Comparison

PlacePad vs NoteON

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

Head to head
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PlacePad

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PlacePad๋Š” '์žฅ์†Œ'๋กœ ๊ธฐ์–ตํ•˜๋Š” ๋…ธํŠธํ˜• ๋‹ค์ด์–ด๋ฆฌ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ธฐ๋ก์ด ํ•„์š”ํ•œ ์žฅ์†Œ์— ๋…ธํŠธ๋ฅผ ๋งŒ๋“ค๋ฉด ๋ ˆ์ด๋”์— ๋– ์š”. ๋‚ด๊ฐ€ ์žˆ๋Š” ์œ„์น˜์™€ ๊ฐ€๊นŒ์šด ๋…ธํŠธ๊ฐ€ ์•ž์œผ๋กœ ์ •๋ ฌ๋˜์–ด ๋‚˜์™€์š”. โ€ข ์žฅ์†Œ ๋ ˆ์ด๋” โ€” ๋…ธํŠธ๋ฅผ ๋งŒ๋“  ์žฅ์†Œ๊ฐ€ ๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ(์—ฌ๊ธฐยท๋™๋„คยท๋„์‹œยท์—ฌํ–‰)์— ๋”ฐ๋ผ ๋ฐฐ์น˜๋ผ์š” โ€ข ์†๊ธ€์”จ โ€” ๋งŒ๋…„ํ•„ยท๋ณผํŽœยท๋งˆ์ปค, ์—ฐํ•„๋กœ ์“ฐ๋Š” ์†๊ธ€์”จ โ€ข ์˜ฌ๊ฐ€๋ฏธ โ€” ์†์œผ๋กœ ๊ทธ๋ฆฐ ๊ทธ๋ฆผยท๊ธ€์”จ๋ฅผ ๊ฐ์‹ธ ์ด๋™ยทํฌ๊ธฐยทํšŒ์ „ โ€ข ๊พธ๋ฏธ๊ธฐ โ€” ํ…์ŠคํŠธยท์ด๋ชจ์ง€ยท์‚ฌ์ง„์„ ์ž์œ ๋กญ๊ฒŒ ๋ฐฐ์น˜ โ€ข ํ•˜๋ฃจ ํ•œ ํŽ˜์ด์ง€ + ํ•  ์ผ ์ฒดํฌ โ€ข ๋‹ฌ๋ ฅยท์›” ๋ชฐ์•„๋ณด๊ธฐ๋กœ ํ•œ ๋‹ฌ์„ ํ•œ๋ˆˆ์— โ€ข ํด๋ผ๋กœ์ด๋“œ๋กœ ์˜ˆ์˜๊ฒŒ ๊ณต์œ , ์›”๊ฐ„ ๊ธฐ๋ก PDF ๋‚ด๋ณด๋‚ด๊ธฐ โ€ข ํ’๊ฒฝ ํ…Œ๋งˆ โ€” ๋ง‘์€ ๋‚ฎยท๋…ธ์„ยท์ƒˆ๋ฒฝยท๋ฐคยท์ดˆ์›ยทํ™”์ดํŠธ ์™„์ „ ์˜คํ”„๋ผ์ธ โ€” ํšŒ์›๊ฐ€์ž…๋„, ๊ณ„์ •๋„ ์—†์–ด์š”. ๋…ธํŠธยท์†๊ธ€์”จยท์‚ฌ์ง„ยท์œ„์น˜ ํƒœ๊ทธ๊นŒ์ง€ ๋ชจ๋“  ๊ธฐ๋ก์€ ๋‚ด ๊ธฐ๊ธฐ์—๋งŒ ์ €์žฅ๋˜๊ณ , ์™ธ๋ถ€๋กœ ์ „์†กยท์ˆ˜์ง‘๋˜์ง€ ์•Š์•„์š”.

About

NoteON

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NoteON NoteON is a simple note-taking app that lets you capture text from photos and organize your notes neatly by folders and dates. Key Features 1. AI Photo Text Recognition Take a photo or upload an image, and AI will automatically recognize the text and add it to your notes. 2. Organize with Folders Create folders for work, study, ideas, and more. Keep everything organized with customizable colors. 3. Calendar View View your notes by date and easily track your records over time with a built-in calendar. 4. Favorites Bookmark important notes for quick and easy access anytime. 5. Sync Across App & Web Use your recovery code to sync your notes seamlessly across your phone, tablet, and the web. 6. Share & Export Share your notes or export them as PDF or TXT files whenever you need. Capture important moments, convert text from photos into editable notes, and stay organized with NoteON. Simple. Fast. Smart.

Screenshots

PlacePad4 screens
NoteON4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: PlacePad at 13.0 against NoteON's 15.0. On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.

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

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

PlacePad ships an update every 9 days, NoteON weekly. The most recent releases landed on September 9, 2026 and September 4, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference ยท 5 level
PlacePad versus NoteON: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPlacePadNoteON
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 9 daysWeekly โ€” better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS13.0 โ€” better15.0
Further details โ€” not scored
Size76 MB105 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developerkijeong Kwoninho Choi

In-app purchases

None

PlacePad

No in-app purchases

None

NoteON

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is PlacePad free?
PlacePad is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is NoteON free?
NoteON is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do PlacePad or NoteON have ads?
Neither PlacePad nor NoteON shows ads.
Which is updated more often, PlacePad or NoteON?
PlacePad ships an update every 9 days, and NoteON weekly. Most recently, PlacePad was updated on September 9, 2026 and NoteON on September 4, 2026.

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