Everly vs PaperThoughts
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Everly
This app provides a private digital space for self-expression and memory keeping. It offers customizable templates, entry personalization with photos and stickers, and tracking of journaling habits for personal growth.
- Customizable journal templates
- Personalize entries with photos and stickers
- Track journaling habits and personal growth
- Password protection for privacy
- Beautifully designed themes
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Everly – A Beautiful Way to Capture Your Memories Welcome to your private space for self-expression, reflection, and creativity. Our journal app is designed to help you document your thoughts, emotions, and daily experiences in a way that feels uniquely yours. With a variety of customizable features, you can transform your journal into a place that truly reflects your personality: • Choose Your Perfect Journal Template – Select from beautifully designed themes to match your style. • Customize Every Entry – Add backgrounds, photos, stickers, and text styling to bring your thoughts to life. • Track Your Journey – View statistics on your journaling habits and gain insights into your personal growth. Whether you're journaling for mindfulness, goal tracking, or simply to preserve your memories, this app offers a welcoming and inspiring space to do it all. Start writing today and create a journal that feels like home. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
PaperThoughts
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A quiet place to think. PaperThoughts is a private, handwriting-first journal for iPad. Write by hand with your Apple Pencil, sketch in the margins, and keep every entry to yourself. WRITE BY HAND • Natural Apple Pencil handwriting and drawing • Blank, lined, grid, or dotted paper in multiple sizes and colours • Journaling prompts when you don't know where to start drop a question onto the page and answer it in ink • Prefer to type? Typed entries are always a long-press away REMEMBER THE MOMENT • Tag entries, set a mood, and pin the place they happened drop the pin on a map yourself, wherever the entry belongs • Add photos alongside your handwriting or leave a placeholder slot on the page and fill it with the photo later • Find things again with filters by journal, place, tag, or date WORKS WHEREVER YOU DO • No connection needed write, sketch, and read your journals fully offline • At the cabin, on the trail, in the air: your journal lives on your device, and syncs through your own iCloud when you're back online • Day or night — a dark mode that keeps the page calm WATCH YOUR PRACTICE GROW • Streaks and gentle insights: how often you write, and the places your entries have taken you • Bookmark the pages you return to • Export entries or whole journals to PDF anytime your words are never locked in PRIVATE BY DESIGN • Your entries live on your device and in your own iCloud — nowhere else • No account, no sign-up, and nothing to log in to • No analytics, no tracking, no servers of ours: we have no way to read what you write • Moods are saved to Apple Health on your device; App Lock uses Face ID or Touch ID without biometric data ever leaving it ON IPHONE • A companion for reading your journals and capturing quick typed notes the Pencil stays the star on iPad PAPERTHOUGHTS PREMIUM The free app includes 3 journals with 5 entries each — enough to make it yours. Premium removes every limit, with a monthly or yearly subscription or a one-time lifetime purchase. Payment is charged to your Apple Account; subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the period, and can be managed in your Apple Account settings. Privacy policy: https://paperthoughts.app/privacy Terms of use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
Everly and PaperThoughts are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters — price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.
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. Everly sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per 7 days and PaperThoughts sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Everly ships an update weekly, PaperThoughts every 8 days. The most recent releases landed on September 29, 2026 and October 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Everly | PaperThoughts |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (10 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 10 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Every 8 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | — |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 101 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Matveii Demko | Cody Nicoll |
In-app purchases
Everly
- Weekly Subscription3 Days trial$1.997 Days
- Monthly Subscription$3.991 Month
- Annual Subscription$19.991 Year
PaperThoughts
- Premium Monthly$3.991 Month
- Premium Yearly$24.991 Year
- Premium Lifetime$59.99









