Comparison

Fire Notes vs Scribe.

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

Head to head
About

Fire Notes

Features
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Fire Notes is a private notebook for writing, scanning paper, and dictating by voice - with one unusual feature: you can burn a note. Real fire, rendered live on your screen - the paper catches, curls, chars and falls away as ash. When the flame goes out, the note is gone. It's oddly satisfying. It's also the point. WRITE ANYTHING • A fast, beautiful editor with rich text, checklists, headings and highlights • Choose your paper and your handwriting — from clean type to a looping script • Photos, shelves and pinned notes on a board you can rearrange by hand • Everything stays searchable, right up until you let it go LET IT GO • Burn a note in a moment, or hold for the full cinematic ceremony • Blow on the microphone to light the flame — yes, really • Burn-after timers: write something tonight, let it release itself tomorrow • Every burn leaves an ember in Ashes — proof something was released, without the words SCAN YOUR PAPER • Point the camera at a receipt, bill or letter — Fire Notes finds the edges, straightens the page and files it • Every scan is read on your device, so the words inside are searchable. Find a receipt by what it says, not by what you named it • Scans live in their own shelves — Receipts, Bills, Documents — separate from your notes • And when a document has done its job, shred it. The same fire, for paper you're finished with PRIVATE BY DESIGN • Your notes and your scans live on your device and in your own iCloud, never on our servers • Face ID app lock, plus a separate lock for the notes that matter most • No account. No tracking. No ads. ALSO IN THE BOX • Dictate a note out loud with on-device speech recognition • On-device AI to fix, rewrite or reshape what you wrote — nothing is sent away • Export a note as text or PDF when you decide to keep it after all FIRE NOTES+ A one-time purchase. No subscription, ever. It unlocks the document scanner, voice dictation, the AI writing tools and clean, watermark-free exports. Buy it once and it's yours, on every device you sign in with. The notebook itself stays free. Write as much as you like. Burn as much as you like. Write it down. Let it go.

About

Scribe.

Features
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Scribe. is a daily notes app that feels like writing on paper. Write your notes for today. Scratch them out when done - they stay on the page, crossed out, just like on paper. Navigate between yesterday, today, and tomorrow. Everything else lives in the agenda. - Type or speak your notes - Scratch out with a single stroke, double line, or squiggle - Pin any note to your lock screen with Live Activity - Jump to any day in the agenda - Widgets and lock screen controls for instant capture - Choose from a collection of handwritten fonts - Light and dark theme Scribe. Pro (one-time purchase) : Unlock voice transcription, iCloud sync across all your devices, and additional handwritten fonts. No subscription. Pay once, keep forever.

Screenshots

Fire Notes4 screens
Scribe.4 screens

Verdict

The call

Fire Notes and Scribe. are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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. Fire Notes sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Scribe. sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Fire Notes versus Scribe.: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFire NotesScribe.
PriceFreeFree
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS17.016.6 — better
Further details — not scored
Size16 MB11 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperIvan TrendafilovskiDaren Irlen

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Fire Notes

One-time1
  • Fire Notes+ Lifetime$9.99
1 purchases

Scribe.

One-time1
  • Scribe. Pro Lifetime$1.99

Questions

Is Fire Notes free?
Fire Notes is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Scribe. free?
Scribe. is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Fire Notes or Scribe. have ads?
Neither Fire Notes nor Scribe. shows ads.

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