Noteora vs Lemon Notes
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side ā with what reviewers say about each.
Noteora
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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/
Lemon Notes
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Lemon Notes: Note Taking & PDF Annotation Turn your iPhone and iPad into a digital notebook for handwritten notes, PDF annotation, digital planning, and drawing. Capture lecture notes, organize study materials, keep a journal, or plan your week. Write with touch on iPhone or Apple Pencil on iPad, and bring your notebooks across both devices with iCloud sync. HANDWRITING, DRAWING & STICKY NOTES ⢠Write and sketch with pen, pencil, highlighter, fountain pen, watercolor, crayon, monoline, and more. ⢠Customize colors, stroke widths, and smoothing for your writing style. ⢠Use stroke and pixel erasers, lasso selection, copy, duplicate, resize, and move tools. ⢠Turn rough sketches into clean geometric shapes with Smart Shape Recognition. Smart lines snap precisely to nearby endpoints to keep diagrams connected. ⢠Organize drawings with editable layers. ⢠Add customizable sticky notes for reminders, study tips, and ideas, with improved canvas touch controls. PDF ANNOTATION & DOCUMENTS ⢠Import PDFs from Files to write, draw, highlight, underline, and annotate lecture slides, textbooks, worksheets, and documents. ⢠Expand PDF margins for extra handwritten notes and bookmark important pages. ⢠Import PowerPoint presentations and convert them into PDF notes. ⢠Add photos, scanned documents, images, and emoji stickers. ⢠Export full notebooks or selected pages as shareable PDFs. DIGITAL NOTEBOOKS, PLANNERS & TEMPLATES ⢠Create multi-page notebooks for school, university, work, and personal projects. ⢠Choose blank, lined, grid, dotted, Cornell notes, checklist, daily, weekly, monthly, habit tracker, mind map, table, music, guitar tab, storyboard, and other templates. ⢠Personalize paper colors, spacing, line width, backgrounds, orientation, and covers. ⢠Choose A3, A4, A5, A6, B5, Letter, Legal, and Tabloid paper sizes. ⢠Explore 80 creative notebook covers, organized into three categories. ⢠Keep class notes, meeting notes, and journals organized with folders and nested folders. ⢠Protect notebooks or folders with a password and recover notebooks from Recently Deleted. STUDY TOOLS & EVERYDAY PRODUCTIVITY ⢠Find handwritten notes with handwriting recognition and search. ⢠Record audio with optional live speech transcription for lectures and meetings. ⢠Solve handwritten arithmetic with Automatic Math. ⢠Stay focused with a stopwatch, countdown timer, and built-in calculator. ⢠Open two notes together with split-screen editing. ⢠Preview pages, use Reader Mode, and let pages adapt to dark mode. ⢠Watch YouTube videos or browse the web alongside your notes. HOME SCREEN WIDGETS ⢠Quickly create a note, reopen your last note, and access recent notes and search with sleek widgets for iPhone and iPad. ICLOUD SYNC & LEMON STORE ⢠Enable iCloud sync to continue your notebooks on iPhone and iPad. ⢠Back up PDF notes to iCloud Drive. ⢠Discover more notebook templates, covers, digital planners, study sheets, engineering templates, calendars, and digital stationery in the Lemon Store. MORE LANGUAGES ⢠Now supports Arabic, Simplified Chinese, and Traditional Chinese, with context-aware translations, a right-to-left Arabic layout, and localized plural forms. START YOUR NEXT NOTEBOOK No separate Lemon Notes account is required. Create up to three notebooks for free. One optional annual subscription unlocks unlimited notebook creation on both iPhone and iPad. Use the same Apple Account to access your purchases on both devices, and enable iCloud sync to keep your notes in sync. Purchases can be restored at any time. Privacy Policy: https://lemonnotes.site/privacy/ Terms of Service: https://lemonnotes.site/terms/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Noteora at none against Lemon Notes's 1. Noteora also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price, update cadence, ads and device support there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price Ā· Rating Ā· Positive reviews Ā· Number of ratings Ā· Update frequency Ā· Ads Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Monetization Ā· Best chart rank Ā· Devices Ā· Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Lemon Notes sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $3.99 per year. Noteora asks for nothing beyond the download.
Noteora ships an update every 2 weeks, Lemon Notes every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Noteora | Lemon Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Every 10 days ā better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No ā better | Yes |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod ā better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 ā better | 17.0 |
| Further details ā not scored | ||
| Size | 44 MB | 152 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | PerfectAiStudio | NEFISE ZELIHA BAYAR |
In-app purchases
Noteora
No in-app purchases
Lemon Notes
- Lemon Notes Unlimited Notes7 Days trial$3.991 Year









