Comparison

Notebook vs hYYa Encrypted Notes

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

Head to head
About

Notebook

Features
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Notebook – Daily Planner, Notes, To-Do Lists & Drawing in One Beautiful App Notebook is your all-in-one digital notebook for daily planning, writing, journaling, task management, and drawing. Whether you’re planning your day, capturing quick ideas, writing in your personal diary, building detailed to-do lists, or sketching concepts by hand β€” Notebook keeps everything in one clean, beautiful space. Organized with tags, synced with iCloud, and designed to work the way your mind does. DAILY PLANNER & PRODUCTIVITY Plan your day, organize your priorities, and stay on track. Notebook combines daily planning with notes, checklists, tasks, goals, and routines. Create daily, weekly, and monthly plans, organize what matters most, and keep your routines on track. Set priorities, track completed tasks, and see your progress with a visual progress tracker. Create repeating tasks for daily habits, weekly routines, and monthly goals β€” so nothing falls through the cracks. JOURNAL & DIARY Make Notebook your personal journal and digital diary. Capture your thoughts, memories, experiences, ideas, and everyday moments in your own words. Write daily journal entries, reflect on your day, record memories, or use your diary as a private space to reflect. From daily reflections and gratitude notes to personal stories and life milestones, Notebook gives your thoughts a place to grow. TO-DO LIST & CHECKLISTS Turn ideas into action. Build smart to-do lists with a tap, check off tasks as you go, and watch your progress grow with a visual progress tracker. Set repeating tasks for daily habits, weekly reviews, and monthly goals. Whether it’s a shopping list, study checklist, work project, or daily routine, Notebook keeps your tasks organized and easy to manage. NOTES & TEXT EDITOR Write the way you think. Notebook gives you a powerful yet distraction-free text editor for journal entries, meeting notes, lecture summaries, shopping lists, personal notes, and more. Format your thoughts, highlight key ideas, organize information, and keep your writing organized. SKETCH PAD & DRAWING Some ideas are better drawn than written. Notebook includes a full-featured sketch pad powered by Apple Pencil and touch drawing β€” perfect for diagrams, wireframes, mind maps, doodles, illustrations, and hand-drawn notes. Every sketch lives alongside your text notes, journal entries, and to-do lists, so your ideas stay in context. TAGS & SMART ORGANIZATION Stop searching, start finding. Assign color-coded tags to notes, journal entries, task lists, and drawings and filter your content in seconds. Organize by project, mood, topic, subject, priority, or personal category. ICLOUD SYNC β€” ALWAYS IN SYNC Your notes, journal entries, to-do lists, and drawings follow you everywhere. Notebook syncs automatically across your Apple devices via iCloud β€” iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Start on one device and continue on another. Your content stays up to date. HISTORY & ARCHIVE Never lose an idea, task, or memory again. Notebook keeps a history of completed task lists, past notes, journal entries, and drawings β€” organized by date, so you can revisit your work and memories anytime. β€” WHO IS NOTEBOOK FOR? β€” β€’ Students capturing lecture notes and study plans β€’ Professionals managing projects, daily tasks, and meeting notes β€’ Creatives sketching ideas and concepts β€’ Journalers keeping a personal diary and daily reflections β€’ Anyone planning their day and building better routines β€’ Anyone who wants one beautiful app instead of five β€” PRO FEATURES β€” Unlock the full Notebook experience with Pro: β€’ Unlimited tags and color customization β€’ Share your to-do lists and notes instantly β€’ Priority support and all future Pro features Start free. Upgrade when you’re ready. Notebook β€” Write it. Plan it. Journal it. Draw it. All in one place. * Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ * Privacy Policy: https://kerols.me/dailyplanner/privacy/index.html

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hYYa Encrypted Notes

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Encrypted notes that only you can read. hYYa Encrypted Notes is a private notepad, diary and journal for iPhone, iPad and Mac. Keep your notes on this device, or sync them through your own iCloud Drive or Google Drive with Pro. Every note is encrypted on your device before it is saved. There is no account to create and no hYYa server to hold a copy, so your notes stay yours alone. No servers. No leaks. No compromises. ENCRYPTED BEFORE IT IS SAVED β€’ End-to-end encryption with AES-256-GCM, through Apple's own CryptoKit, on your device. β€’ Titles, folder names and dates are encrypted too. Anyone browsing the files sees only random identifiers. β€’ Lock with Face ID or Touch ID, with your passcode or Mac password as the fallback. β€’ Search the full text of every note. The search index is encrypted like the notes, so searching never leaves a readable copy behind. SYNC YOUR WAY, WITH PRO β€’ Through your own iCloud Drive, across your iPhone, iPad and Mac. β€’ Through your own Google Drive as well, to reach your other devices. Your notes never leave your device unencrypted. β€’ Or keep your notes on this device only, free. Writing, search and export all work offline. β€’ Edits made on two devices are merged back together instead of one device's copy winning. If the same note changes in two places at once, both versions are kept. Nothing you typed is ever silently discarded. WRITE THE WAY YOU THINK β€’ Live Markdown as you type: headings, bold, italic, code, strikethrough, quotes, lists and checklists, with a formatting bar when you want one. β€’ Folders, pinned notes and colour labels. β€’ Write in any language: Arabic paragraphs read right-to-left and English ones left-to-right, in the same note. β€’ Attach pictures and files. Pictures show inside the note; PDFs and other files open with a tap on iPhone and iPad, or in your usual app on Mac. Every attachment is encrypted exactly like the words around it. YOUR WRITING STAYS PORTABLE β€’ Export every note as plain Markdown, with its pictures and files beside it, whenever you like, for free. β€’ Import from Markdown, plain text, HTML, RTF or an Evernote export. β€’ No analytics, no tracking, no advertising identifier and no third-party SDKs. MADE FOR IPHONE, IPAD AND MAC β€’ Native on every device, not a web wrapper. β€’ On Mac: a full menu bar, keyboard shortcuts, printing and a proper Settings window. β€’ On iPad: your folders in a sidebar, and drag and drop to file a note. β€’ Dynamic Type, VoiceOver, Reduce Motion, and light and dark themes. FREE, AND HONEST ABOUT IT Keep up to 15 notes free on one device for as long as you like, with no time limit and no trial to run out. Encryption, biometric lock, import and export are free for everyone and always will be. One purchase unlocks unlimited notes and sync on iPhone, iPad and Mac together. Notes that already sync keep syncing. It is never a subscription, and nothing you have written is ever locked, hidden or taken away.

Screenshots

Notebook4 screens
hYYa Encrypted Notes4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: hYYa Encrypted Notes at every 4 days against Notebook's every 10 days. Notebook's advantage is iOS requirement (18.6 vs 26.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price Β· Rating Β· Positive reviews Β· Number of ratings Β· Update frequency Β· Ads Β· In-app purchases Β· Monetization Β· Best chart rank Β· Devices Β· Requires iOS

CostPrice Β· In-app purchases Β· Ads Β· Monetization

Both are free to download. Notebook sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month and hYYa Encrypted Notes sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Notebook ships an update every 10 days, hYYa Encrypted Notes every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 28, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences Β· 4 level
Notebook versus hYYa Encrypted Notes: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterNotebookhYYa Encrypted Notes
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 10 daysEvery 4 days β€” better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, Mac β€” better
Requires iOS18.6 β€” better26.0
Further details β€” not scored
Size20 MB7 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperKerols NaguibHassaan Abdeen

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Notebook

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly$1.991 Month
  • yearly3 Days trial$14.991 Year
2 purchases

hYYa Encrypted Notes

One-time2
  • 30-day TrialFree
  • hYYa Encrypted Notes Pro$24.99

Questions

Is Notebook free?
Notebook is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is hYYa Encrypted Notes free?
hYYa Encrypted Notes is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Notebook or hYYa Encrypted Notes have ads?
Neither Notebook nor hYYa Encrypted Notes shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Notebook or hYYa Encrypted Notes?
Notebook ships an update every 10 days, and hYYa Encrypted Notes every 4 days. Most recently, Notebook was updated on October 28, 2026 and hYYa Encrypted Notes on October 29, 2026.

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