Quad Notes vs notes and bugs
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Quad Notes
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Displays four notes in a grid.
notes and bugs
A digital canvas for creative minds to organize ideas, plans, and doodles. Decorate pages with text, drawings, photos, and unique bug companions. Offers a cozy space for planning, scrapbooking, or journaling.
- Freeform note creation
- PDF import and annotation
- Customizable canvas with decorations
- Add multimedia content
- Drawing tools with various brushes
- Interactive bug companions
- Export as image or PDF
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Welcome to notes and bugs, your cozy little space for ideas, plans, doodles, and tiny bug companions. Create notes your way on a fully customizable canvas. Write, decorate, draw, rearrange, and make every page feel like your own small world. Features: • Create freeform notes, calendars, and document pages. • Import PDFs and decorate, highlight, draw, and write over every page. • Zoom into calendars and documents to plan or decorate with precision. • Add text, to-dos, photos, links, music, videos, GIFs, and documents. • Draw directly on your canvas with different brushes, colors, and sizes. • Decorate with washi tape, stickers, stamps, doodles, and tiny houses. • Add adorable bug companions or create your very own custom bug. • Move, resize, rotate, layer, and lock your creations freely. • Personalize each canvas with colors, textures, and backgrounds. • Keep a daily mood with your little bug profile and ask the magical bug yes-or-no questions. • Save and export your creations as images or PDFs. • Keep your notes stored locally and privately on your device. Whether you are planning your week, building a scrapbook, studying from a PDF, collecting inspiration, or creating a comforting corner for your thoughts, notes and bugs makes it feel a little more magical. Create a space that feels uniquely yours. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Quad Notes at none against notes and bugs's 2. Quad Notes also leads on iOS requirement (15.8.3 vs 17.6). notes and bugs's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 2 days vs every 2 weeks). On price 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. notes and bugs sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Quad Notes asks for nothing beyond the download.
Quad Notes ships an update every 2 weeks, notes and bugs every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on November 4, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Quad Notes | notes and bugs |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | — | 1 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | — | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.8.3 — better | 17.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 37 MB | 8 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Hideaki Uchikoshi | Zulmy Linda Loo Cordova |
In-app purchases
Quad Notes
No in-app purchases
notes and bugs
- notes and bugs - monthly$0.991 Month
- notes and bugs premium$6.99
