Comparison

Doodle notes and write ideas vs Ideas

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

Head to head
About

Doodle notes and write ideas

Capture your thoughts and organize your life with this intuitive notepad app. Create to-do lists, shopping lists, memos, and sketches with a variety of colors and line thicknesses. Save, edit, and share your notes easily.

Highlights
  • Write notes, memos, and messages
  • Create shopping and to-do lists
  • Scribble, sketch, or draw drafts
  • Fifteen color options
  • Three line thickness options
  • Eraser and undo functionality
  • Share or save notes as images
Features
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Use our practical and simple interactive notepad app to write down your ideas, create shopping lists or to-do lists and organize them. Take notes, scribble or sketch a draft, do the grocery list, draw or do whatever you want with this notebook! Write notes, memos, messages, sticky notes, shopping lists, check list and to-do lists. It is an easy-to-use note-taking app. This is a simple to-do list and task manager app that helps you get all your lists done. Download it and organize your quick notes in this simple notepad. It is perfect for organizing your work ideas as if it were a notebook. And you can you access your notes whenever you want. Anywhere and anytime create notes, to-do lists, shopping list, edit or save a note! Share this app via social media or any other program on your phone. If you liked the app, please rate it. It helps us improve our work. Thank you! Features: • Fifteen colors or markers • Three types of line thickness (thin, medium, thick) • White background • Erase whatever you want with the eraser • Delete the image with the undo-arrow • Share the note or save it in the images gallery https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Ideas

Easily create notes with text, photos, and drawings. Customize text with various fonts and effects, and arrange images freely. Save and share your creations directly from your device.

Highlights
  • Create notes with text, photos, and drawings
  • Customize text with over 50 fonts and effects
  • Add and manipulate multiple images
  • Save work to continue later
  • Share creations to social networks
  • Free and easy to use interface
Features
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HOW TO USE: • Create a new note or edit an existing note. • You can draw, add text or add photos. • Select any font text, and move, rotate or scale the text. You can change the text color, add border, brightness, etc. • Move, rotate or scale the added images. • Save your ideas or creations. • You can save and share photos with your mobile's social networking apps. FEATURES: • Free and easy to use. • Friendly interface. • More than 50 fonts. • Several effects to apply to the text. • You can add several texts in the same picture. • Painting. • Add photos to your notes. • You can save your work to continue later.

Screenshots

Doodle notes and write ideas4 screens
Ideas4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Ideas at 100% against Doodle notes and write ideas's 25%. Ideas also leads on rating (4.9 vs 4.3) and in-app purchases (none vs 4). Doodle notes and write ideas's advantage is update cadence (every 3 months vs every 7 months). On price, ratings volume, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Doodle notes and write ideas sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $7.99 per 7 days. Ideas asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Ideas holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 12 and 14 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 25% of Doodle notes and write ideas's written reviews are positive against 100% of Ideas's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Doodle notes and write ideas ships an update every 3 months, Ideas every 7 months. The most recent releases landed on October 6, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Doodle notes and write ideas versus Ideas: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDoodle notes and write ideasIdeas
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.3 (12 ratings)4.9 (14 ratings) — better
Positive reviews25.4% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings1214 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 months — betterEvery 7 months
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesAd-supported — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS14.011.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size25 MB19 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMaria GasconMireia Lluch Ortola

Customer experience

Doodle notes and write ideas

All ratings12 ratings
Positive75.0%
Neutral16.7%
Negative8.3%
Written reviews67 reviews
Positive25.4%
Neutral7.5%
Negative67.2%

Ideas

All ratings14 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

4 purchases

Doodle notes and write ideas

Subscriptions2
  • Weekly plan$7.997 Days
  • Annual plan3 Days trial$34.991 Year
One-time2
  • Remove Ads$2.99
  • Lifetime plan$49.99
None

Ideas

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Doodle notes and write ideas free?
Doodle notes and write ideas is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Ideas free?
Ideas is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Doodle notes and write ideas or Ideas?
Ideas is rated higher. Doodle notes and write ideas averages 4.3 out of 5 from 12 ratings, while Ideas averages 4.9 from 14 ratings.
Do Doodle notes and write ideas or Ideas have ads?
Both Doodle notes and write ideas and Ideas show ads.
Which is updated more often, Doodle notes and write ideas or Ideas?
Doodle notes and write ideas ships an update every 3 months, and Ideas every 7 months. Most recently, Doodle notes and write ideas was updated on October 6, 2026 and Ideas on October 8, 2026.

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