Memo Notepad vs Rough
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Memo Notepad
Capture your thoughts, drafts, and lists effortlessly. Organize notes into notepads, set reminders, and collaborate with others via email or an integrated messenger. Enjoy offline access with seamless cloud syncing.
- Organize with multiple notepads
- Share and collaborate on notes
- Fast, secure cloud sync
- 100% offline use
- Set reminders for notes
- Integrated messenger for shared notes
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The simple and easy place for your quick thoughts Memo Notepad provides you with a totally simple way to take notes on your iPhone. Saving, cloud syncing all happens in the background. Just focus and write down what you are thinking super quickly and easily. Memo is a perfect place for your thoughts, email drafts, journals, lists, or study and meeting notes. Beyond the simplicity of standard note taking, Memo gives you the power to organize your notes into individual notepads or to set reminders if you want to come back to a note later. If you want to share your notes with your friends, you can easily send them a copy over email. You can even add a contact from your Address Book to a note to let them view and edit a note. Sharing a lot of notes? You can share an entire notebook of notes, even discuss your notes with the integrated messaging support. Everything in Memo is usable offline, all your notes are always accessible, you'll never be bothered about your connectivity. Even sharing will still work offline, when you are online later Memo will sync your changes to your contacts. You can use Memo Notepad offline or online, all your notes made offline will sync when you get back online. You can access all your notes offline. You can search through your notes, and it will find what you are looking for instantly as you type. Features: - Organize your thoughts with multiple notepads - Share and collaborate on notes with family, friends or coworkers - Super fast sync - encrypted and securely backed up in the cloud - Personalize with various font options in Writing Styles - Designed to allow 100% offline use. Never wait for "syncing" - Mark notes to be reminded later - Integrated messenger for shared notepads Tips: - If you delete a note by accident, shake to undo - If you forget your cloud sync password, try guessing a password to reveal the 'forgot password' button, it will email you a reset link Other Apps: - You can use your same sync account with our other apps: Do it (Tomorrow), Everyday Notes Premium Cloud Sync Subscription Service: - Sync with Dropbox and Google Drive as well as other bonus features is available on a subscription basis of $0.99/month or $4.99/year. (subscription uses iTunes Account at purchase, final price depends on country) - To cancel or select not to auto-renew a subscription, go to Account Settings after purchase. Subscriptions during a single period cannot be cancelled. - Premium subscriptions automatically renew, unless selected not to, or canceled. Cancellations or disabling of auto-renew must happen at least 24 hours before the end of the month or year. - Bonus features include: Note and Notepad locking with password and touch-id support, more font options, dark and sepia themes. Sync Accounts (if enabled): - Privacy policy can be found at https://account.adylitica.com/txt/privacy_policy.txt and Terms of use at: https://account.adylitica.com/txt/terms_of_use.txt Memo Notepad is a project we are working to make a great app for everyone's notes. Please email us at web-support@adylitica.com with your feedback, questions, issues, ideas, or just to say hello :)
Rough
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Ideas do not wait. On the bus, just before sleep, in the middle of a conversation — a scene appears. By the time you have found something to draw with, it has already faded. Rough was made to protect those few seconds. [A blank sheet is already there] Open the app and the paper is waiting. Nothing to create, nothing to choose. Just draw. [One tap when you are done] Tap the check at the top right. Your sketch is kept, and the next blank sheet appears. You are never asked for a title or a folder. If more than one idea arrived, simply keep going. [One black pen] No colours, no widths, no brushes. Choosing a tool is the very moment an idea slips away, so there is nothing to choose. Undo and an eraser are here. Tap the screen with two fingers to take back your last stroke, and with three fingers to bring it back — right where your hand already is. [Everything you drew rests on the board] Your sketches lie side by side, like notes spread across a desk. Tap one to see it larger. [Send it anywhere] Save it to Photos, send it in Messages, or move it into another drawing app. It leaves as an image rather than a file, so it arrives ready to be seen. [Nothing is collected] No accounts, no sign-in, no ads, no analytics. Your sketches stay on your device, and with iCloud they travel only between devices on your own Apple Account. The developer cannot see them. It does not have to be good. Rough means rough sketch. Not a finished drawing — just enough of a trace that you will recognise it later. Sketch it before it's gone. Rough
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Rough at none against Memo Notepad's 2. On price, 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
Both are free to download. Memo Notepad sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Rough asks for nothing beyond the download.
| Parameter | Memo Notepad | Rough |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (23 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 71.9% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 23 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 6 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Adylitica, Inc. | Sangyun Song |
In-app purchases
Memo Notepad
- Premium Sync$0.991 Month
- Premium Sync$4.991 Year
Rough
No in-app purchases









