Audio Notebook vs MyNotebook
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Audio Notebook
Record lectures, meetings, or thoughts with this voice recorder and note-taking app. Features include 2x playback speed for faster review and a wide-screen editor for comfortable note-taking on your iPad. Try the free edition with limited notes.
- All-day audio recording
- 2x playback speed
- Wide-screen text editor
- Note-taking for lectures and meetings
- Free edition available
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All-Day Audio Recorder, 2x Playback, and Wide-Screen Text Editor. Audio Notebook is perfect for: - Students: To record all your lectures, and take notes on all your classes, - Professionals: For every meeting and interview, - Everyone else: To capture your thoughts and ideas for all of life's projects. 2x Playback Speed Saves you Precious Time. Imagine if you can review your notes twice as fast. This is built-into Audio Notebook. You'll never want to go back. Comfortable Wide-Screen Editing Use your iPad as a note-taking machine, with or without an attached hardware keyboard. TRY AUDIO NOTEBOOK RISK FREE! We're confident you'll find Audio Notebook to be the best and easiest to use audio note system for your iPad, so we've prepared a special Free Edition you can use right now. Download the Free Edition and try it risk free. It has all the features of the Full Edition, but is limited to 4 notes at a time.
MyNotebook
This app allows users to create checklists, to-do lists, and journal entries with short sentences. It features adjustable text size, automatic font resizing, and intuitive page-turning. Users can also copy, paste, and email their notes.
- Checklist and to-do list creation
- Diary and short sentence writing
- Adjustable text size
- Automatic font resizing
- Page turning with swipe/tap
- Copy and paste functionality
- Email and print options
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"My Notebook" Overview it is suitable for creating checklists, to-do lists, and writing diaries by genre using short sentences. And you may be even trained the ability to create short sentences. Text size can be changed by simply pinching the screen. (1) Notepad function ● Start up ; The display will start from the last finished page and it will be possible to edit. ● Page structure ; Consists of one title and 32 lines body. ● Font resizes ; When more than limited number of text is entered, font size automatically become smaller. ● Page turning ; Swipe the screen left / right or tap the left / right frame to page forward. ● Turning speed ; If you set the "Mode" button to "5", you can send 5 pages, if you set it to "1", you can send 1 page at a time. ● Infinite loop; Since it uses an infinite loop type page turning, the page is turned from the page near the rear end to the page near the front end when moving forward, and in the reverse direction when reversing. ● Character input; Tapping a position where you want to enter a character a cursor appears and a keyboard also appears at the bottom of the screen. Using the keyboard you can enter any character at the cursor position. ● "Done" button; Tapping the "Done" button, you can save the text you entered to your device's memory, for the next startup. (2) "Copy" function By tapping the "Copy" button on each page, the entered title and text will be stored in the device's memory. The text is also copied to the clipboard. (3) "Paste" function ● When you tap the "Paste" button on each page, a screen will pop up asking if you want to overwrite the page with the title and text saved in memory. Tap "Overwrite" on that screen to execute overwriting. ● You can erase all the characters at once by copying a blank page and pasting it on any page. (4) Table of contents creation function If you press the Paste button for a few seconds, a screen will pop up asking if you want to create a table of contents. Select Create to create a table of contents. (5) "Mail" function On any page, click the "Action" button, and a selection screen for email or print appears. Select an email and follow the instructions on the email screen. After setting and confirming the title, destination, Cc / Bcc, and sender, click the "Send" button to send, or the "Cancel" button to cancel. (6) "Print" function (v1.5) On any page, click the "Action" button, and a selection screen for email or print appears. Select "Print" and follow the instructions on the print screen. After selecting and checking the printer selection, number of prints, and print page range, press "Print" to execute printing. If you want to cancel, press "Cancel".
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: MyNotebook at 4.8 against Audio Notebook's 4.0. MyNotebook also leads on review sentiment (88% vs 50%) and update cadence (monthly vs every 3 months). Audio Notebook's advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 16.6). On price, ads and in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
MyNotebook holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: MyNotebook has 41 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 50% of Audio Notebook's written reviews are positive against 88% of MyNotebook's.
Audio Notebook ships an update every 3 months, MyNotebook monthly. The most recent releases landed on September 29, 2026 and September 26, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Audio Notebook | MyNotebook |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (4 ratings) | 4.8 (41 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews | 87.5% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 4 | 41 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Monthly — better |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Ad-supported — better |
| Devices | iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 16.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 12 MB | 5 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Qrayon, LLC | fumio ueda |
Customer experience
Audio Notebook
MyNotebook
In-app purchases
Audio Notebook
No in-app purchases
MyNotebook
No in-app purchases
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