WeNote: Notes Notepad Notebook reviews
What users love and hate · 500 reviews analyzed · ★ 4.5
Colored tabs, widgets, and a built-in calendar turn WeNote into the one place a person dumps lists, reminders, and notes for years on end — but that same depth of attachment makes every sync failure and every new monetization move land hardest on the most loyal users.
What users love
Color-coded tabs and categories make notes scannable at a glance — that is the retention mechanism
People stay for years not because of features but because topic tabs and colors turn a pile of notes into a system they can read in one glance: shopping lists, to-dos, kids' plans sit 'at the tip of their fingers'. It's a daily-open habit, not one-time utility.
I'm able to separate note categories by tabs, designate different colors, and keep myself organized. My to-do lists, shopping lists, and other notes right at the tip of my fingers
notes can be colour coded for quickly finding the right notes
it's great that you can make your own categories. my favorite thing is that you can put an emoji on your navigation bar for whatever note or reminder you want
The built-in calendar and widgets fill the gap Google Calendar leaves — and they anchor users to the home screen
The strongest hook is notes inside a calendar plus mini-widgets on the home screen: people put medical appointments, meetings, and dates here and open it daily for that. It turns a notepad into a daily planner and a reason not to leave for a bare Keep.
I installed this for Calendar with notes purpose to keep focus on my day-to-day tasks as Google Calendar lacks this basic feature.
The calendar and the mini note widgets are so handy and the overall functionality can't be beat.
Love this app, I have so many medical appointments to try to keep up with. I just check WeNote and know where I need to be and when.
Per-note password locking turns the notepad into a vault for logins and private entries — a rare hook
Locking an individual note with a password is why people keep logins, passwords, and personal entries here alongside ordinary lists. It expands the job from 'where to jot things' to 'the one safe place', and users name it as a deciding feature outright.
you can write notes and even lock those notes and have to enter a password everytime u want to enter it
the feature of locking individual notes!
I also used it for all my logins.
Highlighting the matched text inside a note on search — a small thing people switch apps for
When people search inside long lists, WeNote highlights the match right in the text, which many competitors skip. For users with dozens of notes and hundreds of lines, it turns search from 'found the note' into 'found the line', and they cite it as a reason to stay.
the best one of the best feature is Highlighting text present in search many apps miss that when I search it highlights the text which is perfect
it is simple, searchable and colourful
Would like a highlight words function please.
Notes-as-tabs on the bottom bar replace paper and keep an entire life in one open
People describe the same ritual: groceries, medications, kids' plans, appointments, ideas — all in one app that replaced paper and memory. The breadth of jobs inside one simple interface creates a sense of indispensability: 'don't know what I'd do without it'.
I use WeNote for so many things: lists of groceries, medications, meals; logging events, appointments; and much more. Don't know what I would do without it.
now i have things in order and i don't need to weite it on paper
It keeps me up to date with shopping, to do list, want to buy later lists. all types of forgetful lists.
What users hate
Asking for a rating right after install — before first use — reads as a red flag and destroys trust
The app asks for 5 stars the moment it's opened, and savvy users read this as the behavior of apps 'up to no good': a rating extracted before the product has proven anything. Some delete over this trigger alone, while others give 1 star specifically to punish the ask.
the ones that are up to no good and borderline illegal (sharing personal information to entities without consent) are those that ask for a rating as soon as you open it, before you even use it. Do not recommend. Delete
Tricking app users into giving 5 stars deserves 1 star.
cause it ask you for your ratings right after you install
Undo is locked behind subscription or watching an ad — the most frequent action turned into a paywall
Undo is something you need constantly while typing, and users deliberately leave once they learn you can't reverse a mistake without a subscription. The barrier sits exactly at the moment of an accidental edit, so it irritates out of all proportion to its price: people would pay once, but not subscribe for a single button.
decided to stop using when I realized you can't Undo unless you pay for subscription (wack)
annoying that you have to either pay or watch an add to undo actions
之前看廣告後能夠返回上一步，但現在不小心刪錯資料卻無法看廣告返回了。
The cursor jumps to the end of the document after every keystroke — editing a long note becomes impossible
When editing existing text, the app throws the cursor to the very bottom after each input, forcing a scroll back up. For anyone keeping long entries — journals, stories, recipes — this breaks the core use case and literally drives out 'a good app destroyed'.
Starts at the top of the document, not where you left off.
when trying to amend a document, it keeps going to the end of the document after each input. Very annoying
while you were typing it just kept running to the bottom of the screen and you had to keep Scrolling all the way back up again. a good app destroyed.
Cross-device sync frequently loses years of accumulated notes — breaking the core promise
People keep 'years of important info' here, then on a new phone get an empty app or find every note dumped in the trash. The exact scenario the app is installed for — a reliable memory store — fails at the scariest moment, the migration, turning a loyal user into someone who lost everything.
when you get a new phone, can't transfer your notes, only an empty app
Won't allow me to transfer to new phone so I lose years of important info
I synced with another phone and most of my notes are in the trash. How do I get them back?
An accidental checkbox tap collapses paragraphs into one block of text — and undoing it by hand takes hours
The checkbox button sits next to search, and a misfire toggles list mode, after which blank lines between paragraphs vanish permanently. For people writing poetry, journals, or prose it destroys the structure of the text — and that's exactly the audience paying for a writing app.
you click on options to search for something but instead accidentally click checkboxes. Because, after you try returning back to normal, there will no longer be space lines and everything will string together. So easy to accidentally do and hours to fix every time
I was using this to write a story and it deleted it
now I can't get the app to put each recipe or whatever on a different note
Reminders attach to a whole block, not a single note — breaking the 'remind me about this one thing' job
Users want a reminder on a specific entry ('Meet James'), but the system only reminds about an entire block ('Reservations') that holds dozens of such entries. The granularity doesn't match how people think about tasks, so the flagship reminder feature operates at the wrong level.
please make available Reminder for each note, not for the whole block
Please allow daily repeating tasks to be marked “done” for today only, without affecting future days.
Die täglichen Erinnerungsfunktionen gehen nur noch an manchen Tagen; die wöchentlichen nur alle paar Monate.
A data-sharing consent for hundreds of ad vendors (on by default) drives out long-time users
Months after install a consent screen surfaces with hundreds of third-party vendors switched on by default, opt-out required one by one. For an app where people store private journals and logins, this flips trust to distrust in a single screen — multi-year users uninstall over it.
vender options switched ON by default), and if you were to click "accept" without turning off all of many default choices, your data will be shared with HUNDREDS of 3rd party vendors!
now wanting to offer my privacy to vendors for ads (which, of course, they'll offer to othes) I no longer use this daily & uninstalled it
having to go through and accept advertising terms and conditions is way too off putting for me
No formatting (bold, underline, font size) caps the app at a 'lists only' ceiling
The same people who love the simplicity hit a wall when they want a bold subheading or larger text. For those writing essays, sermons, or scripts, the missing basic formatting keeps the app from being a real text tool — so they keep it only for short lists.
It would be even better if text formatting options such as underline and bold were available.
l suggest there is a way the users can make some parts of the notes BOLD. For example, making subheadings bold.
you can't bold anything, you can't change the font, you can't make any letters bigger.
A dated interface 'from older Android eras' repels some users despite the rich functionality
For all its capability, some people find the UI dated and not aesthetically pleasing, and for them that alone sends them looking elsewhere. In a notes category where rivals are visually polished, the old look becomes a barrier for newcomers not yet hooked on the features.
The UI is really dated and looks like it was made during the older android eras
notes UI isn't aesthetically pleasing. No pin note to notifications option for urgent notes.
just add different font style to make it perfect
Flexible grid view sits in 'beta' for years with no long-note clipping — a key request rots on the shelf
The most engaged users have asked for years to finish the grid view (just cap long notes at 12 lines) and watch the feature go nowhere across releases. A visibly abandoned feature under a paid model erodes trust precisely among those already inside and willing to pay.
why is the flexible grid view in BETA mode for so many years? the only issue is notes are ridiculously long - should be limited to 12 lines, after that, all is well... why is it rotting on the shelf like that for so many years...?
the updates do not make WeNote better! I prefer the old version
it would be good if able to attach images at any part of the note