Comparison

Note Prime vs Lemon Notes

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

Head to head
About

Note Prime

Features
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Think in your own handwriting, keep it digital with Note Prime. With Apple Pencil support for a smooth, low-latency writing experience, Note Prime brings note-taking, drawing and organizing your ideas together in one app. KEY FEATURES • Natural Handwriting — Smooth drawing and writing with Apple Pencil, just like on paper • Audio Notes — Record audio while you write and embed it in your page • Video & Photos — Enrich your notes by adding videos and images • Notebooks & Folders — Organize notes into notebooks and notebooks into folders • Pen Variety — Fountain pen, watercolor, pastel and more brush options • Page Templates — Lined, grid or plain pages, plus ready-made backgrounds • Backup — Export and back up your notes whenever you want Note Prime is designed for students, professionals and anyone who wants to keep their ideas digital with the feel of paper. Upgrade to Premium to unlock unlimited notebooks, pages, audio recordings, videos and advanced pen options. Privacy Policy: https://noteprime.netlify.app/privacy.html Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

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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/

Screenshots

Note Prime4 screens
Lemon Notes4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Lemon Notes at none against Note Prime'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. Note Prime sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month and Lemon Notes sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $3.99 per year. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Note Prime ships an update weekly, Lemon Notes every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 16, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 5 level
Note Prime versus Lemon Notes: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterNote PrimeLemon Notes
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyWeekly — betterEvery 10 days
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS16.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size28 MB152 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperZeynep ToyNEFISE ZELIHA BAYAR

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Note Prime

Subscriptions2
  • Aylık Premium$0.991 Month
  • Yıllık Premium$5.991 Year
1 purchases

Lemon Notes

Subscriptions1
  • Lemon Notes Unlimited Notes7 Days trial$3.991 Year

Questions

Is Note Prime free?
Note Prime is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Lemon Notes free?
Lemon Notes is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Note Prime or Lemon Notes have ads?
Note Prime shows ads; Lemon Notes does not.
Which is updated more often, Note Prime or Lemon Notes?
Note Prime ships an update weekly, and Lemon Notes every 10 days. Most recently, Note Prime was updated on October 14, 2026 and Lemon Notes on October 16, 2026.

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