Comparison

Lemon Notes vs PDF Reader

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

Head to head
About

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 β€’ Write and sketch with pen, pencil, highlighter, fountain pen, watercolor, crayon, monoline, and more. β€’ Customize colors, stroke widths, and smoothing for your writing style. β€’ Use stroke and pixel erasers, lasso selection, copy, duplicate, resize, and move tools. β€’ Turn rough sketches into clean geometric shapes with Smart Shape Recognition. Smart lines snap precisely to nearby endpoints to keep diagrams connected. β€’ Organize drawings with editable layers. β€’ Add customizable sticky notes for reminders, study tips, and ideas, with improved canvas touch controls. PDF ANNOTATION & DOCUMENTS β€’ Import PDFs from Files to write, draw, highlight, underline, and annotate lecture slides, textbooks, worksheets, and documents. β€’ Expand PDF margins for extra handwritten notes 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 full notebooks or selected pages as shareable PDFs. DIGITAL NOTEBOOKS, PLANNERS & TEMPLATES β€’ Create multi-page notebooks for school, university, work, and personal projects. β€’ Choose blank, lined, grid, dotted, Cornell notes, checklist, daily, weekly, monthly, habit tracker, mind map, table, music, guitar tab, storyboard, and other templates. β€’ Personalize paper colors, spacing, line width, backgrounds, orientation, and covers. β€’ Choose A3, A4, A5, A6, B5, Letter, Legal, and Tabloid paper sizes. β€’ Explore 80 creative notebook covers, organized into three categories. β€’ Keep class notes, meeting notes, and journals organized with folders and nested folders. β€’ Protect notebooks or folders with a password and recover notebooks from Recently Deleted. STUDY TOOLS & EVERYDAY PRODUCTIVITY β€’ Find handwritten notes with handwriting recognition and search. β€’ Record audio with optional live speech transcription for lectures and meetings. β€’ Solve handwritten arithmetic with Automatic Math. β€’ Stay focused with a stopwatch, countdown timer, and built-in calculator. β€’ Open two notes together with split-screen editing. β€’ Preview pages, use Reader Mode, and let pages adapt to dark mode. β€’ Watch YouTube videos or browse the web alongside your notes. HOME SCREEN WIDGETS β€’ 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 β€’ Enable iCloud sync to continue your notebooks on iPhone and iPad. β€’ Back up PDF notes to iCloud Drive. β€’ Discover more notebook templates, covers, digital planners, study sheets, engineering templates, calendars, and digital stationery in the Lemon Store. MORE LANGUAGES β€’ 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/

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PDF Reader

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PDF Reader: Smart Book Library is a clean, focused PDF reading app designed to help you organize documents, books, and study materials in one personal library. Whether you read for school, work, or leisure, this app makes it simple to import PDFs, continue from where you left off, download files for offline access, and save important pages for later. Build Your Own Smart Book Library Stop searching through folders every time you need a file. Add PDFs from your device or paste a direct PDF link, give each book an optional title, and keep everything in a clear library view. Your collection stays organized, easy to browse, and ready whenever you want to read. Import PDFs Your Way β€’ Upload PDF files directly from your device β€’ Add books using a secure HTTP or HTTPS PDF link β€’ Save each title to your personal library in seconds β€’ Reopen any book later without hunting for the original file Read With Comfort and Focus Enjoy smooth page-by-page reading powered by a dedicated PDF viewer. Track your place automatically and return to the exact page you left. Need fewer distractions? Switch to fullscreen mode and keep your attention on the content. β€’ Fast and clear page viewing β€’ Continue reading from your last page β€’ Fullscreen mode for distraction-free reading β€’ Simple page progress so you always know where you are Download Once, Read Anywhere Traveling, studying offline, or dealing with unstable internet? Download books to your device and keep reading without a connection. Local files stay available in your library until you decide to remove them. β€’ Download PDFs for offline reading β€’ Open downloaded books instantly from your library β€’ Continue progress whether you are online or offline β€’ Delete books permanently when you no longer need them Save Pages That Matter Found a key chart, quote, formula, or reference page? Save it with a page preview and reopen it later from your Saved section. Ideal for study notes, research highlights, meeting documents, and long reports. β€’ Bookmark important pages with image previews β€’ Browse all saved pages in one place β€’ Jump back to a saved page whenever you need it β€’ Remove saved pages easily when they are no longer useful Designed for Everyday Reading PDF Reader: Smart Book Library focuses on the essentials: a personal library, reliable reading, offline access, and page bookmarks. The interface is modern, lightweight, and easy to understand from the first open. β€’ Clean library cards with reading progress β€’ Quick access to saved pages and settings β€’ Multi-language support: English, Turkish, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, and French β€’ Practical tools for students, professionals, and casual readers Perfect For β€’ Students managing textbooks, lecture notes, and assignments β€’ Professionals reading reports, contracts, manuals, and proposals β€’ Researchers collecting papers and reference PDFs β€’ Anyone who wants a simple personal ebook-style PDF library Why Choose PDF Reader: Smart Book Library Most PDF apps only open a file and leave you there. This app helps you build a reusable reading workflow: collect your PDFs, keep progress across sessions, download for offline use, and save the pages you may need again. It is built for real reading habits, not just one-time file opening. Start in Minutes 1. Open the app and go to your library 2. Add a PDF from your device or with a link 3. Start reading and continue later from the same page 4. Download books for offline access when needed 5. Save important pages to revisit anytime If you are looking for a PDF reader that also works as a smart book library, this app is made for you. Import your documents, organize them clearly, read comfortably, stay productive offline, and keep your most useful pages one tap away. Download PDF Reader: Smart Book Library and turn scattered PDF files into a personal reading collection you can use every day.

Screenshots

Lemon Notes4 screens
PDF Reader4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: PDF Reader at none against Lemon Notes's 1. PDF Reader also leads on iOS requirement (14.0 vs 17.0). On price, ads and device support 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

CostPrice Β· In-app purchases Β· Ads Β· Monetization

Both are free to download. Lemon Notes sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $3.99 per year. PDF Reader asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences Β· 4 level
Lemon Notes versus PDF Reader: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLemon NotesPDF Reader
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 10 daysβ€”
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo β€” better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod β€” better
Requires iOS17.014.0 β€” better
Further details β€” not scored
Size152 MB25 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperNEFISE ZELIHA BAYARMusa AdΔ±tepe

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Lemon Notes

Subscriptions1
  • Lemon Notes Unlimited Notes7 Days trial$3.991 Year
None

PDF Reader

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Lemon Notes free?
Lemon Notes is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is PDF Reader free?
PDF Reader is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Lemon Notes or PDF Reader have ads?
Neither Lemon Notes nor PDF Reader shows ads.

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