Comparison

Doodle notes and write ideas vs HandwrittenNote Chan

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

HandwrittenNote Chan

This app functions as a digital notepad for handwritten notes, drawings, and scribbles. It offers multiple pen colors and thickness options, allowing for easy creation and management of various pages. Users can save and load their creations, making it a versatile tool for communication and note-taking.

Highlights
  • Handwritten memo and drawing
  • Multiple pen colors
  • Adjustable pen thickness
  • Create and view multiple pages
  • Save and load drawings
Features
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It is a simple notepad app. You can easily use it as a handwritten memo, drawing, scribbling, writing communication, as a substitute for a notebook, etc. 16 kinds of colors Create and view multiple pages It is also possible to change the thickness of the pen You can also save and load the drawn image

Screenshots

Doodle notes and write ideas4 screens
HandwrittenNote Chan3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: HandwrittenNote Chan at none against Doodle notes and write ideas's 4. Doodle notes and write ideas's advantage is ratings volume (16 vs 1). On price, rating, update cadence and ads 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. HandwrittenNote Chan asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.1 for Doodle notes and write ideas against 4.0 for HandwrittenNote Chan. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Doodle notes and write ideas has 16 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Doodle notes and write ideas versus HandwrittenNote Chan: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDoodle notes and write ideasHandwrittenNote Chan
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.1 (16 ratings) — better4.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews25.4% of reviews—
Number of ratings16 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsEvery 3 months
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesAd-supported — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS14.0 — better15.6
Further details — not scored
Size25 MB13 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMaria GasconRyouhei Azuma

Customer experience

Doodle notes and write ideas

All ratings16 ratings
Positive75.0%
Neutral12.5%
Negative12.5%
Written reviews67 reviews
Positive25.4%
Neutral7.5%
Negative67.2%

HandwrittenNote Chan

All ratings1 ratings
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

HandwrittenNote Chan

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 HandwrittenNote Chan free?
HandwrittenNote Chan is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Doodle notes and write ideas or HandwrittenNote Chan?
Doodle notes and write ideas is rated higher. Doodle notes and write ideas averages 4.1 out of 5 from 16 ratings, while HandwrittenNote Chan averages 4.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Doodle notes and write ideas or HandwrittenNote Chan have ads?
Both Doodle notes and write ideas and HandwrittenNote Chan show ads.
Which is updated more often, Doodle notes and write ideas or HandwrittenNote Chan?
Doodle notes and write ideas ships an update every 3 months, and HandwrittenNote Chan every 3 months. Most recently, Doodle notes and write ideas was updated on November 1, 2026 and HandwrittenNote Chan on November 3, 2026.

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