Comparison

Notex vs Notepad

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Rich text formatting
  • Photo insertion
  • Folder organization
  • Color-coding
  • Secure encryption
  • Fast search
  • Batch manipulation
Features
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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!

About

Notepad

Capture thoughts, pictures, voice memos, and checklists with this smart notepad. Organize and quickly find all your information, including secure storage for logins and passwords. Features include reminders, backup options, and printing capabilities.

Highlights
  • Capture thoughts, pictures, and voice records
  • Create and manage checklists
  • Secure storage for logins and passwords
  • Organize notes with categories and colors
  • Quick search and recent notes list
  • Backup, restore, and print notes
  • Birthday reminders
Features
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Smart notepad makes it easy to capture your thought, pictures, voice records, checklist, birthdays, logins, and passwords. You can easily organize it and find it quickly later. The notepad helps you to keep all information with you. Smart notepad is very powerful but simple and easy to use. Main features: - Add notes - Add existing pictures to notes - Take photos and add to notes - Add voice records and listen to at any time - Add checklists - Add and remember birthdays - Secure storage for logins and passwords - Encoding with RSA and DES algorithms - Categories for notes - Colors for categories - A quick search for any data - Recent notes list - Restore removed notes from trash folder - Sorting notes by different fields - Birthdays reminder - Quick buttons to create notes - Quick copy data to memory - Password on application startup - Restore password to the email - Backup/restore data - Print notes - Share notes Supported languages: English, Russian, Spanish, Hindi, Portuguese, Indonesian, German, Bengali, French, Italian, Vietnamese, Chinese Simplified If you have any ideas for improvement just contact us by softser06@gmail.com Permissions Notice Camera: This is used to attach images to notes Microphone: This is used to attach voice records to notes Storage: This is used to backup/restore all notes Terms of Use (EULA) - https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula Privacy Policy - https://sites.google.com/prod/view/softser/home/notepad (Ages 10+)

Screenshots

Notex4 screens
Notepad4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Notepad at 5.0 against Notex's 4.1. Notex's advantage is ratings volume (66 vs 2) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.0). On price, review sentiment, update cadence and ads 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Notex sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Notepad sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $0.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Notepad holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Notex has 66 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 72% of Notex's written reviews are positive against 79% of Notepad's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Notex ships an update every 3 weeks, Notepad every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 11, 2026 and October 4, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Notex versus Notepad: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterNotexNotepad
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.1 (66 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews71.8% of reviews78.9% of reviews — better
Number of ratings66 — better2
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks — betterEvery 6 weeks
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS12.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size23 MB84 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer40 BYTE YAZILIM BILISIM REKLAM E-TICARET LIMITED SIRKETIsiarhei yatsuk

Customer experience

Notex

All ratings66 ratings
Positive80.3%
Neutral6.1%
Negative13.6%
Written reviews195 reviews
Positive71.8%
Neutral8.2%
Negative20.0%

Notepad

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews19 reviews
Positive78.9%
Neutral5.3%
Negative15.8%

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

Notepad

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Notex

One-time1
  • No Limits, No Ads$1.99
1 purchases

Notepad

Subscriptions1
  • Full access monthly$0.991 Month

Questions

Is Notex free?
Notex is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Notepad free?
Notepad is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Notex or Notepad?
Notepad is rated higher. Notex averages 4.1 out of 5 from 66 ratings, while Notepad averages 5.0 from 2 ratings.
Do Notex or Notepad have ads?
Both Notex and Notepad show ads.
Which is updated more often, Notex or Notepad?
Notex ships an update every 3 weeks, and Notepad every 6 weeks. Most recently, Notex was updated on October 11, 2026 and Notepad on October 4, 2026.

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