Steno paper vs Plane Notes
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Steno paper
This app provides a digital notebook for quick and easy handwriting notes. It offers various color pencils, an eraser, and options to create, open, save, and clear your notes.
- Handwriting notes
- Color pencils
- Eraser tool
- New note creation
- Save and open notes
- Clear notes
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A handwriting notes book that make you take notes easily and quickly. Ten kinds of color pencil. Functions: New, Open, Save, Eraser, Clear.
Plane Notes
An intuitive notebook app featuring an infinite canvas for note-taking and idea organization. It allows for seamless creation and management of notes without page limitations.
- Infinite canvas
- Intuitive interface
- Note organization
- Idea management
- Seamless note creation
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This is an intuitive infinite canvas notebook app.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Plane Notes at 43% against Steno paper's 0%. Plane Notes also leads on rating (4.6 vs 2.0) and update cadence (every 2 days vs every 2 months). Steno paper's advantage is iOS requirement (14.1 vs 18.0). 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. Steno paper sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Plane Notes sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Plane Notes holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 2.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Plane Notes has 99 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 0% of Steno paper's written reviews are positive against 43% of Plane Notes's.
Steno paper ships an update every 2 months, Plane Notes every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 11, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Steno paper | Plane Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.0 (1 ratings) | 4.6 (99 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 43.5% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 99 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 14.1 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 8 MB | 8 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 丽娜 夏 | Jumpei Adachi |
Customer experience
Steno paper
Plane Notes
In-app purchases
Steno paper
- You will pay to remove ads.$0.99
Plane Notes
- Paid Version$5.99
