Notenda vs BookWrite
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Notenda
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Notenda is your private notebook — for everything you don't put anywhere else. Your notes stay on your device. No account to create, no internet connection needed, no ads: open the app, start writing, that's it. Not just another notes app, and not a classic diary either: Notenda is a personal logbook for what actually matters to you, day after day. DOZENS OF USES - Food diary and meal tracking - Habit, sleep and mood tracking - Health log, symptom and treatment tracking - Care log for an elderly parent, a relative or a child - Reminders and long-running to-dos - Trip planning and travel journal - Pet health and care log - Workouts and fitness goals - Home renovation, project and paperwork log - Reading log, recipes, gift ideas and random thoughts - Job hunting, interviews and career notes - Diary and everyday memories PRIVATE BY DEFAULT Your notes never leave your phone. No account, no profiling, no data reselling, no ads. Notenda works fully offline: what you write goes nowhere. WRITE IN ONE MOVE Open the app and write: no dialog, no decision to make before the first letter. Notenda picks the last category you used in that notebook, and you can fix it right after. Nothing to file away later, no inbox piling up — that is the whole anti mental-load principle behind the app. ORGANIZE YOUR WAY - Create as many themed notebooks as you need (travel, health, pets, fitness, projects...) - Sort memos into customizable categories (icon, color) - Reuse templates to go faster - Get writing prompts when you need them - Date each memo when the event happened, even long afterwards A COMPLETE NOTEBOOK - Rich text: bold, italic, bullet lists and checkboxes - Photos taken on the spot or picked from your gallery - File attachments: PDFs, prescriptions, invoices, receipts, records - Built-in document scanner: your phone becomes a scanner - Text recognition from photos: an image becomes editable text - Voice dictation, through your phone keyboard - Instant search across all your notes - Instant capture from the native iOS and Android share sheet - Light or dark theme, interface available in 15 languages (English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Swedish, Danish, Finnish, Arabic, Hindi) REMINDERS AT THE RIGHT TIME Set a reminder on a memo and let Notenda notify you when the day comes: a check-up to book, a prescription to renew, a follow-up not to forget. You can hide the memo content in the notification, so nothing shows on a locked screen. NO NOISE, NO PRESSURE No feed, no likes, no streaks to keep alive, no notification begging you to come back. Notenda records what you write and gives it back to you, in the order you need it. Nothing is interpreted, scored or analysed: your notes are yours to read. NOTES THAT DELETE THEMSELVES Give a memo an expiry date: it disappears on its own, for good, on the date you picked. Handy for a temporary code, a passing detail, or anything you don't want to keep forever. CUSTOM PDF EXPORT — MADE FOR SHARING Generate a PDF for the exact period you choose, filtering by only the categories you need. Pick the layout that fits: one column, three columns over three days, or seven columns over seven days. Perfect for handing a food diary, a symptom log, or a health record to your doctor, a family member, or a professional — without retyping anything. BACKUP AND SWITCHING PHONES Export your entire notebook as a single archive — notes and attachments included — and restore it on a new device from the very first launch. Your data stays yours, readable and recoverable outside the app. Notenda is your private space to write down everything — the next-generation diary, built for real life. Download Notenda and start your private notebook today.
BookWrite
This app transforms your writing experience by allowing you to craft books with customizable aesthetics, from cover design to page style. It offers tools for organizing stories, drawing, illustrating, and exporting your work in various formats. It also includes features to help you maintain writing habits and ensure your work remains private.
- Customizable book aesthetics (cover, pages, pen)
- Locked diary with Face ID/passcode
- Drawing and illustration tools
- Story organization (plot board, story bible)
- Export to PDF, EPUB, TXT, audiobook
- Writing goal tracking and prompts
- Privacy-focused with no ads or tracking
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Step through the door of an old bookshop and write. Open ScribeMe and you're standing at the door of a bookshop. Push it open, step inside, and your library is waiting on the shelf - every book you've written, standing spine-out, in whatever order you like. MAKE A BOOK, NOT A DOCUMENT Choose how a book feels before you write a word: hardcover, leather, cloth or paperback; the colour of the boards; cream, white or parchment pages; and the pen in your hand - fountain pen, ballpoint, pencil or marker, each with its own ink and weight of line. Pick a typeface with real character. Every cover gets its own grain, so no two books on your shelf look alike. Tall, square and wide picture-book shapes are all here. A DIARY THAT LOCKS Any book can be locked with Face ID or your passcode - a private diary that stays private. Night pages give you dark paper and light ink for writing after bedtime. WRITE, DRAW, ILLUSTRATE Real styling: bold, italics, centred lines, scene breaks. Draw straight onto the page with Apple Pencil or a fingertip, and add photo illustrations wherever you like. Draw your own cover, too. ORGANIZE A REAL STORY Chapters with a contents sheet. A plot board that lays your pages out at a glance. A story bible that interviews your characters and remembers your places. Story templates - three acts, hero's journey, fairy tale, mystery - that scaffold the chapters for you. Find and replace, and search across the whole shelf. TAKE IT OFF THE DEVICE Export a typeset PDF with cover, dedication, contents and illustration plates. Print a fold-at-home booklet. Make an EPUB ebook, a plain-text file, or an audiobook read aloud. Back up your whole library to a single file and carry it to another device. KEEP GOING Daily goals, streaks, milestones and writing sprints. A home-screen widget with your shelf and your streak. An evening writing prompt if you want one. Read a finished book with a real page curl, or have it read to you. YOURS, AND PRIVATE No account, no sign-up, no ads, no tracking, no subscriptions, and nothing is ever collected. Your books live on your device. Turn on iCloud sync (beta) and they sync through your own private iCloud - still nobody else's. Automatic version snapshots mean nothing you write is ever really lost. Everything in ScribeMe is included, free. It always will be. Made for iPhone and iPad.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Notenda at weekly against BookWrite's every 3 weeks. Notenda also leads on iOS requirement (15.5 vs 18.1). 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Notenda ships an update weekly, BookWrite every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 19, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Notenda | BookWrite |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Number of ratings | — | 1 — better |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | — | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.5 — better | 18.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 92 MB | 5 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Patricia JESSE | Richard Wheatley |
In-app purchases
Notenda
No in-app purchases
BookWrite
No in-app purchases









