Folderly vs PenPro
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Folderly
This app helps students manage their academic life by organizing files, tasks, and schedules. Create custom ID cards, break down tasks with sub-to-dos, and keep track of deadlines with a calendar and countdown feature. Personalize your experience with widgets and bookmark important links.
- Customizable ID Card creation
- Intuitive To-do list with sub-tasks
- Dedicated Course Folders for file organization
- Study Sets for efficient review
- Bookmark relevant web links
- Class Schedule and Calendar view
- Event Countdown timer
- Home screen widgets
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Features ID Card - Create your custom ID Card! Select from a variety of logos or upload your own to make it uniquely yours. To-do List - Stay organized and meet deadlines effortlessly with our intuitive to-do list feature. Prioritize tasks, set reminders, and track your progress, ensuring you stay on course and accomplish your goals with ease. Subto-dos - Break down tasks into smaller, manageable steps, ensuring better organization and progress tracking. Course Folders - Simplify your academic life by effortlessly organizing files for different courses through dedicated folders, ensuring a streamlined and efficient learning experience. File Organization - Effortlessly manage and access course-related files with our dedicated course files feature, providing a streamlined and organized repository for all your academic materials. Study Sets - Enhance your study experience by creating personalized study sets, allowing you to efficiently organize and review key information, making exam preparation a structured and effective process. Bookmark Links - Easily centralize and access relevant web resources with our course links feature, offering a convenient way to organize and navigate online materials seamlessly within the context of your coursework. Class Schedule - Stay on top of your academic commitments with our class schedule maker, ensuring a well-organized timetable that keeps you on track and maximizes productivity throughout your classes. Calendar - Visualize all your to-dos and events in a Calendar view. Countdown - Stay prepared by tracking the days left until upcoming events. Widgets - Personalize your home screen with our widgets! Stay organized and on top of your schedule with our intuitive and easy-to-use schedule widget. Terms: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://folderly.top/folderly-privacy-policy
PenPro
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PenPro is a notebook app for iPad, iPhone and iPhone Duo. Write with Apple Pencil, type, add pictures, tables and recordings, and place everything exactly where you want it on the page. WRITE AND DRAW • Write with Apple Pencil on lined, squared, dotted or blank pages, in A4, A5, US Letter or US Legal. • Draw a line, a circle, a rectangle or a triangle and hold the Pencil still: the shape becomes perfect. • Pens, colors, the eraser, the lasso and the ruler are Apple's own tools. TYPE AND ARRANGE • Text boxes with bold, italic, underline, four sizes, colors and lists. Align the text left, center or right. • Drag a text box by its corner, and its words grow or shrink with it. • Paste code, and PenPro colors it as a code editor does. • Tables you can resize, sort and total. Paste them from Excel, Numbers or a web page. • Pictures from your library, your camera or the clipboard, cropped and turned, with a border if you want one. • Move and resize everything with a finger. Things snap to the middle of the page and to each other. STICKERS • Five sticker packs, free: a red panda, a cat, an owl, a ninja and a penguin, with 44 stickers each. Put them on any page, move them and resize them. RECORD • One tap records a lecture or a meeting while you write. • When you play it back, your notes light up at the moment you wrote them. • Tap a note to hear what was said at that moment. HANDWRITING TO TEXT • Draw a frame around your handwriting, and PenPro turns it into text. Copy it, add it to the page, or put it in place of the ink. In English, French, Spanish, German, Turkish and more. SEARCH • Search the library: PenPro finds notebook names, page titles and the words you typed in text boxes, tables and code, and opens the notebook at that page. • "New notebook" and "Open a notebook" in the Shortcuts app and with Siri. Your notebooks and page titles in the iPhone and iPad search. NOTEBOOKS • Notebooks with sections and pages, in linen covers of sixteen colors. • Put your notebooks on shelves, one shelf for each category. Arrange them by hand, or sort them by name or by date. • Give a page a short title. It shows in the page list and in the table of contents of the PDF. • Lock PenPro, or one notebook, with Face ID or Touch ID, a PIN or a password. • Import a PDF and write on it. • Save any notebook as a PDF, share it or print it. • PenPro speaks English, French, Spanish, German, Estonian and Turkish. PENPRO EXTRAS One-time purchases. Each is yours forever, on every device with your Apple Account. • iCloud sync: your notebooks on every iPad and iPhone. • AI features: transcripts of your recordings, written on your device, and a handwriting font. • PDF notebooks: as many PDF notebooks as you want. One is free. • All three together, for less. IPHONE DUO • PenPro fits both screens of iPhone Duo: the iPhone layout on the outer screen, and on the large inner screen the page list beside the page. Its toolbars stay clear of the fold. PRIVATE No account, no ads, no tracking. Your notes stay on your device, or in your own iCloud. Recordings are written out and handwriting is read on your device.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Folderly at every 3 days against PenPro's weekly. Folderly also leads on iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases 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
Both are free to download. Folderly sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month and PenPro sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Folderly ships an update every 3 days, PenPro weekly. Both last shipped on November 6, 2026.
| Parameter | Folderly | PenPro |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (3.2K ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 86.4% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 3.2K — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 days — better | Weekly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 103 MB | 26 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Raethan Christian Supatan | HADRIAN TECHNOLOGIES |
Bugs and requests
Folderly
Reported bugs
3 issues- Issues with saving customized ID cards
- Crashes when trying to add photos
- Schedules not syncing across devices
Requested features
5 requests- Calendar view for scheduling
- Ability to add online/asynchronous classes
- Option to customize folder colors
- Reminders for upcoming tests/exams
- Integration with other school apps
PenPro
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Folderly
- Folderly Plus (Monthly)3 Days trial$3.991 Month
- Folderly Plus (Monthly)3 Days trial$5.991 Month
- Folderly Plus (Yearly)3 Days trial$19.991 Year
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- Folderly Plus (Yearly)3 Days trial$29.991 Year
- Color Picker$2.99
- Subto-dos$4.99
- Calendar Sync$4.99
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- Folderly Plus$14.99
- Upgrade: Plus to Family$14.99
- Folderly Family$29.99
PenPro
- PDF notebooks$1.99
- Sync on every device$2.99
- AI features$2.99
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- All features offer$4.99









