Comparison

JustNotes vs Notenda

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

Head to head
About

JustNotes

Create handwritten notes and annotate PDFs on your iPad with Apple Pencil. Organize your thoughts with folders and export them as PDFs or images. Enjoy a full-featured, offline notebook experience without ads or tracking.

Highlights
  • Handwritten notes with Apple Pencil
  • PDF import and annotation
  • Folder organization
  • Export as PDF or PNG
  • Offline functionality with autosave
  • Pinch-to-zoom and pan
Features
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JustNotes is a free, offline notebook for iPad. Other apps require payments, or have limitations, but not this one. Write with Apple Pencil, import and annotate PDFs, organize notes in folders and subfolders, and export exactly what you need—no ads, no tracking. All the features of other apps, but without the money or ads. Why you’ll like it: • Beautiful handwriting with Apple Pencil • Pinch-to-zoom & one-finger pan while drawing • Per-page orientation: portrait or landscape • Paper styles: plain, lined, or grid • Import PDFs (auto-saved in Imported Files) • Organize with folders & subfolders; drag to reorder pages • Export as PDF or images (PNG) • Works offline with continuous autosave

About

Notenda

Features
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Notenda is your private notebook — for everything you don't put anywhere else. Your notes stay on your device. No account to create, no internet connection needed, no ads: open the app, start writing, that's it. Not just another notes app, and not a classic diary either: Notenda is a personal logbook for what actually matters to you, day after day. DOZENS OF USES - Food diary and meal tracking - Habit, sleep and mood tracking - Health log, symptom and treatment tracking - Care log for an elderly parent, a relative or a child - Reminders and long-running to-dos - Trip planning and travel journal - Pet health and care log - Workouts and fitness goals - Home renovation, project and paperwork log - Reading log, recipes, gift ideas and random thoughts - Job hunting, interviews and career notes - Diary and everyday memories PRIVATE BY DEFAULT Your notes never leave your phone. No account, no profiling, no data reselling, no ads. Notenda works fully offline: what you write goes nowhere. WRITE IN ONE MOVE Open the app and write: no dialog, no decision to make before the first letter. Notenda picks the last category you used in that notebook, and you can fix it right after. Nothing to file away later, no inbox piling up — that is the whole anti mental-load principle behind the app. ORGANIZE YOUR WAY - Create as many themed notebooks as you need (travel, health, pets, fitness, projects...) - Sort memos into customizable categories (icon, color) - Reuse templates to go faster - Get writing prompts when you need them - Date each memo when the event happened, even long afterwards A COMPLETE NOTEBOOK - Rich text: bold, italic, bullet lists and checkboxes - Photos taken on the spot or picked from your gallery - File attachments: PDFs, prescriptions, invoices, receipts, records - Built-in document scanner: your phone becomes a scanner - Text recognition from photos: an image becomes editable text - Voice dictation, through your phone keyboard - Instant search across all your notes - Instant capture from the native iOS and Android share sheet - Light or dark theme, interface available in 27 languages (English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Swedish, Danish, Finnish, Arabic, Hindi, Chinese, Indonesian, Vietnamese, Thai, Turkish, Norwegian, Czech, Romanian, Hungarian, Greek, Ukrainian, Russian) REMINDERS AT THE RIGHT TIME Set a reminder on a memo and let Notenda notify you when the day comes: a check-up to book, a prescription to renew, a follow-up not to forget. You can hide the memo content in the notification, so nothing shows on a locked screen. NO NOISE, NO PRESSURE No feed, no likes, no streaks to keep alive, no notification begging you to come back. Notenda records what you write and gives it back to you, in the order you need it. Nothing is interpreted, scored or analysed: your notes are yours to read. NOTES THAT DELETE THEMSELVES Give a memo an expiry date: it disappears on its own, for good, on the date you picked. Handy for a temporary code, a passing detail, or anything you don't want to keep forever. CUSTOM PDF EXPORT — MADE FOR SHARING Generate a PDF for the exact period you choose, filtering by only the categories you need. Pick the layout that fits: one column, three columns over three days, or seven columns over seven days. Perfect for handing a food diary, a symptom log, or a health record to your doctor, a family member, or a professional — without retyping anything. BACKUP AND SWITCHING PHONES Export your entire notebook as a single archive — notes and attachments included — and restore it on a new device from the very first launch. Your data stays yours, readable and recoverable outside the app. Notenda is your private space to write down everything — the next-generation diary, built for real life. Download Notenda and start your private notebook today.

Screenshots

JustNotes4 screens
Notenda4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Notenda at weekly against JustNotes's monthly. Notenda also leads on iOS requirement (15.5 vs 18.5). 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

JustNotes ships an update monthly, Notenda weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
JustNotes versus Notenda: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterJustNotesNotenda
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyMonthlyWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS18.515.5 — better
Further details — not scored
Size5 MB95 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperNeel RoyPatricia JESSE

In-app purchases

None

JustNotes

No in-app purchases

None

Notenda

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is JustNotes free?
JustNotes is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Notenda free?
Notenda is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do JustNotes or Notenda have ads?
Neither JustNotes nor Notenda shows ads.
Which is updated more often, JustNotes or Notenda?
JustNotes ships an update monthly, and Notenda weekly. Most recently, JustNotes was updated on October 30, 2026 and Notenda on October 31, 2026.

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