Comparison

Simple Habits vs Note Taking App

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

Head to head
About

Simple Habits

Features
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Simple Habits – Build Habits, Track Progress Take control of your daily routine and achieve your goals with Simple Habits, your simple yet powerful habit and progress tracker. Why Simple Habits? - Easy to Start – Create a habit in seconds with a clear goal, schedule, and reminder. - History & Contribution Graph – Review every day you showed up, and watch a GitHub-style heatmap of your consistency build up over time. - Motivation Made Simple – Stay consistent with streaks and progress tracking. - Clean & Minimal Design – Focus on what matters most: your growth. Whether you want to read more, exercise daily, or just stay productive, Simple Habits helps you stay on track β€” one small step at a time. Start today. Build habits. Grow every day.

About

Note Taking App

Features
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Turn every thought into a page worth keeping. Digital Notes is a private, beautifully designed notebook for handwriting, typing, planning, studying, and annotating documents. Write naturally with Apple Pencil or your finger, or add typed text that flows across multiple pages. CREATE YOUR WAY β€’ Draw with pen, pencil, marker, eraser, and lasso β€’ Choose ruled, dotted, grid, or plain paper β€’ Customize notebook covers, folders, tags, and favorites β€’ Turn typed text into handwritten-style pages WORK WITH DOCUMENTS β€’ Import PDFs and annotate every page β€’ Scan documents or add photos β€’ Export notebooks as PDFs or pages as images β€’ Extract searchable text using on-device recognition KEEP IDEAS ORGANIZED β€’ Search titles, text, tags, and transcripts β€’ Archive, duplicate, restore, and manage notebooks β€’ Turn your notes into study cards β€’ Attach audio recordings to notebooks β€’ Fold meaningful pages into your keepsake jar PRIVATE BY DESIGN Your notebooks, drawings, scans, and recordings stay on your device. Digital Notes requires no account and includes local backup and restore tools for keeping an additional copy. Whether you’re capturing a quick idea, taking lecture notes, planning your week, journaling, or annotating a PDF, Digital Notes gives every thought a calm place to grow. Privacy Policy: https://digitalhole.github.io/DHPrivacy.html Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Simple Habits3 screens
Note Taking App4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Simple Habits at none against Note Taking App's shown. Simple Habits also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). Note Taking App's advantage is update cadence (every 2 days vs fortnightly). On price, 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Simple Habits ships an update fortnightly, Note Taking App every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 5, 2026 and October 15, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences Β· 3 level
Simple Habits versus Note Taking App: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSimple HabitsNote Taking App
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyFortnightlyEvery 2 days β€” better
AdsNo β€” betterYes
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod β€” betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 β€” better17.0
Further details β€” not scored
Size28 MB15 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperI Putu Wahyu Eka Putra SedanaArima Jain

In-app purchases

None

Simple Habits

No in-app purchases

None

Note Taking App

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Simple Habits free?
Simple Habits is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Note Taking App free?
Note Taking App is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Simple Habits or Note Taking App have ads?
Note Taking App shows ads; Simple Habits does not.
Which is updated more often, Simple Habits or Note Taking App?
Simple Habits ships an update fortnightly, and Note Taking App every 2 days. Most recently, Simple Habits was updated on October 5, 2026 and Note Taking App on October 15, 2026.

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