NotePad vs Noteapp
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- Typed and handwritten notes
- Category management
- Photo integration
- Print and email notes
- Set reminders
- Customizable fonts and colors
- Handwritten drawing tools
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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.
Noteapp
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Noteapp is a simple notepad app. It gives you a quick and simple notepad editing experience when you write notes and to-do lists. * Product Description * Noteapp features two basic note taking formats, a lined-paper styled text option, and a checklist option. Add as many as you want to your master list, which appears on the app's home screen each time the program opens. This list may be viewed in traditional ascending order, in grid format, or by note color. - Taking a Note - Serving as a simple word processing program, the text option allows for as many characters as you're willing to type. Once saved, you can edit, share, set a reminder, or check off or delete the note through your device's menu button. When checking off a text note, the app places a slash through the list's title, and this will be displayed on the main menu. - Making To-do List or Shopping List - In the checklist mode, you can add as many items as you'd like and arrange their order with drag buttons activated in the edit mode. After the list is finished and saved, you may check or uncheck each line on your list with a quick tap, which will toggle a line slash. If all items have been checked, then the list's title is slashed as well. * Features * - Organize notes by color category (color notebook) - Checklist notes for To do list & Shopping list. (Quick and simple list maker) - Lookup for checklist notes - Checklist notes to get things done (GTD) - Grid View - Search notes - Supports category - Support Color for each category - Quick memo / notes - View Notes by category - Reset Data - Toogle View / List - Export to excel - Export / Import database - Delete note, list, and category - Share notes and lists - Starred notes and lists - Reminder Next update feature - Sticky note memo widget (Put your notes on your home screen) - Share notes via SMS, e-mail or Twitter - Powerful task reminder : Time Alarm, All day, Repetition.(lunar calendar) - Organize your schedule by note in calendar
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Noteapp at Free against NotePad's $2.99. Noteapp also leads on update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 3 months). NotePad's advantage is ads (none vs shown). On in-app purchases, 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
Noteapp is free to download; NotePad costs $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
NotePad ships an update every 3 months, Noteapp every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 20, 2026 and September 29, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | NotePad | Noteapp |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $2.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 1.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 13.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 51 MB | 24 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Jessica Tunnicliffe | Rudi . |
In-app purchases
NotePad
No in-app purchases
Noteapp
No in-app purchases









