Comparison

NotePad vs How Long Left

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

Head to head
About

NotePad

Organize your thoughts and tasks with a versatile note-taking app. Create typed or handwritten notes, manage them within categories, and share them via email, SMS, or PDF. Includes options for reminders and visual customization.

Highlights
  • Typed and handwritten notes
  • Category management
  • Photo integration
  • Print and email notes
  • Set reminders
  • Customizable fonts and colors
  • Handwritten drawing tools
Features
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NotePad Pro was created to help you manage and create notepads in both typed format and handwritten format. Notepads are great for keeping notes, reminders, used as a shopping list, homework notes, meeting notes, lecture notes, etc. You have the option to create a book of all notepads, selected categories or selected notepads. They can be printed, emailed, send reminders or sms (sms typed text only). There are two functions available: NotePad Categories - Create, edit or delete the categories for each notepad with the option to select a photo from your photo album or take a new photo. If you delete a Category, all notepads under that category will be deleted as well. To search for a category, simply enter the Category Name. You can change the photo or re-take another one. Notepads - Create, edit or delete the notepad for each category. You also have the option to delete all Checked notepads or one at a time. For each notepad, you enter the title, photo, notes (typed and/or written) and completion (checked/unchecked). You can select the photo from your photo album or take a new photo. The category, creation time and creation date will be automatically displayed. You can change the date and time. You have the option to change fonts, font size and font colour when entering the typed notes. To search for a notepad, simply enter the Notepad Title and the details will be displayed. For the handwritten notes, you can change the colour and width of the text or shapes. You can also select solid lines or dashed lines. Shapes included are arc, line, rectangle, rectangle fill, square, square fill, diamond, diamond fill, circle, circle fill, semicircle, semicirclefill, ellipse, ellipse fill, triangle and triangle fill. Stickers or Emoticons can be added to the page. Option to pick a photo from photo album or take a new one to use as background. You can also save the handwritten notes to your photo album. You have the option to email, display the pdf file, print, delete, set a reminder or SMS the notepad. The email will include the notepad in the email body and a pdf file as an attachment.

About

How Long Left

This app helps you visualize the time remaining for your calendar events. It offers a Today Widget, Siri integration, and an Apple Watch app for convenient access. Receive notifications for upcoming events and customize your watch face with countdown complications.

Highlights
  • Countdown calendar events
  • Today Widget integration
  • Siri integration
  • Apple Watch app
  • Time remaining notifications
  • Apple Watch complications
Features
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How Long Left is a simple app that helps you manage your time by displaying the time remaining of current calendar events. It also includes a Today Widget, Siri integration, and an Apple Watch app, time remaining notifications, and more. There is also an Apple Watch complication that, with an in-app purchase, can display a countdown for current and upcoming events.

Screenshots

NotePad4 screens
How Long Left4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: How Long Left at 59% against NotePad's 0%. How Long Left also leads on price (Free vs $2.99) and rating (3.8 vs 1.0). NotePad's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 4). On update cadence, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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

How Long Left is free to download; NotePad costs $2.99 up front. How Long Left sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. NotePad asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

How Long Left holds the better App Store score, 3.8 against 1.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: How Long Left has 39 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 0% of NotePad's written reviews are positive against 59% of How Long Left's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

NotePad ships an update every 3 months, How Long Left every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on September 20, 2026 and July 13, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
NotePad versus How Long Left: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterNotePadHow Long Left
Price$2.99Free — better
Rating1.0 (1 ratings)3.8 (39 ratings) — better
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews58.5% of reviews — better
Number of ratings139 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 months — betterEvery 4 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaidFree with in-app purchases — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS12.012.0
Further details — not scored
Size51 MB27 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJessica TunnicliffeRyan Kontos

Customer experience

NotePad

All ratings1 ratings
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

How Long Left

All ratings39 ratings
Positive66.7%
Neutral10.3%
Negative23.1%
Written reviews41 reviews
Positive58.5%
Neutral17.1%
Negative24.4%

In-app purchases

None

NotePad

No in-app purchases

4 purchases

How Long Left

One-time4
  • How Long Left Widget$1.99
  • Premium Watch Complication$4.99
  • Legacy Pro Lifetime$39.99
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  • How Long Left Pro (Lifetime)$49.99

Questions

Is NotePad free?
NotePad costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is How Long Left free?
How Long Left is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, NotePad or How Long Left?
How Long Left is rated higher. NotePad averages 1.0 out of 5 from 1 ratings, while How Long Left averages 3.8 from 39 ratings.
Do NotePad or How Long Left have ads?
Neither NotePad nor How Long Left shows ads.
Which is updated more often, NotePad or How Long Left?
NotePad ships an update every 3 months, and How Long Left every 4 months. Most recently, NotePad was updated on September 20, 2026 and How Long Left on July 13, 2026.

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