Pura Letra vs Noteback
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- Save articles from Safari
- Ad-free reading view
- Highlighting and notes
- Organize with tags
- Cross-device syncing
- Search saved articles
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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.
Noteback
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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
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Verdict
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
Both are free to download. Noteback sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Pura Letra asks for nothing beyond the download.
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.
| Parameter | Pura Letra | Noteback |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 6 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 1 MB | 45 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Ricardo Sanchez | ROMAIN PIGNOUX - BERTANDEA |
In-app purchases
Pura Letra
No in-app purchases
Noteback
- Unlimited$4.99









