Comparison

PenDate Notes vs Clypy

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

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About

PenDate Notes

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PenDate Notes is a calendar-first notes and planning app for keeping your days, reminders, events, checklists, and handwritten ideas in one organized workspace. Start from the calendar when you are planning your week, open a day when you need detail, or jump into folders when a project grows. PenDate Notes supports text notes, checklist notes, canvas notes, reminders, calendar events, PDF/image export, and optional Google Drive sync. Main features: • Calendar views for year, month, week, and day planning • Text notes for quick writing and structured plans • Checklist notes with quantities and totals • Canvas notes for handwriting, sketches, and visual planning • Date-linked reminders and events • Folders and covers to keep notes easy to scan • PDF and image export for sharing or saving your work • Recycle Bin for restoring deleted notes • Optional Google Drive sync for backup and continuity PenDate Notes is built for people who think through dates: students, professionals, families, creators, and anyone who wants notes to stay connected to the day they matter. Use it offline for everyday planning, then enable reminders or sync only when you need them. Optional paid features PenDate Pro includes all 11 planner families, Signature stickers and covers, selected-page PDF export with planner layouts, and PenDate library restore. Choose a monthly or yearly auto-renewable subscription, or a one-time Lifetime purchase. Individual planner families and Signature packs are also available as one-time purchases. Everyday note-taking remains free. Subscription prices and billing periods are shown in the app before purchase. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation. Subscriptions renew automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the current period ends. Your account is charged for renewal within 24 hours before that period ends. Manage or cancel subscriptions in your App Store account settings. Canceling renewal keeps access until the end of the paid period. Terms of Use (Apple Standard EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://pendatenotes.com/privacy-policy.html

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Clypy

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Clypy remembers everything you copy and makes it available on every device you own privately. Copy a link on your Mac and paste it on your iPhone. Copy an address on your phone and paste it on your PC. Everything is encrypted on your device before it syncs, and Clypy holds no key that can read it. WHAT YOU GET • Searchable clipboard history — every clip you save is kept on device, unlimited, with no clip cap and no account. History older than 90 days clears itself by default, and you choose the retention period. • Search by meaning — find "that wifi password from the rental" without remembering the exact words. Semantic search runs on your device. • Text from screenshots — Clypy reads text inside images you save, so screenshots become searchable and pasteable. Runs on-device. • Typed clips — links, text, codes, images, files, and secrets are detected, colour-coded, and previewed, so you scan your history instead of reading it. • Detected secrets stay concealed — passwords, keys, and tokens are hidden behind Face ID or Touch ID and can be set to expire early. • Collections — group clips by project, client, or trip. • Templates and snippets — reusable text with fill-in fields for the replies, addresses, and blocks you type constantly. • Paste stack — queue several clips and paste them one after another in order. • Transforms — clean up a clip before you paste it: change case, strip formatting, convert a colour, tidy a URL. ON IPHONE AND IPAD, SPECIFICALLY • Clypy keyboard — pick a clip and insert it directly into any app, without leaving what you're doing. • Share extension — send text, links, or images from any app into your history. • Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets — your latest clips, one tap away. • Shortcuts and App Intents — save, search, and paste clips from your own automations. • Built for iPad — split screen, rotation, hardware keyboard, and Dynamic Type at the largest sizes. HOW SAVING WORKS ON A PHONE iOS does not allow apps to watch the clipboard in the background, and Clypy does not try to. Clips are saved while the app is in the foreground, through the Clypy keyboard, or from the share sheet. Nothing is read invisibly. PRIVACY, PLAINLY • No Clypy account, no profile, no password. • Clips, search indexes, and encryption keys stay on your devices. • Sync is end-to-end encrypted. Devices talk directly over your own network when they can reach each other; otherwise an encrypted relay forwards ciphertext between online devices and keeps no backlog. • All intelligence — semantic search, text recognition, classification, secret detection — runs on your hardware. Your clips are never used to train AI models. • Optional encrypted iCloud backups, restored only when you ask. • Usage analytics are off unless you turn them on, and never include clip content. FREE AND PRO Free gives you unlimited local history on one device, collections, templates, semantic search, and on-device text recognition — no card, no account. Pro is a one-time license key that unlocks device pairing, encrypted sync over your local network and over the relay, the Clypy keyboard, and widgets. Enter your key on any device you own; there is no device limit. THE ONE THING TO KNOW Because Clypy cannot read your clips, Clypy cannot recover them for you. If every paired device and every recovery key is lost, that history is gone. Keep one healthy paired device or a backup with its recovery key. Clypy also runs on all major platforms.

Screenshots

PenDate Notes4 screens
Clypy4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: PenDate Notes at none against Clypy's 1. Clypy's advantage is update cadence (every 8 days vs monthly). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price Ā· Rating Ā· Positive reviews Ā· Number of ratings Ā· Update frequency Ā· Ads Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Monetization Ā· Best chart rank Ā· Devices Ā· Requires iOS

CostPrice Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Ads Ā· Monetization

Both are free to download. Clypy sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. PenDate Notes asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

PenDate Notes ships an update monthly, Clypy every 8 days. The most recent releases landed on October 28, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences Ā· 4 level
PenDate Notes versus Clypy: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPenDate NotesClypy
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyMonthlyEvery 8 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.5 — better16.4
Further details — not scored
Size156 MB76 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSAMUEL NANA ESHUNFayeed Pawaskar

In-app purchases

None

PenDate Notes

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Clypy

One-time1
  • Clypy Pro Lifetime$29.99

Questions

Is PenDate Notes free?
PenDate Notes is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Clypy free?
Clypy is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do PenDate Notes or Clypy have ads?
Neither PenDate Notes nor Clypy shows ads.
Which is updated more often, PenDate Notes or Clypy?
PenDate Notes ships an update monthly, and Clypy every 8 days. Most recently, PenDate Notes was updated on October 28, 2026 and Clypy on October 31, 2026.

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