Simple Quick Notepad vs SafeNotes
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Simple Quick Notepad
This free notepad app allows for quick text entry, saving links, and composing messages with spell-checking. It also offers features like text-to-speech, camera scanning, and translation, making it ideal for students and professionals.
- Quickly jot down ideas
- Save important links
- Compose and spell-check text
- Scan text from documents/books
- Convert text to speech
- Translate sentences
- Automatic text saving
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Your new go-to notepad for quickly jotting down anything. Completely free with no ads or in-app purchases. KEY FEATURES Jot down ideas Save important links Compose and spell-check a text Create calendar events Take notes in a meeting or lecture Look up a word in the dictionary Translate a sentence to any language Scan text from a document or book using your camera Convert text to speech - let your device read your notes aloud Quickly paste text from elsewhere or copy text to share Your text is automatically saved so you never lose it PERFECT FOR STUDENTS & PROFESSIONALS - Take notes in lectures and meetings ANYONE who wants to take notes as quickly as possible and know that they will be stored automatically.
SafeNotes
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This app encrypts and save notes locally on your device. For enchanted security it does not save to the cloud. All your notes are protected. Use Apple'a built in biometrics to login. If your device does not support biometrics then you can use a password.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Simple Quick Notepad at every 9 days against SafeNotes's every 3 months. SafeNotes's advantage is iOS requirement (18.0 vs 26.0). On price, 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Simple Quick Notepad ships an update every 9 days, SafeNotes every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 1, 2026 and October 4, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Simple Quick Notepad | SafeNotes |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews | — |
| Update frequency | Every 9 days — better | Every 3 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac | iPhone, iPad, Mac |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 18.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 1 MB | 10 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Jack Finnis | Alltech Service Engineers Limited |
In-app purchases
Simple Quick Notepad
No in-app purchases
SafeNotes
No in-app purchases
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