Comparison

Note vs Pastea

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

Pastea

Features
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Pastea keeps the things you want to reuse in one searchable place on your iPhone and iPad. Save text, links, and images, organize them into lists, and bring them back when you need them. SAVE WHAT MATTERS Open Pastea to save supported clipboard content, or send items directly from the iOS share sheet. iOS limits background clipboard access, so Pastea does not continuously capture everything you copy. FIND AND REUSE CLIPS Search your history, keep important items close, and use the Pastea keyboard to insert saved content in other apps. STAY IN CONTROL Your history is stored on your device. Optional iCloud sync can make it available on your other Pastea devices through your private iCloud account. You can manage saved items and control analytics and crash reporting in settings. Choose when to start a free seven-day trial. The App Store confirms it at $0, and it does not renew or charge you automatically. When the seven days end, new clips still save locally, while viewing and using your history stay locked until you activate Pastea Lifetime with a separate one-time purchase.

Screenshots

Note4 screens
Pastea4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Pastea at daily against Note's every 9 days. 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

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 Pastea sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Note ships an update every 9 days, Pastea daily. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Note versus Pastea: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterNotePastea
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 9 daysDaily — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size31 MB103 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperHuy LeYounes El Barrad

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
2 purchases

Pastea

One-time2
  • 7-day TrialFree
  • Pastea Pro Lifetime$29.99

Questions

Is Note free?
Note is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Pastea free?
Pastea is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Note or Pastea have ads?
Neither Note nor Pastea shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Note or Pastea?
Note ships an update every 9 days, and Pastea daily. Most recently, Note was updated on October 24, 2026 and Pastea on October 25, 2026.

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