Margins vs noter
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Margins
Organize your book collection and save important passages. Capture text manually or with your device's camera. Sync your library and notes across all your Apple devices and import from Kindle.
- Book management and organization
- Manual highlight capture
- Camera-based text capture
- iCloud synchronization
- Kindle integration
- Categorize books
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Book Highlights is an app designed for readers who want to efficiently manage their books and reading notes. This app provides a straightforward solution for organizing your library and capturing important passages from your reading material. - Book Management Save and organize your book collection Categorize books for easy retrieval - Highlight Capture Add highlights manually by typing Capture text quickly using your device's camera - iCloud Sync Sync your library and highlights across all your Apple devices - Kindle Integration Import books and highlights from Kindle devices using "My Clippings.txt" Book Highlights is designed to be a practical tool for readers, students, and professionals who need to maintain an organized collection of books and notes. Its straightforward interface and essential features make it an efficient solution for literary organization and reference. Privacy Policy: https://sites.google.com/view/bookhighlights-privacy/inicio Terms of use: https://sites.google.com/view/book-highlights-terms/inicio
noter
This app allows users to read EPUB and PDF files, offering extensive annotation features with Apple Pencil support. Users can highlight, draw, and add margin notes, then export their annotations. It also supports Calibre integration and customizable reading themes.
- Apple Pencil annotation
- Highlight and markup text
- Add margin notes
- Export annotations as PDF
- Calibre library integration
- Customizable reading themes
- Browse online catalogs
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noter is the reading app for people who think with a pencil. With full Apple Pencil support for EPUBs, you can highlight, annotate, and draw directly on the pages. Full Apple Pencil Support - noter fully supports the Apple Pencil, so you can write directly on EPUBs. Highlight, draw, circle, and doodle all over your favourite books. - Highlight and annotate passages so you can add your thoughts as you read. - Add notes in the margin of a page, so you can take notes in a larger canvas for your biggest ideas. - PDF support, so you can draw on those in addition to EPUBs. Export Your Notes - Easily export all your highlights, notes, and write-on-page ink. Just a few taps and you get a PDF with all your annotations. Calibre Support - noter can connect right to Calibre, making it easy to import your entire library. Customize Your Reading - Choose from built-in themes or create your own. - Set custom background and text colours. Notebooks - Create your own notebooks. Rapidly switching between a notebook and a book is easy, so you can quickly take long form notes while you read. Additional Features - PDF support - Edit book metadata for easy library management and filtering - No account required. No ads. Privacy focused. - Sync between your Apple devices using Apple's secure iCloud - Folder support - Browse and search books from online catalogs (OPDS), such as Project Gutenberg, directly within the app. These books are provided by third-party sources and are typically in the public domain in the United States. Availability may vary depending on your country’s copyright laws. noter uses Apple's standard End User License Agreement. A copy of it can be found here: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Margins at 100% against noter's 0%. Margins also leads on rating (5.0 vs 3.5). noter's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs every 6 weeks). On price, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases 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. Margins sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per 7 days and noter sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Margins holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 2 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of Margins's written reviews are positive against 0% of noter's.
Margins ships an update every 6 weeks, noter weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 26, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Margins | noter |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | 3.5 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 2 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 18.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 42 MB | 21 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Daniel Plata | Rajiv Green |
Customer experience
Margins
noter
In-app purchases
Margins
- Premium weekly$5.997 Days
- Premium monthly$7.991 Month
- Pro version$29.99
noter
- noter Premium Weekly3 Days trial$0.997 Days
- noter Premium Monthly3 Days trial$2.991 Month
- noter Premium Annual3 Days trial$24.991 Year









