“paywall — Used o be a good app. now you have to pay to reorganize your notes. There so greedy. Should be free. Going have to look for another app.”
Independent automated assessment · 3 signal sources · 501 reviews scanned · analyzed 2026-10-05.
4.7 ★23,849 ratings
—Downloads
4+Age rating
230 MBApp size
Free · In-app purchasesIn-app purchases
About this app
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.…
Preview
Real screenshots from the store listing.
Independent evidence report
The evidence behind this assessment
This is where the page changes from an app-store listing into an evidence report: findings, important reviews, pricing and a dated history.
Which version this describes
When we ran this analysis, and what the store lists now.
This analysis describes version 6.9.2 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-05 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 6.9.2, updated 2026-09-21.
What we measured
Each line is a measurement published as a measurement, never a verdict.
Each line is a measurement, published as a measurement. Where we have not looked, the line says so rather than reading as a zero.
Developer replies to reviews
Replies to fewer than 1 review in 20
Price in the store description
States no price and billing period
Cancelling, in the store description
Does not say how to cancel
Themes reported by reviewers
1 theme reported
Counted from the reviews we have read for this app. "No theme reported" means no theme reached our reporting threshold — it is not a finding that nothing is wrong with this app, and we do not say it is.
Five-star share of ratings
80–89% five-star
Arithmetic on the stores' own published rating counts. It says nothing about why the ratings fall where they do.
In the 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 about the app, not a finding about it.
Graded bands · predicate set 1.4 · how these are measured
What the analysis found
App-specific findings, grouped by what each one rests on. How they are graded lives on its own page.
Context 1
Measured and published because a reader would want to know — deliberately not a charge. The measurement alone does not show a harm.
Cheapest and priciest options are far apart
The disclosed in-app purchases span an unusually wide price range. Published as context: the cheapest and priciest items may be different kinds of product entirely, so the spread alone deducts nothing.
What we saw: In-app purchases run from USD 2.49 to USD 49.99 — a 20x spread across 8 items
One source only — shown, not confirmed 1
A single kind of evidence. We publish these because withholding them would be the bigger distortion, and we do not treat any of them as a finding we stand behind.
Reported by users: Paywall blocks the basics
The core of the app — not extras — sits behind payment, or previously-free function moved behind a paywall.
What we saw: Paywall blocks the basics: raised by 8 distinct reviewers (1.6% of 501 reviews scanned)
Highlighted reviews
Representative public review excerpts shown as user reports, not Appworthy audit evidence.
“Disingenuous — They recently moved the ability to “re-order” notes behind a paywall, which prompted a number of negative reviews. The developer has responded to each review by claiming they have reinstated the custom order feature for…”
“Disappointed — I’ve been using this app for years. I searched for the perfect app to keep my life in order and this one was everything I needed. The most important notebook I created was to keep my bills organized. Every month I create a…”
Assessment & version history
App changes and Appworthy events in one timeline.
Store listing updated to version 6.9.2.
What this app sells
Useful store-disclosed pricing, kept below the app listing.
Items shown7
Lowest$2.49
Highest$49.99
Notebook Pro$2.49
Notebook Pro$24.99
Notebook AI$4.99
Notebook Personal$14.99
Notebook Pro Plus$3.99
Show 2 more purchases
Notebook Pro Plus$39.99
Notebook AI$49.99