Comparison

OWrite vs JotBee

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

Head to head
About

OWrite

A simple yet powerful notepad app for recording daily life with text and images. It allows you to create shareable photo notes and secure your entries with a password. Rediscover the joy of writing with a fluent and elegant user experience.

Highlights
  • Record text and images
  • Generate shareable photo notes
  • Set boot password for privacy
  • Fluent and elegant interaction
  • Rediscover the joy of writing
Features
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OWrite is a simple but elegant notepad application, which can provide a quick and convenient way to record everyday life. OWrite is a more powerful "Notes", which can save your text and images, generate beautiful and elegant photos to be shared on Twitter, Facebook, Weibo, Mail etc. You can also set a boot password so that no one can peek at your private notes. It also has some more practical features and can provide a fluent way of interaction. OWrite will let you rediscover the joy of writing!

About

JotBee

This app allows for quick and private daily journaling with options for text, photos, and voice notes. It offers robust search and organization features, including multiple notebooks and tagging. Users can customize themes and fonts, and sync data across devices via iCloud.

Highlights
  • Quick text, photo, and voice entries
  • Full-text search and tag filtering
  • Multiple notebooks with reordering
  • Syncs across iPhone, iPad, and Mac via iCloud
  • Customizable themes and fonts
  • Optional AI reflections and summaries
Features
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JotBee is a quick, private journal for everyday moments. Open it, write a line or add a photo, and you're done. Your journal stays yours. WRITE IN SECONDS · One line or one photo is a complete entry · Light formatting like headings and lists, and full keyboard shortcuts on Mac · Optionally add the weather, the address and your mood VOICE AND PHOTOS · Record voice clips in an entry, as many as you like, with playback on iPhone, iPad and Mac · Tap a photo to see it full screen: pinch or double-tap to zoom, swipe between photos · Save a photo to your library or share it (touch and hold on iPhone, "Save Image…" on Mac) · Photos are laid out in a tidy grid and processed in the background FIND IT LATER · Full-text search across entries and tags · Tag filters you can combine, plus one-tap common tags · A date timeline shows at a glance which days you wrote EVERY DAY COUNTS · Write for past days, and change the date and time of any entry. Handy when you wrote two on the same day and they need to be in the right order · Move an entry to another notebook from its menu, or drag it onto a notebook in the Mac sidebar YOUR SPACE · Multiple notebooks you can reorder by dragging and merge anytime · 8 color themes, 5 text sizes, and your own choice of font for entry text (this device only) 9 LANGUAGES English, 简体中文, 繁體中文, 日本語, 한국어, Español, Deutsch, Français and Português (Brasil). Choose the interface language in Settings — it applies immediately — or follow the system. Dates and weather descriptions follow the interface language. PRIVATE BY DESIGN · Your data stays on your devices and in your own iCloud, unless you turn on weather or set up an AI service. The developer collects nothing · Syncs across iPhone, iPad and Mac via iCloud · Export to PDF or Markdown anytime OPTIONAL AI REFLECTIONS · After you write, get a response to your entry, or a summary of recent entries · Pick a style: Warm Friend, Practical Review, Safe Space, Growth Witness, Future Me or Witty Buddy. Or write your own prompt · Replies come in the language of your entry · Uses an AI service you set up yourself (a local model also works on Mac). Until you set one up, your entries are not sent to any AI service

Screenshots

OWrite4 screens
JotBee4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: JotBee at every 2 weeks against OWrite's every 4 weeks. JotBee also leads on iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for OWrite against 5.0 for JotBee. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 1 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

OWrite ships an update every 4 weeks, JotBee every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
OWrite versus JotBee: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterOWriteJotBee
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings2 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 4 weeksEvery 2 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, Mac — better
Requires iOS26.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size1 MB5 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer琳钧 黄志宏 唐

Customer experience

OWrite

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews18 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

JotBee

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

OWrite

No in-app purchases

None

JotBee

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is OWrite free?
OWrite is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is JotBee free?
JotBee is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, OWrite or JotBee?
OWrite and JotBee are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 2 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do OWrite or JotBee have ads?
Neither OWrite nor JotBee shows ads.
Which is updated more often, OWrite or JotBee?
OWrite ships an update every 4 weeks, and JotBee every 2 weeks. Most recently, OWrite was updated on November 6, 2026 and JotBee on November 5, 2026.

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