ScrollPaper vs InkNote
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
ScrollPaper
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Stop drowning in PDFs. ScrollPaper turns the latest research into a swipeable feed you can actually finish. Each paper becomes a digestible card with key findings, methodology, and AI-generated takeaways built for researchers, PhD students, postdocs, and anyone who wants to stay current without the information overload. FEATURES • Swipe through papers in your field like a research feed • AI Key Takeaways: The Finding, The Method, Why It Matters • Ask AI to summarise and compare multiple papers at once • Daily reading streaks and research missions to build a habit • Explore 20+ research fields and subfields • Follow your favourite journals and authors • Save papers into custom collections • 5,000+ curated papers across biomedical and life sciences BUILT FOR THE CURIOUS PhD students, postdocs, faculty, and lifelong learners who want to keep up with science on their own terms, on their own time.
InkNote
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Free, and free of the usual catches — no ads, no in-app purchases, nothing to sign up for. InkNote has no server, so your notes simply never leave your device.
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Verdict
ScrollPaper and InkNote 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
| Parameter | ScrollPaper | InkNote |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 49 MB | 42 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Sanjay Sondekoppa GopalaKrishna | Jay Shah |
In-app purchases
ScrollPaper
No in-app purchases
InkNote
No in-app purchases
