Comparison

Notes Hive vs Pattio

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

Head to head
About

Notes Hive

Features
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Welcome to Notes Hive, where organization meets creativity in perfect harmony. Just as bees meticulously organize their honeycomb, Notes Hive helps you structure your thoughts, tasks, and creative expressions in beautiful notes, to-do lists, and drawings. KEY FEATURES :- Versatile Note-Taking : - Create rich, beautiful notes with text, images, and voice recordings - Customize with elegant backgrounds, colors, and gradients - Create reminders Smart To-Do Lists : - Organize tasks with easy-to-use checklists - Customize with elegant backgrounds, colors, and gradients - Add images and audio to tasks - Create reminders Creative Drawing Canvas : - Express yourself with our drawing canvas - Perfect for sketches, diagrams, and handwritten notes - Multiple brush weights and colors Intelligent Organization : - Sort notes and to-dos into custom categories - Smart search functionality Never Miss a Thing : - Set reminders for important notes and to-do lists Premium Features : - Dark mode for comfortable nighttime use - Additional beautiful backgrounds and gradients - App lock - Speech-to-text feature for ease Now Available in 14 Languages : Choose your preferred language under Settings -> Language and enjoy Notes Hive in: - English, French, German, Spanish, Italian - Korean, Portuguese, Hindi, Chinese, Russian - Arabic, Japanese, Dutch, and Swedish This makes Notes Hive more accessible and user-friendly for everyone across the globe! Perfect For: - Students organizing study notes - Professionals managing projects - Artists capturing creative ideas - Writers documenting thoughts - Anyone seeking better organization Join the Hive: Transform your digital notes and to-dos today with Notes Hive. Experience the perfect balance of functionality and beauty in this note-taking app. Whether you're capturing quick thoughts, planning projects, or expressing creativity, Notes Hive is your perfect companion for keeping ideas organized and accessible. Terms of Use: https://tattvamenterprises.com/terms-of-use/

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Pattio

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Your digital shoebox. An endless cork board where you toss notes, photos, links and lists, move them with your finger like real paper, and group them however you like. No structure forced on you: save it first, sort it later β€” if you ever feel like it. EVERYTHING GOES IN, AND IT GOES IN EASILY Stickies, notes, images, links, checklists, folders, polls, countdowns, expenses, habits, albums, files, videos, places, songs, document scans, notebooks, documents, voice notes, drawings, events, calendars, reminders, doors into other boards and today's weather. Twenty-five kinds of card, every one of them pinned down. Share into it from any app, drag things in from Finder or your photo library, or just paste: Pattio works out on its own whether what you brought is a photo, a link or text. IT MOVES LIKE PAPER The canvas pans and zooms with your fingers. Cards drag, rotate with two fingers and snap straight when they get close. Tap a note and it opens for writing, big and centred, with the colour palette beside it; close it and it goes back to its spot on the board. Photos and folders open big from exactly where they sit, the way iOS apps open, and close again by following your finger. ZONES, NOT FOLDERS Paint a coloured area, give it a name, and drop things into it: whatever lands inside is filed automatically, and whatever leaves is unfiled. AND WHEN YOU WANT ORDER A masonry grid of two, four or six columns, filtered by kind, by folder or by zone. Search everywhere. Export the whole board as a PDF. ON IPHONE, IPAD AND MAC A real native menu bar and proper keyboard shortcuts on Mac. Drawing with Apple Pencil on iPad. Home screen widgets. Eight app icons to choose from. Dark mode with a warm night palette, not a grey one. IN YOUR LANGUAGE Thirteen languages: Catalan, Spanish, English, French, German, Italian, Dutch, European and Brazilian Portuguese, Japanese, Korean, and Simplified and Traditional Chinese. IT WORKS WITH NO ACCOUNT Pattio is complete on your device without signing up for anything. An account is optional and only does one thing: sync. Private boards travel end-to-end encrypted, with a key that is yours alone and that we do not hold. No ads and no trackers. The only analytics are pseudonymous β€” a random per-install identifier, no account and no content β€” never read what you write, and switch off in Privacy. AND IF YOU WANT, IT’S SHARED Invite people to a board or hand out a link: whoever opens it can look, vote and add notes right in the browser, with nothing to install and nothing to pay. (A shared board has to be readable in your guest’s browser, so that one stops being encrypted. We would rather say so.) THE PLANS The free plan is enough to use Pattio for real: one board, seventeen kinds of card, sync, sharing and 50 MB in the cloud. The paid plans open up the rest: as many boards as you like, all twenty-five kinds of card, and more space. Β· Free β€” 1 board Β· 17 kinds of card Β· 50 MB Β· Plus β€” unlimited boards Β· every kind Β· 5 GB Β· Pro β€” unlimited boards Β· every kind Β· 15 GB Optional monthly auto-renewable subscription. Payment is charged to your Apple Account when you confirm the purchase, and it renews only if you do not cancel it at least 24 h before the end of the period. You can manage or cancel it in your Apple Account settings. And if you ever leave, you take it all with you: one button downloads a ZIP with every board as JSON and every original file, byte for byte. Free, always, on the free plan too, and even after a subscription lapses. β€” Terms of use: https://pattio.app/en/terms Privacy: https://pattio.app/en/privacy

Screenshots

Notes Hive4 screens
Pattio4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Pattio at none against Notes Hive's shown. Pattio also leads on update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 2 months). On price, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price Β· Rating Β· Positive reviews Β· Number of ratings Β· Update frequency Β· Ads Β· In-app purchases Β· Monetization Β· Best chart rank Β· Devices Β· Requires iOS

CostPrice Β· In-app purchases Β· Ads Β· Monetization

Both are free to download. Notes Hive sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month and Pattio sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Notes Hive ships an update every 2 months, Pattio every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 9, 2026 and October 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences Β· 4 level
Notes Hive versus Pattio: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterNotes HivePattio
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 2 weeks β€” better
AdsYesNo β€” better
In-app purchasesYesYes
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod β€” betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.6 β€” better16.4
Further details β€” not scored
Size116 MB74 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperTATTVAM ENTERPRISESJoan Cama Ribot

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Notes Hive

Subscriptions2
  • Notes Hive Premium - Monthly$1.991 Month
  • Notes Hive Premium - Yearly$9.991 Year
One-time1
  • Notes Hive Premium - Lifetime$19.99
2 purchases

Pattio

Subscriptions2
  • Plus3 Days trial$2.991 Month
  • Pro$4.991 Month

Questions

Is Notes Hive free?
Notes Hive is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Pattio free?
Pattio is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Notes Hive or Pattio have ads?
Notes Hive shows ads; Pattio does not.
Which is updated more often, Notes Hive or Pattio?
Notes Hive ships an update every 2 months, and Pattio every 2 weeks. Most recently, Notes Hive was updated on October 9, 2026 and Pattio on October 6, 2026.

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