eSign vs Note Taking App
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
eSign
Easily sign documents on your iPhone without printing or scanning. Create custom signatures, add text, and export flattened PDFs privately. Ideal for everyday signing needs like leases and offer letters.
- Draw or generate handwritten-style signatures
- Scan or import existing signatures
- Sign PDFs with text, dates, and checkmarks
- Private, local-first document storage
- Export flattened, signed PDFs
- Optional Face ID lock
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Signing a document shouldn't mean printing, scrawling, scanning, and emailing it back. Signed lets you do the whole thing on your iPhone in under a minute — and keeps every document private to your device. Make a signature you're proud of - Draw it with your finger on a smooth, natural canvas. - Generate one with AI — type your name, pick a style, and get a real handwritten-style signature. - Scan or import one you already have. - Save your favorite as the default and reuse it everywhere. Sign any PDF in seconds - Import a PDF from Files, Photos, or another app. - Drop your signature, initials, name, date, text, or a checkmark exactly where they belong. - Your name and today's date fill themselves in, so the common stuff is one tap. - Export a clean, flattened, signed PDF and share it anywhere. Private by design — this is the part that matters Signed is local-first. Your documents, your signatures, your initials — they're stored only on your iPhone. We never upload them, we can't see them, and there's no cloud copy on any server. The paperwork you sign is nobody's business but yours. Made to feel good to use - A calm, clean design that gets out of your way. - Optional Face ID lock for an extra layer of privacy. - Dark mode from day one. Signed is for the everyday signing life — leases, NDAs, offer letters, school forms, waivers, the form your landlord just emailed. Fast, beautiful, and yours alone. What your subscription includes Signed Pro is a subscription — it unlocks everything above: AI signature generation, saving signatures and initials to your library, and signing and exporting unlimited PDFs. You can create your first signature free during setup; an active subscription is required to keep using the app. The subscription auto-renews until you cancel — manage or cancel anytime in your Apple Account settings. Terms of Use: https://trysigned.app/terms Privacy Policy: https://trysigned.app/privacy
Note Taking App
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Turn every thought into a page worth keeping. Digital Notes is a private, beautifully designed notebook for handwriting, typing, planning, studying, and annotating documents. Write naturally with Apple Pencil or your finger, or add typed text that flows across multiple pages. CREATE YOUR WAY • Draw with pen, pencil, marker, eraser, and lasso • Choose ruled, dotted, grid, or plain paper • Customize notebook covers, folders, tags, and favorites • Turn typed text into handwritten-style pages WORK WITH DOCUMENTS • Import PDFs and annotate every page • Scan documents or add photos • Export notebooks as PDFs or pages as images • Extract searchable text using on-device recognition KEEP IDEAS ORGANIZED • Search titles, text, tags, and transcripts • Archive, duplicate, restore, and manage notebooks • Turn your notes into study cards • Attach audio recordings to notebooks • Fold meaningful pages into your keepsake jar PRIVATE BY DESIGN Your notebooks, drawings, scans, and recordings stay on your device. Digital Notes requires no account and includes local backup and restore tools for keeping an additional copy. Whether you’re capturing a quick idea, taking lecture notes, planning your week, journaling, or annotating a PDF, Digital Notes gives every thought a calm place to grow. Privacy Policy: https://digitalhole.github.io/DHPrivacy.html Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Note Taking App at none against eSign's 8. Note Taking App also leads on update cadence (every 2 days vs every 11 days). eSign's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and iOS requirement (15.6 vs 17.0). On price 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
Both are free to download. eSign sells 8 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per 7 days. Note Taking App asks for nothing beyond the download.
eSign ships an update every 11 days, Note Taking App every 2 days. Both last shipped on September 29, 2026.
| Parameter | eSign | Note Taking App |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (15 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 15 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 11 days | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Subscription | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 67 MB | 15 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Worth A Try LLC | Arima Jain |
In-app purchases
eSign
- Signed Weekly$3.997 Days
- Signed Weekly$7.997 Days
- Signed Monthly$9.991 Month
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- Signed Annual$19.991 Year
- Signed Annual3 Days trial$39.991 Year
- Lifetime$19.99
- Lifetime$39.99
- Lifetime$49.99
Note Taking App
No in-app purchases







