Comparison

Noteora vs Notes

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

Head to head
About

Noteora

This app allows you to type or handwrite notes, sketch diagrams, and annotate PDFs. It offers a natural writing experience with various pen tools and paper templates. Your notes are private and stored only on your device.

Highlights
  • Handwritten notes with natural pen strokes
  • Annotate and sign PDFs
  • Type text notes with rich formatting
  • Organize notes with folders and tags
  • Offline functionality and device-only storage
  • Export notes as PDFs
Features
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Noteora is a free note-taking app for everything you write. Type it, handwrite it or write right on top of a PDF, and every page looks exactly like the real thing. No account, no cloud: your notes never leave your device. Open a PDF or Word file, mark it up with Apple Pencil, add a table, sketch a diagram and export a pixel-perfect PDF in seconds. HANDWRITING THAT FEELS LIKE PAPER • Pressure- and tilt-aware pen, pencil and highlighter with smooth, natural strokes • Pen-only mode with palm rejection: rest your hand on the screen and write • Apple Pencil double-tap switches between the eraser and your last pen • A felt-tip highlighter that keeps one even thickness • Seven paper templates: blank, lined, narrow ruled, wide ruled, grid, dotted and Cornell notes • Portrait or landscape, with as many pages as you need • Add photos to handwritten pages and annotate them • Shape recognition: hold the pen to snap a perfect line, rectangle, square or circle • Object pen to select, move, rotate and resize anything on the page • Snapped shapes come with handles to resize them, and rectangles keep the angle you drew ANNOTATE ANY PDF Open a PDF from Files, Mail or Safari straight into Noteora. Handwrite over its pages or type on them, start a new note or add the pages to one you already have, at the beginning or at the end. Ideal for lecture slides, worksheets, research papers, contracts and forms you need to fill in and sign. Photos open the same way, as a one-page note you can write on. WORD-LEVEL TEXT NOTES • Real pages that reflow as you type, just like a word processor • Bold, italic, underline, strikethrough and four heading levels • Bullet lists, numbered lists, checklists, quotes, code blocks and links • Tables you can create, fill and export • Nine fonts, text and highlight colors, and all four alignments • Insert, drag, resize and rotate images; attach PDFs and files as cards • Import .docx documents with the same fonts, sizes, line spacing and page count PAGES YOU CONTROL Every note has a pages panel: duplicate, rename, reorder, copy and paste, or multi-select pages to share or delete. Copy pages from one note into another, several at a time. Switch between continuous scroll and a two-page book view, and pinch to zoom in on detail. Each note reopens on the exact page you left off. ORGANIZE EVERYTHING • Nested folders with a folder tree; drag a note onto a folder to move it • Pinned folders, favorites, tags and tag filters • Due dates and reminders on any note, so no deadline slips by • Fast full-text search across titles and content • Sort by date modified, date created, title or deadline • Duplicate any note in one tap • Trash keeps deleted notes for 30 days, so nothing is lost by accident PRIVATE BY DESIGN Lock any note or folder with its own PIN and an optional hint. Locked notes are encrypted on your device with a key derived from your PIN. Noteora works fully offline, needs no sign-up and never uploads your notes anywhere. EXPORT & SHARE Export typed or handwritten notes as pixel-perfect PDFs or plain text, and text notes as Word documents. Export the whole note or only the pages you pick, then share instantly through the native share sheet. • Vector PDF export: razor sharp at any zoom, far smaller files. Convert anything into pdf. MADE FOR iPHONE AND iPAD Light, dark and system themes, a full color palette, adjustable zoom and a guided tour that has you writing within a minute. Available in 12 languages. PERFECT FOR • Students: lecture notes, Cornell notes, homework, exam revision and annotated slides • Professionals: meeting minutes, reports, Word drafts and signed PDFs • Planners and journalers: daily pages, to-do lists, bullet journals and sketches Studying for finals, planning your week or keeping a private diary? Noteora gives typed and handwritten pages the same care. Download it free and take your first note in seconds. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Notes

Features
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If you want a notes app that's “open and write, tidy as you go, never lose a word,” MyNotes is built for you. **Auto-save, so every quick note is safe** Even if a call comes in, the app is interrupted, or your phone runs flat, anything you hadn't saved is brought back automatically. No hunting for a save button—just write. **Flexible organization, your own knowledge base** Manage things as “Notebook → Group → Note” with multi-level nesting for complex setups—or skip filing entirely and just jot things down. **One-tap sharing, capture ideas on the spot** When you spot a passage or link in Safari or another app, just tap Share and choose MyNotes. It drops straight into your inbox—no copying back and forth. **Effortless formatting, clear at a glance** The rich-text editor gives you bold, strikethrough and a 12-color preset palette, and remembers the last color you used so you don't set it again. Titles inherit the body's formatting, keeping list previews clean and readable. **Home Screen widget, no need to open the app** Put your most recently edited notes on your Home Screen and see what you wrote today at a glance. Tap one to jump straight back into it. **Recently Deleted, for when you delete by mistake** Deleted notes stay in Recently Deleted for 30 days, so you can restore them anytime. Sure you don't need them? Clear them out in one tap. **Text Size, so everything is easy to read** Drag a slider in Settings to resize the text and icons throughout the app, without changing the setting for any other app. **Markdown checklists for quick to-dos** Type "# checklist" to turn the current line into a tappable checkbox. Press Return and the next line starts with a checkbox too. Tap to tick it off—tapped the wrong one? Just undo it. We'll keep updating MyNotes. If there's something you'd like improved, or a feature you'd love to see, please leave a review on the App Store or get in touch via Send Feedback in the app. Your support and encouragement keep us building a better product. Thank you!

Screenshots

Noteora4 screens
Notes4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Noteora at none against Notes's shown. On price, update cadence, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Noteora ships an update every 2 weeks, Notes weekly. Both last shipped on November 10, 2026.

Scorecard1 real difference · 8 level
Noteora versus Notes: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterNoteoraNotes
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (4 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings4 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksWeekly — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better16.0
Further details — not scored
Size44 MB20 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPerfectAiStudioZHONGCHENG YANG

In-app purchases

None

Noteora

No in-app purchases

None

Notes

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Noteora free?
Noteora is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Notes free?
Notes is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Noteora or Notes have ads?
Notes shows ads; Noteora does not.
Which is updated more often, Noteora or Notes?
Noteora ships an update every 2 weeks, and Notes weekly. Most recently, Noteora was updated on November 10, 2026 and Notes on November 10, 2026.

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