Notebook vs hYYa Encrypted Notes & Sync
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side β with what reviewers say about each.
Notebook
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Notebook β 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 youβre 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 itβs 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 youβre 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
hYYa Encrypted Notes & Sync
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Sync your notes on all your devices through your own iCloud or Google Drive. Every note is encrypted before it leaves your device. Encrypted notes that only you can read. hYYa Encrypted Notes is a private notepad, diary and journal for iPhone, iPad and Mac. Every note is encrypted on your device before it is saved. There is no hYYa account to create and no hYYa server to hold a copy, so your notes stay yours alone. Your notes. Your iCloud. Your Google Drive. FOR YOUR EYES ONLY β’ Encrypted on your device, so only you can read your notes. β’ Titles and folder names stay private too, not just what you write. β’ Opens with Face ID or Touch ID. β’ Find anything in seconds, and your notes stay private while you search. SYNC ON ALL YOUR DEVICES β’ Through your own iCloud Drive, across your iPhone, iPad and Mac. β’ Through your own Google Drive too, to reach your other devices. Only you can read what's there. β’ Or keep your notes on this device only. Writing, search and export all work offline. β’ Edits from two devices are merged back together, and if a note changes in two places at once, both versions are kept. Nothing you typed is ever silently discarded. WRITE THE WAY YOU THINK β’ Headings, bold, lists and checklists appear as you type. 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 ads. No tracking. Nothing watching what you write. MADE FOR IPHONE, IPAD AND MAC β’ Built for each device, so it feels right at home. 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 2 notes free for as long as you like, with sync and every other feature, 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 on iPhone, iPad and Mac together. It is never a subscription, and nothing you have written is ever locked, hidden or taken away.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: hYYa Encrypted Notes & Sync 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
Both are free to download. Notebook sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month and hYYa Encrypted Notes & Sync sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Notebook ships an update every 10 days, hYYa Encrypted Notes & Sync every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 28, 2026 and November 8, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Notebook | hYYa Encrypted Notes & Sync |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Every 10 days | Every 4 days β better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, Mac β better |
| Requires iOS | 18.6 β better | 26.0 |
| Further details β not scored | ||
| Size | 20 MB | 7 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Kerols Naguib | Hassaan Abdeen |
In-app purchases
Notebook
- Monthly$1.991 Month
- yearly3 Days trial$14.991 Year
hYYa Encrypted Notes & Sync
- hYYa Encrypted Notes Pro$19.99
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