Notebook vs Belong Italy
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Notebook
Capture your thoughts, ideas, and tasks with a versatile digital notebook. Create rich notes with text, files, audio, and video. Organize content visually, collaborate in real-time, and access everything across your devices.
- Rich note creation with text, files, audio, and video
- Checklist creation for task management
- Bookmark collection and offline reading
- Kanban-style note organization
- Real-time collaboration and sharing
- AI-powered journaling suggestions
- Cross-device and cloud synchronization
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Zoho Notebook is a free, ad-free note-taking app for students, teams and researchers: capture, find and reuse what you write down — typed notes, Apple Pencil handwriting, voice recordings with AI transcription, checklists, files and document scans in one note. Syncs across iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch and other devices. WHAT PEOPLE USE NOTEBOOK FOR 1. MEETING AND LECTURE NOTES Record with audio or video cards; Notebook AI turns it into searchable text with timestamps, so you jump straight to the decision instead of replaying it. Structured minutes with title, participants, decisions and action points sit in the note beside your highlights. Record screen and self at once; longer videos get chapters. 2. STUDY AND RESEARCH Record lectures and search the transcript weeks later. Scan textbooks and business cards, handwrite and sketch with Apple Pencil, use OCR to find text inside photos and handwritten notes, so nothing you captured becomes unfindable. A long note becomes an AI mind map before an exam. 3. DAILY TO-DOS AND JOURNALING Dedicated checklist cards keep tasks beside your notes, and recurring reminders keep them on schedule. Journaling prompts come from your own activity, easier to keep than a blank page. 4. FILES, SCANS, AND SAVED READING Add PDFs, Word docs and spreadsheets with file cards. Articles, videos, recipes and how-tos become Smart Cards, formatted automatically, readable offline and ad-free. Group it all into nested collections. QUESTIONS PEOPLE ASK Is it free? Yes, with 2GB of free storage and no ads. Notebook Pro adds more storage, longer notes, larger attachments, Email-In to save emails as notes, premium covers, and custom recurring reminders. Can I move my notes from Evernote, Google Keep, or OneNote? Yes, with dedicated migration tools; it arrives organized. Is my data private? Notes are encrypted in transit and at rest. We never sell your data and never show ads. Lock notes or notebooks with a password, Touch ID or Face ID; previews stay hidden until unlocked. Does it work offline? Yes. Create, edit and read offline, then pick up on another device once it syncs to the cloud. What can Notebook AI do? Transcribe audio and video, build mind maps, summarize and simplify, fix grammar, set tone (casual, professional, friendly, direct, or confident), translate into any language, draft notes, checklists, tables, code or a template from a prompt, and suggest tags. Notebook AI is a separate add-on. Does it use on-device AI and Siri? Yes. An on-device Knowledge Graph links ideas across notebooks and answers questions from your own notes. Siri creates and updates notes by voice with the app closed, and On-Screen Awareness summarizes what's on screen without switching apps. Can I share with non-users? Yes. @mention people to collaborate in real time, or publish a public note or video by link. MORE INSIDE - Search by title, content, tag, collaborator, or notebook; filter by any card type, contact, or link; search within one note; sort by date or relevance, with auto-suggestions and recent searches, offline and across languages - iPhone: text-search audio notes, share via iMessage, dictate with Siri, recent notes from the Notification Bar, SharePlay in calls - iPad: drag and drop, split view, slide over, multiple windows, Stage Manager - Apple Watch: record audio, scribble notes, check off lists, add photo notes, record in one tap from a watch face complication - VoiceOver and a dark interface - Roll back to any of a note's last 10 versions Subscriptions auto-renew unless cancelled and are charged to your Apple Account. Prices vary by location. Manage in your account settings. Privacy - https://www.zoho.com/privacy.html Terms - https://www.zoho.com/terms.html
Belong Italy
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Italian citizenship takes years. Belong Italy keeps the count honest, from today to the day you can apply and through the wait after. Answer a few questions and Belong Italy shows your real distance: which route applies, what you have met and what still stands between you and the decision. In English and Italian, switchable any time. YOUR ROUTE, CLEARLY Ten years as the general rule, four for EU citizens, three if born in Italy, two on Italian descent since Law 74/2025, five for refugees and stateless people and two after marriage Every requirement explained: legal and continuous residence, Italian at B1, sufficient income and a clean record, each sourced from Law 91/1992, Law 74/2025 and the Ministero dell'Interno. Rules as of October 2026 STAGE ONE: THE LONG-TERM PERMIT After 5 years, the permesso UE per soggiornanti di lungo periodo ends the renewals and exempts you from the B1 for citizenship. The Path tab shows its requirements, with your years counted Add the day your permit ends: a countdown and a reminder nine weeks ahead A SECOND PERSON ON THE SAME IPHONE Add your partner, or another adult, and they get their own count: route, years, trips. A trip you took together is logged once and counted for both. Send the app to a friend from the You tab AFTER YOU APPLY Tell the app the day you filed and it follows the wait: days since filing against the 24 months the law gives the Ministero dell'Interno, 36 at most, the ALI portal one tap away PRACTISE THE EXAM YOU ACTUALLY SIT Italy has no citizenship test. It has a language exam and this app drills the half you can drill: 450 questions for the CILS B1 Cittadinanza reading and structures paper, five a day, a mistakes deck and progress The other three abilità are listed too, greyed out, so you see the whole exam No mock, deliberately: Siena publishes no question count, so this app will not invent a test shape. The questions are ours, in Italian with an English study line The CILS sittings and the day registration closes, read from Siena on a stated day. Five guides to read offline THE PASSPORT AT THE END The real cover, with validity, fee, where to apply and dual citizenship, checked with the authority. Add your name and photo. A line says the earliest you could apply TRACK WHAT MATTERS Log trips abroad, or plan one before you book. Italian law fixes no day count, so a stay over six months is flagged as a risk to your anagrafe registration, not turned into a deduction Try a What if scenario and see your finish line move. Real rules on a copy, nothing saved What's coming lists the dates ahead: residence time completing, a trip ending, a permit ending, a sitting to register for. Optional alerts, a handful ON YOUR HOME SCREEN Four widgets: residence time so far, longest stay abroad, today's five and the newest story from The Local YOUR DOCUMENTS, ON YOUR IPHONE Attach the evidence for each requirement, with an expiry date. Documents stay on this iPhone, encrypted while it is locked and out of your backup. Belong Italy never sees them STAY INFORMED News from The Local Italy inside the app, with optional alerts. The stories are The Local's, some need their subscription WHAT YOU CONTROL, WHAT YOU DON'T The years, the certificate and the record are yours. The queue is not. Italy allows dual citizenship and asks nobody to renounce HONEST BY DESIGN No fake finish dates. Belong Italy tells you what is in your hands, what is not and what the next step is. An independent app by Belong Europe ApS, not a government service. A tracker, not legal advice: verify with the Ministero dell'Interno, your comune or a lawyer. hello@belongeurope.com Belong Italy Pro is an auto-renewable yearly subscription (€34.99/year) with a 7 day free trial, charged to your Apple Account. It renews unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the period ends. Manage or cancel in your Apple Account settings. Terms and conditions: terms.belongitaly.app Privacy policy: privacy.belongitaly.app
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Verdict
The clearest difference is device support: Notebook at 3 against Belong Italy's 1. On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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. Notebook sells 7 in-app purchases, starting at $2.49 per month and Belong Italy sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $29.99 per year. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on October 20, 2026 and October 11, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Notebook | Belong Italy |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (24K ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 64.3% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 24K — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 6 days | Every 6 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 220 MB | 6 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Zoho Corporation | Belong Europe ApS |
Bugs and requests
Notebook
Reported bugs
4 issues- Notes disappearing or getting corrupted
- Freezing and crashing issues
- Inconsistent behavior when editing notes
- Syncing problems across devices
Requested features
5 requests- Improved sorting and reordering options for notes
- Enhanced search capabilities
- Ability to export notes in various formats
- More customization options for notebook covers
- Integration with other productivity apps
Belong Italy
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Notebook
- Notebook Pro$2.491 Month
- Notebook Pro Plus$3.991 Month
- Notebook AI$4.991 Month
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- Notebook Personal$14.991 Year
- Notebook Pro2 variants$24.991 Year
- Notebook Pro Plus$39.991 Year
- Notebook AI$49.991 Year
Belong Italy
- Belong Italy Pro7 Days trial$29.991 Year









