Appworthy

Notebook Games

Classic Pencil & Paper Puzzles

JUMING LAI
Download on theApp Store
App Store rating5.0★1 rating
PriceFreeIn-app $1.99
Age4+Store age rating
Size11 MBiPhone download
CategoryGames
DeveloperJUMING LAI

What we found

Full report

Too little checked to say Store information only. We haven’t analysed this app or read its reviews yet.

Money

  • Free to download · in-app purchases $1.99 (1 listed). The store doesn’t say how often these bill.
  • If you subscribe through the store, cancel in iPhone Settings → your name → Subscriptions. Deleting the app doesn’t cancel a subscription.

Not yet tested.

The store currently lists version 1.3.0, updated 2026-08-30.

Preview

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Store screenshots supplied by the developer.

About this app

Remember doodling games in the back of your notebook during class? Tic Tac Toe in the margins. Dots & Boxes on the last page. Snake on every scrap of paper you could find.

Notebook Games brings that feeling back — right on your phone.

Every game is hand-drawn on warm, yellowed notebook paper. The lines wobble a little. The text looks pencilled in. The background has eraser marks and pencil smudges, just like the real thing. It's not polished. That's the point.

18 games, all hand-drawn on paper:

• Doodle Kingdom — A full card adventure drawn in the margins. Build your deck, battle doodle monsters, reach the boss. No two runs alike.

• Tic Tac Toe — The timeless classic, plus Super (4x4) and Ultimate (nine boards in one) modes.

• Dots & Boxes — Draw lines, capture squares, outwit the AI.

• Gomoku — Five in a row on a 15x15 grid.…

From the developer’s store description.

For developers and the curious

The full report

The evidence, sources, measurements and versions behind every label above.

Findings and evidence

Not yet tested
Not yet tested. No analysis has been published for this app. A missing label is not a clean bill of health.

What reviewers report

No review coverage

No review analysis published for this app.

Measurements

3 measured · 5 not assessed

“Not assessed” means we could not measure it. It is never a zero and never a pass.

From store data and reviews

Developer replies to reviews
Not assessed
Fewer than 50 reviews scanned — too few to state a rate
Price in the store description
The store description doesn’t list prices (most don’t)
Cancelling, in the store description
The store description doesn’t say how to cancel (most don’t)
Themes reported by reviewers
Not assessed
This app's reviews have not been assessed yet
Five-star share of ratings
90% or more five-star
Arithmetic on the stores' own published rating counts. It says nothing about why the ratings fall where they do.

In the app package we scanned

No package has been scanned for this app, so nothing is published about what it ships. That is an absence of evidence, not a finding.

Sensitive permissions
Not assessed
No package has been scanned for this app
Analytics or tracking SDKs in the scanned package
Not assessed
No package has been scanned for this app
Advertising SDKs in the scanned package
Not assessed
No package has been scanned for this app
How we know

Supporting measurements: not a complete list of possible harms or positives. Measurement vocabulary 1.4 · how these are measured

Versions and dates analysed

Not yet tested

Not yet tested. No analysis has been run for this app, so there is no version or date to report.

Store update history

Each store’s release notes, as the developer wrote them. They are the developer’s words, not ours.

App Store

Version 1.3.0 · 2026-08-30
Our biggest update yet! • Doodle Kingdom — a hand-drawn card adventure. Build your deck, battle doodle monsters, and reach the boss. • Daily Challenge — a fresh puzzle every day of the week, same for everyone. Build a streak, share your result as a hand-drawn card. • Two new word games: Winding Words (trace theme words through the grid) and Five Letters (guess the word in six tries). • New modes: No-Guess Minesweeper (pure logic, no luck), Maze One Line (one stroke, every cell), and Ultimate Tic Tac Toe (nine boards, one winner). • Hangman now teaches: pronunciation, meaning, and example sentence after every word. • Two new Pro themes: Aged Parchment and Blueprint. • A reorganized notebook…

Shortened here; the full notes are on the store listing.

Assessment record

Status
Not yet tested
App identifier
notebook-games
Sources used
None recorded
Reviews read
None recorded
Package examined
No package scan
Human inspection
Not completed
How we know
Measurement vocabulary
1.4

Store facts

App Store

What the stores publish. Store ratings are the stores’ numbers, not Appworthy’s, and are never averaged across stores.

App Store

Store rating
5.00 ★ · 1 ratings
Version
1.3.0
Updated
30 Aug 2026
Price
Free · In-app purchases
Age rating
4+
Size
11 MB
Open in App Store
Developer
JUMING LAI
Category
Games
Listing price
Free · In-app purchases

Purchases the store lists

 What this app sells

From the store listing. Billing terms are read from each purchase’s name — the stores don’t publish them — so treat them as a strong hint, not a disclosure.

Show 1 more purchase we couldn’t categorise

These are really on sale; we just can’t tell from the name whether they recur.

Notebook Games ProTerm not stated$1.99

Method and limits

What this report can and cannot show

What a missing label means

Not yet tested. No analysis has been published for this app, so there is no method to describe for it yet. A missing label is not a clean bill of health: it means nothing has been read, not that nothing is wrong.

Limits of this report

  • A package scan is static. It identifies code and text in one Android build. It does not measure a live ad session, test a deletion request, or count the steps needed to cancel.
  • Reviews keep their sample. A review-only charge shows distinct reviewers, the share and the sample size, and is published only once it clears that label’s published threshold. Calibration labels are machine-drafted and not yet confirmed by a person.
  • Not assessed is a state. It is never a zero and never a pass.
  • A missing label is not a clean bill of health. It means the evidence did not support one, not that the app is problem-free.
Not yet human-reviewed. A human review gives an app hands-on, recorded measurements. None has been run for this app. Hands-on inspections are not yet open.
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