Comparison

LuNote vs StudyMapp

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side โ€” 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

StudyMapp

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StudyMapp schedules revision for your notes, on your priority schedule, such that they are statistically in guaranteed to be in your long term memory. HOW IT WORKS Import notes from your favorite notes app, or scan them, or bring in PDFs. Give it a title and file it in a folder. Notes work best when each one covers a single topic. Then, drag tiles over the parts you want to be tested on. Don't cover parts of your notes that you need as context. When the note is due, rewrite it from memory and lift a tile whenever you get stuck. Retrieving and recalling something is what makes it stick, rereading it does not. Then rate each page Forgot, Hard, Good, or Easy, based on your recall. StudyMapp models when to show you that note next, so notes you've mastered come back in weeks and pages you struggle with come back in days. YOUR NOTES, NOT FLASHCARDS Turning notes into flashcards is too much work. In StudyMapp, your notes are the study material. Cover the parts that matter and test yourself on the pages you already wrote. NO DATA COLLECTED StudyMapp doesn't collect any data. Notes live on your device and in your own private iCloud storage. There is no StudyMapp server holding your pages. Your notes are never read, never processed, and never used to train anything. You don't even need to make an account. A KNOWLEDGE ALBUM, NOT A SEMESTER What you learn shouldn't expire once the exam is over. Knowledge should compound and every term should build on the last. Subjects you have finished can be retired to a longer revision gap so they resurface only occasionally instead of competing with new material. ON IPAD StudyMapp lets you open a sheet of paper beside your notes, and test your recall by rewriting notes with Apple Pencil. AND MORE... Folders. A share sheet. Reminders and notifications. iCloud sync across your devices.

Screenshots

LuNote4 screens
StudyMapp4 screens

Verdict

The call

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

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

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Both are free to download. LuNote sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month and StudyMapp sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

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

Scorecard1 real difference ยท 5 level
LuNote versus StudyMapp: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLuNoteStudyMapp
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 2 days โ€” betterFortnightly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.0 โ€” better18.0
Further details โ€” not scored
Size21 MB4 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperLu Apps LLCBuilding Five Technologies Inc.

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
1 purchases

StudyMapp

Subscriptions1
  • Monthly$2.991 Month

Questions

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

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