GenieNote vs Notelit
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
GenieNote
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Scribble Smarter!! Write, sketch, and calculate — all on one canvas. GenieNote turns your iPhone and iPad into a freeform workspace where handwritten notes, a smart calculator, photo stickers, and sticky labels live together on the same page. HANDWRITE & SKETCH FREELY • Natural ink with Apple Pencil or your finger • Smart canvas: pinch to zoom, pan, and resize freely • Quick-access pen, highlighter, eraser, and color presets BUILT-IN CALCULATOR • Basic arithmetic with ± and % (more functions coming soon) • Drag results onto the page as floating number stickers • Double-tap any saved number to label it ("budget", "total"…) • Drag any number back into the calculator to reuse it • Pro tip: tap an operator (like +), then tap any number on the canvas for instant copy & paste STICKY MEMO LABELS • Place anywhere, resize from any corner • Choose background color, text color, size, and font PHOTO COLLAGES & STICKERS • Add photos from your library or camera • Automatic background removal turns photos into stickers • Fine-tune cutouts by hand with the eraser • Mix photos with sketches for one-of-a-kind pages MADE FOR REAL LIFE • Class notes: formulas, diagrams, and instant math — great for STEM and test prep • Budgets & expenses: shopping lists, travel costs, and running totals without leaving the page • Recipes: ingredients, steps, portions, and conversions in one place • Events & projects: plan parties, track tasks and costs, brainstorm freely • Fitness & meals: log workouts, calories, and goals • Journaling: mind maps, story layouts, and visual goal boards • DIY: sketch plans, note measurements, and estimate materials • Travel & daily planning: itineraries, checklists, and daily budgets WHY GENIENOTE? • Visual memory: keep key figures right next to your sketches • Zero context switching: no more jumping between a notes app and a calculator • For students, planners, engineers, designers — anyone who thinks in words AND numbers Universal app: runs great on iPhone and iPad, optimized for Apple Pencil.
Notelit
A fast and beautiful notebook app for handwriting, typing, sketching, and organizing notes. Offers various drawing tools, text formatting, and organizational features. Syncs across devices and supports multiple languages.
- Handwriting with Apple Pencil support
- Nine drawing tools with custom colors and widths
- Text formatting with Markdown preview
- Customizable page styles and sizes
- Organize notes into colorful files
- iCloud sync across devices
- Apple Watch companion app
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Notelit is your notebook on the Mac — the same notebooks, pages and handwriting as on your iPhone and iPad, now on a big screen with a keyboard. YOUR FILES, ALWAYS TO HAND • Every subject in a sidebar, with the open file right beside it • Quick Notes and Recordings at the top, then My Files with its own search • Pin your favourite files and notes to the top • One search finds files, notes, and the words written on your pages CLICK AND TYPE • Click anywhere on a page and start typing right there • Fonts, sizes, colours, bold, italic and underline for your words • Blank, ruled or grid paper, page by page • Add shapes, stickers and pictures, then move, resize and turn them YOUR HANDWRITING, ON THE MAC • Pages written with Apple Pencil on iPad or iPhone open just as they were • Every note keeps its own paper, so its layout is the same on every device • Circle ink or words with the lasso to move, resize or delete them SYNCED EVERYWHERE • Sign in with Apple and your notes stay in step on Mac, iPad and iPhone — changes arrive moments after you make them • Share a note with a friend who uses Notelit, recordings and all • Share pages to Messages, Mail and other apps, or save them as PDF RECORDINGS • Every recording from your notes in one place • Play them, rename them, and move one into any note MADE FOR LATE NIGHTS • Light and dark mode, with dark pages that export as real paper • Available in 14 languages, including Arabic PLANS Notelit is free to start, with no account needed. • Lite adds all fonts, every sticker pack, the Notelit widgets and Save to iCloud • Pro adds everything in Lite, plus page templates, whole-file PDF export, custom app icons and up to six pins Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel them any time in your Apple Account settings. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Notelit at none against GenieNote's shown. Notelit also leads on device support (4 vs 2). On price, update cadence, in-app purchases and iOS requirement 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. GenieNote sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Notelit sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
GenieNote ships an update every 2 weeks, Notelit every 8 days. The most recent releases landed on October 28, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | GenieNote | Notelit |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | — | 1 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Every 8 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | — | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 7 MB | 17 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Leo Rivas-Micoud | Ali Alraeesi |
In-app purchases
GenieNote
- Remove Ads$39.99
Notelit
- Notelit Lite Monthly$2.991 Month
- Notelit Pro Monthly$4.991 Month
- Notelit Lite Yearly$9.991 Year
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- Notelit Pro Yearly$14.991 Year









