Amazing Notes vs Folio

Amazing Notes turns your iPad into the best place to take class notes by hand, mark up lecture PDFs, and record audio — all on the same page. Made for students: - Handwrite notes naturally with Apple Pencil - Import lecture slides and PDFs, then annotate them page by page - Record audio while you write, with time markers tied to the page - Add typed text and images anywhere on the canvas - Organize your courses with folders, notebooks, sections and tags - Templates for blank, lined, grid, dotted, Cornell and planner pages - Search typed text, PDF text and scanned images to find anything fast - Export notebooks and pages to PDF, or a single page as an image Built to stay out of your way: - Opens instantly and works fully offline - No account, no sign-up — just open and start writing - iPad layout designed for lectures, study sessions and revision Free to use with up to 3 notebooks. Upgrade to Pro for unlimited notebooks. Terms of Use (Apple Standard EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Folio brings your calendar and your meeting notes together in one app. Open Folio and you see your day: your meetings, synced from your calendar, each one ready for notes. Tap a meeting, start writing. No folders to organise, no hunting for that thing you wrote three Tuesdays ago — every note lives with the meeting it came from. TYPE OR DRAW • Type your notes, or draw and handwrite them — beautifully at home with Apple Pencil on iPad • Choose paper styles that suit the way you take notes • Organise notes into notebooks when you want structure LET AI DO THE BORING PART Powered by Apple Intelligence, entirely on your device: • Summaries — the TL;DR of any meeting in seconds • Meeting minutes — decisions and actions, properly formatted • Follow-up emails — a ready-to-send recap drafted from your notes • Action items — captured automatically the moment you stop writing YOUR NOTES FOLLOW YOU • iCloud sync keeps iPhone and iPad in step — through your own private iCloud, never our servers • Export action items to Apple Reminders • Search everything, instantly PRIVATE BY DESIGN Your notes never leave your devices. AI runs on-device with Apple Intelligence — nothing is sent to the cloud for processing, and we collect no data at all. ONE PRICE, NO SUBSCRIPTION Try everything free for 14 days, then a single one-time purchase of $5.99 unlocks Folio forever. No subscription, ever. AI features require Apple Intelligence (iPhone 15 Pro or later, or iPad with M1 or later). Note-taking works on any supported device.