Notex vs Appnote
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!
Appnote
Organize your thoughts with a beautiful and functional notepad. Create an unlimited number of notes and folders, format text, and enrich entries with media. Secure your data with password protection and cloud sync.
- Unlimited folders and notes
- Rich text formatting
- Add images, videos, PDFs, and links
- Quick undo and pin notes
- Instant search
- Cloud sync and backup
- Password and biometric protection
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Appnote—your unique style in the world of notebooks. Every note becomes a story, and every idea comes to life in an elegant interface. Appnote is designed to bring your creative thoughts to life and organize them. Here, even mundane notes become works of art. UNLIMITED CREATIVITY Create an unlimited number of folders and notes—your ideas know no bounds. Nest folders, build your own structure, and find what you need with a single tap. And if you've already created the content, add it in its entirety. PDFs, DOCX files, and images become full-fledged entries in the list: with a thumbnail preview, their own name, and instant viewing, without any extra steps. TEXT THE WAY YOU WANT A full-fledged rich text editor right in your pocket: • fonts, sizes, styles, and colors—highlight what's important the way you want; • Bulleted and numbered lists, as well as to-do lists with checkboxes that are easy to mark; • Hyperlinks, horizontal lines, and quick formatting clearing; • Instant undo – made a mistake? Just redo it; • Read-only mode to avoid accidentally editing a completed note. Links in the text work just like real ones: one tap and you're on the desired page. And if you prefer a more relaxed editing experience, tap-to-click navigation can be disabled in the settings. BRING YOUR NOTES TO LIFE Add images, videos, PDFs, and DOCX documents, and insert images directly from the clipboard. View attachments in the built-in gallery, maximize them to full screen, save them to your device, or open them in your favorite external app. Edited a file in another program? Appnote will notice the changes and offer to replace the original file or place the new version nearby. EVERYTHING AT YOUR FINGERTIPS • Favorites — the most important notes always come first. • Recent — quickly return to what you were just working on. • Instantly search all notes and search within an open note to jump to the desired section. • Sort by alphabetical order, creation date, modification date, or custom order. TASK Deleted notes no longer disappear without a trace. They are sent to the Trash, from where you can restore them with a single tap or permanently delete them. You choose the retention period — from "delete immediately" to any number of days. EASY SHARING • Send notes, images, and documents to other apps using "Share." • Save a note as a file — plain text or HTML, preserving styles and attached media files. • Forward a note as a single .appnote file—including all attachments—and import it back on another device in one step. • Receive text, images, videos, and PDFs from other apps: Appnote will ask whether to create a new note or append to an existing one. FULLY PERSONALIZED Appnote adapts to you, not the other way around: • Light and dark themes, background wallpaper, text colors, note backgrounds, and list card colors; • Number of columns and font size in the note list; • Custom icons for notes and folders—to the left or above the title, with a caption consisting of the first letters of the title on the ruled lines; • Indents, default image size, autosave, and other little touches that make your experience more convenient. SECURITY AND RELIABILITY • Password protection and biometric login. • Auto-lock when minimized—immediately, after a set number of minutes, or never. • Backup to a local folder, iCloud, or the cloud—with detailed statistics by file type. • Sync with Google Drive: notes, attachments, and settings are always up to date across all your devices. WHEREVER YOU WORK Appnote speaks 16 languages, including right-to-left languages, and works on iOS and Android smartphones and tablets. Dive into the world of Appnote—an app where style, convenience, and security come together in one exceptional product. Never lose your ideas again: they're always at your fingertips. Terms of Use: http://www.apple.com/legal/itunes/appstore/dev/stdeula
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Appnote at none against Notex's 1. Appnote also leads on ads (none vs shown) and review sentiment (85% vs 72%). Notex's advantage is rating (4.1 vs 3.7) and ratings volume (66 vs 3). On price, 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. Notex sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Appnote asks for nothing beyond the download.
Notex holds the better App Store score, 4.1 against 3.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Notex has 66 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 72% of Notex's written reviews are positive against 85% of Appnote'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, Appnote every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 18, 2026 and October 15, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Notex | Appnote |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.1 (66 ratings) — better | 3.7 (3 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 71.8% of reviews | 85.2% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 66 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 15.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 23 MB | 40 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 40 BYTE YAZILIM BILISIM REKLAM E-TICARET LIMITED SIRKETI | Vladimir Gorkov |
Customer experience
Notex
Appnote
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
Appnote
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Notex
- No Limits, No Ads$1.99
Appnote
No in-app purchases









