Lemon Notes vs Scanolio
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Lemon Notes
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Lemon Notes: Note Taking & PDF Annotation Turn your iPhone and iPad into a digital notebook for handwritten notes, PDF annotation, digital planning, and drawing. Capture lecture notes, organize study materials, keep a journal, or plan your week. Write with touch on iPhone or Apple Pencil on iPad, and bring your notebooks across both devices with iCloud sync. HANDWRITING, DRAWING & STICKY NOTES • Write and sketch with pen, pencil, highlighter, fountain pen, watercolor, crayon, monoline, and more. • Customize colors, stroke widths, and smoothing for your writing style. • Use stroke and pixel erasers, lasso selection, copy, duplicate, resize, and move tools. • Turn rough sketches into clean geometric shapes with Smart Shape Recognition. Smart lines snap precisely to nearby endpoints to keep diagrams connected. • Organize drawings with editable layers. • Add customizable sticky notes for reminders, study tips, and ideas, with improved canvas touch controls. PDF ANNOTATION & DOCUMENTS • Import PDFs from Files to write, draw, highlight, underline, and annotate lecture slides, textbooks, worksheets, and documents. • Expand PDF margins for extra handwritten notes and bookmark important pages. • Import PowerPoint presentations and convert them into PDF notes. • Add photos, scanned documents, images, and emoji stickers. • Export full notebooks or selected pages as shareable PDFs. DIGITAL NOTEBOOKS, PLANNERS & TEMPLATES • Create multi-page notebooks for school, university, work, and personal projects. • Choose blank, lined, grid, dotted, Cornell notes, checklist, daily, weekly, monthly, habit tracker, mind map, table, music, guitar tab, storyboard, and other templates. • Personalize paper colors, spacing, line width, backgrounds, orientation, and covers. • Choose A3, A4, A5, A6, B5, Letter, Legal, and Tabloid paper sizes. • Explore 80 creative notebook covers, organized into three categories. • Keep class notes, meeting notes, and journals organized with folders and nested folders. • Protect notebooks or folders with a password and recover notebooks from Recently Deleted. STUDY TOOLS & EVERYDAY PRODUCTIVITY • Find handwritten notes with handwriting recognition and search. • Record audio with optional live speech transcription for lectures and meetings. • Solve handwritten arithmetic with Automatic Math. • Stay focused with a stopwatch, countdown timer, and built-in calculator. • Open two notes together with split-screen editing. • Preview pages, use Reader Mode, and let pages adapt to dark mode. • Watch YouTube videos or browse the web alongside your notes. HOME SCREEN WIDGETS • Quickly create a note, reopen your last note, and access recent notes and search with sleek widgets for iPhone and iPad. ICLOUD SYNC & LEMON STORE • Enable iCloud sync to continue your notebooks on iPhone and iPad. • Back up PDF notes to iCloud Drive. • Discover more notebook templates, covers, digital planners, study sheets, engineering templates, calendars, and digital stationery in the Lemon Store. MORE LANGUAGES • Now supports Arabic, Simplified Chinese, and Traditional Chinese, with context-aware translations, a right-to-left Arabic layout, and localized plural forms. START YOUR NEXT NOTEBOOK No separate Lemon Notes account is required. Create up to three notebooks for free. One optional annual subscription unlocks unlimited notebook creation on both iPhone and iPad. Use the same Apple Account to access your purchases on both devices, and enable iCloud sync to keep your notes in sync. Purchases can be restored at any time. Privacy Policy: https://lemonnotes.site/privacy/ Terms of Service: https://lemonnotes.site/terms/
Scanolio
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Scanolio turns your phone into a fast, accurate scanner for textbooks, notes, and documents — no subscriptions, no clutter, just clean scans in seconds. Point your camera at any textbook page or document and Scanolio automatically detects its edges, corrects the perspective, and produces a crisp, flat page — even if you're holding the camera at an angle. FEATURES - Automatic edge detection — no manual alignment needed - Perspective correction for perfectly flat, readable pages - Adjustable sharpening and quality settings for every scan - Multi-page documents with easy reordering and re-scanning - Organize scans into folders, right on your device - Export to PDF and share instantly with any app - Re-crop any page anytime, even after saving Whether it's a textbook chapter, a receipt, a contract, or handwritten notes, Scanolio gets you a clean, shareable document in a few taps.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Scanolio at none against Lemon Notes's 1. On price, update cadence, ads and device support 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. Lemon Notes sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $3.99 per year. Scanolio asks for nothing beyond the download.
Lemon Notes ships an update every 10 days, Scanolio every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 16, 2026 and October 12, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Lemon Notes | Scanolio |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Every 10 days — better | Every 2 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 16.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 152 MB | 20 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | NEFISE ZELIHA BAYAR | Seungmyun Park |
In-app purchases
Lemon Notes
- Lemon Notes Unlimited Notes7 Days trial$3.991 Year
Scanolio
No in-app purchases









