Comparison

Clearly Reader vs Notedrafts

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

Head to head
About

Clearly Reader

This app helps you manage and read your saved clippings with a customizable full-screen experience. Organize your collection with mobile tag management and filter historical data for easy review.

Highlights
  • Clipping management
  • Full-screen reading
  • Customizable fonts and themes
  • Mobile tag management
  • Filter historical clippings
Features
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Clearly Reader App makes clipping available at your fingertips. We offer a range of features that optimize your reading experience: - Browse and filter multiple types of historical clippings to help review your collection - Full-screen reading experience, with customizable fonts, font sizes, line heights, and theme colors - Convenient mobile tag management.

About

Notedrafts

This app allows you to write, organize, and mark up documents with various tools. It supports PDF annotation, freeform sketching on a large canvas, and vertically extended pages for continuous writing. Customize templates, import various file types, and organize notes with folders and icons.

Highlights
  • Write on PDFs
  • Freeform canvas sketching
  • Vertically extended pages
  • Customizable templates
  • Import PDFs and images
  • Organize with folders and icons
Features
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Notedrafts is a note taking app that lets you write and organize your thoughts across different types of documents. Whether you're marking up a PDF, writing on a large canvas, or taking notes in a long vertical layout, Notedrafts adapts to your workflow. Note taking: - Write on PDF - Create notebooks with customizable templates - Sketch and note taking on a large freeform canvas - Take notes on vertically extended pages for long lists or continuous writing Customizable templates - Choose from daily planners, monthly calendars, habit trackers, and more - Adjust start times, set the current month, and choose how many habits to track - Change page size and background color Import and export - Import PDFs, images, or scan paper documents - Export your notes and share them easily Organize with ease - Create folders with custom icons and colors - Pin important documents and folders to the sidebar for quick access - perfect for study notes and school notes Advanced writing and drawing tools - Pens - Regular Pen, Monoline, Fountain Pen, Pencil, Watercolor, Highlighter - Tools - Ruler, Stroke Eraser, Pixel Eraser, Lasso - Insert images and text into your notes

Screenshots

Clearly Reader3 screens
Notedrafts4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Notedrafts at 82% against Clearly Reader's 25%. Notedrafts also leads on rating (4.8 vs 3.0) and ratings volume (753 vs 3). Clearly Reader's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 11) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 17.6). On price, 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

Both are free to download. Notedrafts sells 11 one-off in-app purchases. Clearly Reader asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Notedrafts holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Notedrafts has 753 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 25% of Clearly Reader's written reviews are positive against 82% of Notedrafts's.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Clearly Reader versus Notedrafts: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterClearly ReaderNotedrafts
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.0 (3 ratings)4.8 (753 ratings) — better
Positive reviews25.0% of reviews81.6% of reviews — better
Number of ratings3753 — better
Update frequency—Every 3 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS11.0 — better17.6
Further details — not scored
Size65 MB13 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperLesslabAppycron Interactive e.K.

Customer experience

Clearly Reader

All ratings3 ratings
Positive33.3%
Neutral33.3%
Negative33.3%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive25.0%
Neutral25.0%
Negative50.0%

Notedrafts

All ratings753 ratings
Positive96.3%
Neutral2.0%
Negative1.7%
Written reviews190 reviews
Positive81.6%
Neutral9.5%
Negative8.9%

Bugs and requests

Clearly Reader

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

Notedrafts

Reported bugs

1 issue
  • No issues reported

Requested features

7 requests
  • Add support for scribble to erase
  • Implement custom notebook covers
  • Add pure text writing mode
  • Ability to customize toolbar
  • Embed URL links with web preview
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  • Add page tags and linking between pages
  • Introduce light mode app icon

In-app purchases

None

Clearly Reader

No in-app purchases

11 purchases

Notedrafts

One-time11
  • Bronze Tip$0.99
  • Silver Tip$1.99
  • Gold Tip$4.99
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  • PRO Version$5.99
  • Platinum Tip$9.99
  • Unlimited Notes$14.99
  • Diamond Tip$19.99
  • Unlimited Notes$24.99
  • Unlimited Notes$39.99
  • Unlimited Notes$49.99
  • Unlimited Notes$69.99

Questions

Is Clearly Reader free?
Clearly Reader is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Notedrafts free?
Notedrafts is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Clearly Reader or Notedrafts?
Notedrafts is rated higher. Clearly Reader averages 3.0 out of 5 from 3 ratings, while Notedrafts averages 4.8 from 753 ratings.
Do Clearly Reader or Notedrafts have ads?
Neither Clearly Reader nor Notedrafts shows ads.

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