Comparison

Lemon Notes vs Divit

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

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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 • 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/

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Divit

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Divit is a private notebook. Your notes are encrypted on your iPhone before they go anywhere. No account is needed, there are no ads and no tracking. Nobody else can read your notes. Not even us. PRIVATE BY DESIGN - Every note is encrypted on your device with AES-256-GCM. - The key lives in the iOS Keychain and is never sent anywhere in readable form. - Unlock with Face ID or your device passcode. Lock the app with one tap. - Without Divit Cloud, Divit makes no network requests: your notes never leave your phone. YOURS TO KEEP - During setup you receive a recovery code. When you move to a new iPhone, your encrypted notes come along in your device backup and open with that code. - The code is never stored or sent anywhere. If you lose both your phone and the code, nobody can recover your notes, including us. Keep it somewhere safe. WRITE AND FIND - Fast search across titles, note text and tags. Search ignores accents and letter case, including Turkish characters. - Organise with notebooks and sub-notebooks, tags and pinned notes. - Archive notes you are done with. In the trash, swipe a note to restore it or delete it forever, or select several at once. - Notes open in a calm reading view. Tap the pencil when you want to write. - Light or dark theme, plus an option to hide note text in the list when someone can see your screen. TAKE YOUR NOTES ANYWHERE - Export all notes or a single notebook as PDF or Markdown. - Make an encrypted Divit backup and restore it on another phone with your recovery code. - Share a single note as text or as a PDF. PDF and Markdown files are not encrypted, and the app tells you so before you export. OPTIONAL: DIVIT CLOUD Use Divit on your Windows PC too? With a Divit Cloud subscription your notes sync between iPhone and computer, end to end encrypted. Our server stores only encrypted data that it cannot read. Add your computer by scanning a QR code, or move to a new phone with your cloud recovery code. Try it free for 14 days. Divit Cloud is an optional auto-renewing subscription (monthly or yearly). Payment is charged to your Apple ID. It renews automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period; manage or cancel it in your App Store account settings. Everything else in Divit is free. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://divit.biltech.ee/privacy Divit is made by Biltech OÜ, Tallinn, Estonia.

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Lemon Notes4 screens
Divit4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Divit at none against Lemon Notes's 1. Divit also leads on iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.0). On price, update cadence, ads and device support 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

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

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

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Lemon Notes ships an update every 10 days, Divit every 2 weeks. Both last shipped on October 16, 2026.

Scorecard2 real differences Ā· 4 level
Lemon Notes versus Divit: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLemon NotesDivit
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 10 days — betterEvery 2 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS17.015.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size152 MB16 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperNEFISE ZELIHA BAYARBiltech OU

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Lemon Notes

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

Divit

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Lemon Notes free?
Lemon Notes is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Divit free?
Divit is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Lemon Notes or Divit have ads?
Neither Lemon Notes nor Divit shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Lemon Notes or Divit?
Lemon Notes ships an update every 10 days, and Divit every 2 weeks. Most recently, Lemon Notes was updated on October 16, 2026 and Divit on October 16, 2026.

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