Comparison

CuaderNote vs Recall Drill

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

Head to head
About

CuaderNote

Features
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Take notes, highlight your PDFs, and review with spaced repetition flashcards. New: study the day's cards on Apple Watch, with your iPhone nearby or not. Spelling dictations read each card aloud and correct you letter by letter. Built for iPhone, iPad, and Mac. CuaderNote brings notes, handwritten notebooks, reading, annotation, and flashcards into one native workflow. Capture an idea, connect it to what you are reading, turn it into a card, and review it without moving your study material between apps. WRITE Create focused notes with a block-based editor designed for learning. Structure ideas, connect related notes, and turn what you write into flashcards using simple inline syntax. DRAW Think visually in a notebook. Handwrite with Apple Pencil on iPad, sketch diagrams, add shapes, and keep visual notes beside the rest of your library. READ Import PDFs and EPUBs or save web articles. Highlight in four colors, annotate, draw directly on PDFs, and keep a companion note beside your reading. Select a word to look it up in the dictionary, and read books and articles in White, Sepia or Night, or let the theme follow light and dark mode. If you delete a highlight or a sticky note by mistake, Undo brings it back. REMEMBER Review everything in one place with FSRS spaced repetition. Create question-and-answer, cloze, image occlusion, and set-based cards. When answers belong together, one cloze card can hide them all. Each session starts with the cards that are due and adds up to 20 new ones a day, an optional daily reminder tells you when cards are waiting, and Undo takes back a rating you gave by mistake. To practice spelling, turn on Dictation in a note: CuaderNote reads each card aloud, you type the answer, and you see the correction letter by letter. On Apple Watch, you can see how many cards are due and review them from your wrist. AI STUDY TOOLS When you choose to use them, AI tools can suggest flashcards, summarize or explain selected text, translate passages beside the page, generate LaTeX, and extract text from images. An optional account is required only for these tools. CuaderNote is built natively for iPhone, iPad, and Mac, with a companion app for Apple Watch. Your study library is local-first and can stay in sync across your devices with iCloud. Write. Draw. Read. Remember.

About

Recall Drill

Features
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Studying is not re-reading. It is retrieving. Recall Drill trains your exam material with active recall: register items, drill on a schedule, and weak items resurface before the exam date. Features โ€ข Register prompts and answers, drill by recall โ€ข Scheduled repetition โ€” weak items come back first โ€ข Optional local reminders for drill time โ€ข No account, fully offline โ€” your data stays on your device

Screenshots

CuaderNote4 screens
Recall Drill2 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: CuaderNote at none against Recall Drill's 1. Recall Drill's advantage is iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price, update cadence, ads and device support there is nothing between them.

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

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Both are free to download. Recall Drill sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. CuaderNote asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

CuaderNote ships an update every 3 days, Recall Drill weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 16, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences ยท 4 level
CuaderNote versus Recall Drill: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCuaderNoteRecall Drill
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 3 days โ€” betterWeekly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo โ€” betterYes
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch โ€” betteriPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS17.015.0 โ€” better
Further details โ€” not scored
Size34 MB20 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDistributed Ledger SLU์•ŒํŒŒ๋ฃจํ”„

In-app purchases

None

CuaderNote

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Recall Drill

One-time1
  • Unlimited Decks$3.99

Questions

Is CuaderNote free?
CuaderNote is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Recall Drill free?
Recall Drill is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do CuaderNote or Recall Drill have ads?
Neither CuaderNote nor Recall Drill shows ads.
Which is updated more often, CuaderNote or Recall Drill?
CuaderNote ships an update every 3 days, and Recall Drill weekly. Most recently, CuaderNote was updated on October 24, 2026 and Recall Drill on October 16, 2026.

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