Colored Note vs monoca
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Colored Note
Capture your thoughts, ideas, and experiences with a versatile diary and notepad. Add photos, color-code entries, and organize with tags for easy retrieval. Share your notes with friends or keep them private with passcode protection.
- Add photos to notes
- Color-code notes for organization
- Assign tags for searching
- Sort notes as desired
- Share notes with friends
- Secure notes with a passcode
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Color Note is a diary and notepad just for everyone! Record interesting thoughts, inspires ideas, inspirational quotes, recent experience, write notes about life, share your thoughts and mood with your friends. Or just write memos. PHOTOS You can add some images to your note. COLORS You can mark your note with a color. The color can be used for searching. TAGS You can assign one or more tags to a note. The tags can be used for searching. ORGANIZE Sort your note as you want. SHARE YOUR NOTE WITH YOUR FRIENDS Send it to your friends or publish in social networks! SAFETY You can restrict access to your notes with a passcode. AND You can delete a note by swiping it to the left.
monoca
Organize your belongings and wishlists with ease. This app makes inventory management enjoyable by allowing you to add items with photos or barcodes. Track everything from clothes and ingredients to online orders and cherished collections.
- Manage personal collections
- Track inventory
- Create wishlists
- Add items with photos
- Scan item barcodes
- Organize belongings efficiently
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Manage your inventory in a fun way. Keeping your belongings organized could be a tedious task, but with monoca it`s actually fun! Add the items you own or the items you just want own, attach photos to them or just simply read their barcode and manage your inventory or wishlist in flash. Clothes, ingredients, home appliances, stuff you ordered online, the collection of your beloved items, whatever it might be monoca will be there for you to manage them in a fun and efficient way!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Colored Note at none against monoca's 1. Colored Note also leads on ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (weekly vs every 2 months). monoca's advantage is review sentiment (80% vs 53%). On price, rating 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. monoca sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Colored Note asks for nothing beyond the download.
monoca holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Colored Note has 5K ratings behind it against 13, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 53% of Colored Note's written reviews are positive against 80% of monoca's.
Colored Note ships an update weekly, monoca every 2 months. Both last shipped on October 26, 2026.
| Parameter | Colored Note | monoca |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (5K ratings) | 4.8 (13 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 53.4% of reviews | 79.7% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 5K — better | 13 |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 32 MB | 63 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Veniamin Gribkov | Sola, K.K. |
Customer experience
Colored Note
monoca
User reviews
Colored Note
From 5K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Easy to use
- 🎨 Variety of colors and fonts
- 📝 Helpful for note-taking
- 🌟 Great app overall
Room to improve
- 🐛 Occasional crashes or data loss
- 🔍 Difficulty finding or organizing notes
- 🔒 Lack of security features (e.g., password protection)
- 🔧 Issues with recent updates
monoca
From 13 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Highly customizable item fields
- 👍 Easy to use for organizing items
- 👍 Photo and text support for items
- 👍 Convenient barcode scanning for input
- 👍 Useful for various organizational needs (hobbies, books, clothes, etc.)
Room to improve
- 🐛 App can cause iPhone to overheat
- 🐛 Slow item display and app freezes
- 🐛 Exporting large data can cause crashes
- 🐛 iCloud Drive sync/storage removed
- 🐛 monoca2 has a significantly different UI
Bugs and requests
Colored Note
Reported bugs
3 issues- Notes disappearing or not saving properly
- Cursor jumping or text selection issues
- Glitches with recent app updates
Requested features
4 requests- Add checklist/to-do list functionality
- Improve note sorting and search options
- Implement password protection or biometric security
- Provide more font and customization options
monoca
Reported bugs
12 issues- iPhone gets hot when opening the app
- Items take longer to display
- App screen freezes when opening settings
- Exporting data causes app to crash
- Cannot embed Google Maps links due to 'failed to load search results'
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- Quantity changes in paid version sometimes affect wrong items
- Barcode recognition not working for some users
- App crashes when music is playing
- Odd empty space below ads after updates
- Cannot edit URLs entered in the notes section
- Cannot enter decimal quantities
- Stock count input is not possible
Requested features
30 requests- Allow exporting data by category
- Add 'date of use' to calendar function
- Automatically count usage frequency
- Display item photos immediately in calendar
- Allow reordering of categories on the home screen
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- Add a 'discarded items' category
- Enable deletion of subcategories
- Allow sorting of categories by user preference
- Enable category search
- Retain history of sales source and purchase location
- Allow sharing with a cohabitant
- Filter search by purchase location (e.g., specific store)
- Add weight and fraction notation for item management
- Improve search functionality (e.g., Amazon integration)
- Make product search the top priority
- Allow easy +/- adjustment for quantity changes
- Implement a history log for quantity changes
- Allow reordering of tabs/categories
- Add 'storage location' as a default item field for all categories
- Implement hierarchical structure for 'storage location'
- Allow users to set affiliate links for EC sites
- Enable in-app language change
- Add a backup feature
- Display star ratings in list view
- Allow users to see which 'monoca' or 'monoca2' is currently open
- Allow users to change the order of items by long-press in monoca2
- Add a 'quantity' field for inventory management
- Allow decimal input for quantities
- Allow users to change the order of categories in monoca2
- Allow users to see which category is currently open in monoca2
In-app purchases
Colored Note
No in-app purchases
monoca
- Full Version (Permanent)$7.99
