Comparison

Panoo vs Side Table

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — 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 • 7 frame designs: plain wood, classic moulding, rope, aluminium, carved and more • 16 frame colors and two corner shapes, so hundreds of combinations • 15 paper patterns: plain, lined, grid, stripes, zigzag, hearts, stars • 12 pins: classic thumbtacks, glass beads, flowers, stars, even a little cat • 9 color palettes for your paper • 4 fonts, including handwriting • Light and dark theme, both free MORE THAN A PRETTY BOARD • Checklists: ticked items get a line through them, visible right on the board • Mark a finished note as done and spot it on the board at a glance • Reminders: a notification at the exact time you choose • Several boards: keep work, home and shopping apart • Pinch a note to resize it, twist it to any angle • Share any note as an image • Landscape on iPhone, and the whole app rotates on iPad BUILT FOR • Anyone who keeps paper sticky notes on a desk • People who live off shopping lists and to-do lists • Students and workers who want class, meeting and idea notes in plain sight • 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

Side Table

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Side Table is where things go when they don't have a place yet. A photo you need to send later. A PDF someone sent you. A link you'll read tonight. The half-written caption you're not done with. Right now those things scatter across screenshots, drafts to yourself, and eleven open tabs. Put them on the table instead. SECONDS IN Drop anything onto a round wooden table: photos, videos, files, PDFs, links, voice notes, scanned documents, or a note you type yourself. Share from any app, tap a widget, or ask Siri. Nothing to name, nothing to file, nothing to decide. SECONDS OUT Everything leaves as fast as it arrived. Tap a card to open it full screen. Flick one toward the edge of the table to share it. Copy text out exactly as it went in — every emoji, every line break, every blank line preserved — so a draft you wrote somewhere else arrives somewhere else intact. FIND IT WITHOUT FILING IT Side Table reads what you drop. It pulls the text out of your PDFs and scans and recognizes what's in your photos, entirely on your device. Search "receipt" and the receipt surfaces, even though you never named it. Your things show up in iPhone and iPad search, too. TIDY ONLY WHEN YOU WANT TO Pull a few cards together and they become a labeled tray. Slide a pile off to the side when the table gets busy. Drop something in the basket when you're done with it. Or don't — a messy table still works fine. ONE TABLE FOR THE HOUSEHOLD Share a table with the people you live and work with. Everyone sets things down on it and everyone sees them — the same table, on every device, live. Cards say who set them down. PRIVATE BY DEFAULT No account, no sign-in, no analytics. Side Table collects nothing and never asks who you are. Turn on iCloud sync and your tables travel between your iPhone, iPad and Mac through your own iCloud — we never see them. SIDE TABLE PRO The first table is free forever. Side Table Pro, a single purchase, adds more tables, one-tap organization, PDFs from anything on the table, iCloud sync across your devices, and shared tables. Accepting a table someone shares with you is always free. The measure of this app is how little time you spend inside it. Drop it off, get on with your day, pick it up when you need it.

Screenshots

Panoo4 screens
Side Table4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Side Table at daily against Panoo's every 3 weeks. On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.

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

CostPrice Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Ads Ā· Monetization

Both are free to download. Panoo sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Side Table sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Panoo ships an update every 3 weeks, Side Table daily. The most recent releases landed on October 6, 2026 and October 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference Ā· 5 level
Panoo versus Side Table: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPanooSide Table
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksDaily — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, Mac — better
Requires iOS16.4 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size60 MB21 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperKORAY ALAGOZHunter Bradley

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Panoo

One-time1
  • Lifetime Unlock$3.99
1 purchases

Side Table

One-time1
  • Side Table Pro$9.99

Questions

Is Panoo free?
Panoo is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Side Table free?
Side Table is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Panoo or Side Table have ads?
Neither Panoo nor Side Table shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Panoo or Side Table?
Panoo ships an update every 3 weeks, and Side Table daily. Most recently, Panoo was updated on October 6, 2026 and Side Table on October 3, 2026.

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