Comparison

InkSpace vs Pinly

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

Head to head
About

InkSpace

This digital notebook app offers complete creative freedom for note-taking, brainstorming, sketching, and journaling. Customize notebooks with various templates, page styles, and colors. Organize and access notes seamlessly across devices, with offline functionality.

Highlights
  • Unlimited custom notebooks
  • Write, draw, and sketch with stylus support
  • Insert custom shapes, text, and media
  • Searchable tags and bookmarks
  • Sync across all devices
  • Offline functionality
Features
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The all-in-one notebook for handwriting, typing, PDFs, math, diagrams, and more. Built for students who want to learn faster and professionals who want to work smarter. Take handwritten notes, mark up PDFs, solve equations, and record lectures, all in one organized space that keeps your work together and in sync across your devices. Write and draw naturally Capture notes in your own handwriting with smooth, responsive ink. Prefer to type? Switch to the keyboard anytime, with a full font picker and control over size, color, bold, italic, underline, and alignment. Add horizontal and vertical rulers to keep everything precise. Choose the perfect page Start on college ruled, wide ruled, graph, dotted, or blank paper in A4, A5, B5, or custom sizes, portrait or landscape. Personalize everything with custom notebook and page colors, backgrounds, and tints. Templates for every purpose Jump into ready-made template packs for real life: • Planner templates for daily planning and scheduling • Journal templates for reflection and journaling • Fitness templates for workouts and tracking • Teaching templates for lesson planning and classes • Finance and trading templates for money and markets • Handwriting and calendar templates for practice and organization Or build and save your own so your favorite layouts are always one tap away. Study and remember more Turn any subject into a quiz set, a deck of flip cards you can shuffle, grade, and drill yourself with until it sticks. Perfect for exam prep, vocabulary, and quick daily review. Find anything instantly InkSpace reads your handwriting and makes it searchable. Search across every notebook to surface handwritten notes, typed text, sticky notes, code, lists, and tags in seconds. Spotlight finds notes right from the Home Screen, and Siri Shortcuts let you create, open, and search notes hands-free. Work smarter with rich, interactive objects Drop live tools onto your page and move them anywhere: • Math equations with automatic formatting from everyday notation • Calculator with named variables, unit and currency conversion, and financial functions like PMT, FV, and PV • Charts with a built-in data editor and multiple chart types • Function graphs for visualizing equations • Code blocks with syntax highlighting for Swift, Python, JavaScript, Java, C++, and many more • Audio recordings to capture lectures and meetings alongside your notes • Images, maps, and 3D models embedded directly on your pages • Tables and grids with fully editable cells and real formulas • Checklists and lists with bullets, numbers, and checkboxes • Sticky notes and shapes to structure and highlight your thinking Build diagrams and connect ideas Create flowcharts, mind maps, and org-style diagrams by linking shapes, text, and sticky notes with connectors and arrows. Explore without limits using infinite zoom and fractal canvas modes that give you endless room to think. Write papers that are ready to hand in Draft a full essay with proper margins, then let InkSpace build your entire bibliography from your sources in APA, MLA, or Chicago style. Export to PDF or Word, formatted and ready to submit. Organize everything your way Group your notebooks, papers, and quiz sets together into backpacks. Bookmark notebooks and pages, tag pages for fast filtering, connect notes with cross-notebook page links that preview inline, and add hyperlinks to jump anywhere. Import PDFs to reference, attach files, and export pages to share. Sync securely with iCloud Your notebooks stay up to date on every device with iCloud, so your notes are always with you. Perfect for • Students: lecture notes, study guides, math and science homework, searchable revision, recorded classes, quiz sets, and notebooks for every subject • Professionals: meeting notes, project planning, diagrams, referenced PDFs, quick calculations, and reusable templates

About

Pinly

Features
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Pinly is a modern, private visual collection app for saving supported links from apps and websites on iPhone and iPad. Save supported links from apps and websites into one clean visual library, including articles, places, reference pages, recipes, travel plans, videos, posts, and personal resources. Pinly helps you organize the links you want to revisit later with beautiful preview cards, custom categories, iCloud sync, and simple data import and export. Pinly is designed for people who want a calm, organized, and privacy-friendly way to keep useful links without clutter. WHAT'S NEW IN PINLY 1.1 • CUSTOM CATEGORIES Create your own categories for the way you actually organize. Choose a category when adding or sharing a bookmark, rename categories later, or delete a category to move its bookmarks back to Automatic. KEY FEATURES • VISUAL LINK PREVIEWS Turn saved links into clean visual cards with titles, descriptions, and preview images when available. Your collection becomes easier to browse, recognize, and revisit. • CUSTOM CATEGORIES Organize saved links your way. Create categories such as Travel, Recipes, Study, Work, or Places, and choose where each bookmark belongs. If you leave a bookmark on Automatic, Pinly will continue to place it under platform-based categories such as Maps or YouTube. • SAVE SUPPORTED LINKS FROM APPS AND WEBSITES Use the iOS share sheet or clipboard detection to save supported links from websites and compatible apps. Keep articles, places, videos, posts, reference pages, recipes, travel plans, and personal resources together in one private visual collection. • NATIVE ICLOUD SYNCHRONIZATION Pinly uses Apple’s CloudKit technology to sync your bookmarks and custom categories across iPhone and iPad when iCloud Sync is enabled. Your saved collection stays available across your Apple devices. • DATA IMPORT AND EXPORT Your collection belongs to you. Pinly supports simple local import and export, including custom categories, so you can back up your data or move your library without platform lock-in. • PRIVACY-FRIENDLY BY DESIGN Pinly does not serve ads, does not use third-party tracking, and does not collect personal analytics. Your saved collection stays under your control. WHY PINLY PRO? Upgrade to Pinly Pro to unlock more powerful features: • Save unlimited bookmarks and grow your collection without caps. • Enable iCloud Sync across iPhone and iPad. • Use import and export tools for better data flexibility. Organize the links and ideas you want to revisit with Pinly. Clean, visual, private, and built for Apple devices. About Pinly Pro Purchase Options: 1. Subscription & Purchase Plans: - Pinly Pro Monthly: Monthly Auto-Renewable Subscription (1 Month) - Pinly Pro Annual: Annual Auto-Renewable Subscription (1 Year) - Pinly Pro Lifetime: Lifetime Premium Pass (One-time purchase, forever access) - Actual pricing may vary depending on your local currency and region as displayed within the app. 2. Auto-Renewable Subscription Information (For Monthly & Annual): - Payment: Payment will be charged to your Apple Account upon confirmation of purchase. - Renewal: Subscription automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Your account will be charged for renewal within 24 hours prior to the end of the current period. - Managing Subscriptions: You can manage or turn off auto-renew in your iOS/iPadOS Settings > Apple Account > Subscriptions at any time after purchase. 3. Legal Links: - Privacy Policy: https://pinlyappspace.github.io/Pinly-Privacy/privacy-policy.html - Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

InkSpace4 screens
Pinly3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: InkSpace at every 10 days against Pinly's monthly. 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. InkSpace sells 7 one-off in-app purchases and Pinly sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

InkSpace ships an update every 10 days, Pinly monthly. The most recent releases landed on November 12, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
InkSpace versus Pinly: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterInkSpacePinly
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (11 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings11 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 10 days — betterMonthly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationPaid—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size79 MB9 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperTyler Sherman洋 吴

In-app purchases

7 purchases

InkSpace

One-time7
  • Fitness Pack$0.99
  • Finance Pack$0.99
  • Handwriting Pack$0.99
Show 4 more
  • Planner Pack$0.99
  • Teaching Pack$0.99
  • Journal Pack$0.99
  • InkSpace Pro$9.99
3 purchases

Pinly

Subscriptions2
  • Pro - Monthly$0.991 Month
  • Pro - Annual$9.991 Year
One-time1
  • Pro - Lifetime$19.99

Questions

Is InkSpace free?
InkSpace is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Pinly free?
Pinly is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do InkSpace or Pinly have ads?
Neither InkSpace nor Pinly shows ads.
Which is updated more often, InkSpace or Pinly?
InkSpace ships an update every 10 days, and Pinly monthly. Most recently, InkSpace was updated on November 12, 2026 and Pinly on November 5, 2026.

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