Comparison

My Notes & Cards vs Notelit

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

Head to head
About

My Notes & Cards

Organize your thoughts into structured sections with self-contained cards. Add photos, sketches, and locations to your notes. Enjoy a private, local experience without AI or cloud syncing.

Highlights
  • Organize thoughts into sections and cards
  • Add photos and sketches to cards
  • Attach locations to cards
  • Universal keyword search
  • Drag-and-drop reordering
  • Local privacy, no cloud sync
  • Native iOS experience
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My Notes & Cards is a notes app for people overwhelmed by other notes apps. The values behind the app is simplicity and structure. The user organizes thoughts into sections, each containing bounded "cards" — discrete, self-contained notes. Section tabs at the top, swipeable cards inside. Intended audience: anyone who has tried other app notes and found the lack of structure overwhelming. The app is intentionally not AI-powered, not cloud-synced, and locally private. Features: 1. Photo on a card (resizable, tap to fullscreen). 2. Doodle on a card (finger or Apple Pencil). 3. Attach a location to a card. 4. Universal keyword search across all sections. 6. Drag to reorder for sections and cards. 7. Native iOS, no web wrapper. 8. Sections you create yourself. 9. Cards inside each section, swipe-able. https://www.myworkingmemory.ai/notecards-terms.html https://www.myworkingmemory.ai/notecards-privacy.html

About

Notelit

A fast and beautiful notebook app for handwriting, typing, sketching, and organizing notes. Offers various drawing tools, text formatting, and organizational features. Syncs across devices and supports multiple languages.

Highlights
  • Handwriting with Apple Pencil support
  • Nine drawing tools with custom colors and widths
  • Text formatting with Markdown preview
  • Customizable page styles and sizes
  • Organize notes into colorful files
  • iCloud sync across devices
  • Apple Watch companion app
Features
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Notelit is your notebook on the Mac — the same notebooks, pages and handwriting as on your iPhone and iPad, now on a big screen with a keyboard. YOUR FILES, ALWAYS TO HAND • Every subject in a sidebar, with the open file right beside it • Quick Notes and Recordings at the top, then My Files with its own search • Pin your favourite files and notes to the top • One search finds files, notes, and the words written on your pages CLICK AND TYPE • Click anywhere on a page and start typing right there • Fonts, sizes, colours, bold, italic and underline for your words • Blank, ruled or grid paper, page by page • Add shapes, stickers and pictures, then move, resize and turn them YOUR HANDWRITING, ON THE MAC • Pages written with Apple Pencil on iPad or iPhone open just as they were • Every note keeps its own paper, so its layout is the same on every device • Circle ink or words with the lasso to move, resize or delete them SYNCED EVERYWHERE • Sign in with Apple and your notes stay in step on Mac, iPad and iPhone — changes arrive moments after you make them • Share a note with a friend who uses Notelit, recordings and all • Share pages to Messages, Mail and other apps, or save them as PDF RECORDINGS • Every recording from your notes in one place • Play them, rename them, and move one into any note MADE FOR LATE NIGHTS • Light and dark mode, with dark pages that export as real paper • Available in 14 languages, including Arabic PLANS Notelit is free to start, with no account needed. • Lite adds all fonts, every sticker pack, the Notelit widgets and Save to iCloud • Pro adds everything in Lite, plus page templates, whole-file PDF export, custom app icons and up to six pins Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel them any time in your Apple Account settings. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

My Notes & Cards4 screens
Notelit4 screens

Verdict

The call

My Notes & Cards and Notelit both sit at 5.0 stars, but that hides the real split: 100% of Notelit's written reviews are positive against 50% of My Notes & Cards's. Notelit also leads on update cadence (every 8 days vs every 3 weeks). On price, rating, ratings volume and ads 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. My Notes & Cards sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.29 per month and Notelit sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for My Notes & Cards against 5.0 for Notelit. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 50% of My Notes & Cards's written reviews are positive against 100% of Notelit's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

My Notes & Cards ships an update every 3 weeks, Notelit every 8 days. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
My Notes & Cards versus Notelit: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMy Notes & CardsNotelit
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews50.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings11
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 8 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac, Vision ProiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch
Requires iOS17.6 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size6 MB17 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMyworkingmemory LLCAli Alraeesi

Customer experience

My Notes & Cards

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%

Notelit

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

2 purchases

My Notes & Cards

Subscriptions2
  • My Notes & Cards Monthly$1.291 Month
  • Pricing$6.001 Year
4 purchases

Notelit

Subscriptions4
  • Notelit Lite Monthly$2.991 Month
  • Notelit Pro Monthly$4.991 Month
  • Notelit Lite Yearly$9.991 Year
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  • Notelit Pro Yearly$14.991 Year

Questions

Is My Notes & Cards free?
My Notes & Cards is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Notelit free?
Notelit is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, My Notes & Cards or Notelit?
My Notes & Cards and Notelit are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do My Notes & Cards or Notelit have ads?
Neither My Notes & Cards nor Notelit shows ads.
Which is updated more often, My Notes & Cards or Notelit?
My Notes & Cards ships an update every 3 weeks, and Notelit every 8 days. Most recently, My Notes & Cards was updated on October 31, 2026 and Notelit on November 6, 2026.

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