Color Notes vs Write notes on the screen
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Color Notes
Capture thoughts and tasks with a digital notebook. Create, edit, and organize notes with customizable colors. Sync across devices to keep your ideas accessible anywhere, eliminating the need for physical notepads.
- Create, delete, and edit notes
- Organize with customizable colors
- Virtual online notebook
- To-do list functionality
- Cloud synchronization
- Multiple device support
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Color Notes is great for those quick notes! Just add a note to your online notebook and start saving your notes virtually. Truly a great tool for making to-do lists while on the go without using a notepad pen or paper. A US-based simple sticky notebook with a clean interface that's powerful enough to replace overly complicated, bloated note-taking apps, color note allows you to create, delete and edit notes with a variety of options and colors just like a traditional notepad or text notebook. Keep your sticky notes handy in the cloud with multiple device support. Term of use https://onlinenotebook.net/about-us.php Privacy Policy https://onlinenotebook.net/privacy.php
Write notes on the screen
Capture your thoughts and ideas with a digital notepad. Quickly jot down notes, create sketches, or make to-do lists using various drawing tools and backgrounds. Easily share your creations or save them for later.
- Choose color and typography
- Various background options
- Clear, undo, and save notes
- Insert images or take photos
- Share notes instantly
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Quick notepad to write all your ideas, take notes, make sketches or doodles, the shopping list and draw everything that comes to your mind in this post it notebook. Very useful, practical and easy to use. Share this app to record notes and stickies via any program you have on your phone. If you liked the app, Vote for us and help us improve. Thanks! Features: • Choose the color and typography you want. Choose from pencil, pen or brush • Different background colors: textures, staff, grid or lines • Clear, undo or save the note • Insert images from the gallery, take a photo or choose a slate background • Share the note stickers at the moment or save it and continue at another time. If you want you can buy a version without ads. https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Write notes on the screen at 4.6 against Color Notes's 4.1. Write notes on the screen also leads on review sentiment (25% vs 14%). Color Notes's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 6 weeks vs every 27 months). On price, in-app purchases, monetization model and device support 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. Color Notes sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $7.99 per month and Write notes on the screen sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $7.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Write notes on the screen holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Color Notes has 640 ratings behind it against 27, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 14% of Color Notes's written reviews are positive against 25% of Write notes on the screen's.
Color Notes ships an update every 6 weeks, Write notes on the screen every 27 months. The most recent releases landed on October 13, 2026 and October 1, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Color Notes | Write notes on the screen |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.1 (640 ratings) | 4.6 (27 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 14.5% of reviews | 25.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 640 — better | 27 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks — better | Every 27 months |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 14.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 62 MB | 34 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Hagens Media, LLC. | Alejandro Melero Zaballos |
Customer experience
Color Notes
Write notes on the screen
Bugs and requests
Color Notes
Reported bugs
3 issues- Losing all notes after updates
- Inability to access old notes
- Saving and syncing issues
Requested features
3 requests- Reminders feature
- Ability to print notes
- Better syncing across devices
Write notes on the screen
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Color Notes
- Remove Ads$7.991 Month
Write notes on the screen
- weekly plan$7.997 Days
- Annual plan$19.991 Year
- REMOVE ADS$5.99
- Full forever purchase$34.99
Questions
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