Comparison

Libreto vs mimosa

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

Head to head
About

Libreto

This app offers a comprehensive digital notebook, planner, and drawing studio for iPad and iPhone Duo, with streamlined PDF editing for iPhone. It features on-device AI and a private, notebook-like interface with customizable covers and page-turning effects.

Highlights
  • Digital notebook with customizable covers
  • Planner with daily, weekly, and monthly views
  • Full drawing studio with layers and brushes
  • PDF editor with annotation and redaction tools
  • On-device AI for handwriting recognition
  • Support for Apple Pencil and finger input
  • Export to PDF, image, text, Word, and Markdown
Features
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Libreto is a digital notebook, planner, PDF editor and full drawing studio for iPad and iPhone Duo, and a streamlined PDF editor and notes app for iPhone. A notebook that opens like one, private by design, with on-device AI included and one fair price. START WHERE YOU LEFT OFF Libreto opens on Start: your latest work up front, and a new Notepad, Planner or Sketchbook one tap away. Everything you make lives in one Library, sorted into notebooks, planners, sketches and PDFs. A NOTEBOOK THAT OPENS LIKE ONE Every notebook opens on its cover, full screen: your own photo, a seasonal design, or one you make. Slide the elastic band to the lock to open it, turn pages that curl like paper, and swipe a closed cover to reach the next notebook. MADE FOR IPHONE DUO Folded, the cover screen shows the notebook you were writing in, band and all. Unfold it and the notebook lies open across both pages, each one whole on the screen, right where you left off. Every control sits in one row at the top. NOTEBOOKS FOR APPLE PENCIL (iPad and iPhone Duo) Lined, dot grid, graph, Cornell and to-do paper, or a photo, in any paper colour. Ink thickens on slow strokes and tapers at the ends, like a real nib. Draw a rough line, box or circle and hold: it snaps clean. Underline, strike out or circle typed words and the mark stays with them. Type around photos, or lay out text frames with columns that run on from page to page. Search your handwriting and convert it to text on-device, in 20+ languages. Add stickers, washi tape, photos and AI art with Image Playground. No Pencil, or another iPhone? Write with a finger. PLANNERS, YOUR WAY (iPad and iPhone Duo) Daily, Weekly, Monthly and Pro planners, plus ready-made planners for school, work, fitness and money. Real dates, a tappable Contents page, and every day linked to its month. Light or Dark theme. DRAW & SKETCH (iPad and iPhone Duo) A full drawing studio: pressure brushes with textured tips, dual brushes, and brushes made from your own pictures. Layers, groups, Layer Sets, blend modes, layer masks and live adjustment layers you can change at any time. Vector shapes and text with gradients, tapered and dashed lines. Heal, clone, dodge, burn and liquify. Warp and rig your art, and draw on isometric planes. History with branches lets you step back to any point. Symmetry: vertical, horizontal, both axes or radial. Choose a Dark or Light look. Open and save PSD files, or export as PNG or PDF. PHOTO TOOLS IN SKETCH STUDIO (iPad and iPhone Duo) Develop RAW photos. Merge shots into panoramas, HDR images, or a crowd-free scene. Mask hair and fur with the Edge Mask Brush, and measure in real units. PDF TOOLS (iPad and iPhone) Highlights, ink, shapes, stickers and signatures, with undo and redo for every mark. Reorder, rotate, split and extract pages. On-device OCR and Scan Enhance for scans. Redact for real: the hidden text is destroyed, not just covered. Export as PDF, image, text, Word (RTF) or Markdown. LIBRETO INTELLIGENCE, ON YOUR DEVICE Ask questions about any PDF or notebook and get answers with tappable page citations. Summarize a document, a page range or a selection. Turn any document into flashcards and quizzes with spaced-repetition review. Record a lecture, then transcribe and summarize it on-device. All of it runs with Apple Intelligence, right on your device: nothing uploaded, nothing metered, no AI credits. Prefer no AI? One switch hides every AI button. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No ads. No tracking. No third-party AI. Your work stays on your devices, with optional private iCloud sync and App Lock with Face ID. MEMBERSHIP Unlock every premium feature for $19.99/year with a 3-day free trial, or $2.99/month. Prefer not to subscribe? Buy Libreto once for $59.99 and keep every feature, including future updates, forever. Terms of Use (Apple standard EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

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mimosa

Features
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mimosa is a PDF and notes app for studying with Apple Pencil, and a mistake notebook that brings your wrong answers back on the right day. SEEDS: YOUR MISTAKE NOTEBOOK Circle a question you got wrong with the laser pen and save it to a Seed, with its answer if you like. Every question gets its own page. Study opens it right there: solve it again with the whole pen kit, check the answer, rate how it went, and it comes back when it's time to review. WRITE ON ANY PDF Mark up worksheets, past papers and books. Page Lock keeps the page steady, Palm Lock lets your hand rest, and the ink keeps up with you. Turn handwriting into text and search inside your documents. NOTEBOOKS AND BOARDS Create MimoBook notebooks page by page, or use MimoBoard when an idea needs an endless canvas. MADE FOR iOS 27 On iOS 27, mimosa wears Liquid Glass: the pen kit flows open like glass, and moving wallpapers sit behind your library. Prefer it quiet? Choose Minimal in Settings. SCAN DOCUMENT Tap + to scan paper into clean PDFs, right in your library or a folder. RECORD WITH ECHO Record a lecture while you write, then tap any line to hear what was said right then. KEEP A REFERENCE CLOSE Open answer keys, page ranges and images in a floating window while you work. WORKS WITH LOTUS AND TRELLIS Turn highlights into Lotus flashcards, and link your documents and Seeds to a Trellis study plan. YOUR LEYA ACCOUNT Sign in with Apple or Google for one free Leya account across Leya apps, or use mimosa without one. Your documents stay on your device and in your own iCloud. Designed for iPad, with iPhone support. Available in 19 languages. Some features require mimosa Pro, an auto-renewing subscription. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel them anytime in your App Store account settings. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://leyaproduction.com/en/mimosa/privacy

Screenshots

Libreto4 screens
mimosa4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: mimosa at none against Libreto's 3. On price, update cadence, ads 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Libreto sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. mimosa asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Libreto ships an update every 9 days, mimosa every 5 days. Both last shipped on November 13, 2026.

Scorecard1 real difference · 8 level
Libreto versus mimosa: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLibretomimosa
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 9 daysEvery 5 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, Mac — better
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size22 MB58 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJC Mobile App Studio LLCYusuf Melih Bozgeyik

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Libreto

Subscriptions2
  • Libreto Premium (Monthly)$2.991 Month
  • Libreto Premium (Annual)3 Days trial$19.991 Year
One-time1
  • Libreto Lifetime$59.99
None

mimosa

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Libreto free?
Libreto is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is mimosa free?
mimosa is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Libreto or mimosa have ads?
Neither Libreto nor mimosa shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Libreto or mimosa?
Libreto ships an update every 9 days, and mimosa every 5 days. Most recently, Libreto was updated on November 13, 2026 and mimosa on November 13, 2026.

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