Comparison

Notewise vs RenoKeep

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

Head to head
About

Notewise

This app offers a versatile digital canvas for note-taking, PDF annotation, and sketching. It leverages AI to summarize content, generate quizzes, and transcribe audio. Designed for students, professionals, and creators, it provides tools for organization, collaboration, and enhanced productivity.

Highlights
  • AI-powered note summarization and quizzing
  • Handwritten notes and PDF annotation
  • Audio recording with synced transcripts
  • OCR for searchable handwriting
  • Real-time collaboration
  • Infinite freeform canvas
Features
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Featured multiple times on the App Store. 8M+ downloads. Trusted by millions worldwide. Your meetings, lectures, ideas, and research don’t arrive in one format. Your notes shouldn’t have to either. Notewise brings together what you write, record, draw, read, and save. Capture it once, then find it again, ask about it, learn from it, and build on it. Notewise is an AI note-taking app for iPhone and iPad with handwritten notes, audio recording and transcription, PDF annotation, documents, web sources, and AI search and chat. ■ CAPTURE EVERYTHING IN ONE NOTE • Write, type, or handwrite notes • Sketch ideas and diagrams on a freeform canvas • Record meetings, lectures, conversations, and voice notes • Import 25+ file formats, including PDFs, documents, slides, images, and more • Add website links and bring web research into your notes • Scan paper notes and whiteboards Start with whatever is in front of you. Add things in any order, and keep related notes, recordings, files, and ideas together as you go. ■ SEARCH & ASK ACROSS YOUR NOTES Search handwritten notes, typed text, audio transcripts, PDFs, documents, and images. Ask Notewise AI about the note you’re in or across all your notes. Search the web when you need more context. Answers can cite the notes, recordings, files, and sources behind them, so you can always see where the information came from. Search less. Pick up where you left off and keep thinking. ■ RECORD, TRANSCRIBE & ASK IN REAL TIME Stay focused on the meeting, lecture, or conversation instead of trying to write down every word. • Automatic transcription in 20+ languages • Key points, decisions, and next steps • Ask questions while a meeting or lecture is still happening • Ask across past recordings later • Keep audio, meeting notes, PDFs, and related documents together Meeting notes become more than transcripts. Class notes stay useful long after the lecture ends. ■ WRITE, DRAW & ANNOTATE FREELY Handwrite a page. Draw a diagram. Work through a problem. Mark up a PDF. Move things around until the idea makes sense. Choose from 30+ brushes and tools — including pencil, oil paint, watercolor, highlighter, lasso, tape, shapes, tables, rulers, sticky notes, and more. Start from 20+ templates or create your own, from Cornell notes to meeting notes and custom workflows. ■ TURN NOTES INTO FLASHCARDS, QUIZZES & PODCASTS Good notes don’t all look the same. Turn study notes, meeting notes, or research into AI notes, summaries, flashcards, quizzes, podcasts, and more — using the same material in the format that helps you most. Summarize a recording. Ask questions about a PDF. Search handwritten notes. Find connections across different notes. Sometimes you want AI. Sometimes you just want a blank page. Notewise gives you both. ■ FOR WORK, STUDY & RESEARCH Use Notewise for meeting notes, lecture recording, handwritten and digital notes, voice notes, PDF annotation, research papers, brainstorming, and search across everything you save. On iOS 27, use Siri AI to create, edit, and find information in your notes, or Visual Intelligence to surface related content from what you see. Whether you’re building a company, studying for an exam, researching your next idea, or simply trying to remember what matters, Notewise gives your thinking one place to grow. ■ PRIVACY FIRST Notewise is built by a small, independent team. We don’t sell your data or show ads. Your notes are encrypted, secure, and under your control. ■ TRY NOTEWISE FREE Start with 10 free canvas notes and import your own slides and documents. Explore Notewise with a 7-day free trial, while core features remain free to use. Write. Record. Draw. Remember. Privacy Policy: https://www.notewise.dev/privacy-policy Terms & Conditions: https://www.notewise.dev/terms-conditions

About

RenoKeep

Features
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Keep your home renovation or car restoration organized. What still needs buying? How much have you spent? Where is the receipt? RenoKeep brings tasks, shopping lists, budgets, receipts and project photos into one place, from your first plans to the work you want to remember. KNOW WHAT COMES NEXT Break the work into tasks, add priorities and dates, and mark each job complete. Keep a shopping list with prices, notes and product links you can open directly. TRACK YOUR PROJECT COSTS Set a budget and follow the costs you record. Organize your work into categories for a clearer overview. Costs are based on your own entries; no bank connection is needed. KEEP A RECORD OF THE WORK Save receipts as images or PDFs with amounts, dates and notes. Add project photos to document your progress. With RenoKeep Pro, you can also create a PDF project report. FOR YOUR HOME AND GARAGE Remodeling a kitchen or bringing a classic car back to life? Organize work on the bodywork, engine and interior, plan parts purchases and track the costs you enter. Keep receipts and project photos to document your car restoration over time. Choose templates for a home, vehicle, boat, piece of furniture or your own project. YOUR PROJECTS, CLOSE AT HAND RenoKeep works offline with no separate account required. Your records are saved on your device. Choose optional private iCloud sync between your Apple devices and create your own backups. Switch between English and Swedish in the app. START FREE The free plan includes one project, up to 10 project photos and 10 receipts, plus tasks, shopping lists and a project budget. PDF reports require Pro. You can use the free plan without starting a subscription. RENOKEEP PRO Make room for more projects, photos and receipts, and create PDF reports. Choose a monthly or yearly subscription. Local pricing is shown in the app before you subscribe. Eligible new subscribers can start with a 14-day free trial. Your selected subscription is charged after the trial and renews automatically unless cancelled. Manage or cancel it in your Apple Account at least 24 hours before the current period ends to avoid the next charge. Your saved records remain available if Pro ends; free limits apply to new content, and PDF reports require Pro. Start your first project and put your next steps in one place. Privacy Policy: http://www.nordsnitt.se/renovo/#privacy Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Support: http://www.nordsnitt.se/renovo/

Screenshots

Notewise4 screens
RenoKeep4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: RenoKeep at 17.0 against Notewise's 26.0. On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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. Notewise sells 16 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and RenoKeep sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 27, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Notewise versus RenoKeep: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterNotewiseRenoKeep
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (284 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews53.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings284 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 daysEvery 2 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS26.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size426 MB1 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperZIIKRDANIEL MATTIAS FOGELL

Bugs and requests

Notewise

Reported bugs

18 issues
  • App crashes on every update
  • Handwritten content randomly disappears
  • Annotations vanishing intermittently
  • Lasso selection tool malfunctions
  • Text input fields not responding
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  • App freezes when highlighting large areas with markers
  • Handwriting input not registering
  • Palm rejection issues causing unwanted marks
  • Shape recognition failures
  • Scribble-to-erase function unreliable
  • PDF export causing app crashes
  • Notes auto-deleting or getting corrupted
  • Sync getting stuck mid-process
  • Slow and delayed cross-device synchronization
  • UI elements obscuring page content after 20+ minutes of use
  • Copy-paste functionality limited and unreliable
  • App performance degradation over time
  • Glitchy behavior with shape drawing mode

Requested features

20 requests
  • Add layers feature for advanced editing
  • Implement automatic zoom box that follows writing
  • Add pencil, waterbrush, and crayon drawing tools
  • Sticker marketplace or sticker customization
  • Horizontal page flipping/swiping navigation
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  • Ability to pause real-time syncing
  • MacBook native app with full feature parity
  • More shape customization (arcs for graphing)
  • Improved text formatting and customization options
  • Single page view mode (vertical and horizontal)
  • Notebook organization beyond just pages
  • Magnifying glass tool like GoodNotes
  • More pen and pencil style options
  • Line spacing customization for text
  • PDF import from web/internet
  • Printing functionality
  • Audio recording and sharing capabilities
  • Hyperlink support on desktop version
  • Scroll locking to prevent accidental page movement
  • Better shape recognition (arrows, parentheses)

RenoKeep

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

16 purchases

Notewise

Subscriptions6
  • Notewise Cloud Basic Monthly$4.991 Month
  • Notewise Cloud Starter Monthly$6.991 Month
  • Notewise Cloud Pro Monthly$15.991 Month
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  • Notewise Cloud Basic Yearly$28.991 Year
  • Notewise Cloud Starter Yearly7 Days trial$36.991 Year
  • Notewise Cloud Pro Yearly7 Days trial$129.991 Year
One-time10
  • Notewise Marketplace Content$1.99
  • Notewise Marketplace Content$2.99
  • Notewise Marketplace Content$3.99
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  • Notewise Marketplace Content$4.99
  • Notewise Marketplace Content$5.99
  • Notewise Marketplace Content$6.99
  • Notewise Marketplace Content$7.99
  • Notewise Marketplace Content$8.99
  • Notewise Marketplace Content$9.99
  • Notewise Unlimited$19.99
2 purchases

RenoKeep

Subscriptions2
  • RenoKeep Pro – Monthly14 Days trial$2.991 Month
  • RenoKeep Pro – Yearly14 Days trial$22.991 Year

Questions

Is Notewise free?
Notewise is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is RenoKeep free?
RenoKeep is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Notewise or RenoKeep have ads?
Neither Notewise nor RenoKeep shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Notewise or RenoKeep?
Notewise ships an update every 2 days, and RenoKeep every 2 days. Most recently, Notewise was updated on October 27, 2026 and RenoKeep on October 24, 2026.

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