Plane Notes vs Paper Maker
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Plane Notes
An intuitive notebook app featuring an infinite canvas for note-taking and idea organization. It allows for seamless creation and management of notes without page limitations.
- Infinite canvas
- Intuitive interface
- Note organization
- Idea management
- Seamless note creation
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This is an intuitive infinite canvas notebook app.
Paper Maker
Create custom paper templates for notes and journaling. Design lined, graph, dot grid, or Cornell pages with adjustable spacing, colors, and sizes. Export as high-quality PDFs for use in other apps or printing.
- Customizable paper templates
- Adjustable line/dot spacing
- Multiple page layouts (lined, graph, dot, Cornell)
- Customizable page size and orientation
- Dark mode paper option
- Vector PDF export
- Multi-page file creation
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Your note app comes with a few built-in papers, and none of them are quite right. The line spacing is off, the grid squares are the wrong size, there's no dark page for writing at night, and the template packs sold online come in sizes that don't fit your screen. Paper Maker makes the paper itself. Pick a template, set the size and spacing, choose your colors, and save a clean PDF to Files, your note app, or a printer. Pages are drawn as vector lines, so they stay sharp at any zoom and the files stay small. PICK A TEMPLATE Lined paper in wide, narrow, or college ruled spacing. Graph paper with the square size you choose. Dot grid for bullet journals and sketching. Cornell pages with the cue column and summary space already laid out. MAKE IT YOURS Page size for iPad note apps (4:3), A4, or US Letter. Portrait or landscape. Line and dot spacing from 2 to 15 mm, in half-millimeter steps. Line color, paper color, and dark pages for writing at night. Set the page margin and how many pages the file should have. SAVE IT ANYWHERE Export goes through the iOS share sheet, so the PDF goes wherever you write: Files, your note app, email, or a printer. ASKS FOR NOTHING No account, no sign-up, no permissions. Paper Maker never asks for your camera, photos, or microphone. You make and export paper offline, and your pages are never uploaded anywhere. WHY PAPER MAKER - Vector PDF pages that stay sharp at any zoom - Multi-page files, up to 50 pages at once - Dark paper that's easy to read at night - Collects nothing - No third-party ads Paper Maker is free, and nothing in it is locked behind a purchase. Need to add writing room to a PDF you already have, like a worksheet or a slide deck? That's our other app, PagePrep. Paper Maker makes new paper; PagePrep preps the documents you already own.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Paper Maker at none against Plane Notes's 1. Paper Maker also leads on ads (none vs shown) and rating (5.0 vs 4.6). Plane Notes's advantage is ratings volume (99 vs 1). On price, device support 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
Both are free to download. Plane Notes sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Paper Maker asks for nothing beyond the download.
Paper Maker holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Plane Notes has 99 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
| Parameter | Plane Notes | Paper Maker |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (99 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 43.5% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 99 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 days | — |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 8 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Jumpei Adachi | Prashant Angyan |
In-app purchases
Plane Notes
- Paid Version$5.99
Paper Maker
No in-app purchases








