Comparison

Note Prime vs MathWrite 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/

About

MathWrite Notes

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MathWrite Notes turns your handwritten maths into LaTeX. Write on the page as you always do, with Apple Pencil on iPad or on iPhone, and MathWrite converts each page into clean, structured LaTeX and compiles it into a typeset PDF. HOW IT WORKS • Write a page by hand. • At the end of the page, pull down and hold to add a new one. The page you leave behind turns into LaTeX on its own. • Open the LaTeX tab to see the source, or the PDF to see it typeset. On iPad in landscape, the source and the PDF sit side by side, and you can put your handwriting next to the PDF to compare them. A NOTEBOOK BUILT FOR MATHS • Blank, ruled, grid or dotted pages, in portrait or landscape. • Draw and hold: a stroke held still at its end becomes a perfect line, circle, rectangle, triangle or arrow. • The shapes tool places lines, arrows, axes and polygons with a single drag. • The graph pencil: write a function such as y = sin x and get its graph, drawn in ink you can move, resize and adjust. • Insert photos on the page. • Apple Pencil only mode, so your hand can rest on the screen, and a read-only mode for reviewing. • Folders, favourites, search and dark mode. LATEX THE WAY YOU WANT IT • Three styles: Classic, Tagged and Boxed. • Conversion settings: page layout, font size, margins, title and table of contents, equation numbering, what to do with diagrams, crossed-out work and margin notes, and whether photos are converted or inserted as images. • Your notes keep their own language, and theorem and proof headings follow it. • Every page is checked before it reaches you, and if a page would break your document, MathWrite repairs it so the PDF keeps compiling. YOUR PAPERS AND PDFS TOO • Scan pages with the camera, choose photos or import a PDF, and convert them to LaTeX. • Import a PDF from another notes app as a notebook and keep writing on top of it. SHARE AND EXPORT • Copy the LaTeX, share the .tex file, or open it in Overleaf in one tap. • Export the typeset PDF, or your handwriting as a PDF. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Your notebooks are stored on your device. Pages leave it only to be converted, and our server does not keep them. MATHWRITE PRO MathWrite Notes is free to download. Using it in full requires MathWrite Pro, an auto-renewable monthly or yearly subscription. Prices and terms are shown in the app before you buy. Payment is charged to your Apple Account. The subscription renews automatically unless it is cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. You can manage or cancel it in your Apple Account settings. Terms of Use: https://math-write-notes-backend.vercel.app/terms Privacy Policy: https://math-write-notes-backend.vercel.app/privacy

Screenshots

Note Prime4 screens
MathWrite Notes4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: MathWrite Notes at none against Note Prime's shown. Note Prime's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs monthly) and iOS requirement (16.0 vs 18.6). On price, 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 MathWrite Notes sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Note Prime ships an update weekly, MathWrite Notes monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 11, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 3 level
Note Prime versus MathWrite Notes: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterNote PrimeMathWrite Notes
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyWeekly — betterMonthly
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS16.0 — better18.6
Further details — not scored
Size28 MB45 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperZeynep ToyAndres Osorio Leyenda

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Note Prime

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

MathWrite Notes

Subscriptions2
  • MathWriteNotes Monthly Subscription$9.991 Month
  • MathWriteNotes Yearly Subscription7 Days trial$39.991 Year

Questions

Is Note Prime free?
Note Prime is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is MathWrite Notes free?
MathWrite Notes is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Note Prime or MathWrite Notes have ads?
Note Prime shows ads; MathWrite Notes does not.
Which is updated more often, Note Prime or MathWrite Notes?
Note Prime ships an update weekly, and MathWrite Notes monthly. Most recently, Note Prime was updated on October 14, 2026 and MathWrite Notes on October 11, 2026.

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