ZyNotes vs MemoKey
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
ZyNotes
This app offers a secure, offline note-taking experience with no account required. It features a rich editor, to-do lists, image insertion, and PDF export. Customize your workspace and protect sensitive entries with a password.
- Fast and frictionless note-taking
- Private and offline by default
- Optional iCloud backup
- Advanced note editor with rich formatting
- Built-in to-do lists
- Add photos to notes
- Share notes as PDF
- Lock and secure your notes
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ZyNotes is a private offline notes app for your thoughts, diary and study notes. No account, no internet needed, and nobody else can read what you write. • PRIVATE NOTES THAT STAY ON YOUR DEVICE Your notes live on your iPhone or iPad, not on someone else’s server. No sign-up, no login and no data collection. Start writing the moment you open the app. • A THOUGHT JOURNAL AND STUDY DIARY IN ONE Sort every note into Diary, Study or Journal with one tap. Keep your private thoughts, daily journal and homework notes separate, and find any of them in seconds. • LOCK ANY NOTE Lock a single note with a password, a 4-digit PIN or Face ID. Only someone who can unlock it can read it. Perfect for a secret diary or anything personal. • WRITE THE WAY YOU LIKE Use headings, bold and italic text, checklists, numbered and bulleted lists, quotes and highlights. Add photos right inside a note and turn it into a study notebook you’ll actually want to reread. • VOICE NOTES Record a voice note when typing isn’t an option and keep it next to your written notes. • PRIVATE AI HELPER Ask the built-in note summarizer to shorten a long note, or chat with your notes to find what you wrote. It’s designed for privacy, like the rest of ZyNotes. • MORE YOU’LL LIKE To-do checklists inside any note, share a note as a PDF, light and dark themes, custom backgrounds and fonts. Made for students, journal writers and anyone who wants a simple, private place for their notes. Download ZyNotes and keep your notes yours. Terms of Use https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy https://zynotes.pntapps.com/privacy
MemoKey
This app provides quick access to your saved notes and text snippets directly from your keyboard. Easily paste frequently used messages, templates, or even drawings into any application without switching screens. Organize your content with tags, pins, and search, and enjoy offline access with robust privacy features.
- Paste notes directly from keyboard
- Smart placeholders for dates and cursors
- Organize with tags, pins, and search
- Sketch and paste drawings
- Offline and private note storage
- Home screen and lock screen widgets
- Integration with Shortcuts app
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MemoKey puts your notes, text snippets and quick replies right on your keyboard. Save a message once, then paste it into any app with one tap, without switching apps or hunting through your clipboard. PASTE FROM THE KEYBOARD • Your notes in every app: Use your saved notes, quick replies and templates in Messages, WhatsApp, Instagram, TikTok, Gmail and any other app, filtered by tag, pinned or recent. • Paste key: Insert the text you copied from the Paste key in the keyboard's bottom row, without switching keyboards. It needs Allow Full Access and reads the clipboard only when you tap it. • Smart placeholders: Write {date} or {time} in a note and the keyboard inserts today's date or the current time. Add {cursor} and the cursor lands right there, ready for the name you type next. Insert Placeholder in the editor's toolbar adds them for you. • Switch back after inserting: Optionally hand over to your other keyboard right after a note goes in, so you keep typing. • Draw in the keyboard: Sketch a quick drawing and copy it straight into your chat. ORGANIZE IN SECONDS • Tags, pins and search: Organize notes in a list or grid, pin the important ones and find them in seconds. • Select several notes: Pin, tag, share or move many notes to Trash at once, or send them as one Markdown file. • Swipe a note in the list: Right to pin it, left to move it to Trash. • Merge and filter tags: See how many notes each tag has, merge a duplicate tag into another, and with more than 10 tags type part of a name to find one. • Open links: Open a link in a note from the editor or the note's menu. • Character and word count: See how long a note is while you write. • Duplicate and copy: Duplicate a note from its menu, or set a tap on a note to copy it right away. • Trash: Deleted notes wait 30 days before they are gone, or Restore All brings them all back at once. WIDGETS AND SHORTCUTS • Home Screen widget: Your pinned notes, or the notes of one tag, a tap away. Locked notes are never shown. • Lock Screen and Control Center: Open New note or Search notes in one tap from a Lock Screen widget, or from Control Center and the Action button on iOS 18 or later. • Shortcuts app: "Get MemoKey Note" puts a note's text into any shortcut, and "Add MemoKey Note" saves text from any shortcut as a new note. • Quick actions: Long-press the MemoKey icon for New note, Note from clipboard, Search or Kaomoji. • Home Screen search: Turn it on to find your notes from iPhone search. Off by default, it asks first while the app lock is on, and locked notes are never in it. • Save from anywhere: Select text in any app and share it to MemoKey to save it instantly. PRIVATE AND OFFLINE • No account, no ads, no tracking and no MemoKey servers. MemoKey collects no data, and your notes stay on your device. • Protect the app with a passcode, Face ID or Touch ID, and change your passcode any time. • Lock single notes behind your passcode (PRO). YOUR DATA, YOUR WAY • Backup to iCloud: Back up and restore your notes with your own iCloud, automatically if you like. Nothing is uploaded unless you turn it on. • Export: JSON and CSV backups, or every note in one readable Markdown file that MemoKey can restore later. • Bring your notes along: Import Google Keep notes from Google Takeout (.json), or plain .txt and .md files. MORE BUILT IN • 60,000+ kaomoji: A huge library of text emoticons (^_^), searchable in English and Vietnamese. • Special fonts: Turn plain text into stylish fonts for bios and posts. • Read aloud: Listen to any note at the speed you like. • QR codes: Share a note as a QR code, or scan a QR code into a new note. • What's new: See what changed in each version right in the app, even offline. MAKE IT YOURS (PRO) Unlimited tags (free: 10), locked notes, custom colors and your own background image. What you set up with Pro stays yours if Pro ends. --- Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: MemoKey at 5.0 against ZyNotes's 4.7. MemoKey also leads on update cadence (every 4 days vs fortnightly) and review sentiment (100% vs 86%). ZyNotes's advantage is ratings volume (28 vs 1). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. ZyNotes sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per 7 days and MemoKey sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
MemoKey holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: ZyNotes has 28 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 86% of ZyNotes's written reviews are positive against 100% of MemoKey's.
ZyNotes ships an update fortnightly, MemoKey every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | ZyNotes | MemoKey |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (28 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 86.2% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 28 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 16.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 100 MB | 76 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | +4 |
| Developer | Md Imran Ansari | Tran Cong Minh |
Customer experience
ZyNotes
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In-app purchases
ZyNotes
- Zynotes Weekly Premium$3.997 Days
- Zynotes Premium (Annual)7 Days trial$9.991 Year
- Zynotes Lifetime Access$39.99
MemoKey
- MemoKey Pro Monthly7 Days trial$1.991 Month
- MemoKey Pro Yearly$9.991 Year
- MemoKey Pro$19.99








