Scribeless vs Simply Noted
An independent, review-free comparison compiled by the SaaSTracker editorial team. Both products are profiled in full, and neither can pay for placement here.
The short answer
Both sides assessedScribeless compared with Simply Noted
Simply Noted runs roughly 225 pen-holding robots and goes down to $0.84 a card plus $0.82 postage at 50,000, or a $497 flat-rate unlimited plan. Scribeless tops out at £1.19 including postage and does not compete at that volume. Pick Simply Noted for high-volume US-only sending where cost per touch dominates; pick Scribeless when destination coverage, in-country postmarks, and a single all-in price matter more than the last thirty cents.
Simply Noted compared with Scribeless
Scribeless quotes one all-in per-card price with domestic postage included and runs production in North America, the UK, France, and Germany. Simply Noted quotes handwriting and postage separately and prints only in Arizona, but goes considerably cheaper at high domestic volume and offers the flat-rate unlimited plan. Choose Scribeless for European or multi-country campaigns and for the simplicity of one number per piece; choose Simply Noted for US-only sending above a few thousand cards.
Choose Scribeless if
European and multi-country teams who need mail to land domestically in several markets, and any small business that wants one all-in per-piece price with postage included rather than a rate card plus a postage line plus a platform fee.
Choose Simply Noted if
Teams that already know handwritten mail works for them and send hundreds to thousands of cards a month, especially real estate, hospitality, insurance, mortgage, franchise, and B2B sales operations that want the per-card price driven down and the sends triggered from a CRM.
Side by side
13 attributes| Attribute | Scribeless | Simply Noted |
|---|---|---|
| Category | Gifting | Gifting |
| Starting price | £1.99 per card, domestic postage included (free trial) | $2.76 per card (100-credit block, $358 all in with postage) (free trial) |
| Pricing model | Pay per piece on a published volume rate card in pounds sterling, with domestic postage already included in the quoted price. No platform fee, no seat licence, and no subscription required. Pre-purchased credits and recurring subscriptions are optional. | Prepaid card credits with published volume tiers, or a flat monthly rate for unlimited notes. Postage is charged separately at $0.82 per card at First-Class rates. |
| Free plan | No | No |
| Free trial | No free trial; physical samples are available so you can judge the handwriting before committing | No free trial; free samples and a first-card offer for email subscribers let you judge the handwriting before buying a block |
| Best for | European and multi-country teams who need mail to land domestically in several markets, and any small business that wants one all-in per-piece price with postage included rather than a rate card plus a postage line plus a platform fee. | Teams that already know handwritten mail works for them and send hundreds to thousands of cards a month, especially real estate, hospitality, insurance, mortgage, franchise, and B2B sales operations that want the per-card price driven down and the sends triggered from a CRM. |
| Setup time | A day for a first campaign. Build a template, choose a handwriting style, upload a CSV, and pieces are produced within one to two business days. Wiring up a CRM or ecommerce integration takes a few hours more. | A day or two for a first campaign. Buying credits and uploading a CSV is immediate; custom card design and handwriting selection add a short proofing cycle. Salesforce or Zapier automation takes a few hours of configuration. |
| Learning curve | Low. The template builder is the whole interface, and the volume rate card removes the plan-selection decision that complicates most competitors. The judgement required is editorial, not technical: a handwritten-style piece that reads like a marketing email defeats the purpose. | Low on the tooling and moderate on the strategy. The dashboard is straightforward. The real work is deciding message, timing, and volume tier, and resisting the temptation to write marketing copy on a card that only works because it does not read like marketing. |
| Platforms | Web platform, API, CSV upload, CRM and ecommerce connectors | Web dashboard, REST API, Zapier |
| Compliance | UK and EU GDPR applicable as a UK-based processor, FSC certification on stationery materials | Standard US commercial mail handling, No SOC 2 or ISO certification advertised publicly |
| Founded | 2018 | 2018 |
| Headquarters | United Kingdom | Phoenix, Arizona, United States |
| Ownership | Venture-backed, founder-led | Bootstrapped, founder-owned |
Strengths and limitations
Scribeless
Strengths
- Domestic postage is included in the quoted price, so the rate card is the real cost. Nobody else in this category makes comparison this easy.
- Production facilities in North America, Canada, the UK, France, and Germany mean local postmarks and domestic transit times in each market, which no US-only competitor can offer.
- More than 50 integrations plus API access included as standard rather than reserved for a higher plan, so trigger-based sending is available at the entry price.
- Attribution reporting is genuinely more developed than the category norm: unique scanners and repeat engagement are separated rather than reported as one inflated scan total.
Limitations
- The handwriting is AI-generated and printed rather than written by a pen-holding robot, so it lacks the ink indentation that Handwrytten and Simply Noted deliver. Whether that matters is a sample-request question, not a spec-sheet one.
- Pricing is in pounds sterling, which leaves US buyers carrying currency risk on every campaign.
- At high US volume the price is not competitive with Simply Noted's 50,000-card tier or its flat-rate unlimited plan.
- No gift catalog, recipient choice, spend controls, or approval workflows, so it cannot serve as a company gifting program.
Simply Noted
Strengths
- Fully published volume rate card with per-card, total, and postage figures at seven tiers, which is a level of pricing transparency almost nobody else in corporate gifting offers.
- Real ballpoint pen on paper from a fleet of roughly 225 purpose-built machines with nine patents, so quality holds at volume rather than degrading.
- The $497 flat-rate unlimited plan is the cheapest way to send high volumes of handwritten mail anywhere in this category, and it includes API, CRM, Zapier, and webhook automation rather than gating them.
- Bootstrapped past $10 million in revenue with no outside investment, which means no investor pressure toward enterprise repositioning or a forced price rise.
Limitations
- The minimum meaningful purchase is 100 cards at $358, so you cannot cheaply test whether the channel works for you before committing.
- The unlimited plan's advertised per-note rate assumes a volume most small teams will never hit; below about 560 notes a month it is the wrong plan and the credit blocks are better.
- Integration coverage is thinner than Handwrytten's: Salesforce natively, everything else through Zapier or the API. There is no first-party HubSpot or Shopify connector published on the integrations page.
- No gift catalog, no recipient choice, no spend controls, and no email-first sending, so it cannot serve as a governed gifting program and cannot reach anyone whose address you lack.
Pricing compared
Scribeless
Pay per piece on a published volume rate card in pounds sterling, with domestic postage already included in the quoted price. No platform fee, no seat licence, and no subscription required. Pre-purchased credits and recurring subscriptions are optional.
- 1 to 499 pieces£1.99
- 500 to 1,499 pieces£1.79
- 1,500 to 2,999 pieces£1.59
- 3,000 to 4,999 pieces£1.39
- 5,000 to 9,999 pieces£1.19
Once you normalize for postage, Scribeless is priced right in the middle of the handwritten-mail pack for domestic US sending and clearly ahead of everyone for anything outside the United States. A £1.99 all-in piece is roughly comparable to Handwrytten's $3.75 card plus a stamp, and considerably more than Simply Noted at real volume. What you buy for that money is the postage headache disappearing, in-country production in five markets, the API and 50-plus integrations included with no upgrade, and no seat fee for the team. For a European or multi-country business it is the obvious choice; for a US-only high-volume operation it is being outpriced.
Simply Noted
Prepaid card credits with published volume tiers, or a flat monthly rate for unlimited notes. Postage is charged separately at $0.82 per card at First-Class rates.
- Prepay 100 credits$2.76
- Prepay 1,000 credits$1.79
- Prepay 10,000 credits$1.15
- Unlimited$497
- Prepay 50,000 credits$0.84
At volume this is the best price per physical touch available in the category, and the flat-rate unlimited plan is genuinely aggressive: above roughly 560 cards a month, one more note costs you nothing but a stamp. That changes behaviour, because teams stop rationing sends. Below a few hundred cards a month the picture inverts. A 100-credit block at $3.58 all in is more expensive than sending single cards at Handwrytten, and the $497 unlimited plan is terrible value at 150 notes. Simply Noted is priced for people who have already validated the channel, and it is honest enough to publish the entire rate card so you can work out where you sit.
Editorial verdict on each
Scribeless
Scribeless is the right answer for anyone whose recipients are not all in the United States, and it is the easiest vendor in this category to buy from: one price per piece, postage included, API and integrations at the entry level, no seat fee, no platform fee. The in-country production network is a real structural advantage that no Arizona robotics company can match, and the attribution reporting is more thoughtful than the category norm. The catch is the technology. This is AI handwriting reproduced by printing, not a pen pressed into paper, and if your buyer's test is running a thumb over the ink then Handwrytten or Simply Noted will pass where this will not. Order a sample first. If it convinces you, and you mail into Europe at all, Scribeless is the strongest option here.
Read the full Scribeless profileSimply Noted
Simply Noted is what you buy when you have already proved handwritten mail works and now want the cost per touch driven into the ground. The robotics are genuinely good, the rate card is published in full down to the postage line, and the $497 flat-rate unlimited plan is the most aggressive pricing anywhere in this category above about 560 notes a month. It is not a starter product: the 100-card minimum at $358 makes a cheap experiment impossible, and the unlimited plan is bad value at low volume. It is also not a gifting platform, so if your real problem is that you do not have addresses or you need spend approvals, this solves neither. For a high-volume US sales, hospitality, or franchise operation with addresses in hand and a CRM to trigger from, it is the best-priced serious option on the board.
Read the full Simply Noted profileScribeless profile last reviewed 2026-08-22; Simply Noted last reviewed 2026-08-22. Pricing is compiled from public sources and can change without notice. See our methodology.