Comparison

NextNote vs NextNote

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

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About

NextNote

Features
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Capture the thought now. Keep shaping it later. NextNote brings quick capture, rich-text editing, voice input, organization, and AI writing tools into one continuous note-taking workflow. Use it for passing ideas, meeting notes, study material, checklists, journals, project plans, or long-form drafts that need room to grow. CAPTURE FROM HOME Open NextNote and start typing without choosing a complicated format first. When typing is not convenient, capture the moment with voice, photos, or video. A quick capture is not a disconnected message or disposable draft. Once saved, it becomes a document you can keep editing, search later, organize, reuse, and share. Move from one sentence to a complete piece of writing without starting over in another tool. NextNote works well for: • Quick notes, memos, and everyday ideas • Meeting notes and work documentation • Class notes, research material, and study guides • Journals, reading notes, and writing drafts • To-do lists, checklists, and project planning • Voice thoughts, photo references, and video clips A FLEXIBLE EDITOR FOR REAL WRITING Create a simple note or develop a longer document in the same editor. Structure your work with headings, paragraphs, rich-text formatting, numbered and bulleted lists, checklists, quotes, and links. Add images, audio, video, drawings, and other content blocks when words alone are not enough. Start rough and refine over time. Save useful structures as templates for recurring meeting notes, weekly plans, study reviews, journals, or content production. Your capture and writing tools stay together, so organizing an idea does not require moving it across several apps. VOICE AND MULTIMEDIA NOTES Use voice when you need to record an idea faster than you can type, then continue working with the text. Keep images, recordings, videos, and drawings beside the written context in one document. This makes it easier to preserve source material, visual references, and the process behind your work. You can also send text, links, images, or files to NextNote from the system share sheet, then place the imported material in a new or existing document. AI WRITING HELP, ONE SWIPE AWAY AI tools live inside the writing flow instead of in a separate chat. Select text and swipe left to use focused actions in the current document: • Polish wording and improve clarity • Expand a short thought into a fuller passage • Highlight keywords and important points • Find and add a relevant visual Each action starts from text you deliberately select, so you can keep your intent and decide what to change. There is no need to copy a passage into another app or interrupt your writing session. SEARCH, ARCHIVE, AND REUSE Search document titles and body text to find an earlier note quickly. Move work you do not need right now into archive folders to keep Home focused. Deleted documents go to Trash first and can be recovered during the retention period. Turn structures you use repeatedly into templates. As your collection grows, search, folders, archives, Trash, and templates give you practical ways to manage personal notes, work records, study material, and creative projects. LOCAL NOTES AND ICLOUD Keep using local notes and core editing tools while offline. Online services are used only when a related feature needs them. On supported Apple devices, you can use iCloud according to your settings to store and sync content, then continue writing across iPhone, iPad, and compatible devices. SHARE, EXPORT, AND PUBLISH When your work is ready to leave the notebook, share it from the document. Send material to other apps, or deliberately publish a document as a web page. You can also prepare adapted versions for different content platforms when that fits your workflow. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

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NextNote

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**认真做一个笔记应用。** 记录这件事,本不需要那么复杂。打开,写,关掉。但我们想多做一点——让你写下的东西,真正有用。 **AI 看过你所有的笔记** 这是我们认为最重要的功能。 当你在编辑器里选中一段话让 AI 润色,它不是凭空改写,而是参考你其他笔记的上下文。AI自动为你的笔记生成标题与分类,它知道该归到哪个标签下,因为它读过你之前写的内容。 在主页和 AI 对话,问它「上周那个想法记在哪了」,它能找到。问它「帮我整理一下最近关于 XX 的思考」,它知道你说的是什么。 你的笔记不再是一堆散落的文件。它们被理解,被关联,在需要的时候能被找回来。 **你的第二大脑,如果你需要这么叫它的话。** **输入可以更简单** 长按录音,松手转文字。不用打开另一个应用,不用等进度条。 **该有的都有** 云同步,多设备。图片视频插入。长图导出。格式工具栏。 **不该有的一个没有** 没有会员等级,没有积分商城,没有社区广场,没有「猜你喜欢」。 我们只想做一个安静的、好用的笔记应用。

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Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: NextNote at Free against NextNote's $5.99. NextNote's advantage is update cadence (every 4 days vs every 10 days). On ads, 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

NextNote is free to download; NextNote costs $5.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

NextNote ships an update every 4 days, NextNote every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on September 23, 2026 and September 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 4 level
NextNote versus NextNote: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterNextNoteNextNote
Price$5.99Free — better
Update frequencyEvery 4 days — betterEvery 10 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS15.015.0
Further details — not scored
Size80 MB63 MB
Age rating4+12+
Developer劲灿 陈深圳元始智能有限公司

In-app purchases

None

NextNote

No in-app purchases

None

NextNote

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is NextNote free?
NextNote costs $5.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is NextNote free?
NextNote is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do NextNote or NextNote have ads?
Neither NextNote nor NextNote shows ads.
Which is updated more often, NextNote or NextNote?
NextNote ships an update every 4 days, and NextNote every 10 days. Most recently, NextNote was updated on September 23, 2026 and NextNote on September 10, 2026.

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