Steno paper vs IsI Notebook
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.
IsI Notebook
This app allows users to quickly write and read notes on two different notepads simultaneously on a single screen. Additional features like more notepads, font customization, and ad removal are available through in-app purchases.
- Simultaneous note-taking on two screens
- Rapid data storage and retrieval
- Expandable to 6 notepads
- Customizable font size and style
- Ad removal option
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With IsI Notebook you can quickly write and read notes. IsI Notebook is a small notepad app. With IsI Notebook data can be stored and retrieved rapidly on two different notepads. As in-app purchase more functions can be activated. For just 99 cent each user has access to 3 more notepads (6 in total) and can change the font size and font (5 different fonts). You also have the option to remove all ads from the app. This app is based on my findings from the IsI notepad that can also be downloaded here in the AppStore. The main difference to the classic notepad is that two different text fields can be filled at the same time (like a book). So you have the opportunity to save more different notes on one screen. I did not implement more functions because I want to continue to develop the app in collaboration with the users. So test the app and tell me what features you would like to have for the future and I will try to develop this. But feel free to give my app a positive feedback if you like it ;)
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: IsI Notebook at 2.8 against Steno paper's 2.0. IsI Notebook also leads on ads (none vs shown) and review sentiment (22% vs 0%). Steno paper's advantage is update cadence (every 2 months vs every 20 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. Steno paper sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and IsI Notebook sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
IsI Notebook holds the better App Store score, 2.8 against 2.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: IsI Notebook has 12 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 22% of IsI Notebook's.
Steno paper ships an update every 2 months, IsI Notebook every 20 months. The most recent releases landed on October 11, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Steno paper | IsI Notebook |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.0 (1 ratings) | 2.8 (12 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 22.2% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 12 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 20 months |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| 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 | 14.1 | 8.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 8 MB | 9 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 丽娜 夏 | Dominic Barra |
Customer experience
Steno paper
IsI Notebook
In-app purchases
Steno paper
- You will pay to remove ads.$0.99
IsI Notebook
- Get Functions$0.99
- No Ads$0.99
