Quick Note vs kotori
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Quick Note
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Quick Note is a calm, fast notepad for everything you need to remember. Open it, capture the thought, get on with your day. No sign-up. No email. No password. Your notes are yours the second the app opens. CAPTURE IN ONE TAP The compose button opens straight into whatever you need: a blank note, a checklist, a reminder, a voice memo or a photo. Nothing to configure first. • Rich text with a simple formatting bar — bold, italic, headings, quotes, code and tables • Checklists you tick off with a tap, right on the card • Photos from your library, attached in seconds • Document scanner that turns paper into a clean, cropped page • Voice notes with live waveform and one-tap playback • Freehand drawing and handwriting with Apple Pencil or your finger • Any file, kept alongside the note it belongs to SEARCH THAT ACTUALLY FINDS IT Text recognition reads the words inside your photos and scans, so a receipt, a whiteboard or a business card turns up in search like any other note. Search covers titles, body text, tags and recognised text at once. ORGANISE HOWEVER YOU THINK • Folders for the big buckets • Tags for everything that crosses them • Eight colours to make a note findable at a glance • Pin the ones that matter to the top • Smart folders that save a search you keep repeating • Archive to clear the list without losing anything • Trash that holds deleted notes for 30 days • Grid or list, sorted by newest, oldest, title or last edited KEEP THE PRIVATE ONES PRIVATE Mark any note as locked and it disappears behind a passcode, hidden from your list and from search until you unlock it. Face ID and Touch ID work too. REMINDERS THAT SHOW UP Attach a date and time to a note and a notification arrives when it matters. No separate reminders app to keep in sync. BACKED UP, QUIETLY Notes back themselves up in the background so a lost phone does not mean lost notes. Sign-in is anonymous — there is no account to create and no personal details to hand over. You can delete everything, on the device and on the server, from Settings whenever you like. ON YOUR HOME SCREEN • Home screen widgets in three sizes, showing what is still open • Lock screen widgets for a glance without unlocking • Siri Shortcuts — "Add a note", or ask how many notes are still open BUILT TO STAY OUT OF THE WAY • Full dark mode, or follow your system setting • Ten languages: English, Turkish, German, French, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish and Italian • Works offline; everything syncs when you are back • Designed for iPhone and iPad Quick Note is free and supported by ads. One small, one-time purchase removes them for good — no subscription, ever.
kotori
This app offers an immersive reading experience for Japanese literature with vertical text and ruby annotations. It includes an offline dictionary for instant word lookups and customizable themes for comfortable reading. Highlight and memo features allow for annotation and saving important passages.
- Vertical text display with ruby annotations
- Offline Japanese dictionary
- Customizable themes and font styles
- Highlight and memo feature
- Quick search by title or author
- No ads or registration required
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Natsume Soseki, Dazai Osamu, Akutagawa Ryunosuke and more: kotori is an Aozora Bunko reader that beautifully displays about 17,600 public-domain works in vertical text with ruby (furigana). Start reading, or pick up where you left off — more easily than ever. kotori is a quiet place to read Japanese literature. No ads, no sign-up. ■ Bring literature closer with Kotori I want to read literary works like a paperback. I want to look up unfamiliar words right as I read. I want to revisit a passage that stayed with me anytime. Kotori connects reading, looking things up, and returning to favorites — creating a reading environment where you can slowly immerse yourself in a work. ■ Find your next read - Book of the week Each week, kotori introduces one work with a passage that shows what makes it special. - Browse by mood, theme, or author Find something that fits how you feel, from "something slow" to "something strange". Narrow each mood further to your taste, and every curated mood pick comes with a short note on why we chose it. Author guides lead you through the classics. - Work and author pages Every work and author has its own page. Jump to an author from Home, Explore, or any work page. - Your bookshelf Favorites, books in progress and finished books live on your bookshelf, and downloaded works now appear there too. Jump back into anything you left partway through. - Widget and reminders Open the book of the week or your current read from the Home Screen widget. Turn on reminders for a gentle nudge to return to the book you're reading. ■ Key Features - Vertical text + ruby support Full vertical text with ruby (furigana). Even works with older kanji forms or unfamiliar words read as naturally as a printed book. - Built-in offline dictionary (approx. 91,000 entries) Look up words on the spot, instantly. Even without a network connection, you can check meanings without interrupting your reading. - Table of contents to jump where you want Browse chapters of long works or short stories from a list and quickly open the section you want. Also handy when returning to a work you left partway through. - In-text search to find that passage again Search within a work for memorable phrases, character names, or scenes that caught your attention. Get right back to the passage you want to revisit. - Highlights & Notes Highlight passages that resonate with you and save them with notes. Even after finishing, you can look back on a work through your own words. - Search by title, author, or reading Quickly find what you want to read by title, author name, or phonetic reading. Download works to enjoy reading even where there is no signal. - A reading environment that suits you Choose from 4 themes — Light, Dark, Sepia, and Aozora — and 2 fonts — Gothic and Mincho — with fine-grained text size settings. Read in a setting that suits your eyes, morning or night. ■ Nothing between you and the story - No ads — nothing to interrupt your reading - No registration — start reading right away On screen, it's just you and the work. kotori is a small doorway into the treasure trove of Japanese literature. Savor it in beautiful vertical text, look up words, and return to the passages that stayed with you. Find your own reading time with kotori.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: kotori at none against Quick Note's 1. On price, update cadence, ads 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. Quick Note sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. kotori asks for nothing beyond the download.
Quick Note ships an update every 2 weeks, kotori weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 4, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Quick Note | kotori |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 57.1% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | — | 1 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | — | Free |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.2 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 9 MB | 121 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Mustafa Onus | Tatsuhiko Kawana |
In-app purchases
Quick Note
- Premium$0.99
kotori
No in-app purchases









