Comparison

LP vs Papertone

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

Head to head
About

LP

This app helps you track, plan, and achieve your life goals with a visual calendar and progress monitoring. Share your journey with friends and personalize your experience with custom themes.

Highlights
  • Life Calendar for progress monitoring
  • Comprehensive life goals tracking
  • Share life goals with others
  • Personalizable color themes
  • iCloud sync across devices
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Life Progress is a powerful app designed to help you track, plan, and achieve your most important life goals. With a range of features tailored to help you get the most out of your life journey, you'll find everything you need in one convenient app. Key Features: - Life Calendar: Monitor your journey and track your progress in life with a visually appealing and easy-to-use life calendar. - Life Goals Tracking: Set inspiring objectives, pick your goals, and achieve them with our comprehensive life goals tracking system. Celebrate your milestones by viewing completed life goals and successes. - Share Life Goal: Connect with friends and loved ones by sharing your life goals and progress. Inspire and be inspired as you witness each other's achievements and provide encouragement along the way. - Theming: Personalize your experience by choosing from a variety of color themes. - iCloud Sync: Keep your data synced across all your devices with seamless iCloud integration.

About

Papertone

This app offers a nostalgic note-taking experience with a retro iOS aesthetic. It features skeuomorphic textures and physical notebook elements for a charming interface. Easily create, search, and manage your notes with a focus on simplicity and elegance.

Highlights
  • Skeuomorphic textures
  • Lined paper backgrounds
  • Retro Apple-style interface
  • Hidden settings shortcut
  • Note import/export
  • Time format options
Features
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Papertone is a simple, elegant note-taking app inspired by the golden era of iOS — complete with skeuomorphic textures, lined paper backgrounds, and nostalgic charm. Everything is built to feel like a physical notebook — soft shadows, realistic textures, and a retro Apple-style interface. Here's what you need to know: • Tap the + button in the top-right corner to create a new note. • Need to find something? Pull down on your notes list to reveal the search bar. • Tap to edit button to make changes on the note. • Don't forget, first line of the note will be the title. • Want to access settings? Tap the "Notes" header 5 times — it's a hidden shortcut to keep the interface clean. From the settings menu, you can: • Switch between 12-hour and 24-hour time formats • Import or export your notes • Delete all notes (careful, this can't be undone) Just open and start writing — no distractions, no complexity. https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

LP4 screens
Papertone4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: LP at Free against Papertone's $1.99. Papertone's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.2) and in-app purchases (none vs 1). On ratings volume, ads 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

LP is free to download; Papertone costs $1.99 up front. LP sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Papertone asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Papertone holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.2. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 5 and 3 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 5 level
LP versus Papertone: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLPPapertone
PriceFree — better$1.99
Rating4.2 (5 ratings)5.0 (3 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—75.0% of reviews
Number of ratings5 — better3
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases — betterPaid
Best chart rank—#190 — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.015.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size8 MB29 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperBartosz KrolYUSUF SAHAN TARHAN

Customer experience

LP

All ratings5 ratings
Positive80.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative20.0%

Papertone

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive75.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative25.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

LP

One-time1
  • Premium$1.99
None

Papertone

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is LP free?
LP is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Papertone free?
Papertone costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, LP or Papertone?
Papertone is rated higher. LP averages 4.2 out of 5 from 5 ratings, while Papertone averages 5.0 from 3 ratings.
Do LP or Papertone have ads?
Neither LP nor Papertone shows ads.

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