Comparison

Shade Analyzer vs Noted Note

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

Head to head
About

Shade Analyzer

Features
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Shading Analyzer - Precision Shading Insights for Gardens & Architecture Revolutionize your outdoor and architectural planning with the Shading Analyzer app. Designed to work seamlessly with our advanced shading analysis lens, this app delivers highly accurate sunshade evaluations tailored for gardening and architectural projects. Key Features: Accurate Shading Analysis: Perfect for optimizing plant placement in gardens and planning structures with ideal sun exposure. Real-Time Data: Assess shading patterns to design efficient and aesthetically pleasing outdoor spaces. Tailored for Professionals & Enthusiasts: Ideal for architects, landscapers, and gardening enthusiasts. User-Friendly Interface: Simple yet powerful tools to elevate your planning process. Whether you're cultivating a lush garden or designing innovative architectural spaces, Shading Analyzer empowers you with actionable insights for success. Plan smarter, grow better, and design beautifully with Shading Analyzer!

About

Noted Note

This app simulates a physical notebook, allowing you to type notes that appear as handwriting. It offers various pen and paper styles, doodle and photo integration, and a unique scratch-out deletion feature. Notes are organized chronologically on a single wall and are searchable.

Highlights
  • Handwritten text simulation
  • Customizable pens and paper styles
  • Doodle and photo integration
  • Scratch-out deletion effect
  • Chronological note organization
  • Searchable notes
  • iPhone Duo specific features
Features
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noted. is a little paper notebook for your iPhone. Type, and your words appear in handwriting on paper with a bit of grain. No folders to manage, no toolbars to learn. Just a page and a pen. WRITING • Four hands: scrawl, the house hand, which inks itself stroke by stroke as you type, plus marker, looseleaf and rafikki • Four pens: ballpoint, marker, fountain and pencil • Change the hand or pen for a selection, or for just what you type next; settings picks the hand new notes start in • Plain, lined, squared or dotted paper, chosen note by note CROSSING OUT • Delete more than a few letters and they are scratched out in ink instead of vanishing; a quick typo fix still simply deletes • Keep the scratch-out, or let it go DOODLES AND PHOTOS • Draw with your finger and put the doodle on the page • Add photos from your library: as the full photo, as a cutout with the background removed, as a cutout with a white border, or held on with a binder clip or a paper clip • Move doodles and photos around the page YOUR NOTES • Every note on one wall, most recently written first, grouped by day • Search what your notes say (crossed-out words are left out) • Hold a note to crumple it up PAPERS AND SOUNDS • Cream paper by day and charcoal at night, following your iPhone • Five more papers: charcoal, spring, terracotta, violet and sea • Soft pencil sounds when you cross out, crumple a note, or pick a paper, pen or hand, with a loudness control, or turn them off ON IPHONE DUO • Closed, the outside screen is your notebook's cover, with windows cut through it to your latest page • Open it, and your notes become a book: turn the pages, with a soft page-turn sound • Tap a page and write right on it with the keyboard • A handwritten index of your notes, with dates • Eight covers: bottle green, charcoal, ink navy, rust, burgundy, kraft, and two cloth covers, breakfast and horses • Lined, squared, dotted or plain pages; blue, black or sepia ink; turn the pages or scroll • Warm, faded paper after dark LANGUAGES • noted. speaks English, Danish, German, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, and Simplified and Traditional Chinese • The handwriting writes all of them. The four hands and the self-inking scrawl are for the Latin alphabet; Cyrillic, Japanese, Korean and Chinese each have a handwriting face of their own FREE, AND THE WHOLE DRAWER Free to use, with no time limit: the scrawl, the ballpoint, cream paper (charcoal at night), scratch-outs, doodles, photos, search, sounds and the whole iPhone Duo notebook. One optional purchase, the whole drawer, adds: • the five more papers • every pen: marker, fountain and pencil • every hand: marker, looseleaf and rafikki • iCloud sync, so your notes follow you to your other iPhones One payment, kept forever. No subscription. Restore it any time from the purchase page. PRIVATE Notes stay on your device or in your own iCloud. Apple handles purchases; RevenueCat receives receipts and app/device IDs for validation and purchase statistics. No advertising tracking or data sales. Privacy Policy: https://walnut-burst-160.notion.site/Noted-Note-Privacy-Policy-3a93971e7add8199a7e4d91c688d6069 Terms of Use: https://walnut-burst-160.notion.site/Noted-Note-Terms-of-Use-3a93971e7add80428a0fdaad90470a72 Apple Standard EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Shade Analyzer4 screens
Noted Note4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Shade Analyzer at none against Noted Note's 1. Shade Analyzer also leads on iOS requirement (12.0 vs 26.5). Noted Note's advantage is update cadence (every 3 days vs fortnightly). On price, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Noted Note sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Shade Analyzer asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Shade Analyzer ships an update fortnightly, Noted Note every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Shade Analyzer versus Noted Note: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterShade AnalyzerNoted Note
PriceFreeFree
Rating—4.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—50.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—2 — better
Update frequencyFortnightlyEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
Monetization—Free with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS12.0 — better26.5
Further details — not scored
Size96 MB115 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperStep RoboticsJerry Munyoka Nkongolo

In-app purchases

None

Shade Analyzer

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Noted Note

One-time1
  • the whole drawer$9.99

Questions

Is Shade Analyzer free?
Shade Analyzer is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Noted Note free?
Noted Note is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Shade Analyzer or Noted Note have ads?
Neither Shade Analyzer nor Noted Note shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Shade Analyzer or Noted Note?
Shade Analyzer ships an update fortnightly, and Noted Note every 3 days. Most recently, Shade Analyzer was updated on October 30, 2026 and Noted Note on November 5, 2026.

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