MemoNote vs Better Notes
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
MemoNote
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CopperNote is a handwritten notes, PDF annotation, and infinite canvas workspace for iPhone and iPad. It brings everyday notes, class work, meeting minutes, reading markup, and visual thinking into one focused app: - Write with Apple Pencil or your finger, highlight, erase, and select strokes with lasso tools - Start from blank, ruled, dotted, grid, Cornell, daily planner, weekly planner, meeting, reading, math, and music paper templates - Import PDFs, annotate directly, then export PDFs with the background, annotations, stickers, or watermark options you choose - Add photos, scanned images, text objects, shapes, stickers, and reusable page elements - Record audio notes for classes, interviews, and meetings - Organize notebooks, PDFs, quick notes, folders, and infinite canvas documents in the library - Work through long documents with continuous pages, thumbnails, document tabs, and a customizable toolbar CopperNote stores note content on device by default. It does not require an account and does not track you for advertising. It is built for students, creators, and knowledge workers who want a quiet, direct place to keep long-lived notes. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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 MemoNote's 4. On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. MemoNote sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Better Notes asks for nothing beyond the download.
| Parameter | MemoNote | Better Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Every 2 days | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, Vision Pro — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 5 MB | 11 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 以祁 孙 | Luke Mclaughlin |
In-app purchases
MemoNote
- Monthly VIP$0.991 Month
- Quarterly VIP$1.993 Months
- 6-Month VIP$2.996 Months
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- Yearly VIP$3.991 Year
Better Notes
No in-app purchases









