Notebooks vs My folder
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
Read full descriptionHide full description
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.
My folder
Read full descriptionHide full description
My Folder is your all-in-one personal file manager and document organiser. Keep every file, PDF, photo, and document neatly organised in smart folders — all protected behind biometric security. SMART FOLDER ORGANISATION Create unlimited nested folders with custom colours and priority levels. Move, rename, and reorganise your files with a tap. Find anything instantly with full-text search. POWERFUL PDF TOOLS - Merge multiple PDFs into one seamless document - Split a PDF into separate files by page range - Compress PDFs to reduce file size (High, Balanced, or Maximum compression) - Password-protect and unlock PDFs with AES-256 encryption - OCR — extract selectable, searchable text from scanned PDFs - View, scroll, and zoom any PDF with a smooth native reader DOCUMENT SCANNER Scan physical documents using your camera. My Folder automatically crops, enhances, and converts scans into high-quality PDFs ready to store or share. IMPORT FROM ANYWHERE - Open files directly from Files app, Mail, Safari, and any other app via "Open With" - Share directly into My Folder from the iOS share sheet — photos, documents, and more - Pick files from iCloud Drive, Dropbox, Google Drive, OneDrive, and local storage - Handles PDFs, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, images, videos, audio, ZIP archives, and more CREATE & EDIT - Rich text editor — write notes and formatted documents stored right inside your folders - Capture and attach document scans directly to folders SECURITY & PRIVACY - Face ID / Touch ID lock screen — folders are protected the moment the app goes to background - Optional PDF password protection per document (AES-256 via CGPDFContext) - App-level per-document passwords using PBKDF2-SHA256 (100,000 iterations) - All data stored 100% on-device. No cloud sync, no account required, no data sent anywhere. QUICK LOOK & SHARING - Preview any supported file type with native QuickLook - Share single or multiple files to any app via the standard iOS share sheet Download My Folder today and take control of every file on your iPhone or iPad.
Screenshots
Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: My folder at none against Notebooks's shown. On price, 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
| Parameter | Notebooks | My folder |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.6 (10 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 15.4% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 10 — better | — |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 17.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 46 MB | 7 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Droid-Veda LLP | Balwinder Singh |
In-app purchases
Notebooks
No in-app purchases
My folder
No in-app purchases









