Comparison

StarNote vs NoryaNotes

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

Head to head
About

StarNote

This app offers a realistic pen-on-paper handwriting experience on tablets with an infinite canvas for notes and sketches. It includes advanced layering, PDF annotation, and a robust organizer for efficient digital note-taking and planning.

Highlights
  • Realistic low-latency handwriting
  • Infinite canvas for unlimited space
  • Layered design for complex projects
  • Deep PDF annotation and markup
  • Robust file management and search
  • Lifetime access with one-time purchase
  • Free templates and digital assets
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StarNote is a clean and powerful note-taking app for handwriting, PDF annotation, study, work, and everyday planning. Write naturally with your stylus, organize notebooks, mark up PDFs, and keep all your ideas in one simple workspace. Built for students, professionals, and tablet users, StarNote helps you take class notes, review lecture slides, annotate documents, plan your day, and build a paperless study or work system. With smooth handwriting, flexible notebooks, PDF markup, and digital planning tools, StarNote makes it easy to capture ideas and stay organized. No monthly subscription. Choose a one-time purchase and enjoy a long-term note-taking tool without ongoing fees. Download StarNote and start building your digital notebook today.

About

NoryaNotes

Features
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NoryaNotes is an iPad app designed to organize work, study, and personal ideas in clear, independent, easy-to-maintain spaces. It's not just a notes app. It's a way to give every part of your life its own place. Create a space for each team, project, subject, or personal area. Inside each space you can gather notebooks, tasks, canvas, diary, and documents — without mixing contexts or losing important information in one general list. Built for writing by hand, organizing notes, preparing meetings, sketching diagrams, annotating PDFs, and shaping ideas with a thoughtful, visual, and private experience. What you can do with NoryaNotes: • Create independent spaces for teams, projects, subjects, or personal areas. • Organize notebooks inside each space, with 15 cover designs to choose from. • Write by hand or with the keyboard on dotted, lined, and other page templates. • Add stickers inside notebook pages to personalize notes, ideas, or plans. • Manage tasks with priorities, due dates, categories, and story points. • Use a free canvas with shapes (rectangle, ellipse, diamond, arrows, text) for diagrams, brainstorming, and visual planning. • Keep a personal diary with mood tracking, tags, and monthly calendar view. • Transcribe your voice into text instantly, right inside your notebook. • Annotate and organize PDF documents. • Keep your content synced across your devices with full privacy. NoryaNotes is made for professionals who manage teams, meetings, and decisions; students who want to organize subjects, notes, and tasks; and anyone who thinks better by writing, drawing, and giving every idea its own place. The app was born from a real need: finding a tool that didn't mix work, study, personal ideas, and tasks in the same place. A tool that lets you create separate contexts, write naturally, plan clearly, and keep the feeling of a well-cared notebook — with the power of a digital environment. With NoryaNotes you can organize your day without losing your calm: every team, subject, project, or idea has its space; every notebook has its place; every task lives where it truly belongs. Think better. Work with calm.

Screenshots

StarNote4 screens
NoryaNotes4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: NoryaNotes at weekly against StarNote's every 2 weeks. StarNote's advantage is iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. StarNote sells 21 one-off in-app purchases and NoryaNotes sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

StarNote ships an update every 2 weeks, NoryaNotes weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 18, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
StarNote versus NoryaNotes: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterStarNoteNoryaNotes
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (94 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews74.4% of reviews—
Number of ratings94 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationPaid—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size422 MB15 MB
Age rating4+9+
DeveloperOnyx International Inc.Yolanda Fernandez Fernandez-Pacheco

In-app purchases

21 purchases

StarNote

One-time21
  • StarNote AI Trial$0.99
  • Templates\Stickers$3.90
  • Templates\Stickers$4.49
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  • Templates\Stickers$4.79
  • Templates\Stickers$5.00
  • Templates\Stickers$5.79
  • StarNote Lifetime PRO$5.99
  • Templates\Stickers$6.69
  • Templates\Stickers$6.79
  • StarNote AI Plus$6.99
  • Templates\Stickers$7.79
  • Templates\Stickers$8.99
  • Templates\Stickers$9.79
  • Templates\Stickers$9.99
  • Templates\Stickers$10.99
  • Templates\Stickers$11.49
  • Templates\Stickers$11.90
  • Templates\Stickers$12.99
  • StarNote AI Pro$22.99
  • Templates\Stickers$38.90
  • Templates\Stickers$42.90
1 purchases

NoryaNotes

One-time1
  • NoryaNotes Pro$3.99

Questions

Is StarNote free?
StarNote is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is NoryaNotes free?
NoryaNotes is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do StarNote or NoryaNotes have ads?
Neither StarNote nor NoryaNotes shows ads.
Which is updated more often, StarNote or NoryaNotes?
StarNote ships an update every 2 weeks, and NoryaNotes weekly. Most recently, StarNote was updated on October 18, 2026 and NoryaNotes on October 7, 2026.

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