice and save in to your phone. Your daily assistant to align tasks and maintain routine.

Screenshots

My Notes4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: My Notes at Free against Zealous Notes's $4.99. My Notes also leads on iOS requirement (12.0 vs 26.0). Zealous Notes's advantage is update cadence (every 8 days vs monthly). On 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

My Notes is free to download; Zealous Notes costs $4.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Zealous Notes ships an update every 8 days, My Notes monthly. The most recent releases landed on June 4, 2026 and September 18, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 6 level
Zealous Notes versus My Notes: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterZealous NotesMy Notes
Price$4.99Free — better
Rating4.3 (3 ratings) — better
Number of ratings3 — better
Update frequencyEvery 8 days — betterMonthly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS26.012.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size265 MB72 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperJason BrowningSaad Ameen

In-app purchases

None

Zealous Notes

No in-app purchases

None

My Notes

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Zealous Notes free?
Zealous Notes costs $4.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is My Notes free?
My Notes is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Zealous Notes or My Notes have ads?
Neither Zealous Notes nor My Notes shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Zealous Notes or My Notes?
Zealous Notes ships an update every 8 days, and My Notes monthly. Most recently, Zealous Notes was updated on June 4, 2026 and My Notes on September 18, 2026.

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