Comparison

Panoo vs Pattio

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

Head to head
About

Panoo

Features
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Panoo turns your notes into something you actually want to look at: colorful paper notes, pinned to a warm cork board. Write a note, choose its paper, its pattern and its pin, then drag it anywhere on the board. It looks like the board above your desk, and that is exactly the point. Notes you can see are notes you remember. A REAL WIDGET, NOT A SCREENSHOT You choose which note goes on your Home Screen. Add several widgets and give each one a different note. Edit the note and the widget updates itself. Small, medium and large on iPhone, plus an extra large size on iPad. IT SYNCS BETWEEN YOUR DEVICES Turn on iCloud sync and your notes and boards move between iPhone and iPad on their own. There is no server of ours in between: the data sits in your own iCloud storage. Leave it off and Panoo keeps working completely offline. YOU BUILD THE BOARD β€’ 7 frame designs: plain wood, classic moulding, rope, aluminium, carved and more β€’ 16 frame colors and two corner shapes, so hundreds of combinations β€’ 15 paper patterns: plain, lined, grid, stripes, zigzag, hearts, stars β€’ 12 pins: classic thumbtacks, glass beads, flowers, stars, even a little cat β€’ 9 color palettes for your paper β€’ 4 fonts, including handwriting β€’ Light and dark theme, both free MORE THAN A PRETTY BOARD β€’ Checklists: ticked items get a line through them, visible right on the board β€’ Mark a finished note as done and spot it on the board at a glance β€’ Reminders: a notification at the exact time you choose β€’ Several boards: keep work, home and shopping apart β€’ Pinch a note to resize it, twist it to any angle β€’ Share any note as an image β€’ Landscape on iPhone, and the whole app rotates on iPad BUILT FOR β€’ Anyone who keeps paper sticky notes on a desk β€’ People who live off shopping lists and to-do lists β€’ Students and workers who want class, meeting and idea notes in plain sight β€’ Anyone who wants a Home Screen worth looking at YOUR NOTES STAY YOURS No account. No sign-up. No ads, not one, in any form. Panoo never sends your notes to a server of ours. With iCloud sync on, the data only goes to the iCloud storage of your own Apple Account. FREE AND PREMIUM Panoo is free to use, and the free version is not crippled: unlimited notes, unlimited boards, unlimited reminders, iCloud sync, light and dark theme, 5 paper patterns, 3 pins, 3 frame designs, 4 frame colors, 2 palettes, 2 fonts and one widget note. Panoo Premium unlocks the rest: every pattern, pin, frame design and frame color, every palette and font, and as many widget notes as you want. Premium is a one-time purchase, not a subscription. Pay once and it stays yours; restore it any time on any device signed in to the same Apple Account. SUPPORT Questions and ideas: info@koalstudios.com Privacy Policy: https://koalstudios.com/en/panoo/privacy Terms of Use: https://koalstudios.com/en/panoo/terms

About

Pattio

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Your digital shoebox. An endless cork board where you toss notes, photos, links and lists, move them with your finger like real paper, and group them however you like. No structure forced on you: save it first, sort it later β€” if you ever feel like it. EVERYTHING GOES IN, AND IT GOES IN EASILY Stickies, notes, images, links, checklists, folders, polls, countdowns, expenses, habits, albums, files, videos, places, songs, document scans, notebooks, documents, voice notes, drawings, events, calendars, reminders, doors into other boards and today's weather. Twenty-five kinds of card, every one of them pinned down. Share into it from any app, drag things in from Finder or your photo library, or just paste: Pattio works out on its own whether what you brought is a photo, a link or text. IT MOVES LIKE PAPER The canvas pans and zooms with your fingers. Cards drag, rotate with two fingers and snap straight when they get close. Tap a note and it opens for writing, big and centred, with the colour palette beside it; close it and it goes back to its spot on the board. Photos and folders open big from exactly where they sit, the way iOS apps open, and close again by following your finger. ZONES, NOT FOLDERS Paint a coloured area, give it a name, and drop things into it: whatever lands inside is filed automatically, and whatever leaves is unfiled. AND WHEN YOU WANT ORDER A masonry grid of two, four or six columns, filtered by kind, by folder or by zone. Search everywhere. Export the whole board as a PDF. ON IPHONE, IPAD AND MAC A real native menu bar and proper keyboard shortcuts on Mac. Drawing with Apple Pencil on iPad. Home screen widgets. Eight app icons to choose from. Dark mode with a warm night palette, not a grey one. IN YOUR LANGUAGE Thirteen languages: Catalan, Spanish, English, French, German, Italian, Dutch, European and Brazilian Portuguese, Japanese, Korean, and Simplified and Traditional Chinese. IT WORKS WITH NO ACCOUNT Pattio is complete on your device without signing up for anything. An account is optional and only does one thing: sync. Private boards travel end-to-end encrypted, with a key that is yours alone and that we do not hold. No ads and no trackers. The only analytics are pseudonymous β€” a random per-install identifier, no account and no content β€” never read what you write, and switch off in Privacy. AND IF YOU WANT, IT’S SHARED Invite people to a board or hand out a link: whoever opens it can look, vote and add notes right in the browser, with nothing to install and nothing to pay. (A shared board has to be readable in your guest’s browser, so that one stops being encrypted. We would rather say so.) THE PLANS The free plan is enough to use Pattio for real: one board, seventeen kinds of card, sync, sharing and 50 MB in the cloud. The paid plans open up the rest: as many boards as you like, all twenty-five kinds of card, and more space. Β· Free β€” 1 board Β· 17 kinds of card Β· 50 MB Β· Plus β€” unlimited boards Β· every kind Β· 5 GB Β· Pro β€” unlimited boards Β· every kind Β· 15 GB Optional auto-renewable subscription. Payment is charged to your Apple Account when you confirm the purchase, and it renews only if you do not cancel it at least 24 h before the end of the period. You can manage or cancel it in your Apple Account settings. And if you ever leave, you take it all with you: one button downloads a ZIP with every board as JSON and every original file, byte for byte. Free, always, on the free plan too, and even after a subscription lapses. β€” Terms of use: https://pattio.app/en/terms Privacy: https://pattio.app/en/privacy

Screenshots

Panoo4 screens
Pattio4 screens

Verdict

The call

Panoo and Pattio are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters β€” price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases among them β€” neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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. Panoo sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Pattio sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Panoo ships an update every 3 weeks, Pattio every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Panoo versus Pattio: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPanooPattio
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 2 weeks β€” better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS16.416.4
Further details β€” not scored
Size60 MB81 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperKORAY ALAGOZJoan Cama Ribot

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Panoo

One-time1
  • Lifetime Unlock$3.99
4 purchases

Pattio

Subscriptions4
  • Plus7 Days trial$2.991 Month
  • Pro7 Days trial$4.991 Month
  • Plus7 Days trial$22.991 Year
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  • Pro7 Days trial$44.991 Year

Questions

Is Panoo free?
Panoo is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Pattio free?
Pattio is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Panoo or Pattio have ads?
Neither Panoo nor Pattio shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Panoo or Pattio?
Panoo ships an update every 3 weeks, and Pattio every 2 weeks. Most recently, Panoo was updated on November 5, 2026 and Pattio on October 31, 2026.

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