Comparison

Lectra Notes vs MindMetrics

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

Head to head
About

Lectra Notes

This app provides a private workspace for reading, annotating, and organizing PDF documents. It helps users understand dense texts faster with on-device intelligence for summaries and suggested tags. Designed for a calmer document workflow, it ensures your files remain private.

Highlights
  • Read and mark up PDFs
  • Highlight key passages and add notes
  • Organize documents with folders and tags
  • Generate summaries and suggested tags
  • Private by design with on-device intelligence
  • Backup and sync library
Features
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Lectra is a workspace for the documents you think on: lecture slides, problem sets, papers, and textbooks, marked up by hand and kept in one library that works without a signal. READ AND MARK UP Open any PDF and work it over with Apple Pencil. A pressure-responsive pen, highlighter, and eraser in a calm, distraction-free editor keep your ink sharp at any zoom. Select the document's own text with a finger. On Apple Pencil Pro, squeeze to switch tools. MADE FOR IPHONE DUO Folded, Lectra fits the outer screen. Open it, and your page spreads across the full display, with every control kept clear of the camera and status bar. On iPad, keep two documents side by side. RECORD THE LECTURE BESIDE YOUR NOTES Start recording from a control that floats above the whole app, then keep writing. Tap a handwritten stroke to hear what was being said as the pen moved. Drag the playhead and watch the page fill back in, stroke by stroke. Transcription runs on your iPad, and an hour of lecture takes about 15 MB. NOTEBOOKS AND PAPER Start from a blank page when the thinking hasn't found a document yet. Choose blank, lined, grid, dotted, or Cornell paper for each new page, then export your pages as PDFs. SCAN ANYTHING Bring paper into the record. Scan pages with the camera and mark them up like any other PDF. ASK YOUR DOCUMENTS Ask a question about what you're reading and get an answer that cites the page it came from. Summarize a document to get to the point faster. These features run on your iPad, are off until you turn them on, and never use your notes or documents to train a model. WHEN READING TURNS INTO WORK Run Python where you already work: notebooks with charts, a real shell, Git, and a code editor, all on your iPad and all offline. The document and the work on it stay in the same place. YOUR MAC, TOO Lectra for Mac is a free download at canvascope.org/mac. It brings the whole app to your desktop, puts your Mac on your iPad as a remote desktop, sends documents straight between iPad and Mac, and shares one clipboard. The Remote Desktop assistant can open a website, search, or launch an app on your Mac in one step, and asks before it acts unless you turn on Auto-run. A LIBRARY THAT KEEPS UP Everything in one place, available offline, and backed up when you sign in. Your documents are yours: export them anytime, in formats that open anywhere. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No ads and no tracking. Lectra is free to use.

About

MindMetrics

Features
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MindMetrics helps you understand how you think — with a structured IQ-style assessment, a Myers-Briggs style personality test, and calm brain games for practice. IQ TEST Take a fresh 40-question run drawn from a larger verified bank. You’ll get an overall estimate, a percentile, and a clear breakdown across matrices, logic, spatial, memory, speed, and verbal reasoning. Results are written in plain language — not jargon. PERSONALITY TYPE Answer forty everyday statements. MindMetrics scores the four preferences and gives you a definite 16-type profile (like INTJ or ENFP), plus a readable explanation of what that means for strengths, growth, and everyday habits. FULL REPORT Finish both assessments to unlock a combined report. Save a polished image or download a PDF when you want a keepable copy of your story. BRAIN GAMES Train focus and planning with Laser Maze, Color Tubes, Star Routes, Word Hunt, Hex puzzles, and more. Levels unlock as you clear them — no cluttered grind. BUILT FOR CLARITY • English and Arabic • Scores calculated on your device • Daily puzzle and streak to stay sharp • Light, premium design that stays out of your way

Screenshots

Lectra Notes4 screens
MindMetrics4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Lectra Notes at none against MindMetrics's shown. MindMetrics's advantage is iOS requirement (15.0 vs 18.0). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
Lectra Notes versus MindMetrics: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLectra NotesMindMetrics
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (9 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings9 — better—
Update frequencyWeekly—
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS18.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size51 MB66 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperNoel SasonAbdulrazaq Alonazi

In-app purchases

None

Lectra Notes

No in-app purchases

None

MindMetrics

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Lectra Notes free?
Lectra Notes is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is MindMetrics free?
MindMetrics is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Lectra Notes or MindMetrics have ads?
MindMetrics shows ads; Lectra Notes does not.

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