Comparison

Kami 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

Kami

Features
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Kami is built for speed: open the app and start typing. • Instant note capture • Organize with simple lists • Search everything • Share and export • Works fully offline Premium unlocks unlimited notes and themes. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Lemon Notes

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Lemon Notes: Write, Draw, and Organize Turn your iPhone and iPad into a flexible digital notebook for studying, planning, work, and creative ideas. Write and sketch with touch on iPhone, or use Apple Pencil on iPad. Organize your notebooks, annotate PDFs, and bring your notes with you across both devices. WRITE AND DRAW • Choose from pen, pencil, highlighter, fountain pen, watercolor, crayon, monoline, and more. • Customize colors, widths, and stroke smoothing. • Use stroke and pixel erasers, lasso selection, copy, duplicate, resize, and move tools. • Turn rough drawings into clean geometric shapes with Smart Shape Recognition. • Organize complex notes and drawings with editable layers. PDFS AND DOCUMENTS • Import PDFs from the Files app and write, draw, highlight, underline, or annotate them. • Expand PDF page margins for extra writing space and bookmark important pages. • Import PowerPoint presentations and convert them into PDF notes. • Add photos, scanned documents, images, and emoji stickers. • Export complete notebooks or selected pages as shareable PDFs. NOTEBOOKS AND TEMPLATES • Create multi-page notebooks with customizable paper settings. • Choose from blank, lined, grid, dotted, Cornell, checklist, daily, weekly, monthly, habit tracker, mind map, table, music, guitar tab, storyboard, and other templates. • Select paper sizes including A3, A4, A5, A6, B5, Letter, Legal, and Tabloid. • Customize orientation, paper colors, spacing, line width, backgrounds, and covers. • Organize notes with folders and nested folders. • Restore notebooks from Recently Deleted and protect notebooks or folders with a password. STUDY AND PRODUCTIVITY • Search handwritten notes with handwriting recognition. • Record audio with optional live speech transcription. • Use a stopwatch, countdown timer, and built-in calculator. • Solve handwritten arithmetic with Automatic Math. • Open two notes together with split-screen editing. • Preview pages, read with Reader Mode, and let pages adapt to dark mode. • Watch YouTube videos or browse the web alongside your notes. ICLOUD AND LEMON STORE • Enable iCloud sync to use your notebooks on iPhone and iPad and continue working on either device. • Back up PDF notes to iCloud Drive. • Discover additional templates, covers, planners, study sheets, engineering templates, calendars, and digital stationery in the Lemon Store. Lemon Notes works on both iPhone and iPad. No separate Lemon Notes account is required. Use the same Apple Account on both devices to access your purchases, and enable iCloud sync to keep your notes in sync. Create up to three notebooks for free. One optional annual subscription unlocks unlimited notebook creation on both devices. Purchases can be restored at any time. Privacy Policy: https://lemonnotes.site/privacy/ Terms of Service: https://lemonnotes.site/terms/

Screenshots

Kami4 screens
Lemon Notes4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Lemon Notes at 16.0 against Kami's 18.0. On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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. Kami sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per 7 days 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

Kami ships an update every 8 days, Lemon Notes weekly. The most recent releases landed on September 28, 2026 and September 30, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 5 level
Kami versus Lemon Notes: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterKamiLemon Notes
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 8 daysWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS18.016.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size6 MB118 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperDIJITAL PILOT REKLAM SANAYI TICARET LIMITED SIRKETINEFISE ZELIHA BAYAR

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Kami

Subscriptions3
  • Haftalık Premium$9.997 Days
  • Aylık Premium$19.991 Month
  • Yıllık Premium3 Days trial$39.991 Year
1 purchases

Lemon Notes

Subscriptions1
  • Lemon Notes Unlimited Notes7 Days trial$3.991 Year

Questions

Is Kami free?
Kami 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 Kami or Lemon Notes have ads?
Neither Kami nor Lemon Notes shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Kami or Lemon Notes?
Kami ships an update every 8 days, and Lemon Notes weekly. Most recently, Kami was updated on September 28, 2026 and Lemon Notes on September 30, 2026.

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