Comparison

Pura Letra vs Noteback

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

Head to head
About

Pura Letra

Save articles from Safari to a personal library for distraction-free reading. Enjoy clean typography, highlighting, note-taking, and organization with tags. Access your saved content on any device.

Highlights
  • Save articles from Safari
  • Ad-free reading view
  • Highlighting and notes
  • Organize with tags
  • Cross-device syncing
  • Search saved articles
Features
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Pura Letra is a Safari extension that saves articles to your personal reading library. It strips away ads, banners, pop-ups, and clutter — leaving you with clean, beautifully typeset text. Save any article with one tap from Safari. Pura Letra extracts the main content and stores it in your library so you can read it anytime, on any device. Features: Save articles from Safari with a single tap Clean reading view with elegant serif typography Highlight passages and add notes as you read Organize your library with tags Search across all your saved articles Reading time and word count for every article Share clean article links with others Works on iPhone, iPad, and Mac Pura Letra is for readers who value focus. No algorithms, no feeds, no notifications — just your articles, ready when you are.

About

Noteback

Features
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Noteback is a private journal for everything worth keeping: quotes from books, lines you hear, ideas on the go. Capture something in seconds, and Noteback sends it back to you later, at a time you choose or at a surprise moment. A morning spark, an evening reflection: your inspiration returns when you need it. FEATURES • Scan text from a book page or a screen: take a photo, highlight the exact passage you want, and save it as a quote. The text is read on your phone, nothing is uploaded. • Write in seconds, no folders, no friction. Add an author and a source if you like. • Import the quotes you already have: Kindle highlights, CSV files or plain text, with a preview before anything is saved. • Reminders: your entries come back as notifications, every day or only the days you pick. • Share any entry as a clean square image. • Search your whole Collection by word, author or tag. • Light and dark mode, in English and French. FREE AND UNLIMITED • Free: your first 20 entries, with one scheduled reminder and the text scanner. • Unlimited: a single one-time purchase, no subscription. Unlimited entries, unlimited reminders, and import. Your notes stay private. Sign in with email, Google or Apple. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy: https://api.thawtback.app/privacy Terms of Use (EULA): https://thawtback-production.up.railway.app/terms

Screenshots

Pura Letra4 screens
Noteback4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Pura Letra at none against Noteback's 1. Pura Letra also leads on device support (4 vs 1). Noteback's advantage is update cadence (every 6 days vs every 3 months). On price, ads and iOS requirement 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. Noteback sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Pura Letra asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Pura Letra ships an update every 3 months, Noteback every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 6 level
Pura Letra versus Noteback: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPura LetraNoteback
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsEvery 6 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.0 — better16.4
Further details — not scored
Size1 MB45 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperRicardo SanchezROMAIN PIGNOUX - BERTANDEA

In-app purchases

None

Pura Letra

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Noteback

One-time1
  • Unlimited$4.99

Questions

Is Pura Letra free?
Pura Letra is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Noteback free?
Noteback is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Pura Letra or Noteback have ads?
Neither Pura Letra nor Noteback shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Pura Letra or Noteback?
Pura Letra ships an update every 3 months, and Noteback every 6 days. Most recently, Pura Letra was updated on October 31, 2026 and Noteback on November 6, 2026.

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