Comparison

Doodle notes and write ideas vs Folio

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

Folio

Capture, organize, and secure your thoughts with a beautiful note-taking app. Features include folders, tags, and device synchronization. Keep your private notes safe with passcode and biometric locking.

Highlights
  • Capture notes quickly
  • Organize with folders and tags
  • Lock private notes with passcode/biometrics
  • Sync across all devices
  • Offline note-taking
  • Light and dark mode
Features
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Beautiful notes with folders, tags, locking, and sync across all your devices. Capture in a tap Open the app, tap once, and start writing. Pick a color, format the way you like, and Folio saves automatically. Nothing is ever lost. Organize when you're ready Drop notes into folders. Add tags so you can find things later. Pin the ones that matter most, favorite the ones you keep coming back to. Filter your wall by tag, folder, or color in a single tap. Keep private notes private Lock any note with a 4-digit passcode. Unlock with Face ID, Touch ID, or fingerprint when you need it. Wherever you are Your notes sync across all your devices. Write offline on a flight or in the subway, Folio catches up the moment you're back online. Made to feel good Light and dark mode. Smooth, thoughtful animations. Search that finds what you mean. A trash that holds onto deleted notes for 30 days, just in case.

Screenshots

Doodle notes and write ideas4 screens
Folio4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Folio at none against Doodle notes and write ideas's 4. Folio also leads on ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 2 days vs every 3 months). Doodle notes and write ideas's advantage is rating (4.3 vs 4.0) and ratings volume (12 vs 1). On price, 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

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

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Doodle notes and write ideas holds the better App Store score, 4.3 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Doodle notes and write ideas has 12 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Doodle notes and write ideas ships an update every 3 months, Folio every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on September 21, 2026 and August 21, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Doodle notes and write ideas versus Folio: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDoodle notes and write ideasFolio
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.3 (12 ratings) — better4.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews25.4% of reviews—
Number of ratings12 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsEvery 2 days — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS14.0 — better15.1
Further details — not scored
Size25 MB39 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMaria GasconZluck Solutions

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%

Folio

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

Folio

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 Folio free?
Folio is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Doodle notes and write ideas or Folio?
Doodle notes and write ideas is rated higher. Doodle notes and write ideas averages 4.3 out of 5 from 12 ratings, while Folio averages 4.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Doodle notes and write ideas or Folio have ads?
Doodle notes and write ideas shows ads; Folio does not.
Which is updated more often, Doodle notes and write ideas or Folio?
Doodle notes and write ideas ships an update every 3 months, and Folio every 2 days. Most recently, Doodle notes and write ideas was updated on September 21, 2026 and Folio on August 21, 2026.

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