MyDeepNotes vs FluidNotes

MyDeepNotes is a PDF and handwriting notebook built for private tutors and the students they teach. WRITE ON YOUR PDFs Bring in question banks, worksheets and notes, then write straight onto them. Pen, pencil and marker; solid, dashed and dotted strokes; lasso selection and three kinds of eraser. Lines and shapes straighten themselves if you want them to. TEACH TOGETHER, LIVE Work on the same document as your student, at the same time. You send a link, they tap it, and you both write on the same page. Pen strokes appear on the other device as they happen. Your student needs no account and pays nothing. ASSIGN AND FOLLOW ALONG Assign a document as homework and see which pages your student has worked on. Only whether a page has ink — never what was written. KEEP REFERENCES WITHIN REACH Park a formula booklet, a periodic table, or any PDF you check often as a side panel. One tap opens it beside your work, one tap puts it away. MAKE NOTEBOOKS Grid, ruled or blank paper; pick a cover, set the page count. Notebooks stay organised in folders. ALSO • Links inside PDFs work — jump from a table of contents to the page • Type a page number and go straight there • Add, duplicate, rotate and clear pages • Paste images onto a page, then move and resize them • Open documents stay as tabs across the top • Your documents back up to iCloud No account needed. No ads. No tracking.

FluidNotes is a notebook for iPad and iPhone that feels like paper: write with Apple Pencil on iPad or with your finger on iPhone – and find everything again with search that reads your handwriting. WRITING THAT FEELS RIGHT • Ballpoint, fineliner, fountain pen, pencil, felt-tip, watercolour, highlighter and more, all pressure-sensitive • Ruler, colour picker and custom colours on all your devices • Hand-drawn shapes become clean circles, rectangles, lines and arrows • Convert handwriting to typed text, with word suggestions as you write – on the device • Cross out typed words to delete them • Lasso: cut out exactly, colour, move, duplicate • Zoom window: write large at the bottom, and it appears small on the page ORGANISATION THAT GROWS WITH YOU • Folders and subfolders, tags, favourites and bookmarks • Headings automatically build an outline; links connect pages and notebooks, and a knowledge network shows topics and connections – in 3D too • Search handwriting, typed text, PDFs, photos and recordings – through Spotlight too • Collect the highlights of a PDF into an excerpt, with links back to the passage • Lock notebooks with Face ID or a passcode THE PAPER YOU WANT • Lined, squared, dotted, planners, sheet music and more – in colour too; plus a whiteboard that grows • Save your own pages as templates; import PDFs, Word, PowerPoint and Goodnotes • Photos, document scans, GIFs, tables, mind maps and reusable building blocks STUDY • Flashcards with spaced repetition and a study plan across all notebooks, with a daily reminder if you like • An exam date per deck, also as a proposal to the group; import and export decks as Anki packages or text files • Flashcards from your handwriting: circle a question or sketch and turn it into a card • Apple Watch: review due flashcards on your wrist, with a complication for the watch face • Study time with breaks, on iPhone also on the Lock Screen • Study tape: cover passages and test yourself • With Apple Intelligence: flashcards, cloze exercises from A1 to C2, summaries and mind maps from your notes – and answers to questions about them • The AI runs on the device only – no internet, no third-party AI service STUDY GROUPS AND SHARING • Study groups: join once and get every notebook of the group, including later ones • Invite others to a notebook with a link or QR code – to write along or just to view • Colour each person’s contributions and see what others have changed since your last visit • Send a copy of a notebook or of single pages, with the recordings if you like – through a link that expires by itself • Comments with replies; everyone shares the flashcards, each person keeps their own progress RECORD AND PRESENT • Record sound while you write; on playback, your note reappears stroke by stroke • Transcripts on the device: search finds spoken words too • Present on a projector or TV: only the current page, with a laser pointer HANDY • Quick Note from the app icon, as a widget, in Control Centre, with Siri or Shortcuts • Widgets for recently opened notebooks and cards due • Sync through your own iCloud and Handoff between iPhone, iPad and Mac • Automatic backups to iCloud Drive; export as PDF, Markdown or FlexiNote package • Select text in a PDF and translate it • Optional: Zotero for PDFs, citations and the bibliography • Getting started in five short exercises; help mode explains every button YOUR NOTES BELONG TO YOU FluidNotes has no server of its own and no account. No ads, no tracking, no analytics, no in-app purchases. Your notebooks live on your device and, if you like, in your own iCloud. FluidNotes is a personal project, built with care. Questions and ideas: j.gomez@web.de