Noted Note vs TypeDraw
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Noted Note
This app simulates a physical notebook for your iPhone, allowing you to type notes that appear as handwriting. It offers various writing styles, pens, paper types, and the ability to add doodles and photos. Notes are organized chronologically and searchable.
- Simulated handwriting typing
- Multiple pen and paper styles
- Doodle and photo integration
- Scratch-out deletion effect
- Chronological note organization
- Searchable notes
- Customizable sounds
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noted. is a little paper notebook for your iPhone. Type, and your words appear in handwriting on paper with a bit of grain. No folders to manage, no toolbars to learn. Just a page and a pen. WRITING • Four hands: scrawl, the house hand, which inks itself stroke by stroke as you type, plus marker, looseleaf and rafikki • Four pens: ballpoint, marker, fountain and pencil • Change the hand or pen for a selection, or for just what you type next; settings picks the hand new notes start in • Plain, lined, squared or dotted paper, chosen note by note CROSSING OUT • Delete more than a few letters and they are scratched out in ink instead of vanishing; a quick typo fix still simply deletes • Keep the scratch-out, or let it go DOODLES AND PHOTOS • Draw with your finger and put the doodle on the page • Add photos from your library: as the full photo, as a cutout with the background removed, as a cutout with a white border, or held on with a binder clip or a paper clip • Move doodles and photos around the page YOUR NOTES • Every note on one wall, most recently written first, grouped by day • Search what your notes say (crossed-out words are left out) • Hold a note to crumple it up PAPERS AND SOUNDS • Cream paper by day and charcoal at night, following your iPhone • Five more papers: charcoal, spring, terracotta, violet and sea • Soft pencil sounds when you cross out, crumple a note, or pick a paper, pen or hand, with a loudness control, or turn them off ON IPHONE DUO • Closed, the outside screen is your notebook's cover, with windows cut through it to your latest page • Open it, and your notes become a book: turn the pages, with a soft page-turn sound • Tap a page and write right on it with the keyboard • A handwritten index of your notes, with dates • Eight covers: bottle green, charcoal, ink navy, rust, burgundy, kraft, and two cloth covers, breakfast and horses • Lined, squared, dotted or plain pages; blue, black or sepia ink; turn the pages or scroll • Warm, faded paper after dark LANGUAGES • noted. speaks English, Danish, German, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, and Simplified and Traditional Chinese • The handwriting writes all of them. The four hands and the self-inking scrawl are for the Latin alphabet; Cyrillic, Japanese, Korean and Chinese each have a handwriting face of their own FREE, AND THE WHOLE DRAWER Free to use, with no time limit: the scrawl, the ballpoint, cream paper (charcoal at night), scratch-outs, doodles, photos, search, sounds and the whole iPhone Duo notebook. One optional purchase, the whole drawer, adds: • the five more papers • every pen: marker, fountain and pencil • every hand: marker, looseleaf and rafikki • iCloud sync, so your notes follow you to your other iPhones One payment, kept forever. No subscription. Restore it any time from the purchase page. PRIVATE Notes stay on your device or in your own iCloud. Apple handles purchases; RevenueCat receives receipts and app/device IDs for validation and purchase statistics. No advertising tracking or data sales. Privacy Policy: https://walnut-burst-160.notion.site/Noted-Note-Privacy-Policy-3a93971e7add8199a7e4d91c688d6069 Terms of Use: https://walnut-burst-160.notion.site/Noted-Note-Terms-of-Use-3a93971e7add80428a0fdaad90470a72 Apple Standard EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
TypeDraw
This app offers a digital notebook experience where you can type, draw, and write using your own handwriting. It provides a customizable canvas with features like smart marks, handwriting conversion to fonts, and organized note-taking with a searchable table of contents. Your notes remain private on your device or can sync via iCloud.
- Type, draw, and write with custom handwriting
- Handwriting to font conversion
- Smart Marks for text and drawing integration
- Customizable page and ink colors
- Searchable table of contents
- Home Screen widgets for quick access
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Imagine a notebook so entirely your own that you can even type in your own handwriting. All the simplicity of paper, unique ways to capture your ideas and clever new ways to find them exactly when you need them. Here is that Notebook. No account required. Your notes stay local and private on your device, or sync through your own iCloud account if you choose. Your data stays yours. - Open to what matters in the moment: a fresh page, your most recent note, or a note from that restaurant you’re finally visiting again after years. Or jump straight into what you need with a beautiful Home Screen widget. - Type, draw and write anywhere, just as you would in a real notebook. Turn the pages with a curl or tap, sketch with your fingers, or use Apple Pencil on iPad and iPhone Duo. - Enjoy a free canvas where text and drawings belong together. Highlight or underline text, and your strokes automatically convert to responsive “Smart Marks” that adapt when you edit words, change line breaks or adjust the layout. - Make it yours! Turn your handwriting into a working font in just minutes, choose your page colour, ink colour, font size and text colour. Pick lined, grid or dotted paper, and explore a collection of 12 handwritten typefaces from Shaped Fonts. - Keep everything organised with a table of contents you can sort by page number, time or location...so the notes nearest to you are always easy to find. All Notes are searchable, too. - Have fun and don't take life too seriously!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Noted Note at Free against TypeDraw's $4.99. TypeDraw's advantage is review sentiment (86% vs 50%) and in-app purchases (none vs 1). On update cadence, 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
Noted Note is free to download; TypeDraw costs $4.99 up front. Noted Note sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. TypeDraw asks for nothing beyond the download.
TypeDraw holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: TypeDraw has 31 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 50% of Noted Note's written reviews are positive against 86% of TypeDraw's.
Noted Note ships an update every 3 days, TypeDraw every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and November 1, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Noted Note | TypeDraw |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $4.99 |
| Rating | 4.0 (2 ratings) | 4.4 (31 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews | 85.7% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 31 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 days | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases — better | Paid |
| Best chart rank | — | #1 — better |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 26.5 | 26.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 115 MB | 45 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Jerry Munyoka Nkongolo | Trautmann & Dorre GbR Shaped Agency |
Customer experience
Noted Note
TypeDraw
In-app purchases
Noted Note
- the whole drawer$9.99
TypeDraw
No in-app purchases





