Comparison

Everly vs PaperThoughts

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Customizable journal templates
  • Personalize entries with photos and stickers
  • Track journaling habits and personal growth
  • Password protection for privacy
  • Beautifully designed themes
Features
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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/

About

PaperThoughts

Features
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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/

Screenshots

Everly4 screens
PaperThoughts4 screens

Verdict

The call

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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Everly ships an update weekly, PaperThoughts every 8 days. The most recent releases landed on September 29, 2026 and October 6, 2026 respectively.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Everly versus PaperThoughts: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterEverlyPaperThoughts
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (10 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings10 — better—
Update frequencyWeekly — betterEvery 8 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size101 MB4 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperMatveii DemkoCody Nicoll

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Everly

Subscriptions3
  • Weekly Subscription3 Days trial$1.997 Days
  • Monthly Subscription$3.991 Month
  • Annual Subscription$19.991 Year
3 purchases

PaperThoughts

Subscriptions2
  • Premium Monthly$3.991 Month
  • Premium Yearly$24.991 Year
One-time1
  • Premium Lifetime$59.99

Questions

Is Everly free?
Everly is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is PaperThoughts free?
PaperThoughts is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Everly or PaperThoughts have ads?
Neither Everly nor PaperThoughts shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Everly or PaperThoughts?
Everly ships an update weekly, and PaperThoughts every 8 days. Most recently, Everly was updated on September 29, 2026 and PaperThoughts on October 6, 2026.

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