Comparison

ShodoNote vs Shiori

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

Head to head
About

ShodoNote

Features
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ShodoNoteは、指でなぞって文字を練習できる書道練習アプリです。 【収録コンテンツ】 - ひらがな 46字(筆順アニメーション付き) - カタカナ 46字(筆順アニメーション付き) - 基本漢字 50字(小学1年生レベル・筆順アニメーション付き) 【追加パック(アプリ内課金)】 - 名句パック: 百人一首20首 + 俳句20句 - 常用漢字パック: 常用漢字500字 【主な機能】 - 筆順アニメーションで正しい書き順を確認 - お手本をなぞって練習 - お手本の表示/非表示を切り替え - 書道用の十字・対角線ガイド付きキャンバス 日本語の文字を美しく書く練習に最適です。お子様のひらがな練習から大人の書道入門まで幅広くお使いいただけます。

About

Shiori

Features
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Shiori turns your textbooks and printouts into a reading experience tuned to you. Take a photo of any page (or import PDFs, web pages, or pasted text), then dial in font size, line height, letter spacing, and background color until reading feels easy. Pair it with read-aloud, AI-estimated furigana, or word-by-word focus to fit your own style. Built for students who want reading to feel less effortful. 【Features】 • Capture pages with the camera, or import from Photos, PDF, URL, or pasted text • Adjust font size, line height, letter spacing, and background presets live • 3-zone reader: focus on one chunk at a time, with past and upcoming text in view • Highlight reader: see the whole text with the current line, sentence, or word emphasized • Synced text-to-speech using on-device voices • AI-estimated furigana on Japanese text (Apple Intelligence, on-device) • Wakachi (auto-spacing) for Japanese text • UD Digital Kyokasho-tai font and reader-friendly background presets • Accessibility: VoiceOver, Dynamic Type, and Reduce Motion respected 【When you want to】 • Get through a long passage tonight • Review your textbook with just your phone • Read aloud while studying for a test • Skip carrying around printouts • Make small text feel comfortable to read • Follow along with audio and text together 【Privacy】 Imported text and reading positions stay on your device. OCR runs on-device with Apple's Vision framework, and read-aloud uses AVSpeechSynthesizer. No content is sent to a server. AI furigana runs on Apple Intelligence's on-device Foundation Models. Shiori is a reading aid, not a medical device.

Screenshots

ShodoNote4 screens
Shiori4 screens

Verdict

The call

ShodoNote and Shiori are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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. ShodoNote sells 2 one-off in-app purchases and Shiori sells 5 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
ShodoNote versus Shiori: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterShodoNoteShiori
PriceFreeFree
Update frequency—Weekly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size20 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSANWA Inc.Hirosuke Yonekubo

In-app purchases

2 purchases

ShodoNote

One-time2
  • 名句パック$1.99
  • 漢字パック$1.99
5 purchases

Shiori

One-time5
  • A bookmark$0.99
  • A paperback$1.99
  • A textbook$5.99
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  • A hardcover$9.99
  • A first edition$19.99

Questions

Is ShodoNote free?
ShodoNote is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Shiori free?
Shiori is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do ShodoNote or Shiori have ads?
Neither ShodoNote nor Shiori shows ads.

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