Comparison

Notedrafts vs Guyun

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

Guyun

Features
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Guyun keeps your files in object storage you own: Alibaba Cloud OSS, Tencent Cloud COS, Qiniu, Upyun, Backblaze B2, Cloudflare R2, MinIO, or any S3-compatible service. No account system, no server of ours, no telemetry — files go straight from this device to your own bucket. The app provides no cloud space and takes no cut of your storage. ■ Why "your own storage" Most cloud drives keep your files on the vendor's servers, which decides the speed, the capacity and the price. Guyun is the other way round: the bucket, the keys and the bill are yours, and your provider bills storage and traffic at its published rates. Guyun never bills you for either. ■ What it does · Browse and manage: grid or list, sorted by name, date or size; whole-bucket search, not just the folder you are in; new folders, rename, copy, move · Upload and download: from Files or Photos, or a whole folder at once, through a queue you can pause and resume; downloads go to a folder or to Photos · iOS background transfers: files up to 200 MB go to the system as one request and finish even if you switch apps or lock the screen; larger files continue with the background time granted · Progress anywhere: a small pill shows how many transfers are running and how far along they are · Usage ledger: how much Guyun itself moved — today, this month and last month, by bucket and by device, with cellular counted separately on this device. Only this app's transfers, never your provider's bill · Storage size: measure a bucket to get its file count and total size; a large bucket can be finished over several taps, and the result stays on this device · Archive files are marked; the app asks before a restore (how long, billed by your provider, cannot be cancelled), and afterwards preview and download work as usual · Preview: zoom images, play video while it is still loading, open PDF and text · Trash: a delete moves the item to the bucket's own trash folder, where it can be restored or removed for good · Several devices: the same bucket on iPhone, iPad and Mac; hand a configuration over by scanning a code instead of typing keys · Make it yours: an icon per storage, a sidebar you can reorder, and storages you do not need hidden away (back in Settings → Storage service) · Locks: Face ID / Touch ID for the whole app or one storage; transfers keep running while locked, and turning a lock off always asks for authentication first ■ Privacy, in plain terms · No account and no server of ours: the app talks to the storage address you enter, and to nothing else · Access keys live in this device's Keychain, never uploaded to us and never synced through iCloud · Keys leave the device only when you deliberately hand a storage to another device: the handoff code contains them in plain text, so show it only to your own device and treat it like a password · No usage data collected; no third-party SDKs, no analytics, no ads · Face ID / Touch ID is handled by the system, and that data never leaves your device · Both locks are screen gates, not encryption: they keep out someone who picks up your unlocked device ■ Try it without any storage A local demo storage is built in: sample photos, a video and a PDF are generated on device. No account, no keys, no network — browse, preview, upload, rename, copy, move, delete and restore, all without a single credential. ■ What you need A bucket, and a key pair allowed to use only that bucket. Pick the service and place and the app fills in the endpoint and region; you enter the bucket name and the keys (Tencent COS also asks for the APPID ending its bucket names). Guides for every service are on our website, including an Alibaba Cloud template that creates the bucket, the RAM user and the keys at once. ■ Languages Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese and English (switch in Settings; applies next time you open the app). Support: contact@airdiode.com Privacy policy: https://www.godar.cn/Guyun-privacy-policy.html

Screenshots

Notedrafts4 screens
Guyun4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Guyun at none against Notedrafts's 11. On price, update cadence, ads 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Notedrafts sells 11 one-off in-app purchases. Guyun asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Notedrafts ships an update every 3 days, Guyun weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 12, 2026 and October 13, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Notedrafts versus Guyun: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterNotedraftsGuyun
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (753 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews81.6% of reviews—
Number of ratings753 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 days — betterWeekly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, Mac — better
Requires iOS17.617.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size13 MB4 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAppycron Interactive e.K.晖 江

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

Guyun

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

11 purchases

Notedrafts

One-time11
  • 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
None

Guyun

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Notedrafts free?
Notedrafts is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Guyun free?
Guyun is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Notedrafts or Guyun have ads?
Neither Notedrafts nor Guyun shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Notedrafts or Guyun?
Notedrafts ships an update every 3 days, and Guyun weekly. Most recently, Notedrafts was updated on October 12, 2026 and Guyun on October 13, 2026.

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