Notedrafts vs Pattio
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- Write on PDFs
- Freeform canvas sketching
- Vertically extended pages
- Customizable templates
- Import PDFs and images
- Organize with folders and icons
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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
Pattio
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Your digital shoebox. An endless cork board where you toss notes, photos, links and lists, move them with your finger like real paper, and group them however you like. No structure forced on you: save it first, sort it later — if you ever feel like it. EVERYTHING GOES IN, AND IT GOES IN EASILY Stickies, notes, images, links, checklists, folders, polls, countdowns, expenses, habits, albums, files, videos, places, songs, document scans, notebooks, documents, voice notes, drawings, events, calendars, reminders, doors into other boards and today's weather. Twenty-five kinds of card, every one of them pinned down. Share into it from any app, drag things in from Finder or your photo library, or just paste: Pattio works out on its own whether what you brought is a photo, a link or text. IT MOVES LIKE PAPER The canvas pans and zooms with your fingers. Cards drag, rotate with two fingers and snap straight when they get close. Tap a note and it opens for writing, big and centred, with the colour palette beside it; close it and it goes back to its spot on the board. Photos and folders open big from exactly where they sit, the way iOS apps open, and close again by following your finger. ZONES, NOT FOLDERS Paint a coloured area, give it a name, and drop things into it: whatever lands inside is filed automatically, and whatever leaves is unfiled. AND WHEN YOU WANT ORDER A masonry grid of two, four or six columns, filtered by kind, by folder or by zone. Search everywhere. Export the whole board as a PDF. ON IPHONE, IPAD AND MAC A real native menu bar and proper keyboard shortcuts on Mac. Drawing with Apple Pencil on iPad. Home screen widgets. Eight app icons to choose from. Dark mode with a warm night palette, not a grey one. IN YOUR LANGUAGE Thirteen languages: Catalan, Spanish, English, French, German, Italian, Dutch, European and Brazilian Portuguese, Japanese, Korean, and Simplified and Traditional Chinese. IT WORKS WITH NO ACCOUNT Pattio is complete on your device without signing up for anything. An account is optional and only does one thing: sync. Private boards travel end-to-end encrypted, with a key that is yours alone and that we do not hold. No ads and no trackers. The only analytics are pseudonymous — a random per-install identifier, no account and no content — never read what you write, and switch off in Privacy. AND IF YOU WANT, IT’S SHARED Invite people to a board or hand out a link: whoever opens it can look, vote and add notes right in the browser, with nothing to install and nothing to pay. (A shared board has to be readable in your guest’s browser, so that one stops being encrypted. We would rather say so.) THE PLANS The free plan is enough to use Pattio for real: one board, seventeen kinds of card, sync, sharing and 50 MB in the cloud. The paid plans open up the rest: as many boards as you like, all twenty-five kinds of card, and more space. · Free — 1 board · 17 kinds of card · 50 MB · Plus — unlimited boards · every kind · 5 GB · Pro — unlimited boards · every kind · 15 GB Optional monthly auto-renewable subscription. Payment is charged to your Apple Account when you confirm the purchase, and it renews only if you do not cancel it at least 24 h before the end of the period. You can manage or cancel it in your Apple Account settings. And if you ever leave, you take it all with you: one button downloads a ZIP with every board as JSON and every original file, byte for byte. Free, always, on the free plan too, and even after a subscription lapses. — Terms of use: https://pattio.app/en/terms Privacy: https://pattio.app/en/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Notedrafts at every 3 days against Pattio's every 11 days. 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
Both are free to download. Notedrafts sells 11 one-off in-app purchases and Pattio sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Notedrafts ships an update every 3 days, Pattio every 11 days. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 23, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Notedrafts | Pattio |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (761 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 81.7% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 761 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 days — better | Every 11 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 | 16.4 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 13 MB | 79 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Appycron Interactive e.K. | Joan Cama Ribot |
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
Pattio
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Notedrafts
- Bronze Tip$0.99
- Silver Tip$1.99
- Gold Tip$4.99
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- PRO Version$5.99
- Platinum Tip$9.99
- Unlimited Notes$14.99
- Diamond Tip$19.99
- Unlimited Notes$24.99
- Unlimited Notes$39.99
- Unlimited Notes$49.99
- Unlimited Notes$69.99
Pattio
- Plus3 Days trial$2.991 Month
- Pro$4.991 Month









