Comparison

Simple Quick Notepad vs Notera

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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.

About

Notera

Features
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Notera is a quiet place to think. It's a block-based notes app for iPhone, iPad, and Mac, built around a single idea: your notes should feel like paper, sync like magic, and stay completely yours. KEY FEATURES โ€ข Block-based notes โ€” combine text, checklists, and images in one note โ€ข Nested checklists with collapse, drag-to-reorder, and indent/outdent โ€ข Folders, tags, pinning, and archiving โ€” organize the way you think โ€ข Search across titles and content โ€ข Soft delete with a Trash view โ€” nothing is gone until you say so โ€ข Version history per note โ€ข Quick Capture for jotting something down fast โ€ข Widget for the Home Screen โ€ข Color-coded notes with a default color preference โ€ข Dark mode that's actually dark CROSS-DEVICE BY DESIGN Notera is built on CloudKit. Your notes sync privately and automatically between iPhone, iPad, and Mac through your iCloud account. There's no Notera account to create, no server in between, and no third party in the loop โ€” only your devices and your iCloud. MAC-FIRST FEELS A three-column layout, full keyboard shortcuts, menu bar commands, and a Settings window that fits the platform โ€” Notera was built natively for macOS, not ported to it. iPAD-NATIVE External keyboard shortcuts, three-column NavigationSplitView, and drag-to-reorder everywhere. Use a Magic Keyboard, the Smart Folio, or your fingers โ€” Notera adapts. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No accounts. No analytics. No advertising. No tracking. Your notes sync through your private iCloud database โ€” Apple can't read them and we can't either. KEYBOARD-FRIENDLY โŒ˜N new note, โŒ˜โ‡งN quick capture, โŒ˜โ‡งP pin, โŒ˜E archive, โŒ˜1/2/3 to switch between All / Pinned / Archived. Checklist items support โŒ˜โ‡งโ†‘โ†“ to reorder, โŒ˜โ‡งโ†’โ† to indent, and โŒ˜โ‡ง. to toggle complete. A NOTE ABOUT THE NAME "Notera" is Swedish for "to note." A small Scandinavian wink in a global app.

Screenshots

Simple Quick Notepad4 screens
Notera4 screens

Verdict

The call

Simple Quick Notepad and Notera are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters โ€” price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them โ€” neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Simple Quick Notepad versus Notera: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSimple Quick NotepadNotera
PriceFreeFree
Positive reviews50.0% of reviewsโ€”
Update frequencyEvery 9 daysโ€”
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeโ€”
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac โ€” betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS26.0 โ€” better26.2
Further details โ€” not scored
Size1 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJack FinnisAndreas Bergstrom

In-app purchases

None

Simple Quick Notepad

No in-app purchases

None

Notera

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Simple Quick Notepad free?
Simple Quick Notepad is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Notera free?
Notera is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Simple Quick Notepad or Notera have ads?
Neither Simple Quick Notepad nor Notera shows ads.

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