Comparison

Calmly Student vs NiblyNotes

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

Head to head
About

Calmly Student

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Calmly Student is a calm exam planner and class schedule for high school and college. Enter your classes once and they repeat all semester; add exams and assignments and see exactly how many days are left. No ads. Instead of another loud to-do app, Calmly shows just today and asks for the one thing that matters. Everything else waits, quietly. PLAN WITHOUT THE NOISE A calm day-page with only today's classes, deadlines and focus. A full calendar in day, week, month and year when you need it. LOOK AFTER YOURSELF Habits that build gently, a daily mood check-in, sleep, breathing and quiet meditations. No streaks to shame you. STUDY, CALMLY Subjects and deadlines, flashcards with spaced review, quick brain warm-ups, and a focus timer for unhurried study. EVERYDAY LIFE Plan meals and build a shopping list, track a simple budget, and run your shared student house together. MAKE IT YOURS A soft paper look with themes you can choose, light or dark, in seven languages. Calmly is calm by design. No harsh warnings, no guilt, no noise. Just a gentle place for everything student life asks of you. Calmly Student includes a 7-day free trial, then 2.99 EUR per month. Cancel any time. Terms of Use: https://calmlystudent.com/terms Privacy Policy: https://calmlystudent.com/privacy

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NiblyNotes

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NiblyNotes is the digital exercise book for everyday school life โ€” made in Germany with teachers. Every tool a lesson needs in one app: no subscription, no ads, no tracking. English and German. FREE AND AD-FREE NiblyNotes stays free for at least 5 years. In the supporter area you can buy us a coffee if you like โ€” it unlocks nothing. WRITING AND DRAWING - Pen, fountain pen, pencil, highlighter and laser pointer, many colours and widths, plus two of your own - Lasso to move, scale, rotate and copy, even from book to book - Object eraser for whole strokes, Apple Pencil double-tap switches to it - Shape recognition for line, circle, rectangle, triangle and rhombus; rest the pen briefly and it straightens at once - Lines and arrows whose endpoints stay movable PAPER RULINGS Blank, ruled, 5 mm squares, dot grid, music staves with lyric lines, French Sรฉyรจs ruling, isometric and dimetric paper to ISO 5456-3 โ€” per page, with a margin left or right. RULER, SET SQUARE AND COMPASS Strokes snap to the edge, tools move and rotate with two fingers, the ruler attaches to the set square. The zoom adjusts so that 5 mm squares and 9 mm lines are exactly that size โ€” check it with a real ruler. TEXT, TABLES AND STICKERS Text boxes with font, size, colour, word-by-word formatting, Scribble, web addresses recognised. Tables to write into with the pen. Stickers cover up answers and reveal them with a tap; next time you open the book they cover again. IMAGES, AUDIO AND VIDEO Photos from library or camera with a photo editor, audio files right on the page, videos embedded cookie-free. SPLIT PAGE A reading pane on the left with a PDF or a second book, the writable page on the right, the divider moves freely. SCANNER AND IMPORT Scan worksheets and blackboards with the iPad camera โ€” multiple pages, black/white or colour, croppable. PDF, Word and PowerPoint become book pages. BOOKS AND PAGES Folders, duplicate books, take pages from other books. Insert, delete or clear pages โ€” all recoverable. Page overview as a sidebar, outline that jumps to a topic. ZOOM WRITING An enlarged writing strip at the bottom โ€” write big, it lands small in the book. CURTAIN, PRESENTATION, FULL SCREEN The curtain reveals a page step by step, on the external display too. When mirroring, presentation mode shows only the page, full screen leaves just a mini toolbar. PRINT, AIRDROP, SAVE AirPrint, AirDrop, save locally as PDF or NiblyNotes file. Teachers can hide the handwritten answer key on export. SCHOOL CLOUDS AND BACKUP BayernCloud Schule, Nextcloud and NetMan for Schools are built in: upload and share, open files straight into a book, daily backup. Local backups password-protected on request. CLASSROOM MODE Put worksheets, single objects or images into the class inbox by QR code and collect submissions โ€” locally over the school Wi-Fi. For devices without NiblyNotes there is a compatibility mode you can switch on: files in the browser. If the Wi-Fi blocks the connection, the inbox runs encrypted via a web server. Can also be linked to BayernCloud Schule. VIEW STUDENTS' WORK Students release pages, the teacher writes notes into them, the class sees the corrections. Encrypted, own school server possible. SHARED BOOKS Work on one book together via iCloud โ€” directly between Apple Accounts, no third-party server. FOR SCHOOL IT Configurable by MDM: preset cloud addresses, fix the language, hide the supporter area. PRIVACY Book contents are stored locally. Cloud connections are optional. Trademarks: Apple, Apple Pencil, iPad, iCloud, AirDrop, AirPrint (Apple Inc.), Word, PowerPoint (Microsoft), Nextcloud (Nextcloud GmbH), NetMan for Schools (H+H Software GmbH). BayernCloud Schule: Free State of Bavaria.

Screenshots

Calmly Student4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Calmly Student at every 3 days against NiblyNotes's every 8 days. Calmly Student also leads on iOS requirement (16.4 vs 18.6). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Both are free to download. Calmly Student sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $2.99 per month and NiblyNotes sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Calmly Student ships an update every 3 days, NiblyNotes every 8 days. The most recent releases landed on October 12, 2026 and October 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences ยท 4 level
Calmly Student versus NiblyNotes: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCalmly StudentNiblyNotes
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 3 days โ€” betterEvery 8 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
DevicesiPhone, iPad โ€” betteriPad
Requires iOS16.4 โ€” better18.6
Further details โ€” not scored
Size80 MB19 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperStephane de BarbansonPC-Future GmbH

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Calmly Student

Subscriptions1
  • Premium7 Days trial$2.991 Month
3 purchases

NiblyNotes

One-time3
  • Little Supporter$0.99
  • Middle Supporter$3.99
  • Big Supporter$8.99

Questions

Is Calmly Student free?
Calmly Student is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is NiblyNotes free?
NiblyNotes is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Calmly Student or NiblyNotes have ads?
Neither Calmly Student nor NiblyNotes shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Calmly Student or NiblyNotes?
Calmly Student ships an update every 3 days, and NiblyNotes every 8 days. Most recently, Calmly Student was updated on October 12, 2026 and NiblyNotes on October 6, 2026.

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