Comparison

BLISS Note vs jotter

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

Head to head
About

BLISS Note

Features
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One pencil across every note — ink on text notes, PDFs, slides and sheets, open Word, PowerPoint and Google files as notes, and keep notes inside notes. An all-in-one notebook for iPad, iPhone and Mac, built for Apple Pencil. ■ One pencil, every note • The same pens, highlighter and tools on text notes, PDFs, drawings and sheets — ballpoint, fountain pen and more • Write over your typed notes — ink stays on its page as you edit • Free canvas, or A4, Letter, B5, square and slide paper, with lasso select & move • Vector shapes and flowcharts with connectors, lock and group • Handwriting to text, handwritten titles, and a zoom-write strip for small text ■ Bring in what you already have • Word as a page note that keeps its layout, Excel and CSV as a sheet note, PowerPoint as editable slides to write on • Google Docs, Sheets and Slides — from a link or your own Google Drive • Notion pages and exports, and Markdown files — with sub-pages, databases and media • Export to PDF, PPTX and Excel, or AirDrop a note as a .blissnote file ■ Slides & spreadsheets • Slide paper with title and body layouts; present with pen and laser pointer • Sheet notes — formulas that recalculate, sort & filter, find & replace, a fill handle, and ink on top ■ Write together, nearby • Share a note live with devices on the same Wi-Fi. Guests can view, write on their own layer, or edit together ■ Planner, timetable & tasks • Tasks, planner notes synced with your iCloud calendar, and a note for every event • Project dashboard — progress, overdue tasks and next deadlines at a glance, with a period and status for each project • Class timetable — tap a period to open its notes • Recurring events, lunar anniversaries and D-day countdowns ■ Exam prep & memorization • Question bank & wrong-answer notes — split an exam PDF into questions; missed ones return on a 1, 3, 7, 14 and 30-day schedule • Vocabulary flashcards and a memorization sheet (red sheet) ■ Counseling notes • For school counseling and HR one-on-ones — records, statistics, group sessions, reminders, PDF reports and a Face ID lock, kept only on your devices and your own cloud ■ Record, transcribe & translate • Turn meetings and lectures into text, and translate on-device, even offline (59 languages) • Tap ink you wrote while recording to play from that moment ■ Find & connect • Search text and PDFs, plus your handwriting, recording transcripts and #tags • Embed PDFs, drawings, videos and other notes inside a note; link notes and see what links back • Shelves, six view modes, a page grid, split view and YouTube playlists • Headings, lists, tables, checklists, code blocks — and clean paste from AI answers ■ PDFs & the web • Pen, highlighter and underline; note pages between PDF pages; Sepia, Dim and Night reading modes • Automatic paper citations in APA, MLA, IEEE & BibTeX • Annotate web pages with highlights, notes and pen — only your annotations are stored ■ Make it your own • Covers and paper from your own images or Unsplash, stickers, washi tape you draw like a pen, and your drawing behind the Home screen ■ Free & Pro • Free: every tool, for up to 10 notes and 5 PDFs • Bliss Note Pro (monthly or yearly subscription): unlimited notes and PDFs, plus cloud and calendar sync ■ Privacy first • No sign-up to start — your notes live on your device • Pro sync goes only through your own iCloud or Google Drive • Available in 24 languages Terms of Service: https://blissnote.app/terms.html Privacy Policy: https://blissnote.app/privacy.html Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

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jotter

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jotter is a notebook for everything you need to remember. Your words look written by hand, and the boxes you write can remind you right on time. Write a line. Tick a box. Turn the page. No setup, no account, no folders. NEVER LOSE A THING YOU WRITE DOWN - Tap the clock on any box and choose when. Write "dentist, friday 10am" and friday at 10 is offered first, then in an hour, this evening, tomorrow morning or the weekend. - Be reminded at the time, or 10 minutes, an hour or a day before. - Tick the box straight from the notification, or ask for an hour more. - Every open box in the notebook on one page, with what's coming up first. - Find any word on any page. A SIMPLE TO DO LIST, ON PAPER - Start a line with [] for a box, a dash for a list, or 1. for numbers. Lists carry on by themselves. - Tap a box to tick it. Cross a line out with one key. - Tear a page out. It waits 30 days in case you want it back. A NOTEBOOK THAT FEELS LIKE YOURS - Fourteen handwriting styles, from a neat everyday hand to flowing cursive, at the size you like. - Light, dusk and night paper. Ruled with a margin, ruled, dot grid, squared or plain. - The soft sound of a pencil as you write, if you'd like it. PICK UP WHERE YOU LEFT OFF - Your pages sync through your own iCloud, so your iPhone and iPad stay in step. - Widgets for your Home Screen and Lock Screen, with boxes you can tick right there. - Ask Siri to "add to jotter", or start a clean page from Control Center. YOURS ALONE - Lock the notebook with Face ID. - No account and no ads. Your pages live on your device and in your own iCloud. SHARE A PAGE, BEAUTIFULLY - Share any page as a picture, torn out along its edge and laid on cloth, linen or ink, sized for a post, a story or a message. - Long pages carry on across a few pictures, never cut off. - Export the whole notebook as a PDF, or as text. FREE, AND JOTTER PRO The notebook is free for good: unlimited pages, boxes and lists, find, widgets, sharing, two handwriting styles, light paper and every ruling. jotter pro adds reminders, iCloud sync, dusk and night paper, twelve more handwriting styles, the Face ID lock and PDF export. Pro is a monthly or yearly subscription, or a one-time purchase for a lifetime. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel them any time in your App Store account settings. Terms of Use: https://jotterapp.xyz/terms Privacy Policy: https://jotterapp.xyz/privacy

Screenshots

BLISS Note4 screens
jotter4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is device support: BLISS Note at 4 against jotter's 1. BLISS Note also leads on iOS requirement (15.5 vs 17.0). On price, 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. BLISS Note sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month and jotter sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

Scorecard2 real differences · 4 level
BLISS Note versus jotter: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBLISS Notejotter
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 6 days—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.5 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size177 MB28 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperBLISS AI Inc.Shrenik Choudhary

In-app purchases

2 purchases

BLISS Note

Subscriptions2
  • Bliss Note Pro (Monthly)$1.991 Month
  • Bliss Note Pro (Yearly)$5.991 Year
3 purchases

jotter

Subscriptions2
  • jotter pro, a month$4.991 Month
  • jotter pro, a year$14.991 Year
One-time1
  • jotter pro, a lifetime$39.99

Questions

Is BLISS Note free?
BLISS Note is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is jotter free?
jotter is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do BLISS Note or jotter have ads?
Neither BLISS Note nor jotter shows ads.

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