Comparison

LuNote vs mimosa

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

Head to head
About

LuNote

Features
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LuNote brings your handwriting, documents, tasks and calendar into one place. WRITE BY HAND Use Apple Pencil on blank, lined or grid paper. Choose from several pen tips and adjust thickness. Mix handwriting with typed text and images on the same page. WORK ON DOCUMENTS Open PDFs, Word files, presentations and ebooks, then annotate them directly. Read in page-turning mode or scroll normally, whichever suits you. AI THAT HELPS Summarise a note, ask questions about a document, or turn what you wrote into flashcards for studying. PLAN YOUR DAY Tasks with subtasks and due dates, a calendar that syncs with your system calendar, and a focus timer for deep work sessions. CAPTURE ANYTHING Scan documents with your camera and get searchable text through OCR. Record lectures or meetings and turn them into transcripts. BRING EVERYTHING IN Import from Notability and GoodNotes. Open PDFs, Word, PowerPoint and web pages straight into LuNote. EVERYWHERE YOU WORK Your notes, documents and drawings stay in sync on iPhone and iPad through iCloud. Home Screen widgets keep today's tasks and notes in view. MAKE IT YOURS 25 themes, paper styles and reading backgrounds. Siri Shortcuts for the way you work. LuNote is free to start. Premium unlocks unlimited notes, the AI assistant, voice recording, the scanner and sync across your devices. The subscription supports Family Sharing. LuNote Premium is an auto-renewing subscription, offered monthly or yearly. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. The subscription renews automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. You can manage or cancel it any time in your Apple Account settings. Privacy Policy: https://lunote.app/privacy.html Terms of Use (EULA): https://lunote.app/terms.html Questions or feedback: support@lunote.app

About

mimosa

Features
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Write, mark up and learn with mimosa: a PDF and notes app built around Apple Pencil. Page Lock keeps your page steady, Palm Lock lets your hand rest, and PencilKit powers the ink. YOUR SCANNER, FREE AND AD-FREE MimoCam turns paper into clean PDFs. Crop pages, remove shadows, erase handwriting from a solved worksheet and flatten curled pages. Keep your scans and export them as PDFs β€” completely free, with no ads. SEEDS: YOUR QUESTION NOTEBOOK Circle a question 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 with the whole pen kit, check the answer, rate how it went β€” and it comes back on the right day. A NOTEBOOK FOR EVERY IDEA Create MimoBook notebooks and write page by page. Use MimoBoard when your ideas need an endless canvas. Bring PDFs, notebooks and boards together in your library. KEEP A REFERENCE CLOSE Open answer keys, page ranges and images in a floating window while you work. Make a reference universal to open it from any document. WORKS WITH LOTUS AND TRELLIS Turn highlights into Lotus flashcards, and link your documents and Seeds to a Trellis study plan. Designed for iPad, with iPhone support. Available in ten languages. MimoCam is free. Writing tools and other mimosa Pro features require an additional purchase. See the in-app offer for the current terms. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel them anytime in Settings. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://ymelihbozgeyik.github.io/mimosa-support/privacy/

Screenshots

LuNote4 screens
mimosa4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: LuNote at every 2 days against mimosa's every 4 days. On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price Β· Rating Β· Positive reviews Β· Number of ratings Β· Update frequency Β· Ads Β· In-app purchases Β· Monetization Β· Best chart rank Β· Devices Β· Requires iOS

CostPrice Β· In-app purchases Β· Ads Β· Monetization

Both are free to download. LuNote sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month and mimosa sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

LuNote ships an update every 2 days, mimosa every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 6, 2026 and October 9, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference Β· 5 level
LuNote versus mimosa: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLuNotemimosa
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 2 days β€” betterEvery 4 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, Mac β€” better
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details β€” not scored
Size21 MB22 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperLu Apps LLCYusuf Melih Bozgeyik

In-app purchases

4 purchases

LuNote

Subscriptions4
  • Agenda Plan7 Days trial$3.991 Month
  • Full Plan7 Days trial$7.991 Month
  • Agenda Plan7 Days trial$39.991 Year
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  • Full Plan7 Days trial$79.991 Year
3 purchases

mimosa

Subscriptions2
  • Weekly mimosa Pro$0.997 Days
  • Monthly mimos Pro7 Days trial$2.991 Month
One-time1
  • Lifetime Pro$59.99

Questions

Is LuNote free?
LuNote is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is mimosa free?
mimosa is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do LuNote or mimosa have ads?
Neither LuNote nor mimosa shows ads.
Which is updated more often, LuNote or mimosa?
LuNote ships an update every 2 days, and mimosa every 4 days. Most recently, LuNote was updated on October 6, 2026 and mimosa on October 9, 2026.

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