Xen Note vs Better Notes
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Xen Note
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Xen Note Key Features 1. Seamless Cross-Device Sync • Subscribe to sync all your data across devices in real time. • Continue your notes anywhere, on any device. 2. Your Perfect Writing Environment • Write freely with intuitive digital ink and highlighters. • Import and annotate PDFs, images, and documents effortlessly. • Complete your stylish notes with elegant templates and backgrounds. 3. Maximize Work & Study Productivity • Manage projects and schedules with an at-a-glance dashboard. • Record meetings or lectures and sync them with your notes so you never miss a moment. • Quickly find and organize everything with tags and folders. Xen Note Plus (Subscription): Unlock Full Productivity Upgrade to Xen Note and enjoy these features without limits. • Real-Time Cross-Device Sync: Your data syncs instantly across all your devices. Continue your notes wherever you go. • Unlimited Attachments: Remove all limits on audio recordings, images, files, and PDFs. Capture and manage even the largest meeting materials or textbooks. • Unlimited Premium Templates: Choose from a wide range of beautiful premium backgrounds and templates. Create a notebook you'll want to use every day.
Better Notes
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Better Notes is a focused idea studio for handwriting, sketching, typed notes and PDF annotation. It combines the freedom of paper with the organisation and editing tools of a modern native app. WRITE NATURALLY Capture smooth, pressure-aware ink with fountain pen, ballpoint, fineliner, pencil, calligraphy, brush, reed pen, marker and highlighter tools. Adjust colour, width and stabilisation, then erase by stroke or precisely through ink. BUILD PAGES YOUR WAY Choose blank, ruled, dotted, grid, Cornell and margin paper. Mix A4, A5, Letter and Legal pages in portrait or landscape—even inside the same notebook. Add, duplicate, bookmark and reorder your thinking page by page. MORE THAN HANDWRITING Add editable styled text, shapes and images. Move, rotate, recolour and organise content across independent layers with visibility, locking and opacity controls. ANNOTATE PDFs Import a PDF, write directly over it and keep its links intact. Export finished work as PDF, PNG, JPEG, Markdown or plain text whenever you need to share or continue elsewhere. RECORD THE MOMENT Attach audio to a page during a lecture, meeting or brainstorming session. Rename recordings and jump back to the page where each recording began. FIND AND ORGANISE IDEAS Create spaces and nested folders, add tags, mark favourites, revisit recent notes and recover items from Trash. Search notebook titles, tags and typed page content from one fast local library. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Better Notes works locally and offline. Your notebooks and recordings stay on your device unless you choose to export or share them. There is no required account, advertising or behavioural tracking. BUILT FOR APPLE DEVICES Enjoy a responsive light interface designed for touch, Apple Pencil, pointer and keyboard. Better Notes supports keyboard shortcuts, accessibility labels and Reduce Motion. Make space for your next thought—and keep every stroke editable.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Better Notes at none against Xen Note's 2. Xen Note's advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 18.0). On price, ads and device support 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
Both are free to download. Xen Note sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Better Notes asks for nothing beyond the download.
| Parameter | Xen Note | Better Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Vision Pro |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 55 MB | 11 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | DYM CRAFT | Luke Mclaughlin |
In-app purchases
Xen Note
- Xen Note Monthly Membership$1.991 Month
- Xen Note Yearly Membership$17.991 Year
Better Notes
No in-app purchases









