Notebooks vs Writing Shed Pro
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Notebooks
Organize your thoughts and ideas with a digital notebook. Create multiple notebooks, customize covers, and protect them with passwords. Easily search, attach images, and convert notes to PDF.
- Multiple customizable notebooks
- Password protection
- Page titles and bookmarking
- Freehand drawing
- Image attachments
- PDF conversion
- Google Drive backup
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Take notes and even attach your free hand drawing, everything in style and completely without papers! Create multiple notebooks for every subject and avoid messing up your notes. Notebooks is the only application you will ever need for all your note making needs. Designed with flexibility and ease of use in mind, taking notes is now at it simplest with our application. With multiple colors and custom title for each notebook cover, you will enjoy creating a notebook for every subject you want. Notebooks is a must have application for students, business men and for anyone using their phones and tablets for taking notes. Features: 1. Create multiple notebooks. 2. Customizable cover, title, number of pages for every notebook. 3. Password protected. 4. Set a title for every page. 5. Instant search within each notebook. 6. Attach image files. 7. Bookmark a page. 8. Create your own free hand drawing. 9. Easily find your entries. 10. Set theme for each notebook. 11. Convert the entire Notebook to PDF with attachments. (Currently supports English only) 12. Backup/Restore. (***Option available in the menu of the Notebooks screen. Some devices will not have the hardware menu button on the device, in that case 'long press' the 'All Apps' button to get the menu on the app***) 13. Backup to Google Drive FAQs: http://www.droidveda.com/faq/faq_notebooks.html How to use? 1. Use '+' mark in the home screen to create new books. 2. Long tap on any book to edit/delete the book. 3. Use 'Password' option to set/reset the password. 4. On the Page tap on Page Header to set the Title for the page. 5. Make use of different editing options provided at the bottom of the page.
Writing Shed Pro
A comprehensive writing studio for poets, novelists, and playwrights. Offers genre-specific tools, a distraction-free editor, and manuscript analysis to refine your work. Seamlessly syncs across devices and supports various export formats.
- Genre-specific project types
- Distraction-free editor
- Manuscript Analyzer
- Poetry form support
- Screenplay and stage play formatting
- WYSIWYG pagination
- Submission tracking
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WRITING SHED PRO A complete writing studio for poets, novelists, playwrights and prose writers on iPhone, iPad and Mac. Writing Shed Pro brings drafting, planning, revision and publication into one workspace. Choose Poetry, Fiction, Drama or Prose and receive tools and project structures designed for that form. WRITE IN MANAGEABLE SECTIONS Break large works into poems, scenes, chapters, episodes or prose sections. Focus on one piece at a time, rearrange material as your work develops, then assemble everything into a complete manuscript. The rich-text editor includes: • Paragraph and character styles • Comments, footnotes, links and images • Document-wide spelling review • Search and replace • Version history and undo • Word, character and line counts • Page layout and print preview POWERFUL FICTION PROJECTS Build novels from chapters and scenes, organize short fiction as scene sequences, or structure verse novels into books and episodes. • Create character and location profiles • Connect characters and locations to scenes • Link plot elements to the scenes they affect • Choose Freeform, Three-Act or Monomyth structures • Reorder scenes and move them between chapters • Keep planning, research and manuscript text together POETRY TOOLS BUILT FOR POETS Develop poems, organize collections and prepare work for submission. • Choose from an extensive catalogue of poetic forms • Create custom forms • Analyse syllables, stress patterns, rhyme and structure • Use British or American pronunciation support • Organize poems into collections and chapbooks • Track drafts, submissions and publications • Assemble complete poetry manuscripts DRAMA FOR STAGE AND SCREEN Write plays and screenplays using lightweight markup while Writing Shed Pro formats scene headings, characters, dialogue, parentheticals, transitions and stage directions. • Organize scripts into acts and scenes • Maintain character and location information • Switch between writing and formatted presentation • Import and export Fountain files • Exchange work with Final Draft using FDX • Print professionally formatted scripts FLEXIBLE PROSE PROJECTS Create essays, memoirs, articles, journals and non-fiction without forcing the work into a fiction or poetry structure. • Divide work into flexible sections • Arrange and reorder material freely • Keep notes and research with the project • Apply consistent styles • Add references, citations, glossary entries, notes and an index • Combine sections into a unified manuscript BUILD THE COMPLETE MANUSCRIPT Turn separate files into one publication-ready document. • Add configurable front and back matter • Generate a table of contents • Build notes, citations and a bibliography • Create a glossary, index and table of figures • Control margins, headers, footers and page numbers • Preview the finished work as real pages MANAGE SUBMISSIONS AND PUBLICATIONS Build submission packets, track destinations, dates and outcomes, and maintain a history of where each piece has been sent or published. IMPORT, EXPORT AND PRINT • Import Word, RTF and Markdown • Export Word, RTF, HTML, Markdown and PDF • Export complete manuscripts to ePub format • Import and export Fountain and Final Draft files • Print files, collections, submissions or manuscripts • Transfer complete projects using the WSP format WORK ACROSS YOUR DEVICES Keep projects, formatting and supporting information synchronized across iPhone, iPad and Mac. Start on one device and continue on another. WRITING TOOLS, NOT WRITING RULES Writing Shed Pro gives every kind of writer a purpose-built environment for developing ideas, managing complex projects and producing finished work. TRY IT FREE for ten days, then upgrade to get full access to all features. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: [https://appworks.pro/wp-admin/post.php?post=136&action=edit]
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Writing Shed Pro at 100% against Notebooks's 15%. Writing Shed Pro also leads on rating (4.0 vs 1.5) and ads (none vs shown). Notebooks's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 8) and ratings volume (12 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. Writing Shed Pro sells 8 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Notebooks asks for nothing beyond the download.
Writing Shed Pro holds the better App Store score, 4.0 against 1.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Notebooks has 12 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 15% of Notebooks's written reviews are positive against 100% of Writing Shed Pro's.
| Parameter | Notebooks | Writing Shed Pro |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.5 (12 ratings) | 4.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 15.4% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 12 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | — | Every 2 days |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Ad-supported — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 17.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 46 MB | 203 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Droid-Veda LLP | Keith Lander |
Customer experience
Notebooks
Writing Shed Pro
In-app purchases
Notebooks
No in-app purchases
Writing Shed Pro
- Manuscript Analyst1 Month trial$2.991 Month
- 10-Day Free TrialFree
- Poetry Writer$9.99
- Writing Shed Pro – Full Access$19.99
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- Prose Writer$19.99
- Fiction Writer$19.99
- Drama Writer$19.99
- All In Bundle$39.99









