Hand vs Perenne Note. Digital Notebook
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Hand
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【Hand-drawn】Hand-drawn is a high-performance, local-first digital drawing and gallery application built for creative work on your device. **Professional Drawing Tools** Access a full set of brushes, pens, and erasers designed for precise control. Adjust stroke weight, opacity, and color to suit your workflow. **Layer Management** Organize your artwork with a flexible layer system. Create, reorder, merge, and adjust layer visibility and opacity for detailed compositions. **Built-in Gallery** Browse and manage all your creations in one place. The gallery keeps your drawings organized and easy to access without relying on external apps. **Local-First Architecture** All data is stored on your device. The app operates without requiring a network connection, ensuring your work remains accessible at all times. **Privacy by Design** No account registration is required, and no personal data is collected or transmitted. Your drawings and creative process stay entirely on your device. Hand-drawn provides a focused, distraction-free environment for digital drawing with the tools and performance needed for both casual sketches and detailed illustrations. Premium Account Pricing and Terms $ 4.99/week* $ 39.99/year* *Prices shown are in U.S. dollars; actual charges may be converted to your local currency. Payment will be charged to your iTunes account at confirmation of purchase. Subscriptions automatically renew unless auto-renewal is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Your account will be charged for renewal within 24 hours prior to the end of the current period, and the renewal cost will be provided. Subscriptions can be managed by the user. Turning off auto-renewal may be done by going to your account settings after purchase. Cancellation of the current subscription is not allowed during the active subscription period. Any unused portion of a free trial period, if offered, will be forfeited when the user purchases a subscription to that publication. EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://suhanhui.xyz/shouhua/privacy.html
Perenne Note. Digital Notebook
A minimalist digital notebook designed for iPad and iPhone, offering a realistic writing and sketching experience with Apple Pencil. Organize notes, sketches, and lists with customizable notebooks and real-time syncing.
- Realistic pen and pencil tools
- Customizable notebooks and paper styles
- iPhone companion app with iCloud sync
- Quick notes with rich text and checklists
- Reminders and calendar integration
- Desk feature for floating elements
- PDF and PNG export options
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A real notebook, on your iPad. Write with Apple Pencil on pages that feel like paper, with a pencil that leaves real graphite grain and a pen that follows your hand. Perenne Note is made for people who think better with a pen in hand. No infinite canvas, no AI, no features you'll never use: just notebooks, planners and your ideas. Plus a free iPhone app to keep them with you. WRITES LIKE PAPER Pen, fountain pen, pencil and highlighter, powered by Perenne Engine, the drawing engine we built from scratch: real scanned graphite, paper grain that responds to every stroke, tilt and pressure in every line. Any width, opacity and color, eyedropper included. Turn on real notebook mode to flip pages with your finger and write with your Pencil, without switching modes. NOTEBOOKS THAT FEEL REAL 3D covers in 10 colors, 5 textures or your own photo. Blank, ruled, grid or dotted paper, or design your own with the pattern editor. Up to 100 pages, two-page spreads in landscape, colored bookmarks and over 280 stickers: stamps, postmarks and decorations. DATED PLANNERS Daily or weekly, in six styles you can switch anytime without losing a line of what you wrote. Tap a day to open it, tap the date to see the month. If you like, your Calendar events and your Reminders to-dos appear right on the pages, ready to check off with your finger or a mark of your Pencil. Your first planner is free to try. AUDIO NOTES Record a lecture or a meeting right on the page, even with the screen locked. Where your language supports it, transcription happens on your device: your voice goes nowhere else. ON YOUR IPHONE, FREE Your notebooks and planners in your pocket: flip through your pages as you wrote them, search everything and catch ideas on the go with quick notes. Text, checklists, tables, photos and audio, ready to place on the page back on your iPad. REMINDERS THAT TAKE YOU BACK Circle anything with the lasso and set a reminder: the notification arrives with your handwriting and takes you right back to that page. One-time or repeating, in your Calendar too. THE DESK Around your notebook there's room for sticky notes, photos and text you want to keep in sight while you write. Write on the notes, draw on the photos, move, rotate and resize everything. PRIVATE, NO ACCOUNT No sign-up and no ads. Your notebooks and notes stay yours and sync between iPad and iPhone through your own iCloud. Export pages or whole notebooks as PDF or PNG anytime. MADE TO FIT YOU Toolbar at the top or bottom, controls on the side of your writing hand, gestures to undo, keyboard shortcuts. In 14 languages, ready for iOS 27 and iPadOS 27. YOUR YEAR Pages written, days in a row and, at the end of the year, an animated recap of everything you created. TRY IT FREE Start with a notebook and 6 pages to try everything, and try your first planner for free. Then it's your choice: a single notebook or planner as a one-time purchase, or a subscription for unlimited use, with a free week on the annual plan. Privacy Policy: https://perenne.app/privacy-policy Terms of Use (EULA): https://perenne.app/terms-of-service
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Verdict
Hand and Perenne Note. Digital Notebook are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Hand sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per 7 days and Perenne Note. Digital Notebook sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
| Parameter | Hand | Perenne Note. Digital Notebook |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 3.8 (5 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 50.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | — | 5 — better |
| Update frequency | — | Weekly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | — | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 — better | 17.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 4 MB | 59 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | HONG KONG GANGSHENG TRADING CO. LIMITED | Nicholas Compagnoni |
In-app purchases
Hand
- Weekly Prime3 Days trial$4.997 Days
- Yearly Prime$39.991 Year
Perenne Note. Digital Notebook
- Monthly$2.991 Month
- Annual7 Days trial$22.991 Year
- Single Notebook$3.99
- Yearly Planner$6.99
- Notebook Bundle$8.99
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