Comparison

Note vs mimosa

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

Head to head
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

About

mimosa

Features
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mimosa is a PDF and notes app for studying with Apple Pencil, and a mistake notebook that brings your wrong answers back on the right day. SEEDS: YOUR MISTAKE NOTEBOOK Circle a question you got wrong with the laser pen and save it to a Seed, with its answer if you like. Every question gets its own page. Study opens it right there: solve it again with the whole pen kit, check the answer, rate how it went, and it comes back when it's time to review. WRITE ON ANY PDF Mark up worksheets, past papers and books. Page Lock keeps the page steady, Palm Lock lets your hand rest, and the ink keeps up with you. Turn handwriting into text and search inside your documents. NOTEBOOKS AND BOARDS Create MimoBook notebooks page by page, or use MimoBoard when an idea needs an endless canvas. MADE FOR iOS 27 On iOS 27, mimosa wears Liquid Glass: the pen kit flows open like glass, and moving wallpapers sit behind your library. Prefer it quiet? Choose Minimal in Settings. SCAN DOCUMENT Tap + to scan paper into clean PDFs, right in your library or a folder. RECORD WITH ECHO Record a lecture while you write, then tap any line to hear what was said right then. KEEP A REFERENCE CLOSE Open answer keys, page ranges and images in a floating window while you work. WORKS WITH LOTUS AND TRELLIS Turn highlights into Lotus flashcards, and link your documents and Seeds to a Trellis study plan. YOUR LEYA ACCOUNT Sign in with Apple or Google for one free Leya account across Leya apps, or use mimosa without one. Your documents stay on your device and in your own iCloud. Designed for iPad, with iPhone support. Available in 19 languages. Some features require mimosa Pro, an auto-renewing subscription. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel them anytime in your App Store account settings. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://leyaproduction.com/en/mimosa/privacy

Screenshots

Note4 screens
mimosa4 screens

Verdict

The call

Note and mimosa are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters — price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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

Both are free to download. Note sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per 7 days and mimosa sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Note ships an update every 9 days, mimosa every 5 days. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Note versus mimosa: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterNotemimosa
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 9 daysEvery 5 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, Mac — better
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size31 MB41 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperHuy LeYusuf Melih Bozgeyik

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
4 purchases

mimosa

Subscriptions3
  • Weekly mimosa Pro$0.997 Days
  • Monthly mimos Pro7 Days trial$1.991 Month
  • Yearly7 Days trial$11.991 Year
One-time1
  • Lifetime Pro$29.99

Questions

Is Note free?
Note is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is mimosa free?
mimosa is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Note or mimosa have ads?
Neither Note nor mimosa shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Note or mimosa?
Note ships an update every 9 days, and mimosa every 5 days. Most recently, Note was updated on October 24, 2026 and mimosa on October 24, 2026.

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