Lemon Notes vs Daypen
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side ā 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/
Daypen
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Take notes. Daypen gets you ready for the exam. Take notes with Apple Pencil or your finger on iPad and iPhone. Daypen Learn turns them into a summary, flashcards and a quiz, and your planner keeps lectures, deadlines and revision in one week. One purchase covers your iPhone, your iPad and your Mac. HANDWRITTEN NOTEBOOKS ⢠Apple Pencil or finger, with fountain pen, ballpoint, pencil, highlighter and crayon ⢠380 templates: Cornell notes, lined and grid paper, 2026ā2027 calendars and exam planners ⢠137 covers, stickers and labels ⢠Handwriting to text, and search inside your handwriting ⢠Your notebooks in sync on iPhone and iPad, and shared notebooks you write in together, live ⢠Record audio while you write, then tap your writing to hear that moment ⢠Bring in a PDF, or add one to any notebook, and write on it: slides, past papers, worksheets ⢠Write a formula by hand and Daypen solves it step by step ⢠Shapes that complete themselves, a laser pointer, and a lasso that turns writing into a task or a calendar entry Your first launch opens with a ready Anatomy notebook and a Daypen Guide, so you can try everything at once. DAYPEN LEARN Pick a page, a notebook or everything you wrote. Daypen Learn makes a summary, key terms, flashcards and a quiz from your own notes. Cards you miss come back sooner, the ones you know wait longer. Take a timed practice exam from your sets and see the three topics to study next. Set a daily goal, keep a streak, follow your scores, and share a quiz as an image with your study group. STUDY ROOMS Study with friends wherever they are: one shared timer, what everyone is working on, and who is focusing or on a break. A PLANNER FOR YOUR WEEK Block out lectures, study sessions and deadlines. Drag a block to move it, tap the circle to finish it, and let it repeat. Get a reminder on time or when you arrive somewhere. Any plan can have its own notebook page. SUMMARISE Record a lecture, open an audio file, a PDF or a Word document, or share a link. Daypen gives you the summary, the key points, the to-dos and the dates, and every line drops into your plan with one tap. HABITS Reading, revision, sleep, the gym. Tap a ring to complete it, watch the streak grow, and see the week, month and year in charts. AN ASSISTANT THAT KNOWS YOUR PLANS Ask what is due, how the week went, or what a plan still needs. It reads only your own plans, habits and notes. THE VAULT Expiry dates with reminders, passwords and IBANs, opened with Face ID or a code of its own. Passwords and IBANs stay in your device's keychain. TOGETHER One book with your flatmates, partner or family: a shared list, habits you keep as a group, and a spending log you can fill from a photo of the receipt. ALSO ⢠Widgets for the home and lock screen, and Siri ⢠A record button in Control Center ⢠Your Apple Calendar events beside your own plans ⢠28 languages FREE AND PRO Free for good: three notebooks with the basic papers and every pen, the planner, the list, notes, five habits, one shared book, the widgets, and your first five questions to the assistant. After the tour you get a free sample quiz. Daypen Pro adds unlimited notebooks, the full template library and every cover, handwriting to text and handwriting search, Daypen Learn, PDF and audio in notebooks, Summarise, the vault, the unlimited assistant, unlimited habits, and backup across devices. One purchase covers every iPhone, iPad and Mac on the same Apple Account: ⢠A monthly or yearly subscription ⢠Or a one-time lifetime purchase, which also covers every feature added to Pro from here on Payment is charged to your Apple Account. A subscription renews automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the period ends; manage or cancel it in your Apple Account settings. Lifetime is a single payment and does not renew. Terms of Use: https://gepgo.com/daypen/en/terms/ Privacy Policy: https://gepgo.com/daypen/en/privacy/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Daypen at every 3 days against Lemon Notes's every 10 days. Daypen also leads on device support (4 vs 2) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.0). On price, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price Ā· Rating Ā· Positive reviews Ā· Number of ratings Ā· Update frequency Ā· Ads Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Monetization Ā· Best chart rank Ā· Devices Ā· Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Lemon Notes sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $3.99 per year and Daypen sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Lemon Notes ships an update every 10 days, Daypen every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 16, 2026 and October 17, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Lemon Notes | Daypen |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Every 10 days | Every 3 days ā better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch ā better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 15.1 ā better |
| Further details ā not scored | ||
| Size | 152 MB | 70 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | NEFISE ZELIHA BAYAR | Ali Can |
In-app purchases
Lemon Notes
- Lemon Notes Unlimited Notes7 Days trial$3.991 Year
Daypen
- Daypen Pro$1.991 Month
- Daypen Pro Lifetime$59.99









