Colored Note vs ElliesNote
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.
ElliesNote
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Living with CFS or ME means navigating a body that doesn't follow the same rules. Energy is unpredictable, symptoms shift day to day, and keeping track of it all can feel like another drain on what little you have. ElliesNote is a symptom and energy tracker built specifically for people with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Myalgic Encephalomyelitis. It's designed to ask as little of you as possible — because on the days when logging feels like too much, that's when it matters most. LOG YOUR DAY Rate your energy on a simple 1–5 scale and tap the symptoms you're experiencing: fatigue, brain fog, headache, muscle pain, joint pain, dizziness, nausea, or sleep disturbance. Add a note if you want. Log multiple times a day. Morning and evening reminders help you stay consistent without having to think about it. CRASH DAYS On hard days, tap "I'm Crashing Today." It's tracked separately from your regular entries and shows up clearly across your history — no need to force it into a log note. INSIGHTS The Insights screen shows how your energy and symptoms trend over 7, 14, or 30 days. Useful for spotting patterns, understanding your limits, and sharing data with a doctor or specialist. APPLE HEALTH Connect to Apple Health and ElliesNote automatically pulls in your sleep duration, resting heart rate, HRV, and step count. See how they correlate with your energy without entering a thing manually. YOUR HISTORY Browse your logs month by month. See which days you logged, which you missed, and which were crash days — all in one place. ELLIESNOTE PREMIUM Unlock the full picture: • Personalised energy insights • 14-day and 30-day trend charts • Apple Health sync (sleep, HRV, resting HR, steps) • Full calendar history, month by month • 30-day missed-day tracking Try Premium free for 7 days, then choose monthly or annual billing. Cancel anytime in App Store settings. Built with care for the CFS/ME community.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Colored Note at none against ElliesNote's 2. Colored Note also leads on update cadence (weekly vs every 3 months). ElliesNote's advantage is iOS requirement (15.1 vs 18.0). On price, ads 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. ElliesNote sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Colored Note asks for nothing beyond the download.
Colored Note ships an update weekly, ElliesNote every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 9, 2026 and October 1, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Colored Note | ElliesNote |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (5K ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 53.7% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 5K — better | — |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Every 3 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 32 MB | 49 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Veniamin Gribkov | Damilola Olatunde Bada |
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
ElliesNote
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Colored Note
No in-app purchases
ElliesNote
- ElliesNote Premium$3.991 Month
- ElliesNote Annual Premium$29.991 Year
Questions
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