Comparison

NotePad Clip vs Inkroll

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

Head to head
About

NotePad Clip

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NodePad Clip is the fastest way to save and manage your notes. Designed for quick everyday use, it lets you capture ideas instantly and organize them with ease. Create notes in seconds, sort them into folders, and personalize each one with a unique background color. With one-tap quick actions, you can copy text, delete notes, or update colors without slowing down your workflow. Features - Take notes instantly with a clean, minimal interface - Organize your content using folders - One-tap quick actions: copy, delete, or recolor notes - Assign different background colors to individual notes - Designed for speed, simplicity, and everyday productivity

About

Inkroll

Features
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Inkroll is the companion app for people who love writing by hand but hate losing their notes. Keep a digital index of everything in your physical notebooks (page numbers, titles, notes, tags, and photos) so you can always find what you wrote, even years later. -- WHY INKROLL -- Your paper notebooks are irreplaceable. But finding a specific idea, quote, or sketch from six months ago is another story. Inkroll solves this by giving each notebook entry a searchable digital record, linked to the exact page in the exact notebook where it lives. -- FEATURES -- โ€ข Multiple Notebooks โ€” organise entries across as many notebooks as you own, each with its own colour. โ€ข Page Entries โ€” log the page number, a title, a note, and tags for any page worth remembering. โ€ข Full-Text Search โ€” instantly find entries by title, note content, or tag name across all your notebooks. โ€ข Tags โ€” colour-coded tags let you group related entries across different notebooks. โ€ข Widget โ€” glance at your most recent entry straight from your Home Screen (small and medium sizes). โ€ข Quick Entry โ€” add an entry to your default notebook without leaving the Home Screen widget. -- INKROLL PRO -- One-time purchase. No subscription, ever. โ€ข Photo Attachments โ€” photograph the page and attach it to your entry. Tap to view full-screen. โ€ข iCloud Sync โ€” your entire index syncs automatically across every iPhone and iPad on your Apple ID. โ€ข Export as PDF โ€” generate a clean, printable PDF of any notebook's entries. โ€ข Export as CSV โ€” export a spreadsheet-ready file for use in Excel, Numbers, or any data tool. -- DESIGNED FOR ANALOG LOVERS -- Inkroll doesn't try to replace your notebooks. It makes them smarter. Write with your favourite pen, on your favourite paper โ€” then take ten seconds to log the page in Inkroll. That's it. No subscriptions. No cloud lock-in. Your data lives in your iCloud account.

Screenshots

NotePad Clip4 screens
Inkroll4 screens

Verdict

The call

NotePad Clip and Inkroll are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters โ€” price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases among them โ€” neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Both are free to download. NotePad Clip sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Inkroll sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

NotePad Clip ships an update every 10 days, Inkroll every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 3, 2026 and October 10, 2026 respectively.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
NotePad Clip versus Inkroll: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterNotePad ClipInkroll
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 10 days โ€” betterEvery 2 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad โ€” better
Requires iOS26.026.0
Further details โ€” not scored
Size2 MB14 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperTrinh NguyenALEXANDRU CORNEL CHIREA

In-app purchases

1 purchases

NotePad Clip

One-time1
  • PRO$4.99
1 purchases

Inkroll

One-time1
  • Inkroll Pro$4.99

Questions

Is NotePad Clip free?
NotePad Clip is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Inkroll free?
Inkroll is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do NotePad Clip or Inkroll have ads?
Neither NotePad Clip nor Inkroll shows ads.
Which is updated more often, NotePad Clip or Inkroll?
NotePad Clip ships an update every 10 days, and Inkroll every 2 weeks. Most recently, NotePad Clip was updated on October 3, 2026 and Inkroll on October 10, 2026.

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