Lemon Notes vs Daypen
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side β with what reviewers say about each.
Lemon Notes
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Lemon Notes: Write, Draw, and Organize Turn your iPhone and iPad into a flexible digital notebook for studying, planning, work, and creative ideas. Write and sketch with touch on iPhone, or use Apple Pencil on iPad. Organize your notebooks, annotate PDFs, and bring your notes with you across both devices. WRITE AND DRAW β’ Choose from pen, pencil, highlighter, fountain pen, watercolor, crayon, monoline, and more. β’ Customize colors, widths, and stroke smoothing. β’ Use stroke and pixel erasers, lasso selection, copy, duplicate, resize, and move tools. β’ Turn rough drawings into clean geometric shapes with Smart Shape Recognition. β’ Organize complex notes and drawings with editable layers. PDFS AND DOCUMENTS β’ Import PDFs from the Files app and write, draw, highlight, underline, or annotate them. β’ Expand PDF page margins for extra writing space and bookmark important pages. β’ Import PowerPoint presentations and convert them into PDF notes. β’ Add photos, scanned documents, images, and emoji stickers. β’ Export complete notebooks or selected pages as shareable PDFs. NOTEBOOKS AND TEMPLATES β’ Create multi-page notebooks with customizable paper settings. β’ Choose from blank, lined, grid, dotted, Cornell, checklist, daily, weekly, monthly, habit tracker, mind map, table, music, guitar tab, storyboard, and other templates. β’ Select paper sizes including A3, A4, A5, A6, B5, Letter, Legal, and Tabloid. β’ Customize orientation, paper colors, spacing, line width, backgrounds, and covers. β’ Organize notes with folders and nested folders. β’ Restore notebooks from Recently Deleted and protect notebooks or folders with a password. STUDY AND PRODUCTIVITY β’ Search handwritten notes with handwriting recognition. β’ Record audio with optional live speech transcription. β’ Use a stopwatch, countdown timer, and built-in calculator. β’ Solve handwritten arithmetic with Automatic Math. β’ Open two notes together with split-screen editing. β’ Preview pages, read with Reader Mode, and let pages adapt to dark mode. β’ Watch YouTube videos or browse the web alongside your notes. ICLOUD AND LEMON STORE β’ Enable iCloud sync to use your notebooks on iPhone and iPad and continue working on either device. β’ Back up PDF notes to iCloud Drive. β’ Discover additional templates, covers, planners, study sheets, engineering templates, calendars, and digital stationery in the Lemon Store. Lemon Notes works on both iPhone and iPad. No separate Lemon Notes account is required. Use the same Apple Account on both devices to access your purchases, and enable iCloud sync to keep your notes in sync. Create up to three notebooks for free. One optional annual subscription unlocks unlimited notebook creation on both devices. 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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Write by hand. 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 β’ Apple Pencil or finger, with fountain pen, ballpoint, pencil, highlighter and crayon β’ 380 templates: Cornell notes, lined and grid paper, 2026β2027 calendars and exam planners β’ 137 covers, stickers and labels β’ Handwriting to text, and search inside your handwriting β’ Your notebooks in sync on iPhone and iPad, and shared notebooks you write in together, live β’ Record audio while you write, then tap your writing to hear that moment β’ Bring in a PDF, or add one to any notebook, and write on it: slides, past papers, worksheets β’ Write a formula by hand and Daypen solves it step by step β’ 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 β’ Widgets for the home and lock screen, and Siri β’ A record button in Control Center β’ Your Apple Calendar events beside your own plans β’ 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: β’ A monthly or yearly subscription β’ 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 weekly. Daypen also leads on device support (4 vs 2). On price, ads, in-app purchases and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price Β· Rating Β· Positive reviews Β· Number of ratings Β· Update frequency Β· Ads Β· In-app purchases Β· Monetization Β· Best chart rank Β· Devices Β· 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 weekly, Daypen every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on September 30, 2026 and October 1, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Lemon Notes | Daypen |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Weekly | Every 3 days β better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch β better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 15.1 β better |
| Further details β not scored | ||
| Size | 118 MB | 69 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









