BookyAI vs HandNote
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side ā with what reviewers say about each.
BookyAI
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Fix a typo on an invoice. Change a date on a contract. No computer, no software, no account. EDIT THE TEXT OF A PDF Tap a line, rewrite it. The original font, size and colour are kept ā nothing else on the page moves. Almost no app can do this on a phone. SIGN AND ANNOTATE Your signature drawn with a finger, your stamps, text, drawings. Save your signatures and stamps once and they are waiting for you on the next document. SCAN The camera straightens the page by itself. Several pages in a row, colour, grey or black-and-white filters, and you can adjust the edges by hand. COMPRESS A PDF, some photos or a video, in three plain choices. The final size is written on every choice before you decide, and when a file cannot be made smaller, the app says so instead of making you wait. CONVERT Word to PDF, PDF to images, images to PDF. BLANK PAGE A real Word editor: headings, bold, colours, lists, and templates ready to write in ā letter, note, invoice, report. CV AND COVER LETTER WRITTEN BY AI Answer a few questions and the AI writes. Professional templates, export to PDF or Word. NO SUBSCRIPTION The PDF tools, scanning, compression and signing are free and unlimited. The rest runs on credits: 1 credit = 1 document. You pay once for a document, then you export it as many times as you like, even after correcting it again. Credits never expire. NO ACCOUNT No sign-up. The PDF tools, scanning and compression work on your phone. Only the CV and the cover letter go through our server, for as long as it takes to write them. BookyAI speaks 17 languages.
HandNote
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Turn photos of your handwritten pages into clear, editable notes. HandNote keeps each original page next to its text on your device, so you can check the handwriting at any time instead of typing everything again. ⢠Current recognition supports handwriting written with the Latin alphabet. ⢠Recognize a handwritten page for free and add up to 10 pages to one note. ⢠While you review, words that may need checking are highlighted. ⢠Corrections you make are remembered and applied automatically next time. ⢠Saved notes keep the original photo next to the text, stored on your device. ⢠Notes are grouped by date ā today, this week, earlier ā and you can sort them into notebooks. ⢠Copy or share the text, share a designed image card with or without the original page, or save the card to Photos. ⢠Export all your notes at once as a zip with text files and the original photos. ⢠Your first AI organization is free: see the outline, key points, summary and study cards for one of your own notes. ⢠Premium keeps organizing every page after that and adds PDF, Markdown or plain-text file export. How it works: 1. Photograph a handwritten page or choose one from your photo library, then add more pages if you need them. 2. Check the highlighted words and correct anything the recognition got wrong. 3. Save the note with its original page, share it as text or an image card, and organize it with AI ā the first time is free. The app is free to download. Recognition, review, editing, saving with the original photo, multi-page notes, correction memory, notebooks, copying, sharing text and image cards, and exporting all notes as a zip are available without upgrading, and your first AI organization is free. HandNote Premium only adds AI organization after that (outline, key points, summary and study cards) and PDF, Markdown or plain-text file export, through an auto-renewing weekly subscription or a permanent purchase. Important: Handwriting recognition and AI-organized content may contain errors. Always check important information against the original page. Apple Standard Terms: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://handnote.skybringup.com/privacy/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: BookyAI at weekly against HandNote's monthly. HandNote's advantage is iOS requirement (15.5 vs 17.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.
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Both are free to download. BookyAI sells 3 one-off in-app purchases and HandNote sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
BookyAI ships an update weekly, HandNote monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | BookyAI | HandNote |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Weekly ā better | Monthly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 15.5 ā better |
| Further details ā not scored | ||
| Size | 11 MB | 72 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | DIGITAL APP | skybringup |
In-app purchases
BookyAI
- 5 Credits Pack$1.99
- 15 Credits Pack$4.99
- 50 Credits Pack$9.99
HandNote
- Weekly Premium$1.997 Days
- Lifetime Premium$6.99
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