Private Notes and Secret Diary vs Notepad
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Private Notes and Secret Diary
Securely store and manage your private notes with password protection. Keep personal details safe from prying eyes on your device, even when sharing with others.
- Password protection for notes
- Secure storage of personal details
- Create simple notes
- Share device while keeping notes secure
- Prevent unauthorized access
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Free for limited time This is a best solution for your privacy ** THE BEST NOTE LOCK APP EVER **. Provides functionality for creating simple notes and keeping these notes secure by requiring a password to be entered before any note can be viewed or edited. Allows you to share your iPhone with others and still keep your notes secure. Great for storing all of your personal details, pin numbers etc on your device without the risk that someone might get access.
Notepad
Securely store and organize your thoughts with advanced features like PIN/biometric locking and an anti-theft system. Convert images to text, sync across devices, and customize your notes with rich formatting and tags. Share, backup, and easily retrieve your important information.
- PIN/Biometric note locking
- Anti-theft system with photo capture
- OCR for image to text conversion
- Cloud sync across devices
- Rich text formatting and styling
- Tagging and color-coding for organization
- Text, photo, and drawing note types
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Keep important notes safely with Anti Theft System! • Lock Notes with PIN / Biometric authentication (Fingerprint / Face detection) • Anti Theft System (Capture face photo silently who entered wrong PIN) • OCR Notes - Capture image and convert readable characters into notes! (Helpful to save ID card / Bill details) • Signup account and sync notes across the devices with same email (Backup / Restore notes to cloud) • Style your note (e.g Bold / Italic / Underline / Heading / Bullets / Alignments / Undo / Redo etc) • Note Backup / Restore via Email and Document Files and Notepad cloud account • Manage unlimited Notes • Make Text / Photo / Drawing / Sketch Notes • Tag Notes for quick search • Color notes accordingly • Share notes with friends via various apps • Trash - Recover notes from here • Bookmark - Make Note Important to fetch easily • Backup PIN - Backup PIN via email for recovery • Quick Search via title / body / tags • Save note from other app support - Select text and share it via this notepad app to store note quickly without opening this app • Available in English, Spanish, French, Russian, Japanese, German, Chinese, Italian, Korean, Portuguese, Greek, Arabic languages. Privacy Policy: https://parthmpandya.github.io/Privacy-Policy-Documents/iOS_Notepad_Privacy_Policy.html Terms Of Use: https://parthmpandya.github.io/Privacy-Policy-Documents/iOS_Notepad_Terms_and_Conditions.html This app will capture image from front camera without displaying prior view(Theft Report feature). If anyone have any query regarding this app or have any suggestion to improve app performance. Let me know on my email id: droidoworld@gmail.com
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Private Notes and Secret Diary at none against Notepad's shown. Private Notes and Secret Diary also leads on iOS requirement (8.0 vs 16.6). Notepad's advantage is rating (4.3 vs 3.9) and update cadence (every 3 months vs every 10 months). On price, review sentiment, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Private Notes and Secret Diary sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Notepad sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $1.49 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Notepad holds the better App Store score, 4.3 against 3.9. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Notepad has 64 ratings behind it against 8, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 38% of Private Notes and Secret Diary's written reviews are positive against 33% of Notepad's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Private Notes and Secret Diary ships an update every 10 months, Notepad every 3 months. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.
| Parameter | Private Notes and Secret Diary | Notepad |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.9 (8 ratings) | 4.3 (64 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 38.5% of reviews — better | 33.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 8 | 64 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 10 months | Every 3 months — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 8.0 — better | 16.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 6 MB | 64 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Tigran Mkhitaryan | Parth Pandya |
Customer experience
Private Notes and Secret Diary
Notepad
In-app purchases
Private Notes and Secret Diary
- Remove Ads$1.99
Notepad
- 1 Month License For Notes App$1.491 Month
- 1 Year License For Notes App$11.991 Year
- Ad Free Notes$1.99
- 1 Month License$1.99
- 1 Year License$9.99
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