Comparison

Lectra Notes vs Recall Drill

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 professional workspace for the documents you think on. RECORD THE LECTURE, NOT JUST THE 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 device, and an hour of lecture compacts to about 15 MB. BUILT FOR STUDENTS AND ANYONE WHO READS CLOSELY Lecture slides, problem sets, papers, and textbooks. Annotate your readings, write notes beside them by hand, scan whatever you got on paper, and keep the whole semester in one library that works without a signal. READ AND MARK UP Open any PDF and work it over with Apple Pencil, pressure-responsive pen, highlighter, and eraser in a dark, distraction-free editor that keeps your ink sharp at any zoom. Select the document's own text with a finger. Apple Pencil Pro squeeze switches tools. ASK YOUR DOCUMENTS Ask a question about what you're reading and get an answer that cites the page it came from, computed by Apple's on-device model. Summarize documents and get to the point faster. Your documents are processed privately, on your iPad. NOTEBOOKS AND WHITEBOARDS Start from blank paper when the thinking hasn't found a document yet. Notebooks, paper styles, and room to sketch, then export your pages as PDFs. SCAN ANYTHING Bring paper into the record. Scan documents with the camera and mark them up like any other PDF. WHEN READING TURNS INTO WORK Run Python where you're already working, notebooks with charts, a real shell, Git, and a code editor, all on the iPad and all offline. The document and the work on it stay in the same place. 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. YOUR MAC, TOO Lectra for Mac is a free download at canvascope.org/mac, the whole app on your desktop, plus your Mac on your iPad as a remote desktop, documents sent straight from iPad to Mac, and a shared clipboard. Now in Spanish and French. Lectra is free to use.

About

Recall Drill

Features
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Studying is not re-reading. It is retrieving. Recall Drill trains your exam material with active recall: register items, drill on a schedule, and weak items resurface before the exam date. Features • Register prompts and answers, drill by recall • Scheduled repetition — weak items come back first • Optional local reminders for drill time • No account, fully offline — your data stays on your device

Screenshots

Lectra Notes4 screens
Recall Drill2 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Lectra Notes at none against Recall Drill's 1. Recall Drill's advantage is iOS requirement (15.0 vs 18.0). On price, update cadence, ads 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. Recall Drill sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Lectra Notes asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 10, 2026 and September 30, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
Lectra Notes versus Recall Drill: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLectra NotesRecall Drill
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (7 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings7 — better—
Update frequencyWeeklyWeekly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS18.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size52 MB20 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperNoel Sason알파루프

In-app purchases

None

Lectra Notes

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Recall Drill

One-time1
  • Unlimited Decks$3.99

Questions

Is Lectra Notes free?
Lectra Notes is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Recall Drill free?
Recall Drill is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Lectra Notes or Recall Drill have ads?
Neither Lectra Notes nor Recall Drill shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Lectra Notes or Recall Drill?
Lectra Notes ships an update weekly, and Recall Drill weekly. Most recently, Lectra Notes was updated on October 10, 2026 and Recall Drill on September 30, 2026.

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