NextNote vs Memolet Garden
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
NextNote
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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/
Memolet Garden
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Memolet Garden (memoniwa) is a cute notes app: every memo you write becomes a little creature, a Memolet, that lives in your garden. Shopping lists, to-do lists, reminders. Each memo adds one more Memolet to the garden. Memolets live in the Memolet Garden. ■ Write, and one is born Write a memo and an egg appears in your garden. Reread and add to it, and it hatches; the more you write, the more your Memolet grows. Shopping lists and checklists become winged Sky Memolets. Notes and ideas become Land Memolets that walk on the ground. Depending on what you write, they grow into all kinds of shapes. ■ A shopping list is one creature, too Check items off with one tap, and add things you often buy right from Regulars. Even the family's grocery run becomes one creature in your garden. ■ It remembers the time and the place Tell a Memolet "When?" and it comes to remind you then. Tell it "Where?" and it also lets you know when you get near the store. ■ Whistle, and they come running No folders. No tidying up. Looking for something? Blow the Whistle (search), and the matching Memolets come running to you. ■ Free to use Unlimited memos, search, reminders and shopping lists — all free. Making or joining a Shared Garden is free too. In-app purchases: one-time items such as garden decorations and Memolet outfits, plus two optional subscriptions (keeping a backup on our server and syncing / extending the day a Shared Garden disappears). When you save to the server and sync, devices that share the same passphrase keep the same memos. ■ Memos and photos never get sent on their own Memos are saved only on your phone or tablet. No account needed. Memo content leaves the device only when you make a share card link, use a Shared Garden or keep a backup on our server. (With the setting "Include the title and text when sharing" on, opening a memo also creates such a link.) It is all encrypted on your device first, so not even we can read it (only the Memolet picture on share cards and readers' marks and counts are kept unencrypted). Photos are never sent. Other communication (in-app purchases, maps and so on) never contains your memos. Privacy policy: https://memoniwa.app/privacy/ ■ Shared Garden — for group notices and surveys Share a whole garden with others. Send an invite link, and people answer with their own Memolets (they need the app too). ・Ask who's coming or what people would like (Note / List) ・Have people pick the days they can make (Calendar) ・Vote Only the garden's maker can see the results. Even for a class or a team, making the garden bigger keeps it free. A garden disappears on the date its maker picks (free plan: up to 14 days ahead). ■ Plans go on the calendar Give a Memolet a date, and its label in the garden shows that day instead of its name. A single day or a span of days. It can become a reminder, too. ■ Pick what you copied, and paste Up to 20 things you copy in the app are kept, newest first. Pick one to paste later, or paste several lines one by one. Put the Memolets widget on your home screen to write right away and open your copy history. On iPhone (iOS 26 or later), paste from your copy history into other apps line by line or item by item via a small window (Picture in Picture). With the Memolets Keyboard on iPhone, put your copy history straight into other apps' text fields (no Full Access requested). Choose Memolets in another app's share menu to add to your copy history or make a Memolet from it. ■ The garden is your place Set out decorations, build fences, add more gardens. You can even put family photos in a photo frame. The more memos you write, the livelier your garden gets. ■ About generative AI Your memos and images are never sent to generative AI. It was used in parts of development (such as coding), with final review by people. -- Terms of Use: https://memoniwa.app/terms/ Apple EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Support: https://memoniwa.app/support/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Memolet Garden at Free against NextNote's $5.99. Memolet Garden also leads on iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.0). NextNote's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 10) and ads (none vs shown). On update cadence and device support 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
Memolet Garden is free to download; NextNote costs $5.99 up front. Memolet Garden sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $0.49 per month. NextNote asks for nothing beyond the download.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on November 4, 2026 and November 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | NextNote | Memolet Garden |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $5.99 | Free — better |
| Update frequency | Every 5 days | Every 5 days |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 80 MB | 46 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 劲灿 陈 | asopi |
In-app purchases
NextNote
No in-app purchases
Memolet Garden
- サーバーに保存と同期(月払い)$0.491 Month
- 消える日をのばす(月払い)$0.991 Month
- サーバーに保存と同期(年払い)$3.991 Year
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- 消える日をのばす(年払い)$9.991 Year
- おうかん・C$0.49
- おうかん・E$0.49
- おうかん・D$0.49
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- ごうけいの黒板(5こ入り)$0.49
- デジタルけいじばん(5こ入り)$0.49
- 大きな写真たて(5こ入り)$0.99









