Comparison

Perenne Note. Digital Notebook vs Libreta

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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People don't dream of better note apps. They dream of mental clarity. Perenne Note is a minimalist note-taking app for iPad and Apple Pencil — now with a free companion app for iPhone. It doesn't try to replace your entire workflow. It's a digital notebook: the kind you'd toss in your bag, open at a café, and fill with notes, sketches, and lists. No infinite canvas. No AI features. No productivity theater. Just paper, a pen, and your ideas. DESIGNED FOR APPLE PENCIL Three tools: a pen for clean handwriting, a pencil that feels like real graphite, a highlighter for emphasis. Powered by Perenne Engine, our custom Metal rendering pipeline built from scratch: real scanned graphite textures, paper grain that reacts to your strokes, tilt and pressure captured in every line, rendered live at full Retina resolution. Adjustable width, opacity and line style, an eyedropper for any color, and a reading mode so your palm never leaves marks. NOTEBOOKS THAT FEEL REAL Custom 3D covers — 10 colors, 5 textures, or your own photo. Blank, ruled, grid or dotted paper, or design your own with the Pattern Editor: rules, grids, planners, calendars. Up to 100 pages per notebook, landscape spreads or portrait scrolling, colored bookmarks. NOW ON YOUR IPHONE Your notebooks, in your pocket. Flip through your pages exactly as you wrote them, search everything, capture ideas on the go. Free, and synced privately through iCloud. QUICK NOTES Ideas don't wait for your iPad. Jot notes with rich text, checklists, tables and photos — on iPhone or iPad. Organize them with folders and tags, assign them to a notebook, then place them on the page when you're back with your Pencil. REMINDERS AND CALENDAR Circle anything with the lasso and set a reminder. The notification arrives with your own handwriting attached — tap it and land exactly on that page. One-time or recurring, with optional events in your Calendar. THE DESK Drag sticky notes, photos, and text boxes off the page onto the desk around your notebook — they stay visible while you work, like a real desk around a physical notebook. Write on stickies, draw on photos, format text freely. Everything moves, scales, and rotates — on the page or on the desk. EXPORT AND SHARE Export any page or full notebook as PDF or PNG — ready for printing, archiving, or sharing. SYNC ACROSS DEVICES Notebooks and notes sync automatically with iCloud between your iPad and iPhone, with a visible sync indicator. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No accounts, no tracking. Your notes stay on your device and sync securely through Apple's private iCloud. MADE FOR YOU Toolbar at the top or bottom, controls on your dominant hand's side, gesture undo and redo. Available in 14 languages. Ready for iOS 27 and iPadOS 27. CREATIVE STATS Track pages filled, strokes drawn, and your daily streak — with an animated Year Wrapped at the end of the year. TRY IT FREE Start with one notebook and 6 pages to explore every feature. Unlock more notebooks with a one-time purchase or go unlimited with a subscription. Perenne Note. Just a notebook. Privacy Policy: https://perenne.app/privacy-policy Terms of Use (EULA): https://perenne.app/terms-of-service

About

Libreta

Organize your thoughts into virtual books with custom covers and page styles. Write, draw, add media, and scan documents within your personalized digital notebooks. Your notes are private and sync via iCloud.

Highlights
  • Virtual book shelf with up to 20 books
  • Customizable book covers and page styles
  • Rich text editing and drawing tools
  • Insert photos, PDFs, and documents
  • Voice memo recording with transcripts
  • Checklist reminders
Features
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NoteBook turns your notes into a shelf of beautiful books. Every notebook is a real book you can open, write in, and make your own — and it even looks as thick as the number of pages inside. A SHELF OF BOOKS • Keep up to 20 books on your shelf, each with its own title and look. • Books grow thicker as you add pages — a quick glance shows how full each one is. • Name every page and flip through them in order. MAKE IT YOURS • Design custom covers — pick colors, fonts, and spine styles, or use your own photo for the cover or the whole book. • Choose page styles: ruled notebook paper, picture pages, or a custom colored background. WRITE THE WAY YOU LIKE • Rich text with fonts, sizes, colors, bold, italics, highlights, and alignment. • Draw and handwrite with Apple Pencil or your finger. • Add photos, PDFs, and documents right onto the page — your text flows around them. • Scan documents with the camera and keep them with the book. • Record or import voice memos, with on-demand transcripts. • Turn any line into a checklist reminder, and tap to complete it. YOURS AND PRIVATE • Your notes live on your device and sync privately through your own iCloud. • No ads. No tracking. No accounts required — sign in only if you want syncing. Works on iPhone, iPad, and Mac.

Screenshots

Perenne Note. Digital Notebook4 screens
Libreta4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Libreta at 100% against Perenne Note. Digital Notebook's 50%. Libreta also leads on rating (5.0 vs 3.7) and in-app purchases (none vs 4). Perenne Note. Digital Notebook's advantage is ratings volume (3 vs 1). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. Perenne Note. Digital Notebook sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Libreta asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Libreta holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 1 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 50% of Perenne Note. Digital Notebook's written reviews are positive against 100% of Libreta's.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Perenne Note. Digital Notebook versus Libreta: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPerenne Note. Digital NotebookLibreta
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.7 (3 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews50.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings3 — better1
Update frequencyWeekly—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.616.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size46 MB6 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperNicholas CompagnoniDarian Iraola

Customer experience

Perenne Note. Digital Notebook

All ratings3 ratings
Positive66.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative33.3%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%

Libreta

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

4 purchases

Perenne Note. Digital Notebook

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly$2.991 Month
  • Annual$22.991 Year
One-time2
  • Single Notebook$3.99
  • Notebook Bundle$8.99
None

Libreta

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Perenne Note. Digital Notebook free?
Perenne Note. Digital Notebook is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Libreta free?
Libreta is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Perenne Note. Digital Notebook or Libreta?
Libreta is rated higher. Perenne Note. Digital Notebook averages 3.7 out of 5 from 3 ratings, while Libreta averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Perenne Note. Digital Notebook or Libreta have ads?
Neither Perenne Note. Digital Notebook nor Libreta shows ads.

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