Notepad vs PaperNotes
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Notepad
Capture ideas, tasks, and memories with a beautifully designed note-taking app. It offers rich text editing, to-do lists, reminders, and password protection for your private notes. Organize everything effortlessly with categories and fast search.
- Quick notes and rich text editing
- Daily journal and diary
- To-do lists and checklists
- Reminders for tasks and dates
- Password protection for private notes
- Organize notes with categories
- Handwritten notes and sketches
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Capture ideas, tasks, and memories effortlessly. Notepad is beautifully designed for daily writing, planning, and staying organized. Features Quick notes and rich text editing Daily journal and diary To-do lists and checklists Reminders for important tasks and dates Beautiful themes with Light & Dark Mode Fast search across all your notes Password protection for private notes Custom fonts and font sizes Handwritten notes and sketches Organize notes with categories Whether it's a quick thought, shopping list, meeting note, or detailed plan, Notepad keeps everything organized in one place. Premium Subscription Weekly Premium – $5.99/week Monthly Premium – $19.99/month Yearly Premium – $149.99/year Payment will be charged to your Apple ID account at confirmation of purchase. Subscriptions automatically renew unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Your account will be charged for renewal within 24 hours before the end of the current subscription period. You can manage or cancel your subscription anytime from your Apple Account Settings after purchase. Privacy Policy: https://altranotes.blogspot.com/ Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
PaperNotes
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Do you love writing notes on paper but don’t want to miss out on what the digital world has to offer? Then you’re in the right place. With PaperNotes, you don’t have to choose. Write in your favorite notebook. Scan your pages. Move, erase, and add to your handwriting on your iPhone or iPad. PaperNotes turns your notes into digital pages you can keep working on. All you need is your usual paper and your favorite pen. A little paper in a digital world. Some thoughts need a pen and a blank page. A moment to pause, doodle, and make sense of things. PaperNotes keeps that feeling and gives your ideas the possibilities of a digital notebook. Your thoughts keep their place. An arrow connects two ideas. A margin note captures a passing thought. A small sketch explains more than words. PaperNotes preserves the spatial layout of your handwriting and drawings while removing distracting paper lines. Your original scan stays available for reference. From paper to your next idea. Scan several pages in a row without leaving the scanner, then process them together. Or import existing photos. Edit your captured handwriting, add drawings and typed text, or copy recognized words into other apps. Your ideas can keep growing, even when your paper notebook is back at home. Your notebook. Your style. Collect your pages in personal notebooks. Choose cover colors, paper, and ruling that feel like you. Leaf through your thoughts, bookmark pages, and find content again with text search. With iCloud, your notebooks come along across your devices. With PaperNotes, you can: - Scan paper notes or import them from photos. - Capture multiple pages in one session. - Turn handwriting and drawings into editable digital strokes. - Move, erase, and add to captured content. - View original scans for reference. - Search and copy recognized text. - Customize your notebooks, covers, and paper. - Sync your notebooks across your devices with iCloud. Your notes. Your choice. Use recognition directly on your device, or choose online processing for higher recognition quality. Online processing sends selected note images to our server and an AI-provider over an encrypted connection, only with your consent. Images and results are deleted from our servers after they are imported into the app; unclaimed content is deleted after seven days. The AI-provider does not use this data for model training by default. Content may generally be retained there for up to 30 days for security reviews; exceptions may apply. One purchase. Lasting access. Choose the one-time purchase for lifetime access to PaperNotes. A monthly subscription is also available. Your next thought begins on paper. With PaperNotes, it stays with you. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: PaperNotes at none against Notepad's shown. PaperNotes also leads on update cadence (every 4 days vs every 2 weeks). Notepad's advantage is iOS requirement (15.1 vs 26.2). On price, in-app purchases and device support 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
Both are free to download. Notepad sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per 7 days and PaperNotes sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Notepad ships an update every 2 weeks, PaperNotes every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and November 8, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Notepad | PaperNotes |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 26.2 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 58 MB | 23 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Hevin Technoweb LLP | Mark Mueller |
In-app purchases
Notepad
- Weekly Pro Access3 Days trial$5.997 Days
- Monthly Pro Access3 Days trial$20.991 Month
- yearly Pro Access3 Days trial$149.991 Year
PaperNotes
- PaperNotes Pro Monthly7 Days trial$3.991 Month
- PaperNotes Pro Monthly7 Days trial$4.991 Month
- PaperNotes Lifetime$7.99
- PaperNotes Lifetime$9.99









