Notex vs Note!
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Notex
Organize your thoughts and memories with a versatile note-taking app. Create rich text notes, add photos, and manage everything with folders and color-coding. Secure your sensitive information with strong encryption.
- Rich text formatting
- Photo insertion
- Folder organization
- Color-coding
- Secure encryption
- Fast search
- Batch manipulation
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- NOTES - PHOTOS - FOLDERS - COLORS - IMPORTANTS - ENCRYPTION - SEARCH All this things in app “Top Notes”. * Create as many notes and photos as you need. * Format your notes with bold, italic and many other text formatting functions. * Create bullet and number lists inside your notes. * Insert pictures into your notes. * Drag items inside folder as you need. * Take pictures from you camera inside app and store it in folders, or import existing pictures from you photo albums. * Search easy and fast - just start enter search words and see results at once. * Use colors - it is help you visually divide you memos on colored subject groups. * Mark important notes - they are always will be at your eyes (even on app icon). * Folders - familiar way to organize your notes. * Use named secure keys for encryption, if you want to protect your data from others. Encrypt notes, photos and even whole folders. We use strong AES-256 encryption method to protect your data. * Walk through notes and photos with swipes left and right – it is familiar. * You can forget “Back” button, which is always far from your finger – just swipe note/photo up or down, when you want return to folder. Similar with folders – swipe current folder up or down to navigate parent folder. * Manipulate multiple notes/photos at once with special mode – mark multiple items and move all of them in other folder, or encrypt it, or delete all marked items in one tap. * Incredible simplicity and usability. Working with serious tasks must be easy and funny. Try out “The Notes”! We tried to make it simple and comfortable to use. Good luck!
Note!
This app offers a minimalist approach to note-taking, focusing on speed and simplicity. It allows for quick plain text entries, organized by modification date, with options for text resizing and passcode protection for privacy.
- Quick plain text notes
- Sorted by latest modified
- Pinch to zoom text size
- Set passcode to lock notes
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Nothing more, nothing less. Designed to be as minimal as possible for quick plain text notes. + Sorted by latest modified + Pinch to zoom/change text size + Set a passcode to lock your notes
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Note! at 4.7 against Notex's 4.1. Note! also leads on ratings volume (1.1K vs 66). Notex's advantage is update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 13 months) and review sentiment (72% vs 61%). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Notex sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Note! sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Note! holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Note! has 1.1K ratings behind it against 66, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 72% of Notex's written reviews are positive against 61% of Note!'s, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Notex ships an update every 3 weeks, Note! every 13 months. The most recent releases landed on October 22, 2026 and October 20, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Notex | Note! |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.1 (66 ratings) | 4.7 (1.1K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 71.8% of reviews — better | 61.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 66 | 1.1K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 13 months |
| Ads | Yes | 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 | 12.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 23 MB | 5 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 40 BYTE YAZILIM BILISIM REKLAM E-TICARET LIMITED SIRKETI | RIEU Limited |
Customer experience
Notex
Note!
User reviews
Notex
From 66 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Easy to use and straightforward
- 💡 Great for organizing notes and photos
- 🎨 Nice layout and colors
- ✅ Useful for various purposes
- 🌟 Long-time users appreciate it
Room to improve
- 🐛 Frequent bugs and glitches
- 📉 Performance degradation over time
- ❌ Lack of essential features
- 💸 Paid features not always worth it
- 🚫 Poor customer support
Note!
From 1.1K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Simple and straightforward
- 🚀 Efficient note-taking
- 💡 Useful for quick notes and ideas
- 👍 Clean and clutter-free interface
Room to improve
- 🐛 Frequent and intrusive ads
- 🔒 Lack of backup/export functionality
- 🔒 No option to remove ads
- 🐛 Distracting pop-ups
Bugs and requests
Notex
Reported bugs
17 issues- App crashes or freezes
- Long lists not displaying or scrolling
- Some fonts not supported
- Cursor jumps when editing text
- Keyboard covers last paragraph
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- Notes disappearing or becoming blank
- Copy-paste functionality issues
- Text automatically changes to uppercase
- Notes deleted without warning or recovery
- App freezes when adding photos
- Inability to edit or paste text
- Cursor jumps when adding paragraphs
- App not loading or crashing on startup
- Highlighting not working
- Password entry screen issues
- Font resets to default after pressing enter twice
- Blurry photos in notes until zoomed
Requested features
19 requests- Picture sizing and enlargement in notes
- Synchronization with other Apple devices (iCloud, etc.)
- Trash/Recycle bin for deleted files
- Ability to attach webpages to folders
- Option to reset default font
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- More font variety and customization
- Cloud syncing (iCloud, Dropbox)
- Automatic folder sorting (alphabetical)
- Select all items with a single tap
- Add inception dates back to notes
- Ability to change folder colors
- Touch ID and performance updates for iOS 10
- Ability to embed videos in folders
- Manual sorting of notes/folders
- More color palette options for notes
- Ability to title locked notes
- Beginner mode with more help
- Individual font selection for notes
- More colors for notes and folders
Note!
Reported bugs
3 issues- Ads disrupt note-taking experience
- Inability to delete old notes
- Lack of printing functionality
Requested features
4 requests- Add iCloud sync and backup
- Implement a paid, ad-free version
- Allow for note organization and sorting
- Improve text formatting and editing capabilities
In-app purchases
Notex
- No Limits, No Ads$1.99
Note!
- Remove Ads$3.99
