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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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

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 3.8) and in-app purchases (none vs 4). Perenne Note. Digital Notebook's advantage is ratings volume (5 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 3.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Perenne Note. Digital Notebook has 5 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. 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
Rating3.8 (5 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews50.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings5 — 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
Size51 MB6 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperNicholas CompagnoniDarian Iraola

Customer experience

Perenne Note. Digital Notebook

All ratings5 ratings
Positive60.0%
Neutral20.0%
Negative20.0%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral25.0%
Negative25.0%

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 3.8 out of 5 from 5 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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