Comparison

Notebooks vs TeachMate

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Multiple customizable notebooks
  • Password protection
  • Page titles and bookmarking
  • Freehand drawing
  • Image attachments
  • PDF conversion
  • Google Drive backup
Features
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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.

About

TeachMate

Features
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Tired of juggling schedules, tracking assignments, and managing attendance across different apps and notebooks? TeachMate brings your entire teaching day into one dashboard, designed to save you time and keep you focused on what matters most: your students. Your Day at a Glance - See all of your classes for the day, neatly sorted by time from morning to afternoon. - Take attendance and view Lesson Plans within seconds for upcoming classes. Streamline your administrative duties with powerful, integrated tools: - Attendance Tracking: A clear icon next to each class shows you if attendance has been taken, turning from an alert to a checkmark when complete. Simply tap to take or view attendance records. - Smart Task Creation: Add homework assignments or personal reminders with just a few taps. - Assign with Ease: Assign a single homework task to multiple classes at once, saving you from repetitive data entry. - Share in seconds: Almost all data entered can be shared out in a few taps. Comprehensive Student Profiles - Go beyond the gradebook with a complete profile for every student. Track student progress holistically by adding grades, awarding points for participation, and keeping private comments and notes. This integrated system gives you a clearer picture of each student’s journey in your classroom. Stay on Top of Deadlines - See a list of tasks or personal reminders due in the coming week, ensuring you and your students never miss a deadline. You can even add photo attachments to tasks for extra clarity. - Go beyond just creating tasks. Mark assignments as complete and track which students have handed in their work. If a student misses a deadline, an automatic comment is added to their profile, keeping your records effortlessly up-to-date. Boost engagement and manage your classroom with purpose using the built-in Class Toolkit. - Create custom seating charts with a simple drag-and-drop interface. - Instantly generate a random student group generator for collaborative activities. - Use the random student selector to ensure fair and balanced participation. Plan Your Week Ahead - Switch from a daily to a weekly view to see your entire schedule at a glance. See which days are packed and which are lighter to help you plan your lessons and activities more effectively. - Lesson Plan with ease with the built in lesson plan function. Share with colleagues or school administrators instantly. Designed exclusively for teachers, by teachers!

Screenshots

Notebooks4 screens
TeachMate4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Notebooks at Free against TeachMate's $1.99. TeachMate's advantage is ads (none vs shown). On in-app purchases, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Notebooks is free to download; TeachMate costs $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
Notebooks versus TeachMate: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterNotebooksTeachMate
PriceFree — better$1.99
Rating1.5 (12 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews15.4% of reviews—
Number of ratings12 — better—
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationAd-supported—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.0 — better17.6
Further details — not scored
Size46 MB5 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDroid-Veda LLPSamuel Attwood

In-app purchases

None

Notebooks

No in-app purchases

None

TeachMate

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Notebooks free?
Notebooks is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is TeachMate free?
TeachMate costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do Notebooks or TeachMate have ads?
Notebooks shows ads; TeachMate does not.

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