NoryaNotes vs Archives Scanner
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
NoryaNotes
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NoryaNotes is an iPad app designed to organize work, study, and personal ideas in clear, independent, easy-to-maintain spaces. It's not just a notes app. It's a way to give every part of your life its own place. Create a space for each team, project, subject, or personal area. Inside each space you can gather notebooks, tasks, canvas, diary, and documents — without mixing contexts or losing important information in one general list. Built for writing by hand, organizing notes, preparing meetings, sketching diagrams, annotating PDFs, and shaping ideas with a thoughtful, visual, and private experience. What you can do with NoryaNotes: • Create independent spaces for teams, projects, subjects, or personal areas. • Organize notebooks inside each space, with 15 cover designs to choose from. • Write by hand or with the keyboard on dotted, lined, and other page templates. • Add stickers inside notebook pages to personalize notes, ideas, or plans. • Manage tasks with priorities, due dates, categories, and story points. • Use a free canvas with shapes (rectangle, ellipse, diamond, arrows, text) for diagrams, brainstorming, and visual planning. • Keep a personal diary with mood tracking, tags, and monthly calendar view. • Transcribe your voice into text instantly, right inside your notebook. • Annotate and organize PDF documents. • Keep your content synced across your devices with full privacy. NoryaNotes is made for professionals who manage teams, meetings, and decisions; students who want to organize subjects, notes, and tasks; and anyone who thinks better by writing, drawing, and giving every idea its own place. The app was born from a real need: finding a tool that didn't mix work, study, personal ideas, and tasks in the same place. A tool that lets you create separate contexts, write naturally, plan clearly, and keep the feeling of a well-cared notebook — with the power of a digital environment. With NoryaNotes you can organize your day without losing your calm: every team, subject, project, or idea has its space; every notebook has its place; every task lives where it truly belongs. Think better. Work with calm.
Archives Scanner
Transform your physical notebooks into a digital, searchable library. Capture pages with automatic correction, recognize handwriting in over 25 languages, and organize your content into custom archives. Syncs seamlessly across devices.
- Automatic page detection and correction
- On-device handwriting recognition
- Organize scans into custom archives
- Bookmark pages with notes
- Export to PDF (Pro feature)
- Sync across devices via iCloud
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Archives — Digitize your notebooks Turn your notebooks, sketchbooks, cookbooks, and journals into a searchable digital library. Point your camera at a page and Archives captures it with crisp, document-quality results — then keeps every page organized, searchable, and synced across your devices. Page detection with auto-correction Automatic edge detection finds your page and straightens the perspective, so every scan comes out flat and clean — even when you shoot it at an angle. Search everything, including handwriting On-device text recognition reads your handwritten notes, so you can find any page in seconds. Works across 25+ languages, with matches highlighted right on the page. Organize into archives Group your scans into notebooks and browse your whole collection at a glance. Jump straight to the page you need, whether it's recipe 12 from Cookbook 2022 or a sketch buried in your field notes. Bookmarks with notes Flag your favorite pages and add notes to keep track of what matters — recipes to try, sketches to revisit, ideas to come back to. Export to PDF (Pro) Turn any notebook into a multi-page PDF, then share it, save it to Files, or send it to iCloud Drive. Sync across devices With iCloud integration, your library stays up to date on every iPhone and iPad, automatically. Your notebooks, finally searchable. Download Archives and start digitizing today. -- Privacy Policy: https://and.notion.site/Archives-Scanner-Privacy-Policy-37deb9a83adb80718c65d672a46d9fff EULA: http://www.apple.com/legal/itunes/appstore/dev/stdeula
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Archives Scanner at every 3 days against NoryaNotes's weekly. NoryaNotes's advantage is iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.2). On price, ads, in-app purchases 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
Both are free to download. NoryaNotes sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Archives Scanner sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
NoryaNotes ships an update weekly, Archives Scanner every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on September 20, 2026 and October 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | NoryaNotes | Archives Scanner |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | — | 1 — better |
| Update frequency | Weekly | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | — | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 26.2 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 15 MB | 23 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Yolanda Fernandez Fernandez-Pacheco | Andriy Gordiyenko |
In-app purchases
NoryaNotes
- NoryaNotes Pro$3.99
Archives Scanner
- Archives Pro Weekly$4.997 Days
- Archives Pro Annual$29.991 Year
- Archives Pro Lifetime$49.99









