Comparison

Peel vs Color Smart Notes Ai

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

Head to head
About

Peel

Keep important thoughts visible with sticky notes that appear on your Home Screen, Lock Screen, and Apple Watch. Quickly create notes and checklists with templates, and customize their appearance. Syncs across all your Apple devices.

Highlights
  • Lock Screen widgets for notes
  • Checklist completion without unlocking
  • Apple Watch sync
  • 21 pre-made templates
  • Customizable appearance
  • Drawing on notes
  • iCloud sync
Features
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Some thoughts are too important to bury in a notes app you never open. Peel puts them on sticky notes that live everywhere you look — your Home Screen, your Lock Screen, your wrist, your Mac. Write it once, see it until it's done. THE NOTE THAT CHECKS ITSELF OFF Tap an item on a widget and it's done — no unlocking, no opening the app. Pin a checklist to your Lock Screen and cross things off from there. It even lands on your Apple Watch the moment you write it. FAST ENOUGH TO CATCH EVERY THOUGHT • A note or checklist in seconds, from the app, a widget, the Share Sheet, or Siri • 21 ready-made templates — groceries, packing, meetings, workouts, habits • Write "dinner tomorrow at 7" and Peel offers a reminder or a calendar event. Nothing slips. TOO PRETTY TO IGNORE • 22 hand-tuned colors, custom shades, fonts, patterns and photo backgrounds • Draw on notes with Apple Pencil or your finger • A board that feels alive — satisfying check-offs, a daily streak, and confetti when you finish a list EVERYWHERE, IN SYNC iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple Watch — one board, synced instantly through your own iCloud. Check something off on your watch and it's done on your phone before you lower your arm. YOURS, PRIVATELY No account. No ads. No analytics. We can't read your notes — they live on your device and in your iCloud, period. START FREE The first 7 notes are free, forever. Peel Premium unlocks unlimited notes, every color and all widgets — from $1.99 a month with a 7-day free trial, or one payment for lifetime access. Clear mind. Done list. Get Peel.

About

Color Smart Notes Ai

Organize your thoughts with a unique color-coding system that eliminates the need for tags and folders. Effortlessly switch between notes and checklists, enrich your entries with rich text formatting, drawings, and voice memos. An AI writing assistant is available for free.

Highlights
  • Color-based organization
  • Notes and checklists
  • Rich text formatting
  • Drawing and voice notes
  • AI writing assistant
  • Reminders
  • PIN/Face ID lock
Features
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Color Smart Notes is a notebook where colour does the filing for you. Give a note a colour as you write it and it is already organised — no tags to invent, no folders to maintain. Tap a colour to see only those notes. NOTES AND CHECKLISTS, ONE EDITOR Switch a note to a checklist and back. Drag to reorder, tick items off, and keep the same colour, folder and reminder either way. Nothing waits for a Save button — it saves while you type, and again every way you leave. WRITE THE WAY YOU WANT TO Headings, bold, italic, underline, strikethrough, colour and highlight, size, alignment, lists, inline checkboxes, undo and redo. Add photos, record a voice note into the page, drop in emoji. Give a single note its own background — bundled paper, lined paper or your own photo — and its own font. DRAW STRAIGHT INTO A NOTE A drawing board with six brushes — pen, fountain, pencil, highlighter, pattern and dash — plus stickers, washi tape, page backgrounds, text boxes and photos. It saves into the note and reopens whenever you want to change it. A WRITING ASSISTANT THAT STAYS FREE Ask for a draft, a rewrite or a shorter version without leaving the page; your formatting, photos and voice notes stay where they were. It is not part of the subscription. REMINDERS THAT ACTUALLY ARRIVE Set a date and time, repeat daily, weekly, monthly or yearly, choose a lead time and a sound. If a reminder cannot be scheduled — the time has passed, notifications are off — the app says so when you set it. FIND IT AGAIN Search works the way Vietnamese is actually typed: "ghi chu" finds "ghi chú". Filter by colour, sort, pin what matters. A month calendar shows which days have notes, with optional lunar dates. FOLDERS THAT KEEP THEIR COLOUR Move a note into a folder and it takes the folder's colour, so a folder reads as one thing. Every move offers Undo. LOCK WHAT IS PRIVATE Lock the whole app, or individual notes, behind a PIN or Face ID. A locked note keeps its colour and shows no text anywhere — not on the home screen, in search, in the calendar or in a widget. Both locks are free. YOUR NOTES STAY ON YOUR DEVICE No account, no sync. Your notes live on your iPhone or iPad, and you move them with an encrypted backup file you can password-protect. The writing assistant is the one exception, and it asks first: only that note's text is sent to our writing service, and nothing is kept afterwards. WIDGETS, SIRI AND IPAD A single note and quick capture on the Home Screen and Lock Screen; a calendar agenda and a folder summary come with the subscription. Ask Siri to create a note. On an iPad the list and the note sit side by side, with keyboard shortcuts and drag and drop. Dark mode, Dynamic Type, VoiceOver, English and Vietnamese. WHAT IS FREE Up to 50 notes, 5 folders and 10 lines per checklist, plus an opening set from each of the seven libraries: 12 stickers, 3 washi tapes, 9 drawing papers, 3 pattern pens, 8 note backgrounds, 14 image emoji and a selection of fonts. Ten things are never locked: the writing assistant; backup, restore and import; custom colours and all nine originals; app lock and note lock; everything you have already made; your own photos as backgrounds; reminders; search; system emoji; trash and archive. What you made stays editable even after a subscription ends. WHAT THE SUBSCRIPTION ADDS Unlimited notes, folders and checklist lines, all seven libraries open, and the two extra widgets. Weekly US$1.99 after a 3-day free trial; monthly US$4.99 or yearly US$24.99, each after a one-week free trial. Prices may vary by storefront. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation and renews automatically unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the period ends. Cancel in iOS Settings at any time. Privacy Policy: https://smartnotes.top/app/privacy-policy/color-smart-notes/ Terms of Use: https://smartnotes.top/app/terms-of-uses/color-smart-notes

Screenshots

Peel4 screens
Color Smart Notes Ai4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Peel at 5.0 against Color Smart Notes Ai's 2.0. Peel also leads on ratings volume (7 vs 1). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Peel sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month and Color Smart Notes Ai sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Peel holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 2.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Peel has 7 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Peel versus Color Smart Notes Ai: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPeelColor Smart Notes Ai
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (7 ratings) — better2.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings7 — better1
Update frequency—Every 4 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemiumFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS18.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size10 MB115 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperRivon Dev LLCTAM PHAT INTERIOR TRADING COMPANY LIMITED

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Peel

Subscriptions2
  • Peel Premium - Monthly7 Days trial$1.991 Month
  • Peel Premium - Yearly7 Days trial$14.991 Year
One-time1
  • Peel Premium — Lifetime$34.99
3 purchases

Color Smart Notes Ai

Subscriptions3
  • Weekly$1.997 Days
  • Monthly$4.991 Month
  • Yearly3 Days trial$24.991 Year

Questions

Is Peel free?
Peel is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Color Smart Notes Ai free?
Color Smart Notes Ai is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Peel or Color Smart Notes Ai?
Peel is rated higher. Peel averages 5.0 out of 5 from 7 ratings, while Color Smart Notes Ai averages 2.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Peel or Color Smart Notes Ai have ads?
Neither Peel nor Color Smart Notes Ai shows ads.

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