Comparison

Scratchpad vs Note

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

Head to head
About

Scratchpad

Capture fleeting thoughts and ideas instantly with a clean, distraction-free interface. This lightweight app offers quick drafting, word counts, and iCloud sync for seamless access across devices. It's designed for simplicity and speed, making note-taking effortless.

Highlights
  • Distraction-free interface
  • Lightning-fast and lightweight
  • iCloud sync
  • Word and character count
  • Linkifies URLs
  • Shortcuts and share sheet support
Features
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Capture your thoughts instantly in a single, always-accessible note. Perfect for brain dumps, quick drafts, one-off jots, and fleeting ideas. Your thoughts are just a tap away. • Clean, distraction-free interface • Lightning-fast and lightweight • Sync with iCloud, or not • Word and character count • Font settings • Linkifies URLs • Support for Shortcuts and share sheet Plain text only. Simple by design.

About

Note

Capture and organize your thoughts with a powerful note-taking app. It offers advanced AI-powered search, offline access, and flexible formatting options. Your data is stored locally and synced via iCloud, ensuring privacy and easy management.

Highlights
  • AI semantic search
  • Offline-first functionality
  • Local file storage and iCloud sync
  • Comprehensive formatting options
  • Flexible image attachments
  • Customizable tables
  • Recoverable deleted files
Features
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ConniePad is a native macOS, iOS app to help user take & store note, journal, paper, or story. The main pros is it’s powerful searching, privacy, offline & native. Using AI semantic search, it help user search note not only by keywords (which user likely forget) but also by describing the context of the note. Your files & folders is stored on your machine only and will be sync by your iCloud. It stored just as files & folders so it is easier for user to handle, backup and share them without lock-in to the app. The app is designed to be offline-first, on both MacOS, iOS & iPadOS, which allow user use it anywhere, anytime and the responsive is instantly. The editor and tools is much easier to use and support more formatting, comprehensive editing that not only help user feel comfortable to write but able to express the idea. Moreover, it is highly compatible with content on the web so help user easier to copy paste from web to note than Apple Note. There are many features that we would like to highlight below: - Comprehensive formatting including highlight text - Flexible image attachments - Highly customisable table - Keyboard shortcuts for every command and action - Organize folders and subfolders - Sorted files - Recoverable deleted files - Quick search and creation - Handoff And more… Term & Condition: https://conniepad.com/term

Screenshots

Scratchpad2 screens
Note4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Note at Free against Scratchpad's $10.00. Note also leads on iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). Scratchpad's advantage is rating (4.8 vs 3.0) and in-app purchases (none vs 3). On review sentiment, update cadence and ads 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

Note is free to download; Scratchpad costs $10.00 up front. Note sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per 7 days. Scratchpad asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Scratchpad holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Scratchpad has 25 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 96% of Scratchpad's written reviews are positive against 100% of Note's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Scratchpad ships an update every 2 weeks, Note every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on September 21, 2026 and August 20, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Scratchpad versus Note: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterScratchpadNote
Price$10.00Free — better
Rating4.8 (25 ratings) — better3.0 (2 ratings)
Positive reviews96.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings25 — better2
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksEvery 9 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaidFreemium — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS26.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size14 MB31 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSindre SorhusHuy Le

Customer experience

Scratchpad

All ratings25 ratings
Positive96.0%
Neutral4.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews25 reviews
Positive96.0%
Neutral4.0%
Negative0.0%

Note

All ratings2 ratings
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Scratchpad

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

Note

Subscriptions3
  • AI - Weekly plan3 Days trial$1.997 Days
  • AI - Monthly plan3 Days trial$3.991 Month
  • AI - Yearly plan3 Days trial$19.991 Year

Questions

Is Scratchpad free?
Scratchpad costs $10.00, with no in-app purchases.
Is Note free?
Note is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Scratchpad or Note?
Scratchpad is rated higher. Scratchpad averages 4.8 out of 5 from 25 ratings, while Note averages 3.0 from 2 ratings.
Do Scratchpad or Note have ads?
Neither Scratchpad nor Note shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Scratchpad or Note?
Scratchpad ships an update every 2 weeks, and Note every 9 days. Most recently, Scratchpad was updated on September 21, 2026 and Note on August 20, 2026.

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