Comparison

Notedrafts vs Wren

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

Head to head
About

Notedrafts

This app allows you to write, organize, and mark up documents with various tools. It supports PDF annotation, freeform sketching on a large canvas, and vertically extended pages for continuous writing. Customize templates, import various file types, and organize notes with folders and icons.

Highlights
  • Write on PDFs
  • Freeform canvas sketching
  • Vertically extended pages
  • Customizable templates
  • Import PDFs and images
  • Organize with folders and icons
Features
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Notedrafts is a note taking app that lets you write and organize your thoughts across different types of documents. Whether you're marking up a PDF, writing on a large canvas, or taking notes in a long vertical layout, Notedrafts adapts to your workflow. Note taking: - Write on PDF - Create notebooks with customizable templates - Sketch and note taking on a large freeform canvas - Take notes on vertically extended pages for long lists or continuous writing Customizable templates - Choose from daily planners, monthly calendars, habit trackers, and more - Adjust start times, set the current month, and choose how many habits to track - Change page size and background color Import and export - Import PDFs, images, or scan paper documents - Export your notes and share them easily Organize with ease - Create folders with custom icons and colors - Pin important documents and folders to the sidebar for quick access - perfect for study notes and school notes Advanced writing and drawing tools - Pens - Regular Pen, Monoline, Fountain Pen, Pencil, Watercolor, Highlighter - Tools - Ruler, Stroke Eraser, Pixel Eraser, Lasso - Insert images and text into your notes

About

Wren

Transform your handwritten notes into study materials. This app uses AI to generate summaries, practice questions, flashcards, and mind maps from your lecture notes. It also includes a calendar for tracking deadlines and scheduling study sessions.

Highlights
  • AI-generated summaries
  • Practice questions from notes
  • Flashcard creation
  • Mind map generation
  • Specialized sticky types (code, graphs, flowcharts)
  • Integrated calendar with deadline tracking
  • Search by meaning, not just keywords
Features
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Write class notes by hand and pause your pen. Wren's AI reads the page and writes back in ink, right beside your notes: the next step, a graph, a worked solve. On iPad, write with Apple Pencil, pause, and tap Keep. On iPhone or iPad, ask Study Buddy for a graph, steps or a table and tap Add to Note. Most AI answers in a chat window. Wren answers on the page you are already writing on, in its own neat hand. Stuck at 11pm on a problem you can't crack? Write it on your board and pause. Wren's AI writes the answer next to your work: the graph, the steps, the table. No chat window. No copy and paste. Just your notes, filling in. START THE THOUGHT. WREN FINISHES IT. Write half a definition, the first line of a proof or the start of a list, then stop. Wren's AI reads what you wrote and picks up where you left off, in ink, beside your notes. It writes in its own hand, so your notes stay yours. A FRESH PAGE IN ONE TAP Tap + and a fresh page opens, ready to name and write on. Work a problem at the top, sketch a cell below it, and add pages as you go. Want typed work instead? Hold + for a Document. WHAT WREN'S AI CAN WRITE Wren's AI writes with real pen strokes, the same kind of ink you write with. Ask, and it can put any of these on your page: • A few lines of text, like a definition or a short explanation • Step-by-step solves for math and science problems • Graphs of the function you are working on • Tables that line facts up side by side • Timelines, from cell division to the Cold War • Checklists for what to do next • Formulas THREE WAYS TO ASK Pen pause, on iPad. Write what you want with Apple Pencil, like "graph y = x^2 + 1", then pause. A preview appears next to the lines it answers, in the nearest clear space. Drag it where you want it, then tap Keep or Discard. Study Buddy. Open the chat and ask for steps, a graph or a table about the page you are on. Tap Add to Note and the answer is written onto your page in ink. AI Tutor. Pin a Tutor answer you like, then add it to your page. It goes on as ink. YOU DECIDE WHAT STAYS Every pen pause starts as a preview. Tap Keep and it becomes ink on your board. Tap Discard and it is gone. Kept ink is real ink: lasso it, move it, erase it or undo it, just like your own. ONE NIGHT AT THE BOARD 9pm, calculus. You write "graph y = x^2 - 4" and pause. The curve shows up on the board next to your work. 10pm, biology. You ask Study Buddy for the stages of mitosis and tap Add to Note. A timeline is written beside your sketch of the cell. 11pm, physics. You write the first two steps of a projectile problem and pause. Wren's AI writes the next step underneath. Midnight, chemistry. You ask for a table comparing ionic and covalent bonds. It is written in neat rows, right on the board. WRITE ON IPAD OR IPHONE On iPad, Wren works with Apple Pencil, with pressure and palm rejection, and pen pause is there whenever you stop to think. On iPhone, write with your finger and use Study Buddy's Add to Note to bring answers onto your page. Sign in and your notes sync across your devices. WHY WE BUILT IT Wren is made by college students. We take notes every day, and we were tired of copying answers out of a chat window and into our notes. So we made the notes answer back. We are our own users, and Wren is the whiteboard we wanted. Wren is free to download and free to use. Terms of Use: https://www.wrenapp.ai/terms Privacy Policy: https://www.wrenapp.ai/privacy

Screenshots

Notedrafts4 screens
Wren4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ratings volume: Notedrafts at 764 against Wren's 22. Notedrafts also leads on update cadence (every 3 days vs every 10 days). Wren's advantage is review sentiment (100% vs 81%). On price, rating, ads and in-app purchases 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. Notedrafts sells 5 one-off in-app purchases and Wren sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Wren holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Notedrafts has 764 ratings behind it against 22, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 81% of Notedrafts's written reviews are positive against 100% of Wren's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Notedrafts ships an update every 3 days, Wren every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on November 8, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Notedrafts versus Wren: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterNotedraftsWren
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (764 ratings)5.0 (22 ratings) — better
Positive reviews81.3% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings764 — better22
Update frequencyEvery 3 days — betterEvery 10 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.616.6 — better
Further details — not scored
Size13 MB105 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAppycron Interactive e.K.NOTENEST LLC

Customer experience

Notedrafts

All ratings753 ratings
Positive96.3%
Neutral2.0%
Negative1.7%
Written reviews192 reviews
Positive81.3%
Neutral9.9%
Negative8.9%

Wren

All ratings22 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews12 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

Notedrafts

Reported bugs

1 issue
  • No issues reported

Requested features

7 requests
  • Add support for scribble to erase
  • Implement custom notebook covers
  • Add pure text writing mode
  • Ability to customize toolbar
  • Embed URL links with web preview
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  • Add page tags and linking between pages
  • Introduce light mode app icon

Wren

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

5 purchases

Notedrafts

One-time5
  • Unlimited Notes$14.99
  • Unlimited Notes$24.99
  • Unlimited Notes$39.99
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  • Unlimited Notes$49.99
  • Unlimited Notes$69.99
5 purchases

Wren

Subscriptions5
  • NoteNest Lite7 Days trial$4.991 Month
  • NoteNest Founder7 Days trial$6.991 Month
  • NoteNest Pro7 Days trial$9.991 Month
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  • NoteNest Elite7 Days trial$14.991 Month
  • NoteNest Pro Annual7 Days trial$71.991 Year

Questions

Is Notedrafts free?
Notedrafts is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Wren free?
Wren is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Notedrafts or Wren?
Wren is rated higher. Notedrafts averages 4.8 out of 5 from 764 ratings, while Wren averages 5.0 from 22 ratings.
Do Notedrafts or Wren have ads?
Neither Notedrafts nor Wren shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Notedrafts or Wren?
Notedrafts ships an update every 3 days, and Wren every 10 days. Most recently, Notedrafts was updated on November 8, 2026 and Wren on November 5, 2026.

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